. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. at this Golden Jubilee of our Party, of which theLiberty Party was the pioneer and forerunner: Hon. William Barnes, No. 493 State St., Albany, N. Y.: Dear Sir:—Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, of Geneva, N. Y.,has sent to me your letter to her of July 7 inst. with the requestthat I answer it directly to you. I was born May 9, 1822, the son of Beriah Green, .who became anAbolitionist at the Western ReserveCollege, Hudson, Ohio, early in thethirties, and was President of theConvention at Philadelphia
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. at this Golden Jubilee of our Party, of which theLiberty Party was the pioneer and forerunner: Hon. William Barnes, No. 493 State St., Albany, N. Y.: Dear Sir:—Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, of Geneva, N. Y.,has sent to me your letter to her of July 7 inst. with the requestthat I answer it directly to you. I was born May 9, 1822, the son of Beriah Green, .who became anAbolitionist at the Western ReserveCollege, Hudson, Ohio, early in thethirties, and was President of theConvention at Philadelphia in Decem-ber, 1833, at which was formed theAmerican Anti-Slavery Society. The Abolitionists for the firstfew years contented themselves withexerting a moral influence againstslavery. But as time went on theybegan to look for results, and took toquestioning candidates as to whateach would do in case of election, con-cerning matters brought up in thequestions. The Whigs were prettyapt to answer as favorably as theycould; the I,ocofocos took much less notice or ignored the ques-tions BERIAH GREEN PRESIDENT FIRST FREE SOIL CONVENTION 56 GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. In 1838 the Whig nominee for the Governorship of thisState was WilHam H. Seward, and the Democratic nominee wasWilHam L. Marcy. The former, you may remember, was famil-iarly christened Little Bill because he favored paper currency assmall as one or two dollars. The other, Big Bill, because hefavored making five dollars the lowest. The Abolitionists ques-tioned the two, and I found myself in Utica, one of two com-positors, detailed to spend a long evening at the printing officeof Bob Roberts, an older brother of Ellis H. Roberts. Thisoffice was near Baggs Hotel where was a se-re-dunt of Whigleaders, headed by Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward, busywith the answer. A paragraph would come over to us, be putin type, and proofs sent to Baggs. After an interval more came,and so on, until in some wee
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