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"The Liberty Party Leaders Are Loco Focos."

"The Liberty Party Leaders Are Loco Focos." image
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Day
22
Month
April
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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This assertion is made by prominent VVhig6 in all ihe Frce States, and when asked vvhal they mean, ihey say that almosc all the lfading Liberty men are from the. Locofoco party, and yct they complain that the growth of the Liberry party takes more from tlieir ranks tlian i'rum thuse of the Democrots. But what are the facts? A writer in ihe Democratie Freemnn, a Libpr:y puper in Syracuse, N. Y. shows thut most of the prominent men of the Liberly party are from the Whigs.-. Amuiig them are Jumes G. Birney, of Michigan, the Liberty Pariy candiflate for the Presidency, Judgre Kir.g-, the candidato of the same party for Governor, of Ohio; also Samuel Lewiá, S. P. Chase, and Gen. Paine of the same State - Alvan Stewnrt and C. O. Shephard., our candidaie for Govenior and Lieut. Gov cninr, also Edwin W. Clark, J. C. Jackson, E. W. Guodwin, Judo Jay, hc.. of this State; not to meulion Myron Holley, deceased, one of the earliest advocates of the policy of forming a Liberty Partj', and alioays opposeo to Van Buron and his pariy. Also Jodgas Shafter, Williams and Hutchinson of Vermonf, one of thein the present and the other the former candiflate of the Liberty Party for Govenior, of Vermont - Generala Appleton and Fessenden of Maine, one of them our r.ominee for Governor. Also Joshua Lcavilt, William Jackson, Ehlni Burrït and others in Massachusetts, besides others too numerous to mention in all ihe free Safes. A majority of ihe Liberty Editors, we presume are from the Whigs. But we have nev er informed ourselves on the subject, because we do not c;ire. When a whole hearted aboJitionist joins us, we caïe not whence hr. comee. Tho terms "Democratie Aboliüonist,'5 and Abolitionist" are scarcely nientioned in our hearing, and Ihey oug-ht lo tind wiJl soon become "an obsolete idea.''

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