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Tracts

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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On onr first page will be íbund an article proposíng a plan for a genera] distribution of Antislavery Tracts. It is from the pen of Alvatt Stewart, Chairmaa of the National -Liberty Committee. We invite a careful perusal of it. "We will add a few words on this subject. The plan of distributing anli-slavery íracts has been adopted in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. That they are very valuable auxiliaries to ihe anti-slavery papers, cannot be doubted. They reach very many families where Liberty papers are unknown. They are short, and disconnected from other raatters, and will be more generally preserved than newspnpers,anc! pass through the hands of more readers. The same informatípn can be afToráed through the tract system at a much less príce than throiigh the newspapers. We have been nsked if the system cannot be advantageötisiy inrtroduced into Michigan. Onranswerís, that we think it might, if a proper concert of action cara be Wit&oui that, all efforte made will be comparatively feeble and abortiva, Our State Annaversary occurs the ninth of Januaryf and in the mean timey we invite our friends through the State to consideT what ought to be done in the premises, and come to fheversary prepared to agree on some general plan of action for the enswng year. - ' A Tract Committee might be appointed by the State Society, whose dttty it should be to prepare, publish, and circuíate Tracts in the manner they might deen best. Or the State Central Committee might be constituted into a Tract Committee. Several gentlemen havo expressed to us an earnest wish that Tracts might he published and circulated generally. We trust that such will be prepared at the Anniversai-y to agree on some uniform and permanent plan of action.flCSome miserable fellow who seems not to have business enough of his own to occupy his time, has sent us an anonymouscommunication from Auburn, N. Y. taking us to task for our statements about Mr. Clay. If the writer were a gentleman, we would publish his article. That he is not one. we conclude because he is afraid to give his name; because he is eminently scurrilous and abusive; because his letter was not postpaid. When one gentleman abuses another through the mail, he shoüld pay his postage! For these reasons, we cannot gratify the wri ter's wish for notoriety, but shall consiga his production to oblivion. The Clintonian, a "Democratie" paperof this State, publishes a portion of the cali for a convention of the colored citizens of Michigan, and adds: "Go ahead, pstlers and boot blacks.- Every other conventionable class of society - compare notes and blush." What a finespecimen of the Democratie spirit, which pretends to seek the elevation and equal rights of all! The contempt and scorn here manifested for a whole class is on account of their color or condition. Either reason is unworthy of a liberal or patriotic mind, and can reeommend the .writer only to those of the most contracted andprejudieed character. Rev. G. Pennell, formerly of Walled Lake, requests his correspondents to direct to him at Hickville, Oak. Co. Mich.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News