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Show I TO TIIE COI.ORKR BTIiK I OF I TAH. Fellow Citizens: At a duly organ-; i ized public meeting of colored citizens, i held in Morris' Hall, Salt Lake city, ! John C. Mortimer presiding, oil the j Sth inst., the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Be it Resolved, That ft committee of three be appointed to publish in the Salt Lake Kicrauj and Tribune, a call for a convention of the colored citizens of Utah, to meet at Kintr's Iall, opposite the Scaling Hiiikin, this city, on the evening of tiie loth instant, for the purpose of electing delegates to the National Convention of Colored citizens of the United States, called by the Equal BighU Lea git o of Pennsylvania, to assemble in Washington. Wash-ington. D. C, on the 0th of December, Decem-ber, 173, iu oiilcr to iircrs Up0n Qmi. gross the pressing necessity of passing the Civil Higlits Bill, jll eDiiformity with tlio above resolution reso-lution the following were appointed a committee: l' 11. (hice, Andrew Campbtll, and Xelson Ockry, who, in pursuance of the duty imposed upon them, hereby publish the fob luwin.y; CALL 1 OK A CONVENTION. Fellow citizens: Lot us rally beneath be-neath our standard, and send delegates dele-gates to the Convention, to help our fellow-citizens in the East to hasten the Car of Freedom, Right and Justice Jus-tice to the very doors of Contrress, there manfully to demand of uur law-nuikers law-nuikers our full and complete rights as citizens of this great Republic. Our burdens and responsibilitifs are the same as those of the Whites: hence we demand all our inalienable rights 3nd privileges. This we ask in the name of those brave Colored pa;r riots who hayo fought, bled aud died furlhe independence and the preservation preser-vation of our common country. Our truttcd President and heroic leader, General U. S. Orant. will surely use bis influence as the Executive of the nation in our behalf, and aid our delegates in the work of securing the pnseago of the Civil Rights bill. Com.inittct-F, IJ. Grice, Chairman. Andrew CxMnjEU.. Nelson Ockrv. Salt Lake City, Nov. Gtb, 1S73. |