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Distribution Act

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Ken nel'cc Journal remnrkinar upon our reront article on the Distribiition 0iil s.ivr: - ':hM!ppo?e slavery wns nholished at the South, in ib-n cr.su ihe wfioU of whnt is Itöw ihc slnve popiilntion wouki be r.ountcd nnd the djstribtuion ïnafle nr-cnniinirly." Tr.ue: t wpuld ihen bfllong lo them, nnd ns we lihve no Beötipnai enntroversy with the south we woulfl not comploin. Oeridee (he unpaid slaye woúld then ohtnin liisehare. We did not nhjnct .10 the amowtt the south get but to the amotunt ilipy iret unjustly - and in n corl.iin trtiy refened io in the nrticlfi ñnmed. The 8;nne s trne of ;ioliticnl powor. The represemation of the south wönld bo preafor f slavcry were. aboliöhed than itisnnw. hut wiih tliis vast diflerence: the reprcsentniive would represent hum:m heines, nnd not thinjis - liberty and not slnvcry- -would seok ro hlcps. and not to curse tlie cnuntry njecsasarily. We nrr, willing the slnve statrs shonld hnve nll the pnliticnl Power they enn jns;l' cluin. bul not an vniust vrnnhtm of power for destroy ing

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Signal of Liberty
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