Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-03-25
Mass Convention.

e The Sussex Register SAYS that on the 30th
day Of the present month, the anttLecompton
Democrats. Of Sussex County well meet in
Mass Convention, at Newton, to give ex-
preston to their views in reference to the de-
sertion by the Administration Of the funda-
mental principle of popular liberty. The call
for this meeting is signed by 400 or 500 of
the NEST active and influential Democrats in
the ~County-men who have born for years the
heat and burden of partisan controversy, and
Whose sincerity and earnestness have been too
often demonstrated to admit Of a doubt of
their determination to uphold in the present
crisis what they conceive to be the true prin-
iples of democracy. TO
We should Ike to see a similar demonstra.
ton in this county. What are the Anti-Le-
comptonites about in old Monmouth, that they
don't make a demonstration of their power I
The time for action has come Let us at once
get about the good work, and form an organi-
cation that will be heard and left at the Ides
of next November. REPRESENTATION is dan
gerous. Let us " strike while the iron is hot,
The dronss may say, list well enough alone Z,
but the dromes are behind the age. If we lis,
ten to their advice, we shall plod on, as we
have been going for the last three or -four
years, and when the time to show our strength
arrives, we will find ourselves in the position
that a raw, uuoficered, undisciplined corps
would present against an inferior force of well
disciplined troops. You can all imagine where
that would be.
Anti-Lecompton Meetings are being held
throughout all the Free StatesAseyeral in
New Jersey-and they are, without exception
the most spirited and enthusiastic Political
Meetings ever held in this county. Can this
be wondered at when we see the spirit of ty-
ranny and oppression that is SO glaringly
manifest in the President and his Cabinet, in
the gross wrongs they are endeavoring to in
fict upon the Freemen of Kansas. &
Friends of Freedom, let us awake to a
proper sense Of our duty, and at once com
mence an organization in old Monmouth that
will shatter to fragments the cohorts of those
oppressive and fragrant wrongs. Let us call q
County Mass Meeting at as early a day as
practicable, and measures can then be adopted
to secure Township organizations, which will
enable us, by the selection Of proper candi-
dates, for Office. to carry the County next Fall
In defiance Of all the opposition the patent de-
mocracy can array against US. 4a,
The Freemen of Monmouth are now as pa
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triotic and true to the sacred cause of Equal
Rights, as were their venerated sires during
/" the period that tried mems souls" and if the
proper organization is effected in this county
by the real friends of Freedom, we feel salts
fed that there are hundreds of the honest
yeomanry of Monmouth who will cheerfully
join the Opposition ranks, as they have be-
come heartily tired and Disguised with the
arbitrary and corrupt leaders of the party now
styling themselves Democrats, but whose dcs
tons show that they have no earthly claim to
such distinction. M a $50
Let MS organize, then; and that speedily
who will be FIRST to second this good and
necessary movement