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ted States !" and In order 10 make his purpose 10
thus perverting and msquoting those resolutions
democratic ansayery Authority" still more positive he
added s.. @at..a. ..a
Now, sir, 10 Massachusetts THAT u.s. free soilers)
agree with these resolutions We 6eepe e haze The poer
10 aboiish slavery in all tie Ttrriories Of the Union"
So that IL Mr. Wilson is to be held responsible for the
ordinary meaning Of words he here deliberately asserted
that the resolutions Of the democratic convention Of l849
avowed and affirmed distinct proposition for political
action the eesoil doctrine that Congress had the power
to abolish slavery in all the Territories Of the Union He
held up the convention, Mr. Hallet and COL Greene of
the Boston Post vouchers for that antslavery dogma,
and he made Senator Benjamin. Of Louisiana and other
senator's SO understand him.
This the senator's first pervcrsion and misquotation
of those resolutions.
Again, in October 1885, at aboliton-fuson
ton held In Mddlesex county, of which Mr. Wilson was
the most prominent and leading member the first three
paragraphs and one half of the fourth and Fifth resou-
tons, (stoppng short at semcoon with "b" to evade
the true meanng,) were msquoted and garbed and de-
cared by that convention be "he doctrine promulgated
by the democratic party of Massachusetts, their State
convention of ls49, In resolutions written by B. r. Hal
lett and approved sound and national by the Boston
Post
What piece Of political mendacity that when in"
those resolutions not five lines below the semcoon and
"b" 1t was promulgated by the State convention of
FORE CANNOT BE MADE A NATIONAL PARTY rEsTp
Mr. Wilson says that he did not make those quota
tons in the resolutions of the Mddesex convention and
had nothing to do with them. This would be manly
disclaimer and would be frankly received such did not
Mr. Wilson follow up bis disclaimer by usying the con-
vention of which he member, in stopping at semi
colon and "dm." lie says, in his personal explans-
tion:"
asr convention in Mddlesex county approved of and
quoted four entire resolutions passed by the democratic
State convention in ls49 and because II did adopt
another resolution connected with the last resolve by
but and thus make itself ridiculous before the country
the democratic convention under the lead Of Mr. BEN
amn F. Halet had done in ls49 have been charged in
this pamphlet with the Misrepresentation of the resolu
tons.n
Mr.. Wilson thus incauously admits that If the portion
of the resolutions connected by " with the sequsnt
resolutions which be and the Middesex convention sup
pressed had been quoted in their obvious connexon with
the rest it would have been "ridcuou to hold them up
he has done antavery resolutions in favor of the
power of Congress to abolish slavery in the Terrtores
This is palpabe confession the part of the SENATOR
that in order quote the resolutions Of the of
ls49 "a sound democratic authority his poin of the
right interference Of Congress with slavery In the Terri
tories he obliged to the connexion of the sup
pressed resolution with those he did quote "he resou
tons Of the convention
That Is the suppression of TRUTH the perversion of fact
of which the senator stands convicted, and which all
falsehood.
Neither is II true that the abolition Middlesex conven-
ton quoted the first portions of the resolutions stopping
at ppi" merely resolutions they approved. On the
contrary they quoted and approved those donted
luons "the doctrine promulgated by the democratic
party Of Massachusetts, and approved sound and ma
tiona by the Boston POST and "wheh resolutions hey
say follows" This perverson Of truth Mr. Wilson
ast6es and If he not guilty Of the original de-
cpdon practised in the abolition convention under his
lead, he makes it his own by adoption.
Four months after this second deliberate perverson of
these resolutions Mr. Wilson repeated for the third time
in his speech the Senate February 49, 1885, Kansas
afars" lie there affirmed that "if some Of Massa
chusetts should be found circulating The rsoluons Of the
democratic State convention of s4a written BY Hon. B.
f. Hactt and endorsed by Charles G. Greene national
democratic doctrine he would be subject the punishment
provided for in this section"
Here Mr. Wilson directly asserted that the
sectional Sentiments Of opposition 10 slavery in general
and its extension TO Territories announced by the
democratic State convention through Mr. Halle and
dorsed by Colonel Greene national democratic doctrine
And yet he now disclaims the charitable construction
that he could have read the resolutions whole and
admits that he deliberately made that false assertion when
he knew that "he following each other In log
cal order" declared, in so many words, "at he" sen
menfs mcersai at The North belong 10 party
being held in BY nearly all north Of "ctional
fi0e, nhue Hcy Fepuameu " Host sohh
AND rRnEFoEE CANNOT MADE NATIONAL PARTY
TEST"
Such is the history Of Mr. Henry Wilson's repeated per-
version and msquoaon Of those resolutions" used BY
him place the democracy Of Massachusetts, generally and
Mr. Haleu and Col Greene particularly in false position
before the country For than year he had been
permitted unrebuked TO continue his persistence In garb
ling those resolutions until the 10th OF March last
Of his ultra abolition followers in New Hampshire inter
rupted Mr. Haetf public speech al Wilton and the
sole authority Of Senator Wilson's speech which he quo
ted asserted that ahe resolutions OF the democratic con-
venton OF s4s reported BY Mr. Haet and endorsed by
COL Greene national democratic doctrine antsavery
resolutions such eesoes and abolioniss adopt and
inconsistent with the position democrats take upon
the right Of the people Of Territory TO determine the
question Of slavery for themselves ,.et @.}-.
Mr. Hallet thus publicly assaled the sole authority
Of Mr. Wilson's speeches in Congress- defended himself
against the wholly unprovokcd attacks which that senator
had made upon his political consistency the subject Of
political action concerning slavery In the Territories
And thereupon Mr. Wilson, In his seat In the Senate rises
TO privileged personal explanation" and complains
10 he aggrieved that "Mr. Ialet has chosen TO
make this gratuous personal assault upon him. and thrust
IL into this Oh amber and into the other housep
He goes further than senatorial privilege or apcrsona
explanation warrants and seeks diversion from the main
issue by pretending remember The precise words Of
casual conversation between gentlemen overheard by
him in the cars, some seven years agoi
That not "he question Of yeraciy what Mr. Hallet
may or may not have said In free conversation (of which
he has recollection whatever) with then political