The Richmond Palladium

HOLLOWAY & CO.

People's Convention.

Recollect, that the State Convention will meet at Indianapolis on the first of May, and we trust every Republican in the County of Wayne, will make it his special object to arrange his business in such manner that he can devote that day to his political duty, by going up to the Capital. Old Wayne has taken a position on the question of the non-extension of slavery in our territories, in advance of most of her sister counties—she has nominated her candidates and adopted the platform, which she is determined to stand on and abide by: making that issue paramount to all others in the fight for the Presidency: and in the State canvass, in addition thereto, the passage of a Prohibitory Law in regard to the use of liquors as a beverage, and the amendment of the State Constitution in regard to prohibiting the exercise of the right of suffrage by aliens until they have become citizens of the United States. It therefore, as we have said, becomes necessary for every Republican in the County to go, who can possibly leave home and his avocation, to the People's Convention, and aid in cementing that union of sentiment of freedom, which pulsates and animates the heart of every opponent of this slavery-extension administration. Without union and concert of action, on the part of those who agree touching this all-important matter, the People's Republican Party will be hopelessly defeated both in their State and National elections: on the other hand, if a union is effected and all agree to come together on the single issue, so plainly marked out by the support of Atchison of South Carolina, by all the "odds and ends" of the South and Northern dough-faces—Democrats, Whigs, and South Americans—victory is sure and certain. Surely, the question of freedom to our territories, is sufficiently cohesive, to unite and blend together every freeman in the North; if Slavery extension is force sufficient to make so complete a "fusion" in the South, and so efficacious in the North that even dough is made fast to it?

In the State contest, we have three planks to stand on—all good, solid and firm—and all sufficiently capacious to hold every true friend of country: Non-Extension of Slavery, which unembarrassed, dedicates all the free soil of the United States to freedom men; a Prohibitory Law, which will effectually put an end to the liquor traffic; and an amended Constitution, which gives to aliens the right of suffrage, in violation of the Constitution of the United States and the naturalization laws of Congress. After the State fight is finished; we are then prepared to go into the National Battle on the single question as presented by the South: Shall Slavery be made National and Freedom sectional? Every right thinking man in the North, will, we are sure, use his utmost exertions to reverse that question, and by his vote will say that Freedom is National, and that the duty of our Government should be to extend its blessings; and that Slavery is sectional, and it is equally its bounden duty to restrict the black curse and confine it to its present limits. We, of the free North, do not and will not interfere with its existence in the Southern States; but are determined to use all constitutional means to stay its further desolating steps—this is a right and a duty which we intend to exercise to its fullest extent and meaning.

But we have extended this article to a greater length than we intended. We only designed to urge the People to go up to Indianapolis to the Convention in such numbers that will demonstrate that their "faith" in their declarations are not all "sound and fury;" but really signify their earnestness in the work marked out by their County action.

The prayers of Larabee and the curses of Morrison, do not improve the Sentinel a whit! In alluding to the action of the Wayne County convention, the Sentinel says: It "ruled out the subject of temperance as a side issue," and excluded it from the platform. What a whopper! We invite the prayerful and "cussed" attention of the editors of that paper, to the following resolution adopted by that Convention:

"We hold that our Legislature is clearly authorized by the State Constitution to enact law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and that such power should be exercised by the passage of an efficient prohibitory law."