The convention, which was held two days in the Methodist Church, was in every way a grand success.

A convention is a representative body elected by the people to meet at some specified time and place for some specified purpose, and its existence ends with the accomplishment of that purpose.

The convention used for these marks is: Macron (straight line over letter)

But for my inaugural, circulated by thousands, and various speeches all urging the people to vote, there would not have been one thousand votes polled in the Territory, and the convention would have been a disastrous failure.

In this respect the convention of April 19, 1850, commonly called the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, has been the most unfortunate of all, because the two Governments place directly opposite and contradictory constructions upon its first and most important article.

The convention of Olmütz was the most complete humiliation to which any European State has ever been subjected.

Convention is a pitiful thingsometimes" He hesitated, then fell to studying the carpet.

"My dear lady," Phineas Duge said, "the conventions in your wonderful country are not things to be trifled with.

That convention was worth to me a good hundred dollars.

Other parallels could be pointed out, but it would be superfluous; convention and petty theft are the warp and woof of the piece.

The Charleston Convention was the very opposite of its immediate predecessor, the Cincinnati Convention.

The domestic politics of France are replete with novelties: the Convention is at war with the Jacobinsand the people, even to the most decided aristocrats, have become partizans of the Convention.