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The North A Conquered Province!

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wehaveonly room tbls week tocall tb attenlion of our readers to ihe fact of th nomina tion of Three Simveholdkrs for th Presidency by the great parties of onr notion It is an insult to the people of the Free States deservingof just and indignant rebuke. Ji the first place, it isan impositiou on a free. man to ask hira to vote for a eJaveboIder a all! What class of men can be named morí neuitable for administering free institutions. Are tyrants the proper guardians of Liber ty? Nexl, it s an insult because ibis Iittle min ority of one Jifty-sixth part of the wholc people have monopolized the Presidency for forty four out of fifty-sfx years, and now they are laying both handa on it for another term. Again, the freemen of the free States are just ttcice as numerous as those of the Slave States, and should hold the reins of govemment a proportionate share of the time. Lastlj, the shufflingnnd cbicanery manifeated at the BaJtirnore Conventione- the utter Eiibsemency of both pnrties 10 the slaveholding portion of them- is humilieting to the view of a freeman. The Whigs gave the nomïnation of President to a Slaveholder, and ihen threw away tbeir chosen candidates for the Vice Presidency, Fillmore and Davis, who migbt possibly have retained a Utllc of the epirii of freedom, and selected just euch a personaasuitedtheSlaveholders. The South heíd a caucus to agree upon o candidaie, and what had the Nonh to do but to ratify t? But the degradationof the Democratie party was greater. Their prominent candidates -Van Buren, Cass, and Bucbanan, wereall from the North. No othere were eerious ly thought of. Yet in thé face of universil expectation, the Convention hd to look away down into Tennessee bcfore they could find n suitable candidate, and he-a slavelwldcr.' Wbatan issue the country !JQ preeented foritsdeterrnination! Clay, po]k, and Tv Ier all avowed Slaveholdcrs-nd BmNEr, the Bohtary advocate of Jiberty! How much moreexaltedis hia position ihan eitherofthe otheri Posterity wj)I 0 himjustice.07 There are sever.il brothers in the free SUtes, of the name of CJarke, who hove escaped from flavery, and have become anti filavery lecturers. They a e almosl white - Ai the town meeting in Hamilton, N. Y one of these, Cyrus by „ame, presented his bailo to the boord, amid the general astoníshmenf The Judge to whom he handed it, toJd hm he wasaslave andcould not vote. Cyrus dethe Judge challenged his vote because he wa ontnegroUndthattobeacoloredman,ac. conto to the NEW York Slatute, he most iivc at leaet one haf African blood

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Signal of Liberty
Old News