New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-12
cO10RED MEMS STATE CONTENTION.

HEARTY SUPPORT OF GRANT AND C0LFAX,
GRIswOLD, AND CORNELL-PETlTIONs FOR
THE LIBERIAN AND HAYTIAN MISSIONS.
Utica. Oct. THE Convention assembled at
Sd The President presented letter from Prof Wm
Howard Day of Altoona Penn, saying that Mr. William
Nebt President Of the Border State Convention held N
Baltimore Nd. Aug and g. 1868, had authorized call
for a National Convention, and wished the New)Ork
Convention to choose delegates thereto, said National
Convention to be held in the CITY OF WasmnS3 on te
Snnonted Wiifam Rich Of Troy Riley White OF Lockport
and James j. Speman OF NewYOrk, delegates ut large 10
the Ss t 0H2pd Mems d9 ConTenon
macon Ga Oct 7.1he Rsr j. w L0SGES Chairman oa u4a
Ss S,' so success % the issues ., stake he
Empire Of the Son'h Joins hands WIN the h@pf G 81 s
North battling for universal rights Our ConsenV h KS
nearly hundred Counties being r9ressnI s SV
state Central Committee was appointed as follows;
T. L. CORDOBA, Syracuse; H. c. Nelson Norwich; W. W.
Denike Utica; William Rich, Troy; Robert Jackson Al
hany Nathan Green, Oswego; Leonard Jackson Albany;
stephen Dicker Albion Robert jackson, Amsterdam;
nSn J. speiman, New-York William Butler, New
York EnOch Moore. Little Falls; n b. Gibbs AuDnrh'
Charles HILL Elmira T. Johnson, Rome; Charles W. Rob
insOn Watervie; Albert Thompson, Buffalo,; Absent
Phillips Little Falls; Samuel Dove. Utica; John X Wood,
saratoga; William Williams, Auburn Frederick Douglass
Rochester The Committee organized oll0ws Chair
H. Nelson Secretary James D. specimen yGTh
offered the following, which was unanimously adopted
RS Tbasth, Convention heartily ndor.e the nomination fGen
u President Of the United Sae and ne Hon SCHUYLER
state aud Alono for Lieut. Governor aud that pledge
them united supper. at The polls next November
Mr. CORDOBA Of Syracuse presented the following Whch
adopted .,
request the National Convention which shall assemble in January
Washington to petition to he presented TO AK
ing a se SSy ge 10 S eos[a fS n '"
In The evening the largo hall was filled 10 its utmost
capacity and an Interesting address was delivered BY
Win Wells Brown. Mr. Brown said: We should not lnr-
t the claims nj this time of our brethren OF the South
ern States Their condition is indeed sad one
lust now The part the blacks took In suppressing
the rebellion. gained for them te nafsd Sl , h
Reconstruction acts OF Congress giving some protection
ontTaSes Committed every day the South. show too
plainly the growing spirit OF Rebellion ana the unpro
ected state In which the freedmen placed But these
ts ~ mnrer and cruelty are confined 10 the negro;
white Union are equally unprotected Inc contest
country is nor merely whether Republican Demo
crat shall fiji the Presidential chair but whether te
the times that tried mems souls shall be given INTO
the hands OF their enemies to be murdered enshVed OF
driven out OF the South, these haters OF liberty shall
think fit. We need further evidence OF the
intention OF the late Rebels, than what
has already taken place in Georgia ana the threats OF
the most prominent who were engaged In the war
against the Union The talk about "b9ated OOndh0d,
financial Acknowledgement Of the Republican party, Is
nothing more than fetch 10 deceive the uniformed ana
country Our enemies appeal TO the preJudices so long
existing against u.s. BY the cry OF Negro supremacy at
the South, and would fam make inc WOMB eelsye tat
the Southern States being ruled by set OF barb
rlans unacquainted with the simplest rdment OF CIVIL
zatOn. Let us see who these negro DarDarans are AZ
the breaking out OF the Rebellion there we're 2oO free
blacks the South scattered over tue several states, en-
gagged in all kinds Of trades When the Legislature
Of Tennessee had before II BILL the purpOrt OF which
was TO drive the free cOlOred citizens from the State,
Judge CatrOn wrote able defense OF the free negroes
and said They best mechanics, citizens, aud
labOrers, and TO drive them out would he 10 expel
from our State portion OF its most inielli-
gent and useful population" What was true OF
the usefulness and intelligence OF the free
black of Tennessee, true also OF every South
ern state Although prohibited by law from educating
their children at home sending them North Tor That
purpose they nevertheless caDdestiney sent them to
the free States where they have received liberal educa
tjOn Now they have returned 10 their native States
Consequently colored graduates from Obern and other
institutions Of learning 10 be found IN all OF the states
Of the South The enterprise and industry OF the free
blacks induced them 10 encourage private teaching among
themselves underground schools were not uncommon Ia
the South Combinations OF unrepentant rete seek To
control the blacks The freedman can get no employment
former Chords Of the LASH without promise 10
vote the rebel ticket With these clubs to persuade ana
the K K K cOerce 10 viii not be strange some black
found voting with the enemies OF the Union at the
election But that considerable number OF then
with their free Will, will be found on the side or the
rebels do believe. II Seymour and Blair are elect
ed then only the liberty OF the Union men OF the
South will lost but the national character and credit
will also CO. and everything worth living for here Will be
at an end Brown closed with appeal for the bal
lot colOred Addresses also delivered
by Thomas James, E. h. COnover T. L. CORDOBA aud Mr..
SchOheld Of Utica The Convention, after cheering for
Grant aud COliax, Grsw0d and Cornell adjourned with
mt day