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Annexation Of Texas

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The CincinnatiGozétte, one of tbe most moderate and best conducted papers in the Union, says, if by any juncture of affairs, Texas shouJd be atided to the Union by the next Congres?, that the "Liberty Party" would be responsible for the act, nnd whnt is more, thnt the votes in Ohio and in the free States penerally, wil] prove this tobe the fact. Will not gemiine ntislavery men, who have no personal ambition to subserve, tliink of these things? - Detroit Mvcrliscr. This is an admirable way of provmg thingff, by assuming that some other priper 'is certainly right in all the foolish assertiohs it may make. ït is possible the votes of Ohio and in the Free Siates will prove that if the Wliigs hadvoted the Liberty ticket, ns they ought to have done, the Liberty candidates would have been elected, and thus Texas kept out "Will not genuine" VVhiga "u7io have vo personal ambition to subserve, (!!.!!!!) thinJc of these thingsT' f ffThe patriarchs of Washington and Baltimore have become. so jealous of their slaves, that no coloree! person can get a passage by nny railroad. or orher public conveynnce, till some white person hos been before a mogistrate and sworn that such colored person is free. Tliis reguation, we shoiilá think would be about ns inconvenient and troublesome to the slnveholders, ns it is annoyingand oppressiveto the free peopïcof color. As to the slaves who wish to escape, the law mnkes little difference in the end - They have only to use their own locomotives.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News