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Petitions! Petitions!

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Now is the the time to circuíate the Pfctitions to Congress, ftn-ins of which we pnb üshed some weeks since. Cut them out of your papers, and paste each one to a half sheet of writing paper, and fasten them together at the top. Then get signers in earnest, and do not rest till every legal voter n town, who has the least regard-for liberty has put his name to it. When you have finished circulating it, which should in all cases be bef ore the first day of December, give them to your County Committee who will mail them to "Hom J. M. Howaud, Member of Congress, Washington City,'' accompanied by a letter requesting him to present and advocate them. Every county ought to send some peti- tions. Brethren eater on this workin earnestj and let it be done up. We, who by onr votes bear a faithful testimony against the iniquitous doings of the party in power, have, in a most cmphatical sense, a right to petition Ihem. We are consistent in doing both. To do either of these thinga and not the other, would be inconsistent. It vvould be doing but half of our duty. By doing both at once, we bear our testimony in the most full and explicit manner in which it can be manifested. Let it befXThe Eastern papers contain the particulars of a shocking railroad acciden which occurred between Hudson and Springfield, Mass. Two trains ofcars met while jointly proceeding al the rate of 60 miles per hour. The engines and the passenger cars immediately attnched to them were thrown Into a rnas3 of ruins. The whole nurober of passengers 'vas about one hundred - of whom about 40 were more or less injured and some have since died . It is supposed the concussion was entirely the reeult of mismanagement on the part of the directors. The Baptists of Vermout recently held a Convention at Waterbury, at which the following resolution was adopted by a large mr.jority, aftera full diacussion. The latter clause excited the most debate : 21. Resolved, Thut the time has fully come to suspend christian fellowship between us and slavehulders and their abetlors, until they repent and reform - that we can not receive ihem into co-operalion in religious worship, or in the use of means for the conversión of ihe world, until they ibrsake their uuwillin#ness and inhumanity. New Jersey, wlnch had last year a sweep ing whig majürity, has now one branch of the Legislature oqually divided, and a small whig tnnjority in the othcr.