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Day
8
Month
July
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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The Detroit Advcrtiser is very much concerned of 'ate about the ascendenqy of tho Slave Power. It sees great danger in it pro vid ed Polk shall be elected, but if another Slaveholder can be made to take tlie Chair of State, all will be safe Í! The Editors of the Advertiser seem determined to turn into pro tem Ablitionists, for the sake of electing a slaveholder. They appear to rely more on the anti-slavery bias of the people than u pon tlie "other great interests." However, that is quite a compliment to our cause. And as they write pretty good anti-slavery articles ogninst the Dembcrats, telling about one half of the truih, we purpose copying spme of them, and udding the remainder. Here isa leading editorial, with caps and talies, just as they had fixed it for their readers:"IIEAR THE SOUTH! We ask the ear of Noutherx preemen aye, and of Northern locofocos, too. for a single moment. We invite them to read r,ot our poor words, butthose of a prominent and influential Southern Locofoco organ, published átúly at the capital of the Union, edited by a ïeading Locofoco member of Congress, Hon. R. B. Rhett, and having the names of Polk and Dallas flying at the head of its columns. This paper, the Washington Spectator, the ablest representative of Southern Locofocoism, thus boldly speaks out: The late Congress. - The late Congress which has just risen, we believe, will be considered one of the most even tful which has sat since the Revolution. Th ree great questions have been beforé it - Abolition agitation on the floor of Congress, the Tariff, and Texas annexation. I They have all been decided against the South, and against the true interests of the Union, but if she arouses her energies, and moves as she did in the late Baltimorc Convention, allwith her will y et be icell. Never was Lher e a more remarkable proof of her -power when united, than inCONTR0LL1NG THE NOMJNATION ofthat uoxventiOxV. 1 he man in whose favor slie has declared - in whose favor the whole Norlh and West had declared - carne out against a policy essential to her peace and safet-y. Slie made one brave sally and stoept all vpposition before her. And so il will ecer e- soit will be in the approaching Presidential cl eet ion. Texas def caled Mr. Van Buren, and it will destroy Ci,ay and Benton. The South united, is suflicient, at all times, tor her own destines;, and she alone will ever be to hlatne, when her interests and lionor are triiled with or overtiirown. - She had lost her old position of HEAD of the Democratie party by a vo.cillatingand corrupt course of policy, which paltering with principies, rendered her subordínate tothe NUMERICAL POWER of the North."Fellow-citizens, the South boasts that shc can and Wiïï rule the Uníon, in spite of the "numerical power" of the North. She says that she defeated Van Bure, and will destroy Clay and Benton, because they warmly opposed one of hér schemes of self-aggrandizement. What says the Tree North? Will she tamely crouch to a inaster, or will she hurl back the insultiugvaunt in ihe.teetli of the braggart? Frekmen of Michigan, will you vote for Polk, and tlms help to secure this perpetual preponderance to the South? Ponder, beforc you deCJQ.CWeare under oblígations'to the Advertiser for spréading this extract from the Spectator bëfore the pcople, showing the absolute supremacy of the Slnveholders over the whole Democratie party. It canñot be successfully denied. But anoiher queslion presente ifself. - Is the domination of the slavehoiders over the Whig party lens absolute? Who controlled thetr ïïationaJ ■ Cpnvention? Who put up a Whig Slaveholder for President? The rnotion AVas made by a Virginia Slaveholder, and all the others were unanimous for it. Who caused. Davis to be defeated, because he had treated Latimer as a maní The Slavehoiders. Who rejected Fillmore because he was an open, uncompromising opponent of the admission of Texas? The Slavehoiders. Who determined that Frelinghuysen should receive- the nomination, whro had not been dreamed of by the rntiss of the Whigs? The Sfavehoiders settled it ín a jirevious caucus oftheir (non!ÜCf" W he daré not make theslightest 1 declaration against llio Annexation of Texas? The whole Whjg National CoxWention, lest it should displease the Southern Whigs, and oceasion their de' fection ia the Devnocrats, We sec from these simple faets tlmt the Whigs are subject to slaveholding domination as well as the Democrats; to use thecommon expression, the Wbigsare as deep in the mud the Demoerats are in the mire. We agree wilh the Adveriiser as to the servility of the whole Democratie party to the Slaveholders. But what remedy does it propose? O, says the Advcrtiser, rally the whole people to oppose them by uniting on the most zealous Whig Slaveholder there is in the Union! Poor, contemptiWe remedy thisï VV hat fooi cannot see that if the Slave Power is thus dangerous to Freedom and Free Labor, as the Advertiser contends, the remedy must be,not in uphoiJing another party, subject tothat power, as the Whig party is, but in organizing oneAGAiNST it - onethatsha]] eflect ita averthrow? The ih. erty Party is organized for thi purpose and merits the support oi' every honest man who is for Pree Labor and ngaillst Slavery; and none but the simp]e and ignorant can be deluded into the support of the Wfiïg party asan Antidavery par. ty. Y et the Advortisnr hammers awav at such a result as though intelligent men could be made to believe it! H who deerns the "great interests" of the Whig party paramount to all otherobjects ma consistently & wisely support it; but he who is gulled into its suppoít as an aiüislovcnj party, in any degree whatever, exhibits a crcdulity more deservinJ oí' pity than censure. ff? The ColdNvater Sentinel has nearly half a column of quotations from Clay's speeches, &c., set forth in flarninff capitals, demonstrating that Henry Clay is a most invetérate slaveholder, and defender of Slavery. It appears to be Ín hnsmt to our ncighbor of the State Jour. nal. This is as it sliould be. The Journal is wel] answered. But on looking J the head of the editorial m the Sentinelr we find in large letters,For President, JAMES K. POLK. Now this said Mr. Polk Jiolds nearly as nvany slavcs as Mr. Clay, and is doubtless bs much attached to the system. The condemnation of a slaveholding Whig candidate by an advocate of a slaveholding Democraticé) candidate, looks very much like Satan rebuking sin. ÜT Messrs. Clay and Bonton .hav both referred to the proposition to divide the territory of Texas into slave and free States. This is thrown out to buit the North, nnd swéetcn a bitter pill - but we think such a compromise will not besuccessful. The struggle between Liberty and Slavery, is becoming more earnest 'and will soon be one pfjífe and doath. Compromises are adapted to a moderate state of fee] ing, and may be entered into before the confliet, but not after the battle shall be fairly joined. ít wouldcertainly be poor policy in tíie slaveholders to consent -to the formation of scveral ncw Slave Stares in Texas to which their slaves might run away.

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