The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-20
Correspondence of the Gta.
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.
st. LAWRENCE Co., N. T.,
Dooon,bar 2 1QSI

DeceWOeF y, 1919.
In the classification of members Of the pres
ent House of Representatives, you have placed
the Hon. Francis f. Spinner as a "friend of
the National Administration, and with Pierce
and Douglas on the Kansas question" His
election was based on very different principles.
Therefore, any intimation that he favored the
:" Douglas Kansas perfdy" would be doing Mr..
Spinner great injustice, and affective to the
majority of his constituents
He was elected as an opponent to the ex-
tension of Slavery, the Fugitive Slave Bill, and
to the increase Of the elementary power of SIa-
very, as the following reference will show. The
following resolution was passed at the Demo
cratic Congressional Convention, October 18th,
1854:
" Resolred, That the delegates in Conven-
ton, representing the Democratic electors of
the counties of st. Lawrence and Herkimer, for
ourselves and our constituents, declare uncom-
promising hostility to the extension of Slavery
into free territory, and to the increase of the
slave power as political element
AT the Congressional Convention held by the
Republican delegates of the seventeenth dis
trict, on the 18th of October, 1854 resolution
was passed embracing the following sentiment:
" Resofred, That our first purpose being the
election of a Representative from this, the
seventeenth district) who is reliable friend of
constitutional liberty, and the unyielding foe
to all the schemes of the Slavery Propaganda
lists; and having before US satisfactory evil
dence that eminent citizens of Herkimer
county, already in nomination, holds such SEN
timents and having his express pledge to use
all honorable means to procure the passage of
All act by Congress declaratory that Slavery can
not have any legal existence in any of the Ter
ritories Of the United States ; and also, that he
will use his influence to obtain the repeal, or
the essential modification, of the Fugitive Slave
Bill to the faithful performance of which, we
deem the character of Francis +. Spinner a
sufficient guarantee"
The Convention held by the Democratic del
egation, appointed a committee to prepare an
address to the Republican Electors of the 18th
Congressional District, from which we make q
few extracts:
"Gen. Spinner is a thorough student and ad-
mlrer of the Republican principles of Jefferson.
II elected your Representative, you may rest
assured he will accept the service only to carry
out with fidelity your known principles and
opinions. His own strong convictions of rep.
rcsentative duty will forbid that he should hold
seat IN Congress to paralyze the will of his
constituents
I" We offer you the pledge of his past life, for
the rectitude of his future course. He is the
friend OF State rights as well as of the Union
and warmly attached to the cause of free labor,
and opposed to the aggreasions of the slave
power in every shape in short, he is Radical
Democratic Republican, of the St. Lawrence
and Herkimer stamp"
BY publishing the above the Republicans of
these counties will be placed right on the rec
ord, which is of great Importance to them.
Yours, in the cause of humanity, till victory
snail crown our efforts, j. j. ENMEs.