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Democratic Standard
Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio
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Abolitionists of Massachusetts held a state convention in Boston on the 14th instant, organizing and nominating Samuel E. Sewall for governor, Mr. Jackson for lieutenant governor, and confirming James G. Birney for president and Thomas Morris for vice president. They passed resolutions urging clergy to preach against dueling.
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The abolitionists of Massachusetts held a State Convention at Boston on the 14th instant, and thoroughly organized. They nominated Samuel E. Sewall for Governor, Mr. Jackson for Lieutenant Governor, and also two State Electors. The meeting confirmed, by vote, the nomination of James G. Birney, of Michigan, for President, and Thomas Morris, of Ohio, for Vice President of the United States.— The following resolutions was passed, among others:
Resolved, That the nomination of a professed duellist for President of the United States, by a large State Convention held in this city, furnishes an occasion which loudly calls on the clergy of this Commonwealth to carry out the reform so well begun by them after the murder of Hamilton, and extended after the murder of Cilley, by preaching against the sin of duelling as murder, and by urging as the only practical remedy for this crime, the refusal of all good citizens to vote for a duelist for any office; and we call upon the friends of sound morals in the religious congregations of Massachusetts to see that this work is done.
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Boston, Massachusetts
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14th Instant
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The abolitionists of Massachusetts held a State Convention at Boston on the 14th instant, and thoroughly organized. They nominated Samuel E. Sewall for Governor, Mr. Jackson for Lieutenant Governor, and also two State Electors. The meeting confirmed, by vote, the nomination of James G. Birney, of Michigan, for President, and Thomas Morris, of Ohio, for Vice President of the United States. The following resolutions was passed, among others: Resolved, That the nomination of a professed duellist for President of the United States, by a large State Convention held in this city, furnishes an occasion which loudly calls on the clergy of this Commonwealth to carry out the reform so well begun by them after the murder of Hamilton, and extended after the murder of Cilley, by preaching against the sin of duelling as murder, and by urging as the only practical remedy for this crime, the refusal of all good citizens to vote for a duelist for any office; and we call upon the friends of sound morals in the religious congregations of Massachusetts to see that this work is done.