Abraham Lincoln and reformers . MORRIS tilRKBECK. 147 AN APPEAL ON THE QUESTION OF ACONVENTION. (By Morris Birkbeck.) Fellow Citizens—The framers of our social compact, profiting bythe experience of all nations, to secure from light and capriciouschanges those institutions of government, which, on account or theirsuperior importance, are coupled with first principles, and embodiedin the constitution, did most wisely ordain that a solemn measure ot aconvention should not be proposed to the people by any authorityshort of a majority of two-thirds of the general assembly. We areinvited to vote on
Abraham Lincoln and reformers . MORRIS tilRKBECK. 147 AN APPEAL ON THE QUESTION OF ACONVENTION. (By Morris Birkbeck.) Fellow Citizens—The framers of our social compact, profiting bythe experience of all nations, to secure from light and capriciouschanges those institutions of government, which, on account or theirsuperior importance, are coupled with first principles, and embodiedin the constitution, did most wisely ordain that a solemn measure ot aconvention should not be proposed to the people by any authorityshort of a majority of two-thirds of the general assembly. We areinvited to vote on this subject, at the next election, by a very differentsort of majority from that intended by the constitution, and framedafter a new fashion, which it will be right for us to examine before wegive it our countenance. The history of the business appears to be, ^Certain members of that body, anxious to introduce a forbiddensystem amongst us, formed themselves into a junto or caucus soonafter the commencement of the session, aabrahamlincolnrelinc_9
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