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Discussion At Owasso

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
June
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Recenily we publishcd a letter .from Dr. Gallup, stating that much interest existed in Shiawassec County in refcreuce to the anli-slavcry question. We perceive by the Owasso Argus tbat a discussion was publicly proposed by Joseph Purdy and R. TJiompson on tbe following proposition: "The practices and policy of modern abolitionists are repugnant to the genius of óur institütions, inconsistent with our m'ornl and poHtical obligations, and inefficiënt in eflecting the discontinuance of' slavery.;' These gentlemen took the afïirmative, ondDr.i. B. Barnes and J. N. Graham the The discussion lasted three cvenings. The Argus says:"Every thí'ng was eonducted with courtesy and ended in general good feeling, and all wo have to say further is. that it is a matter of regrct tliat the discussion could not have been held in the day time that those from a disfance might have had the pleasure to attend."{Q Fourier Associations are springing'up in about every Stato and Territory of the Union. One has just been organized in Wisconsin at Green Lake, Marqutte County.(t The success ofa polítical partj', like that of an army, and of a 11 other large bodies of men, depends greatly on' the spirit with which they enter on their undertaking: for U is wel] established by experience, that they who think they can do a thiiig and try, can acMeveany thing but impossibilities; while a settled belieï that success is unattainable, is, in itself, an insurrnountable bar to all successful action. A small minorily of the community, by incessant agitation, discussion, aDd repetition of any given truths, can ultimately indoctrinate the whole mass, and will finalJy prevail over mer& inactive resistanee. The spirit which anhnates all portions of the Liberty party, is high] y favorable to unremitted and per.-ievering effort. As an instance of the state of feeling in the extreme East, we cut the following fromthe Bangor Gazette, of"LET US GO FORWARD. "We cften allow ourselves to be deceived by false appearances. often relax our efforts, and see lions in our way, when if we wou ld go vigorously forward, we should find scarcely an obstada in our path. We are fully satisfied that, notwithstanding al! the noise and hurra made about Henry Clay, and the appfeliensions of many that he will sweep evcry thingbefore hirn, and that if the Liberty men can hold their own this year, they will do well, that there never was a better time fur us to work with every hope of advancing than this very year. If there are a few men who have voted with ns, who will vote for Clay, we well know that'fhere arethousands of Whigs who will not - and opénly avow they will not and cannot vote "for hirn;' and other thousands who aré hesitalrng- - loathingthe man whlle admiring bis genius, and trying to make Frelinghuysen's virtues an antidote to Clav:s moral noison." ' ' In Connecticut also, the Liberty men are far from being discournged by their small accession of votes. They have recently held a spirited State Convention, and pit forth the following full State ticket, which we :pr-edict wiJl receive an increased vote next fa]];For Governor - Francis Gillette. " Lieut. Governor - Lfcvl Yale, 2d. '- Secretary - Elisha Lord. ' ïreasurer - Samuel Demïxg. V Controller - Lewis Beers, Jr. PRESrDENTIAL E LECTORS. Austin F. VVilJiams. Vincent HinckJey. Electors at Large. lst District - Waterman Roberts.2d '; Harlow IsbeJl. 3d ■ Ebenezer Griffin. 4th f Jonas(t?0 The Slave States have already made Slavery the great political question. How ]ong will it be before the Free States will discover it} Every candidato for a naíional office is stricily and minutely scrutinized on this point, and his "soundness" ascertained. Witness the following paragraph from the New Orleans Bee. In referring to the fact that the Southern delegations were nearly unanimous for Frelinghuy.sen, it procecdti; "We cali particular attetltipn to this slntement. whicli shows concJusively tliaï Theodorc Frelinghuysen owcs his nominnthm (ó thé rotvs of the Sïavcholèing States - a sniïïeient guarnntee, f any were needed, of HIS SOUNDJYES& Ol ALL 8UBJECTS ■ ING 80UTHFRN RIGHTS AND SOUTH&RN INS T1TUTI0NS. "

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