religious language from remarks to be as the wrote, Daily Journal Smith’s passed. “This,” of the address, as it destroyed its the Chair declared that “disposed argument.” Without vote, speech now embodied, sentiments of the Chaos reigned for three Sedgwick’s “the Convention.” hours as egos clashed. The meeting adjourned just before midnight. Smith was incensed at the wholesale slaughter of his ideas. As crowds began filing from the hall, he seized the podium. He quickly brought to order a new Convention, a or four who, in the Frederick comprising, “three hundred persons,” “remained Hall.” Douglass was declared president. Smith addressed the remaining crowd, holding that, New “the Convention was not responsible for the proceedings of the one which had just adjourned. God would not smile on the closing proceedings of that was of Convention.” It an, “abandonment God's cause not to adopt the address which had been address of the objected to.” Quickly, “the Business Committee of the old Convention was unanimously adopted, and after a prayer, at 1 o'clock, the Convention adjourned Smith would publish his address and resolutions sine die.” for circulation as a pamphlet to the state and nation as the sentiment of abolitionism, a sentiment that was distinctly radical. The radical stance of Abolitionists across the north did not go unnoticed. Daniel Webster, from his post at the head of the State Department in Washington, was keenly aware of the sentiment brewing across the northeast. In a letter declining an invitation to speak in Westchester, NY, just outside of New York City, in late January of 1851, Webster spilt his rage at the abolitionists out onto paper. purpose of overturning the Webster “The government,” wrote, more clearly in resolutions agreed to in voluntary assemblies of individuals, “shows itself denouncing the laws of the land, and declaring a fixed intent to disobey weeks them.” Just before the Syracuse Anti-Fugitive Slave Law convention had resolved to not simply, out “pour
religious language from Smith’s remarks to be passed. “This,” as the Daily Journal wrote, “disposed of the address, as it destroyed its argument.” Without vote, the Chair declared that Sedgwick’s speech now embodied, “the sentiments of the Convention.” Chaos reigned for three hours as egos clashed. The meeting adjourned just before midnight. Smith was incensed at the wholesale slaughter of his ideas. As crowds began filing from the hall, he seized the podium. He quickly brought to order a new Convention, a comprising, “three or four hundred persons,” who, “remained in the Hall.” Frederick Douglass was declared president. Smith addressed the remaining crowd, holding that, “the New Convention was not responsible for the proceedings of the one which had just adjourned. God would not smile on the closing proceedings of that Convention.” It was an, “abandonment of God's cause not to adopt the address which had been objected to.” Quickly, “the address of the Business Committee of the old Convention was unanimously adopted, and after a prayer, at 1 o'clock, the Convention adjourned sine die.” Smith would publish his address and resolutions for circulation as a pamphlet to the state and nation as the sentiment of abolitionism, a sentiment that was distinctly radical. The radical stance of Abolitionists across the north did not go unnoticed. Daniel Webster, from his post at the head of the State Department in Washington, was keenly aware of the sentiment brewing across the northeast. In a letter declining an invitation to speak in Westchester, NY, just outside of New York City, in late January of 1851, Webster spilt his rage at the abolitionists out onto paper. “The purpose of overturning the government,” Webster wrote, “shows itself more clearly in resolutions agreed to in voluntary assemblies of individuals, denouncing the laws of the land, and declaring a fixed intent to disobey them.” Just weeks before the Syracuse Anti-Fugitive Slave Law convention had resolved to not simply, “pour out