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Anti-slavery In Delaware

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Day
23
Month
September
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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On last Friday êVênifig the fírst public Anti-Slavefy rneeting of Delatare, wat, held ín Wilmington. Notieo had been given very ciïectualjy to ihc people by placards, &c. and the meeting was calleci in the heart ofthe town. The attenriance was good, and the speakers, among whom wa-s our thorough friend Isaac S. Flint, wcre listened to with great atlention. - The iniquitous laws of Dekiware, the manner in which Slavery retards her pi-osperilv, the wickrdness of Slaveliolding, and the exceeding wrong of voting lor any slaveholder, or pro-slavery man-were the immediate topics of diseussion. At the close of the meeting the following rcsolution's were proposcd and odopted vviih but one or two dissenting voices: l.sl, Resolved, That Slavcry onglit to he aboüslicd in Delaware at the next sessitítí of its Legislattire. 2nd, Resolved, That we will vote Cor ño candidnte for office, unless he is in fovour of such Abolition. These resol ut ions are of the right stampj there is nothing counterieit in them and they tel] tne pcople of Delaware. that the Anti-Slavery men and women of Wilmington have determined that Slavery ' ovght to Ie abolished and that they will' Aboush it. And there is no Statein the Union in tohfch the work can and wil] be done so easily and quickly as in Delaware. Her slave population is smal], not numbering 3000 souls, and is moslly confined to the solirthern part of the State. Besides, the modern patriarchs of this Iittle State, have reversed the text they formerly quoted to us wiih such unction, and now snv that "he (the slave) is Jioi thy money;" for, interfering witb all "the rights of proper ty" they prevent the master from selling h'is slave out of the State. So that the national shambles at Washington can draw no suppües from Delaware except by smuggling, ' which slaveonvers and nreeders are too honorable lo do tfhiie Kentucky. M.-irvland and Vir ginia produce moreílmn they consume. - And Delaware is so cleüg'itfully near the Lonler-linr, that a summer excursión norlhward, is frequenlly faken by "things to all intents and ptirposes;"- which, destroying both the infent and ihe purpose, makes the thing a Man: Surhming al! these causesup, a mnn or womnn can bc bought in Delaware for only $200, and as a friend there remarked to us, "they are a great deal more experisive than profit,and are renlly more the mastecs thari slaves;- working or noi, prettyinucij as tnoy wjsn, and leaving boíh the v.'ork and íhe master wlien they feel so inclined." - Lib. Herald.{r It seems that dúring his Whig inur, C. M. C!ay has learned of tile Whigs to repoat the contemptible story about "spcuringthe election of Polk" by voting for Birney, and he' charhcterizes thtí' actionof Liberty'men as ''absurd," nndas"an unholy a]]iunce"Vt!r sloveholdersí The following is reported'as a partof his speech at Cleveland, and the same, verbatim, is reported n the Marshall Statesman as a part h ís speech at Jackson. Of Mr. Clay's election, he saiJ:W9fl his success íbelíeve our glo rious Union may be preserved, and (b mnny generatioiis I hope; if defented, fear. deeply; lear. the cun.spquences' ma_ be dfstrucfion and ata vciy early day and how alsur'd it is for tkpse men wh agree with me on ilie abolition quesiion 1. oppnse kim. Do they not know that th Southern slnvery men look Tor suecess v they succeed at all. to the indirect aid they get from the Abolitionists of the Noi-tl and West, by their diverting votes enougJ from the Whig ticket t o secure the elec tion of the Polk ticket? The extremes of Slavery men and of anti-Slavery men thus combine, hut with very difibrent mo-tives, in the attainment of the same object, and a most. unhohj alliance it is] i f alliance it may be called."

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