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Bowing Down To Slavery

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

: - About six Imontbs since3 wo published an article with ■r this cnption, in whicli we took the ground tlmt icnceforili no man con be President or Vicb President of the United States, or a memberofthe Cabinef,un!ess he is uttcr lyopposed tonll effirts for the abolilionof sl.ivery, uid in favor of its continuanee. - I Wc shoivêd thnt Messr3 Web3TER and; Gkakger had boen obliged to expúrgate themselves, and henceforth every candi(J!(3 on this sul ject would be placed on the Prncrustian bedstead, and their opinionsconformed to the Southern standard. Johm C. Spencer, of New York, now Secretiiry of war, Has been charged with abolitionisf. The Mudisonian, the organ of PïêéS'dërit Tyler, has come in his be. ia!f with the dec.Iaratiori that lic "had uolhing to ut) with ihe Virgi.nia conlroversy, end is uxtaintkd in the eligfUeat degree with abolitionism .'"It afípears by tbis, that Mr. Spkncer regaicta the grcat fundamental principies our fofefáth'erá put forth to the woricl, as "TAINTING" thosc who belieye ijbiem'. He,doubtless, cxpeetf, liko Honcst Frank GrajN'geh, "to bc pjoclctl from the Cibinct, sliouid lie bocotne ni aboütionist.1" - ilo vvill do well to consider wiiat has been the fale ol'hia "iiluslrious predecessor," - No iféuirals can now be tolcralod. Proslavery or antï-slavèry the Cabinet mus1 be, and while the Vhigs are in ioycr. thcre can bc no doubt which of these ciiarncteriálics will be most promineruly brouht to view.