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Ohio Politics

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Whigs of Ohio are verj much afraid of losing that State, through the large nuraber of Whigs vvho ore going over to King, the Liberty candidato. The Free Press, a Whig paper, gives notices of about a dozen anti-slavery meetings, conventions, and adds : "Here is a specimen of the operations of the third party men in this part of the state. In the north they are no Icss active. The 'Western Reserve Convention' has had several adjourned meetings at different places, and some half dozen other meetings are announced in artvance. The arrangement we believe is to hold a meeting at every considerable town on the Reserve. By such exertions as these there is no doubt but 'the whole state will be aroused .' And what will be the fruit f all this labor? Probably the sending of five or six proslavery Reprepentatives to the next Congress to assit-t the slaveholders to get Texas added to the Union, Florida admitted a slave state, and the erection of 6uch other slave statesas the peculiar institution may require, This is the utmost that can be expected from the operatious of the third party.- Every irovement they make tends but tofetrengthen the sJave power. Thcir efforts all tend to the same result - the increase of the sJave power and the subjugation of the free states to it. And to this end the sacred name of liberty is prosütuted !" What nonsense! We are subjagating the Pree States to the dominion of the slave power, are we? We verily thought by opposing slaveholding tyranny and usurpations we were promoting their deliverance. Prny, Mr. Freo Press, what course do you ad vise us to take - to vote the wbig ticket? Shall we support Tyler, or Clay, or both? Give us'your plan, Sir, for overtlirowing the slave power by supporting whig nominations! We will examine it attentively. Until you can do thatj we shall hold on our cause. OSome of the whig papers wish to secure the votes of abolitionists. They may be partially 6uccessful with some who have been called by that name. But we have it from high authority that no man can serve two masters. Abolition seeks the overthrow of the S'ave Po wer: Whiggism - what does it seek? We will not now undertake to say, but will only ask our whig friends what confidence they would have in the whig principies of a man who should advocate a National Bank, and y et always vote for a Sub-Treasury scheme - or who should declaim in favor of a sound paper currencynd then vote for a Benton ian Democrat? Would he be recognized is a Whig? What confidence, then, ought to be plaeod

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Signal of Liberty
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