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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Frorn present appearnnces, the Ljiberty principies are inaking progresa in tlus State. iiikI tix.-itinjr public attention. Liberty coücentiuna have been held in several counties, aiïtl full iiom'nalions made for tlie Logi.lature and connty oillces. The candidntep of the Fouith C'ongressional District lately addressed tlie pcoplein New Garde succcssively. There is quite un anti - slavery influence liere. Srnith, ihe Whig candidato, first took the floor, and nfier going over the Bunk?, Tariffá, &z.c, he iindeitook to sleek over Mr. Cla}'s moral character. Ile declared that he ubhorred slavery himself, bilt slavery was entailed on the country,nnd sotnehow on Mr. Clay ulso, nnd Mr. C. could not help it. He odmitled that Mr. Clay was a duellist, nnd being a man he was subject to ihe infirmities of hu Í an nature. No man is clear of all faults; leí him that is without sin casi tlie fiist stone. He became quite eloquent on this poini ; btit tlie Advocate says the mass of the audienco cnuld not be mide lo beüeve thot that the man who is guilty of two of the greatest crimes in the catalogue of human depravity, is any mwe worthy of the support of honesf. men, than those who are guilty of pet t)r larceny or burglary. Dr. Bennett, the Liberty candidate, followed Srnitl). He gave nis views at lengfh on the Tariff ond Buik questions, but dwelt wilh niuch force on the extreme folly of making these the paramounl queslions of national policy. Mr. Test, the Ty Ier condidate, very happily shewed the absurdity of the contest bet ween the Whigs and the Demncrats about Banks and Tariffc. In reference to the Taiiff espccially, he contended there was nothing to quarrel abotif. The Democrats had no champion on the ground Tluis we sec that the friends of Mr. Clay are compellüd to come out publicly in palliation of his gveat moral delinquences. He iá the last Whig flave-holder who can be put in nomination for the Presidencv. Mr. Clay's reply to Mendnnhal) wa? highly lauded at the time in the Whiir papers: but by 1C44 it will be found that it has operafed to his disadvantnge. Tlie following resolution of the Liberty Convention of Henry county will show how it is regarded in Indiana: "Resolved, That we conceive the over?eerism of Henry Clay to fiiend Mendenhall, in orderine him "to ero home and mind his nwn buiness" as directod to us indiv'uiually, and we pledge onrselves to iiini and his frien Is that we n-ill endeavor to mind our own business-, upon all occnsion?, ïnd more ejpeciallv bv repairing to the Ballot Box."The Lagrange Freeman urges the cliiirns of the Wlijcr eandidate for Congress becaiipe his oppoiienï is opposcd to the right of I tion - nnd bpcnuse he wil! "support the nrbitrary rule jf the Southern modern Demncrats by votinjj n favor of the Lnvv." Did the editor ever hcar that "sotiiliern modern' Whigs ever voted Ar a Gag Law - that it was passed by a Wblg Congress with SO mnjority? ! His memory is rery short.

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Signal of Liberty
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