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"Unwise."

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
September
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Ilenry Clay saya, "it would be univiee to refuse a permanent acquisition (Texas) which will exist as ljjpg as the globe remains, on account of a temporary institulion,1' (slavery.) Th us he pronounces the great body of bis Northern supporters iinwise, wluch is but another word for fooüsh. Whaf, then, should be thought of tliose wlio have read thia declaration, and yet, while calling themselves Abolitionibts, wiil vote for him exclusively on the ground of his opposilipn to Annexation, vvhen he declares l would be unwiseto refuse Texas? The followiog extract from a correspondent in Hiüsdale County, sets the folly of such anact in its true líéíií:"Suppöse Liberty men generally, should takë the advice of thcïr1 ' new friends, the Whig stunip orators nnd editora, ai)d disbanding their own orgnnization, and giving up their principies, vote for Henry Clay this fall. Will they ever have the satisfaction oí voting aguinst Texas--, as on offset for voting for a slaveholder? We answer unequivocally, no. By so doinjr, they will on the contrary, vote for Annexation. VVhat is it which has prevented, and now prcvents, the immediate annoxation of Texas? AboÜtionism ut the North. Now, let the Abolitionists merge therasohes n the Whig party; and they will no longer be uble to hold in check the advocates of elavery. If the Democrats should eucceed in the election, against the nnited force of Whigs and Liberty men, despising the latter for tlieirtreachery, and no Jonger fearing tbem as a growing party, tliey would have no motive to restrain tbem from yielding to southern iiaportunity. If the Whigs on the other hand. wcre to succeed, would it not be probable that the defeated Democrnts at the North, haviug no longer ony Liberty party to fear or to court, would unite with the entire South, Whigs and Demócrata, and curry annexatipn ut the very first 6ession of Congrcss unJer Henry Clay's administration? What, then, looking at the Texas question alone, is the true policy of Liberty men? Not to disband (heir organization - not to yield to Whig or Democral - but to stand firm- to increase ihcir vote in cvery sectimi of the coxintry -and then whichever party eucceeds, in the pjesent ccntest, the Liberty party will ho!d it in check, and provent t from actmg vnitedly with the elaveholdera. We solemnly believe that if the Liberty vote of last year can be doubled at the coming tlection, it will put to rest the Tca as question forever."

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