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Domestic News March 6, 1855

The Evansville Daily Journal

Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

What is this article about?

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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The Whig Connecticut Convention, assembled at Hartford on the 28th, passed resolutions endorsing the American Principle, including the doctrine of protection to American interests, disclaiming that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise has put an end to Compromises on the subject of Slavery, and expressing a determination to resist, by the Constitutional means, the admission into the Union of more Slave States; expressing disapprobation of the course of Isaac Toucey in the U. S. Senate; condemning the veto of the River and Harbor and French Spoliation bills by the President; approving the Connecticut Prohibitory Law, and declaring the administration of Franklin Pierce to be such as to entitle it to little respect.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics

What keywords are associated?

Whig Convention Connecticut Resolutions Slavery Missouri Compromise Isaac Toucey Franklin Pierce Prohibitory Law

What entities or persons were involved?

Isaac Toucey Franklin Pierce

Where did it happen?

Hartford

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Hartford

Event Date

28th

Key Persons

Isaac Toucey Franklin Pierce

Outcome

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.

Event Details

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.

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