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d purpose of the resolutions were to ignore the question of slavery, and to bring about a political union of men of all parties in the State.
Such being the views of the convention, the speech of Mr. Sumner was regarded with disfavor.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, a delegate from Boston, offered two resolutions, which had a bearing towards sustaining the position taken by Mr. Sumner; but they failed to receive the approval of the convention.
The first expressed confidence in the wisdom of the nn certainly disavowed any intention of indorsing the fatal doctrines announced by Mr. Sumner, with a distinctness that can be hardly flattering to that gentleman's conception of his own influence in Massachusetts.
The resolutions offered by Rev. Mr. Clarke, as a crucial test of the readiness of the convention to adopt open abolitionism as its creed, went to the table, and were buried, never to rise.
Further on, it says,—
It may not appear so to Mr. Sumner and his supporters, and it m