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Stump Speeches

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Day
24
Month
July
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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-Tlie Detroit Advertiserana íuonroe Advocate are disou.ssing tlie propneiy of etump-speaking, by candidates for popular suflrages. The Advortiser cordially oppruves of the practice as a general h'wg, while llie Advócale declares he hnd rotlier be a ancí bay llie troon, tlian puc!j an American. Jfwemight vent n re nn opinión, we would sugnrest tlnit where th voters were ighornnt and Iliterato, stump speaking would be decidedly beneficial to them. By tbat means thcy would lea-n innch concerning public ofiairs which they would otherwise nut !earn al all. - But in a readingr comrnunir3-,opÍN nions are chiefly fornjed from newspapers nnd bouks, and public sppcches from the candidates would usually do but litíle towards inforining or llie minds of the votera Besides, in a cmmunity of'refined, n leüigent persons, the sentiments of the people ore opposed to that assurance, egotis-m.and sdf eonceit which stnmpinj campaiorn9 are cnlculaled lo cherish ntid bring to view. Add to this, that there are many men of excellent minds in the community, who could serve the pnbüc with much acceplancp,but whose modesty nnd aversión to p-iblic conlentions would preclude íhem from any pnrt in a stumping cnmpaiVn, or, if they fihouM attempt ir, their wortli and gond sense would beeolipsed by every coxcomb of sufficient volubility, impudence, and effrontcry.(17a Dr. Brisbnne says that tlie President of tiic Kuptist Gtneral CJivetion nt thistimo, V. B. Johnson, D. D., of Sou.'h Caroliim, is a siaveholder; and in n coinmunicalion since he was elecled to tliat office, he adopts as his sentiment, tbís langunge: "That, ivhen ín any country slaveryhus become a part o fits seilltdpolicy. the mhabilants, even Christians, may hold slaves witliuvt crime." And in the same commtin catión, alter urging that Jesús Christ and his apostles sanctioned sJaveholding, he says: "I would liere enlreat 3-ou nud such of my abolition bretliren os valué the good of the negro n this land, and thp peace and unión of our Zion, lo det=ist from yonr efforts togivetis counsel which ve will not follow, and to impot-e on us rcqiirernents to wlrich vvo will not subinit." Q!? Col. R. M. Johnson presided at a great Rppeal meeting in Cbcintiati, July 3. The meeting resolved n substanco that they viewed with astoni.-hment and regret the course of Mr. ü'Connell on Slavery, and could attribute his insolont dictation to deplorable ignornnee alone. They repelled the epithetp of 'p;ck pockets," and "petty larceny scoundrels" with indirnation, and in reply to Mr. O'Connell'p charge of adding" eix SInve States to the Union, the meeting colled his attention to the fact that the institution has virtually ceused in twelve of the States in the saine period of time.Qf The Albany Evening Journal advertises for Land Piratea. It has a advertisemcnt setting forth that J. Butler of N. Carolina, will rnortgnge from one to two hundred hands on a plantation un the MUsissippi, andwill puy ten per cent interest for fiveyears, or he will tnke a partner. (Lƒ Mortgagr Mankind.' Fine business to be ndvertised in a leadingr VVhig paper of New Vork! It s perfectly in keeping, howevcr, with Mr. Clay's plan ot bhkkimng and sEriLrNG mankind!Uj35" Thore are some professing Christians, who, wliile thoy are íesdy lo pronounce slavery a great sin against God and man, even the 't-um of all vilhmie.c,' proftis to entertain dubis nbout the propriety of excluding it from tlic church, and tho communion. They exclude, without ceremony, the petty thief who steals a yard of cloHi, or a loaf of bread, but the respectnble and devout thief- alas! they are very much tried and perplexed to know haw to deal with him! Thus has public opinión usurped the place of God's law.

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