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Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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The Whig Connecticut Convention in Hartford on the 28th passed resolutions endorsing American protection principles, opposing more slave states, criticizing Isaac Toucey and President Franklin Pierce's vetoes, and approving the Connecticut Prohibitory Law.
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Hartford
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28th
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passed resolutions endorsing protectionism, opposing more slave states, criticizing toucey and pierce's vetoes, approving prohibitory law, and declaring pierce's administration unworthy of respect.
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Whig Connecticut Convention assembled at Hartford on the 28th and passed resolutions on American interests protection, Missouri Compromise and slavery, resistance to more slave states, disapprobation of Isaac Toucey's Senate course, condemnation of President's vetoes on River and Harbor and French Spoliation bills, approval of Connecticut Prohibitory Law, and low regard for Franklin Pierce's administration.