STATE GUBERNATORlAL CONVENTION
City of Nauvoo, Illinois, December 20th, A. D. 1841.
To my friends in Illinois:
The Gubernatorial Con-vention of the State of Illinois, have nominated Colonel Adam W. Snyder, for GOVERNOR, and Colonel John Moore, for LT. GOVERNOR, of the State of Illinois—election to take place in Au-gust next. Colonel Moore, like Judge Douglass, and Esq Warren, was an intimate friend of Gener-al Bennett long before that gentleman became a member of our community; and General Ben-nett informs us that no men were more efficient in assisting him to procure our chartered privileges than were Colonel Snyder and Colonel Moore.—They are sterling men, and friends of equal rights—opposed to the oppressor's grasp, and the ty-rant's rod. With such men at the head of our State Government, We have nothing to fear. In the next canvass we shall be influenced by no party consideration—and no Carthagenian coalesence or collusion with our people, will be suffered to ef-fect or operate against General Bennett or any other of our tried friends already semi-officially in the field—so the partizans in this country who expect to divide the friends of humanity and equal rights will find themselves mistaken—we care not a fig for Whig or Democrat: they are both alike to us; but we shall go for our friends, our tried friends—and the cause of human liberty which is the cause of God. We are aware that "divide and conquer" is the watch-word with many, but with us it can-not be done—we love liberty too well—we have suffered too much to be easily duped—we have no cat's paws amongst us. We voted for Gener- al Harrison because we loved him—he was a gal-lant officer and a tried statesman; but this is no reason why we should be always governed by his friends—he is now dead, and all of his friends are not ours. We claim the privileges of freemen and shall act accordingly.
DOUGLASS is a Master Spirit, and his friends are our friends— we are willing to cast our banners on the air, and fight by his side in the cause of hu-manity and equal rights—the cause of liberty and the law. Snyder and Moore are his friends—they are ours. These men are free from the prejudices and superstitions of the age, and such men we love, and such men will ever receive our support, be their political predilections, what they may.—Snyder and Moore are known to be our friends, their friendship is vouched for by those whom we have tried. We will never be justly charged with the sin of ingratitude—they HAVE served us—we WILL serve THEM.
JOSEPH SMITH.
Lieutenant General of the Nauvoo Legion.
