SPEECH ON CALLING THE FREE-SOIL STATE CONVENTION TO ORDER, AT
WORCESTER, SEPTEMBER 12, 1849.
The Annual State Convention of the Free-Soil Party, called at the time
the Free Democracy, met at Worcester, September 12, 1849. It became the
duty of Mr. Sumner, as Chairman of the State Central Committee, to call
the Convention to order. In doing this he made the following remarks.