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1
Month
January
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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The eighth annual meeting of the R. I. Anti-SIavery Society was held in Providenoe, on the 6th. Oth and loth of November. We find a reportj of the proceedings in a recent number of tlie Literator, from which we infer that the discussions were animated and interesting, and the positions mainta:ned quite as ultra as even the Herald of Freedom could deBire. Mr. Rogers introduced the following resolutions, which were discussed, but not finally acted upon; 4. Resolved That the only consistent position tiiat can be taken against 6lavery, in this country, is the frank and elern posilion that the Constitution of tho United Stal es oughi immediateiy to be abolished, and Ihe Union disolved. b. Resolved, That the Liberty party, go called, in faiiing to take such a position, and in eeeking politica) power in a slavehoiding Union, and under a pro-slavery Constilution shows iteelf groasly inconsistent to its anti' olavery professions, and oughl not to be recognized or fellowshipped as a portion of the anti-Blavery niovetnent."It was well for the consÍ6tettcy of t'ie meeting that these foolish resolutions received thé go-byrsubsequent to theirintroduction a resolution was pnssed unanitnous'y, recommending 'political-action aboiltionists to circuíate a petition to the R. I. Legislatura, prcying it to propoae an alteration in the Conslitution of the Üuited Statee, to the effect that no State ehould tolérate 6lavery within its ümits, &c. Of course, they wouid not recommend others to do what they believed would render them unworthy of recognilion as antislaverv men - wou ld they f The above resolutions, it should be borne in mind, originnated with that class of abolilionkts who have recently received such warm coranifiiidation from the Wliig press. By the fermer the Liberty Party ie condemned because it does not go for the dissolution of the Union - by the latter, becauee it does not go för Henry Clay. We think it will survive this uniled opposition, and yet show the world that the Constitution is something different from a pro-slavery document, and that the Union can exiet without bein cemented

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Signal of Liberty
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