The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-02-28
THE PITTSBURGH CONVENTION.

THE PITTSBURGH CONVENTION.
From our Reporter, who attended the Pitts
burgh Convention, we have had a most inter
esting account OF It's proceedings. Never was
there, since Revolutionary times, greater enthu-
siasm for a cause exhibited. The immense
hall in which the meeting assembled (which
held more than Thousand men, seated) was
during the session filed compactly. They sat
Ike venerable Senators. Nor was there mob
Like symptom, except an occasional burst OF ap-
plause, when some eloquent passage IN speech
or the address electrified the feelings. No
clamor, no confusion, marred the discussion
and it required no hanmering on the table with
the presiding officers mallet to arrest disorder
" conversation in the body. From first to last.
fixed attention prevailed. which it would do
honor TO our Government 70 find dignifying and
giving direction to the legislation in our Capt.
tol. That such body of venerable men, inter
mixed with many of distinguished professional
character. full of business, and from so many
distant States, should have been induced to
leave their homes, in an Indictment season
mountains deep in snow, the rivers solid with
ice, the railroads and machinery ruptured. and
made unsafe BY the continuous frost-proves
that the wrong with which the public feeling
has been shocked, and the new violence which
is threatened, has produced an impulse in the
public mind, which viii not be stayed by palter-
ing promises of those scheming politicians, who
look upon the Government rs a sort of machine
in their hands to work out results for those in
possession of it. and not for those to whom it
belongs.
MagnilOquent messages 10 Congress and
warlike proclama,ions to the people, from func-
tionaries who have abused their public trusts.
have no terrors FOR the homes; masses, who feel
their own strength, and know how TO bring il
10 bear TO rescue q Just cause from the BETRAYAL
OF false Rep-esentatives-ihe COLLISION of a
fai;hless Executive with band OF traitors.
to put down the laws-aud from the
even Of a standing army. if brought
IN to sustain an usurpaticn whSh treats the
men Of the free States, invited BIZ law to settle
our Territories rs aliens TO be driven out if they
claim the right Of suffrage. or IS guilty Of sedi-
lion and peniten.iary felony, If they dare to
speak their sentiments.
The chicanery Of the iniricuers who have
brorgh; the country TO its present perilcus con-
di.ion. viii be encountered and vanquisLed at
the ballos-hox. The ruffanism. The high flushed
chivalry. a-d the standing army. il al combined
10 put down the Freedom Of Kansas. guaranteed
by . oompac, Of thirty years standing. and
which can assert itself even under the very la~
passed TO detea. it. vii he confronted by bojy
q ooveaan;ers from the North, which. Ike
Cronweirs roundhesis will show cavaliers
and standing armies under usurping AUTHORITY,
.hsi brave men in good cause know how to
zeal with braycs. whose conscious criminali,y
viii weigh down thai arrogant spirit which has
no mercy foc the weak and humble. BE-, has
never vet been able TO withstand the rebuke Of
bold. in,eMgen strong. and hardy men. fighting
;or their rights
The feeliuz Of the men who hurled the SIN
AIS from their thrones Of the men ~ho made
DIP Revelation -lorious by resisting Par,ia-
nent and Cabinet doing violence 20 tie
rights OF freemen. animated the whole Pitts
oarEh Convention The Address which xas
adopted ~as IN eSa-sc-e. viii tie seiri. q.
the rer,onst-arces in which The pGbl;e men OF
or Revolution APPEALED TO the good sense ard
me ree:isaie Of p1rPose Of The People. to make
.hei. cazse siroag IN The moderation Of ,hsir
demands. which. falling sh3-s Q: MA. he Eo-Id
-oaI say ~As the FIJI measure Of riyh:. leis
10 doab; o: sheir Justice.
The Pi;ssbGryh Address ~in De to.ni 10
c'oa;Aia clea-. fall. ard e.nd,l s,atsr1eI.. Of
tie slave question. in 81 the ASPECTS n Which !.
aAs appeared. from FRS. 70 as 1, : his.orv
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