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True To Slavery

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Day
5
Month
August
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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-S. S. Prentiss,the great whig orator of Mississipi, in a recent letter written to repel the charge that he had abandoned the whigs, repels with great indignation the idea 'that those vvho support Mr. Clay are unfavorable to Southern institutions, and opposed to Southern interests,' pronouncing it las insultingvsüis F ALS EP We wonder that any one should insult the supporters of Henry Clay by such a suspicion! - Surely, the character of the great 'embodiment of whig principies' is a sufficient guaranty that slavery will suffer no detriment at the hands of his partizans. -Chris. Freemán. FT Must of the Liberty men have formerly been supporters of the Whigor Democratie partios. In beeotning Liberty men, ihey ave not in al) cases renounced their former views of financial policy. Tbe oiher porties are now drawing the line with great stringency, and there is danger Ies8jealou8ies ehould be ejtcit-.d among Liberty men by the representations of their adversarles Effbrts are sometí mes made by the Whigs lo impiir confidoncé i;i thoeeabotitionists who are from the Democratie party. Such and such ones nrt "Lokies," aay they, and hovv can a Whig eve act with one who hss been a !-Loky" without being hetrayed7 We refer to thia often repeated insinuation to warn our friends agninst it. On the Liberty platform, the eeceders from the seve ral partiep, having made Liberty their paramouiu object, etand on a perfect equalitv. The Deinocrat has conceded as much as the Whig; and the oniy strife between thtm ehonld be, to exce! each other in their anti-slavery f ffrta. The lact that a man has been a Whig or Democrat should mke no difTer;nce n the degreu of confidencc which should be shouKi be imparted to him. - The old distir:ctionsof "Whig Abolitionist," and "Democratie Abolitioniet." are useless and unmenning nmong us. and the sooner the expiessions are dropped and iorgotten by us, the bet ter.

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Signal of Liberty
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