PUBLIC MEETING
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 Agreeaby to public notice, previously given, a large number of the citizens ot Pulaski county as- sembled atthe Baptist Church, in the town of Little Rock, on Saturday, the 18th June, 1885, to consider the propriety and expedency of forming State Government for the Territory of Arkansas and for taking the most efiectual and speedy measures to insure her admission into the Unlon upon an equal footing with the other States composing the American Confectionery.

 On motion, and with the unanimous assent of the meeting, SAMUEL 5. HALL, Esq, was chosen as Chairman, and PETER '. CeufcaffniD, I1sd as Secretary; and the Chairman having taken his seat, rose and fully explained the object of the meeting. Whereupon ROBERTSON ClIllpREss, Esq. offered for adoption the following resolutions, to wit:

 ResolDea, That we cordially approve of the measures aud principles adopted by our fellow Cit izens of Jackson and Hot Spring countless urging the people ot this Territory to take the speedy steps to insure our admission into the Union.

 Resoleed, That we hold it to be an indispensable requisite, to be possessed by any candidate for office, that he should be in favor of State Gov. ernment.

 ResolUed, That the Governor of this Territory be respectfully solicited to convene the Legislature soon practicable, after the ensuing elections ill order that law may be passed authorizing a Convention to form Constitution 10 be laid before fhe next Congress, for acceptance.

 ReSolped, That we respectfully suggest to the other counties Tn this Territory, the propriety of holding public meetings. for the purpose of express ing the sense of their citizens on thS aH-mportaat subject.

 RsSoiued, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and that the Editors of the respective newspapers in this Territory, be requested to publish the same.

 And the sad resolutions having been read by the Secretary, the proprety of their adoption was earnestly urged by Messrs. CHILDREss, MORE, FOWLER, CALDWELL RoRER, and PIKc, and oppos- zd nxr A thereupon taken, and the said resolutions, as pro- posed, were adopted and carried, bp large and overwhelming majority.

 Mir. CALDWELL. then moved, that 9 committee of five be appointed, to draft a respectful appeal Ill behalf oi thIs meeting, addressed to our fellow c- lzens of this Territory, in accordance with the spirit of the foregoing resolutions, and the sent- ments of this meeting as therein set forth which motion was aaaaiaoasiy carried in the affirmative and the Chairman thereupoa appointed Messrs. l.. RoYspoN, 4. PlKE c. ASHLEY, Wa. E. WOODRUFF, and ROBERTSON CHiIpREss, to compose said com nlittee.

 On motion, and with the unaniaous assent of the meeting, the Chairman and Secretary, Messrs. HALL and CRuTcHEELp, were added to said com mittee.

 On motion, the meeting ten adorned

 SAMUEL s. HALL, chaiYmen. r. I. CRUTcHnEIp. Secretarq.

 

 The following address has been subsequently drawn up by the Committee, in pursuance of the foregoing proceedings:

 To the people of the Territory of Arkaasass

 The undersigned appointed committee for the purpose set forth in the foregoing resolutions have applied themselves to the labor assigned them. ana respectfully present you the following, as the re- suit of their reflections and deliberations upon the subject:

 The causes which produced the struggle for American liberty, and induced the patriots of ,76 to throw oH the bondage of Brtishoppression, can be distinguished byname only, from those whichshou induce the citizens, the free and independent people of Arkansas, to claim the right of emerrina from Territorial darkness. into the light of civil liberty