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Sentences starting with convention

Convention must judge for itself. [7]

Sentences ending with convention

As the day wore on our numbers increased, we were joined by other lawyers of renown, not the least of whom was Mr. Grolier himself, fresh from his triumph over religious heresy in his Church Convention. [9]
He had dined with country people, and had dined them; had entered upon the fag-end of the London season with keen, amused enjoyment; and had engrafted every little use of the convention. [11]
Harris and Douglas were both in Springfield when the Convention was in session, and although they both left before the fraud appeared in the Register, subsequent events show that they have both had their eyes fixed upon that Convention. [7]
I was wholly unaware that Mr. Vallandigham was, at the time of his arrest, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor until so informed by your reading to me the resolutions of the convention. [7]
And it is the very thing that will greatly endanger our cause, if it be not kept out of our national convention. [7]
The substance of the Judge's speech on Kansas is an effort to put the free-State men in the wrong for not voting at the election of delegates to the constitutional convention. [7]
You'll see it takes effect the day after the State convention. [9]
The reporters are rather more alert for a dog-fight than a philological convention. [4]
It was a queer question, and Jethro's answer was quite as lacking in convention. [9]
It had no prejudices; nor did it boast, as the Syndicalists boasted, of its absence of convention. [9]

Sentences containing convention two or more times

And as a ground for holding me responsible for these resolutions, he assumed that they had been passed at a State Convention of the Republican party, and that I took part in that Convention. [7]
In order to fix extreme Abolitionism upon me, Judge Douglas read a set of resolutions which he declared had been passed by a Republican State Convention, in October, 1854, at Springfield, Illinois, and he declared I had taken part in that Convention. [7]

More example sentences with the word convention in them

I suppose that you have done me this kindness in connection with the action of the Baltimore convention, which has recently taken place, and with which, of course, I am very well satisfied. [7]
The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chicago convention, contributed his, which was worth something; and I now contribute mine, which may be worth nothing. [7]
Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
If such convention were to ask my views, I could present little else than what I now say to you. [7]
He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun. [9]
Philip seemed to wear no mark of convention, and Guida spoke her thoughts freely to him. [11]
An internal-improvement convention was held there since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. [7]
But if he wants good government, he must pay as careful attention to the machinery,--call it caucus, primary, convention, town-meeting,--as he does to the machinery of his own business. [4]
Individual: "Do you want to come in and see the convention and vote? [9]
This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. [7]
The joint commission under the act of the last session of carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organized at Lima, and is engaged in the business intrusted to it. [7]
I have sent two letters to General Steele, and three or four despatches to you and others, saying that he, General Steele, must be master, but that it will probably be best for him to merely help the convention on its own plan. [7]
They recognized the touch of fashion and of form, of a worldly education, of a convention which lifted her away from the tan and the caravan, from the everlasting itinerary. [11]
Mr. Colfax was too well bred to inquire further; so he never found out that Mr. Brice was writing an account of the Convention and the speechmaking for the Missouri Democrat. [9]
I repeat here to today that I never in any possible form had anything to do with that set of resolutions It turns out, I believe, that those resolutions were never passed in any convention held in Springfield. [7]
Mr. Lincoln proceeded to rally the Buffalo convention for forbearing to say anything--after all the previous declarations of those members who were formerly Whigs--on the subject of the Mexican War, because the Van Burens had been known to have supported it. [7]
Again, in reference to our platform: On the 16th of June the Republicans had their Convention and published their platform, which is as clear and distinct as Judge Douglas's. [7]
The convention is to be held at Tremont on the 5th of April and according to the rule we have adopted your county is to have delegates--being double your representation. [7]
It was convention time, but except in the hotel corridors politicians were not the feature of the place. [4]
The (at that time) Scientist whom I mentioned a minute ago, and who had not been present at the convention, saw it and marvelled; marvelled and was indignant--indignant with the printer or the telegrapher, for making so careless and so dreadful an error. [5]
For two days they hold a noisy convention, with high debate, in the tree-tops. [4]
As introductory to these interrogatories which Judge Douglas propounded to me at Ottawa, he read a set of resolutions which he said Judge Trumbull and myself had participated in adopting, in the first Republican State Convention, held at Springfield in October, 1854. [7]
I understand that there is a--a convention to be held at the capital the day after to-morrow, and that it is Mr. Vane's firm intention to attend it. [9]
The Democrats, in their national convention, declared the war a failure, demanded, substantially, peace at any price, and nominated on such a platform General McClellan as their candidate. [7]
In June of the same year the elements of the Republican party in the nation assembled together in a National Convention at Philadelphia. [7]
On yesterday morning the most of the Whig members from this district got together and agreed to hold the convention at Tremont in Tazewell County. [7]
In the retrospect, the elements in him that had disturbed her were less disquieting, his intellectual fascination was enhanced: and in that very emancipation from cant and convention, characteristic of the Order to which he belonged, had lain much of his charm. [9]
Two days before the convention, immediately after taking dinner at the Ripton House with Mr. Nat Billings, Hilary Vane, in response to a summons, drove up to Fairview. [9]
The commission under the convention with the Republic of New Granada closed its session without having audited and passed upon all the claims which were submitted to it. [7]
I remember that the Convention ordered the placing of these hemicycles in the garden, and they were executed from Robespierre's designs; but I suppose I am the only person who ever saw the games played that were expected to be played before them. [4]
He had forgotten the convention He told her what had happened at Mr. Carvel's store, and how the Colonel had tried to persuade Judge Whipple to take the Glencoe house while he was in Europe, and how the Judge had refused. [9]
At elections see that those, and only those, are allowed to vote who are entitled to do so by the laws of Missouri, including as of those laws the restrictions laid by the Missouri convention upon those who may have participated in the rebellion. [7]
It turns out that they were never passed at any convention or any public meeting that I had any part in. [7]
He also says that the Whig party in National Convention agreed to abide by and regard as a finality the Compromise of 1850. [7]
It is true that the set of resolutions read by Judge Douglas were published in the Illinois State Register on the 16th of October, 1854, as being the resolutions of an anti-Nebraska Convention which had sat in that same month of October, at Springfield. [7]
A convention for that purpose will be submitted to the Senate. [7]
My conclusion is, that I can have nothing to do with the matter, either to sustain the plan as the convention and Governor Johnson have initiated it, or to revoke or modify it as you demand. [7]
It turned out that although a few men calling themselves an anti-Nebraska State Convention had sat at Springfield about that time, yet neither did I take any part in it, nor did it pass the resolutions or any such resolutions as Judge Douglas read. [7]
A woman of temperament at forty is apt to cut across the bows of iron-clad convention and go down. [11]
He got a taste of that freedom which he had handed over to the dungeons of convention two years before. [11]
But watch her, study her, and you will find her to be the perfection of a type--the finest expression of a decorous convention, a perfect product of social conservatism; unaffected, cheerful, sensitive, composed, very talented, altogether companionable. [11]
This convention is still in force, and has in part been executed. [7]
The seven delegates so nominated to a national convention to have power to add two delegates to their own number, and to fill all vacancies. [7]
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-- The instructions say, "The government, in rejecting the recent convention, abandons neither its own claims nor those of its citizens," etc. [6]
He had to send Hilary, thus vitiated, into the Convention to conduct the most important battle since the founding of the Empire, and Austen Vane was responsible. [9]
The convention is scarcely thirty-six hours off, and Hilary is about as fit to handle it as--as Eben Fitch. [9]
On the instant, Rosalie resented this fine epitome of convention, this dutiful charity-monger, herself the centre of an admiring quartet. [11]
To illustrate: Suppose refugees from the South and peace men of the North get together in convention, and frame and proclaim a compromise embracing a restoration of the Union. [7]
The sixth resolution recommends the adoption of the convention system for the nomination of candidates. [7]
Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of all portions of the State to adopt and rigidly adhere to the convention system of nominating candidates. [7]
There is another reason why you Southern people ought to nominate Douglas at your convention at Charleston. [7]
But the great question "Materialism or Antimaterialism" still agitated the Georgia Augusta, in whose province the conflict had assumed still sharper forms, owing to Rudolf Wagner's speech during the convention of the Guttingen naturalists three years prior to my entrance. [10]
I attended a protracted convention of reformers of a certain evil, once, and had the pleasure of taking dinner with a tableful of them. [4]
Last year he presided at the convention which nominated the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen his party. [7]
A proposition is pending to revive the convention, that it may be able to do more complete justice. [7]
The Baltimore convention passed a set of resolutions, among other things, approving these vetoes, and General Cass declares, in his letter accepting the nomination, that he has carefully read these resolutions, and that he adheres to them as firmly as he approves them cordially. [7]
The two great parties, each in national convention, adopted resolutions declaring that the settlement made by the Compromise of 1850 was a finality that it would last forever. [7]
Colonel Strode presided over the Convention. [7]
Now, it turns out that he had got hold of some resolutions passed at some convention or public meeting in Kane County. [7]
There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. [7]
The movement set on foot by the convention and Governor Johnson does not, as seems to be assumed by you, emanate from the National Executive. [7]
Last fall, my old mother--then 82--took a notion to attend a convention of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley in an Iowa town. [5]
In the article of woman, for instance, she may not become the being that the convention expects, but there may appear a Woman of whom all the Aspasias and Helens were only the faintest types. [4]
Not a few of them actually believed, in 1863, that, if the national convention of the Union party were held then, Lincoln would not be supported by the delegation of a single State. [7]
General Doby, chairman of the convention, an impressive but mournful figure, could not call a roll if he wanted to. [9]
A large majority of the Baltimore convention of 1844 were, by their constituents, instructed to procure Van Buren 's nomination if they could. [7]
He was fond of telling what he would do if the convention rejected such and such resolutions. [4]
On the 10th of September, 1857, a claims convention was concluded between the United States and the Republic of Granada. [7]
In the month of May, 1856, the elements in the State of Illinois which have since been consolidated into the Republican party assembled together in a State Convention at Bloomington. [7]
The very convention of making light of bravery and danger, which has its value, was in their case an evil, preventing them from facing the inner meaning of it all. [11]
The ignorant cruelty of its convention! [9]
On the 28th of February of the same year a Democratic District Convention was held at Naperville to nominate a candidate for Circuit Judge. [7]
Let an individual of character and known anti-railroad convictions (such as the gentleman said to be at the Widow Peasley's) be presented to the convention, and they would nominate him. [9]
At the Convention of Berne, last year, there were delegates from everywhere, and the proposal was received with decided favour. [5]
In the autumn of '59, through the kindness of Mr. Brinsmade, Stephen had gone on a steamboat up the river to a great convention in Iowa. [9]
Why did they not hold popular meetings and have a convention of their own to express and enforce the true sentiment of the State? [7]
We do not mention the fact of many of the Whigs opposing the convention system heretofore for the purpose of censuring them. [7]
He was no longer the stern Churchman, the inveterate friend of Justice, the prejudiced priest, rigid in a pious convention, who could neither bend nor break. [11]
He did not like England altogether: first, because it lacked, as he said, enterprise; and because the formality, decorum and excessive convention fretted him. [11]
You've got to keep your hand on the throttle in the convention, you understand. [9]
I believe this is true about those resolutions: There was a call for a convention to form a Republican party at Springfield, and I think that my friend Mr. Lovejoy, who is here upon this stand, had a hand in it. [7]
If this notion is not a foolish and wicked one, won't you just consult with some chief Independents, and see if they won't call a sudden convention and whoop the thing through? [5]
I believe it is also true that I went away from Springfield when the convention was in session, to attend court in Tazewell county. [7]
When Hunt gets into the convention and begins to fall off, you've got to talk to him, Vane. [9]
To become an integral part of the life--the English country gentleman; to be reduced, diluted, to the needs of the convention, and no more? [11]
Governor Shepley has informed me that Mr. Durant is now taking a registry, with a view to the election of a constitutional convention in Louisiana. [7]
She honoured him in her heart for the position he had taken, but she could not resist the natural impulse of a woman where her taste and convention were shocked. [11]
There had been in Ditmar's life certain events which, in his anecdotal moods, were magnified into matters of climacteric importance; high, festal occasions on which it was sweet to reminisce, such as his visit as Delegate at Large to that Chicago Convention. [9]
It is obviously impossible that a masterpiece should be executed under the rules laid down by convention. [9]
It depends upon how much the voters find out about him before the convention. [9]
A Convention of his party in this State met on the 21st of April at Springfield, and passed a set of resolutions which they proclaim to the country as their platform. [7]
And he told her of his having been a delegate to the last National Republican Convention, explaining what a delegate was. [9]
A conference was held at Leith between the candidate, Mr. Tooting, and the Honourable Timothy Watling of Newcastle, who was preparing the nominating speech, although the convention was more than two months distant. [9]
She had indeed heard him give vent to a mitigated indignation against foreigners in general, but now the old-school Americanism in which he had been bred, the Americanism of individual rights, of respect for the convention of property, had suddenly sprung into flame. [9]
All else that he had done had been wholly after a crude, staring convention, after rule and measure--an artisan's, a tombstone-cutter's labour. [11]
Mr. Thomas Gaylord has just entered the convention hall, and is said to be about to nominate--a dark horse. [9]
A claims convention has been constituted to complete the unfinished work of the one which closed its session in 1861. [7]
Their convention had hardly adjourned when the capture of Atlanta gave a new aspect to the military situation. [7]
As well might Hardin ask me to vote for him in the convention. [7]

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