Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-17
The Republicans OF Missouri.
THEIR NOMINATION OF EDWARD RATES.
From the National Intelligencer.l

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THEIR NOMINATION OF EDWARD BATEs
from the National Intclligencer.l
A State Convention of the Republicans
of Missouri was held at St. Louis on the
10th instant, pursuant to public notice.
Every Congressional district in the State
was represented by it's respective dele
gates. B. Grnntz Brown presided, sup
ported by Vice Presidents from some
twenty counties.
The following series of resolutions was
adopted:
Rcsolped, That the Republicans of Mis-
souri,, in Convention assembled, do most
heartily endorse the principles of the
National Republican party as the same are
set forth in the call for the National Con-
vcntion to be held at Chicago, aud hereby
| pledge themselves to support the nominee
of that Convention.
Rcsolrc6 That the Republicans of the
| State of Missouri hold to the principles
which gave birth to the grand Confcderacy
of States which compose the Union, and
deem it their most glorious privilege to
reiterate and affirm the sentiments of the
founders of the Republic, as truly en-
bodying the political doctrines which they
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ards and to the last cmtremity; that the
following language, contained in letter
addressed by George Washington, "the
Father of his Country" to Gen. Lafayette,
in the year 1903, embraces the great and
fundamental principles upon which the
Democratic Republican party of Missouri
| is founded, to wit: 81 agree with you cor
daily in your views in regard to negro
slavery. have long considered it most
serious evil, both socially and politically,
and should rejoice in any feasible scheme
to rid our States of such n burden. The
| Congress of 1887 adopted an ordinance
which prohibits the existence of involun-
tary scrvitude in oar Norwcstcrn Territory
| forever. | consider it wise measure. 1t
met with the approval and assent of near
| ly every member of the States more imme-
dintely interested in slave labor. The pre-
vailing opinion in Virginia is against the
spread of slavery into the new Territories,
and trust we shall have II Confederacy of
free States"
ResOlrc4, That we most heartily approve
the language and sentiments contained in
the following extract of n letter written by
Thomas Jefferson to Mr.. Sparks, pointing
out feasible scheme to rid the Suites of
the burden of slavery, and in which he
declares ''that the second object, and most
interesting to us, as coming home to our
physical and morals characters, to our hap
ness and safety, is to provide an asylum
to which we can by degrees send the whole
of that population (the ucgroes) from
among us, and establish them under our
patronage and protection as n scperate,
free, and independent people, in some
country and climate friendly to human
life"
Resolred, That the colonization of the
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Mr.. jefferson as the true solution of the
slavery question in this country, found
among its defenders the illustrious Clay,
of Kentucky, among the greatest of the
second generation of statesmen of the Re-
public. We borrow his eloquent language
to rebuke those who maintain that our
Government was instituted for no other
object than to perpetuatc slavery: "lf (said
this great statesman and patriOt) they
would repress all tendencies toward liberty
and ultimate emancipation, they must do
more than put down the benevolent efforts
of this society. They must go back to
the era of our liberty and independence,
the cannon which thunders its annual joy
Gus return. They must revive the slave
trade, with all its train of atrocities
They must repress the workings of British
philanthropy seeking to ameliornte the
condition of the unfortunate West Indian
slaves. They must arrest the career of
South American deliverance from thral-
dom. They must blow out the moral
lights around US, and extinguish that great
est torch of all, which America presents
to benighted world, pointing the way to
their rights, their liberties, and their hap
piness, and when they have achieved all
these their work will be yet Incomplete !
they must penetrate the human soul, and
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