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To The Electors Of Michigan

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
October
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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I'ELLOW ClTIZENS: , Permit us bricfly to lay beforo you n fow of the many reasons why the Libertt Party has vastly higher claims than eithcr of tiie other political parties, upori your support at tlie Ballot Box, at the important approachïng Presidential electiun. The Slavk Power in our nation is the oxe great political centre around which every othcr minor political interest revolves, as do the depeudent pi on ets around the sun in solar system. - Tho other politica! parties, being but the mere nppendngeg of thi.s one great controlling- intcresf, instead of aiming as partios tojnjure or abolish any part of this great power on whem they are depéndent tbr thcir strength and their very existence, will, m onc form or another, be inade to sub.serve ita further enlargement and more permanent establishment. This ever has been so through the sèrvile action of one or the other of the parlies that delight to honor slaveholders as their head, and that fiercely rival each other, at almost any sacrifico of tho rights and libertics of the j)eople, to woo, and if possible to win, the favor and support of this power, which they both fear, and which they both love, so far as it can be made subservient to thcir success. It is now almost universally conceded, that the greatest as vvell as the most wicked politcal monopoly the world ever witnessed, tho enslavcmcnt of about 3,000,000 of suffering people in our country, estimated by their lyrants or nssumed owners at Twelv'e HundiÍed Millions of Dollars, likea monstrous National Bank, (thirty times as large as the one vvhpse power once alarm ed the people,) and givingGO votes to the holders of everv 100 liares of stock, has long governcd this natioñ as with a rod of iron, through the leading rival aspirants of one or theer of ihe oíd parties, for tho exclusive benefit of 25Q,Ö00 slaveholders. who have eet up the haughty claim that though they eompriso but onc sixUeth part of the people. Ihey are "horn to command," and the great mass'of the people to obey. - Wlule the 13 nórthern States of the. confcderacy have more than two freernen to the South's onc, support seven-eighlhs of the Government in peace or war, furnish sovcn-eighths of tho soldier3, and snilors, pay $600,000 annnually to pny southern poslage bilis on account of slavcry, expends liundreds of millions ín frequent negro hunts fpr slaveholders, &c. &c. thís same MIGHTY NATIONAL SLAVERY BANK, cemented vvith the tears and tho blood of the innocent, has filled the Presidenlial chair with slaveholders 44 out of the last 56 ycars, & is, as usual aimingto forcé upon us thepitiful slave's choice between two nmsters. The Vicc Presidentiul chair has been filled with a slaveholder, or a strong proslavery man, the same ratio of time. It lms also made the Vice President pro tem 61 out of 77 elections - the Speaker in Congress 28 out of the last 32 years: out of the last 30 appointments of foreign ministers, charges, and consuls, it has made 27 . of them: out of the last 52 principal appointments for the army and navy, it has made 47, &c. &c. This mighty political monopoly, which is as wicked as it is' overwhelmihg and unjust to the slaye and the massofthe mock white freemen of the nortli, has also long controlled all our commercial affairs, our forcign exchangejs, our foreign market, and our foreign diplomacy, exclusively to build up this haughty tyrant power upon the legal robbcry and ruins f the groat mass of the hard Jaboring people of this nation. On the 249th page of the laws of Ccngress, stands the Avorse than píraterican "jucense la w" that for $400 any man in the world may sell at private or public sale any number of American born men, women and children he chooses, if their anccstry on their mother's side were but of the un fortúnate class cnlled. 70,000 si aves were thus sold in 1832-3. It is alsothelav in tho District of Columbia, that the Marshal or Constables of the District may apprehend any colored persons on the presumptfon that they are fugitivo slaves, imprison thcm in one of the six hugo prisons there, built with the people's money-advcrtise them for a number of weeks, and if no owner appears, sell them into slavery for their jai! f ees. While these things exist at the very seat of our Government, which make humanity shudder, and disgrace and degrade us as a nation in the eyes of even barbarous nations, so far from either of the old parties making the least move to abolish it, they are as usual deaf to the cries of humanity for "this once," till they can foist one of the slavebolding Presidential candidates into the Prcsidcntial chair, either of whom, ac;ording to their avowed principies, arevinuaiiy ns much pledged to veto any bill which might be passed by Congress for the abolition of slavery and theslave trade at the soat of Government ns was Mr. Van Buren after he gave his formal pledge in so many words. Mr. Polk is we 11 known to be opposed to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In Heriry Clays 4th letter, n which he has broadly denied the right of Cassius M. Clay ïhtimating that he was in any sense in favor of cmnncipation. he has also taken the pains to secure the support of slaveholdors to rcaöirm for the ninety-ninlh time that "Congrcss can nol nterfcre with slavery in the District of Columbia without a violation of good faühto Virginia and Munjland." This false doctrine of Ilenry Clay and James K. Polk is truly humiliating. It makes the sovereign pcople of these ü. States entirely depondent for thcir acts of lcgislation at tlieir scat of Government on the two slavebreeding States, Virginia and Marylandü! Daniel Webster ably opposed this dangerous doctrine while opposing the passage in the Senate of the United States of the series of resolutions sostrenuously advocated by Fïenry Clay and John C. Calhoun, totally üenving TIIAT CONGKESS HAD ANY POWER ÓR AUTHORITY OVER SLAVERY IN THE DlSTRICT Of Columbia any more than it had in the States." When we look at these ■boJd and false avowals of the two slaveholding Presidential candidates to eternizo slavery in this country, what are weobhged tothink of the loud professions of abhorrence to prospeclive slavery in Texas from those who at the same time are dolizing and enthusia.stical]y supporting such candidates? Iíow much can we iSink they will care about slavery after cleclion, should they succeed in electing their íavorite candidato! ! We have seen, fcllüw citizens, with pain and alarm, that such has been the most blinding and infatuated party spirit, and the eager strife and desperation for party victory, at all hazards or by al most any means of resort, for many years past, that the dcarest interests of (he people and the country, by one or tfie othcr of the oíd rival parties havo constantly been sacrificcd on their common and bloody altar of slavery. For the mere gratifica! ion of this most infatuated, blinding and destructive party strife and everlasting warfare for party supremacy, every thing dear to the heart of the Patriot, the Philanthropïat or the Christian has long been made toench set of craven' party leaders, claiming alternately that the salvation of the country depended solcly on the success of their oion partij. Vote for our favorite candidate "just this once more" as the "least of iwo evüs" to. save the country, has always been the loud cry from the leaders and tacticians of both the old partios, while all the wliilo thère stood the immovable SLAVEbWER, ljfco Mt. Atlas - with a strong hook of steel in al] thcir nóses, and a seven stranded cable leading them hither and thither - whithersoeverit wouldü Like a poor wretched slave at the fect of his master- the northern party leaders among these conipetitors for favors who have bowcd the lowest.and fawned witli the basest subserviency to slavchoklers, have invariably received the most gracious smilcs or the most 'politica! crumbs that fall from their masters table. This political Moloch holds at its own disposal the puree, the sword and the offices of the nation! The natiopal leaders of the two rival parties well understand this and.shape their political course accordingly, while the people are uniformly more and more the sufferersby such base subserviency. The mere esternal policy of these two sets of rival party leaders, it is truc, has been hcaven-wide apart, while aiining to accomplish precisely the same result, par-' ity suprcmacy!.' While the policy of one set of these rivals on the subject of petitions against the overwhelming contro] of this national Bank of human bcings hts been to reject, them, the policy of the northern portion of the other has been to receive them, bui not until thcy had most shamclessly declared to the south and the world for the hundrcdth time or more. that they wcre utterly hostile to grauting the very object of the petitioners- the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, But even after the northern members of the Whig party in Congress advised the Southern members of their party to vote to receive petitions in order to put the "vcxcd qüestion to rest," that is, kill it with sccmivg kindness, they would not vote o receive them. If the whig party at the north, while it promised in 1840 to take off the gng, and while it hada large majority in Congress as a national party, and while the northern members assured the south they were op-posed to grayiting the fraycr of the pelilioners, could not effect so harmlcss a ceremohy,how can the northern portion of this party ever prevent the annexation of Te.xas which the South care infinitely moreabout than to prevent the mme formal reception of A. S. They never can, and never will, whilc they remain bound up in poKtical fellowship with Southern slaveholders, who are destined to govern the nation through on e party or the other (it matters not to slaveholders which,) so long as the northern portions of these parties adhere to them in the manner thoy now do. The Liberty .party is organized entirely different f rom either of the pro-slav.ery parties. It is not a norlhern party. but a National Liberty party, Jt utterly discards all political fellowship with Slaveholders while they adhere to Slavery, on'thegroundthnt they believe slavery a most crying sin against God and man, and that therefore it would be as wrong & as wicked in iiself as it would be impolitic in practico to effect the end they seek. the abolition of slavery, to elévate, to the highest [jlaces of honor and power in the nation, the chief perpetrators of the very crime and wickedness ihey are contending against. They would regard such acourse both as wrong and as _ impolitic asto vote for horse thieves to abolish horse thieving - er to voie for an adu.lt ere r to effect the passage of laws ■tu [jicveiu me sin 01 aauitery. We are as a party most solemnly pledged to use all our moral and political power in all constitutiona-1-ways to abolish slavery in the United States as soon as practicable. But we can never consent, as a means to this end, most to elévate and most to honor the vcry men vho are the most guilty of the great wrong of which we complain and tbr which we seek a remedy. We choose not to select "Satan to cast out Satan." We hold that our rapidly mcreasing numbers and influenee will by no means be lost while in the minoritv. They have told, and will continue to teil, with a most salutáry and redecming iniluence. We never have, nor do we ever iniend to tlirow away our votes, but to give them where they will teil most for liberty, and most aguinst slavery. that is for the noble James G. Btrnev andTiio.-viA.s Morjus. A comparntively small quantity of a pure and purifying material wi cleanse and purifya hogshead of water. Justso it h with the rightaction ofminoriiies.Our "onk great idea" as a politica party, is to go to the e.xtent of our con.st tutional power to abolish the slavery an the slavc power of tliis nation, as well a to prevent additional slave .territory, an thus in this only way, redeem the grea mass of the people -of these United States whose nghts and libertieá have Jong beei subvcrted by i% and who are now acting but as mere -party tributary vassals to it. This .slavery minority power, adroitly "divide and con que rs" the majority power. Wc have longknown that the slave hoklers of this na'ion have but about one half supported their extra vagance .from the unpaid toil of their colored slavcs,' and that from the .same principie of Lnjustice and legal robbery, thoy have, in a great variety of ways, üyawn the other half from their political and pa.vty whie slavcs, who hardly carn their bread by the sweat of tlicir brow. The Liberty party 'proposes to wrest the government of this nation, ao unjustly scizcd as t is, by the rudc & tyrant hands of 250,000 slaveholders, and bring it back'to the people, where. it was original ly placed, and where it rightfully belongs. they are confident, even without touching slavery in the District of Columbia, the interstate slave trade- or altering the constitution to abolish the slave property representa! ion, wouïd soon abolish slavery indirect y, as the slaveholders would bo obliged to smancipate iVom dire necessity, just assoon as tbeir intruding liands are forbiddon to enter the pocket of free laborers. All this, too, willbe accomplished withoutdepriving slaveholdersof any of their constitutional rights, wliich they ho]d in common with us all. The Whigs have often accused us of aiming toinjure hem, to aid the democrats. This is totall v untrue and by some of the leaders of such ccusors, it is done just to appeal to whiprejudices for mere party effect and party capital. Somoofthe less intelligent and more confiding members of this part}-, may possibly in some instances, be induced to believe what others may teil them to keep up their most unreasonable party prejudices. The reason is very obvious why the Liberty party is called upon to say more in sheer self-defence aboutthe whig party than, tho democratie party. The open policy of the leaders of the democratie party, both north and south has long been to repudiate abolition and openly assert that they had no claim whatever upon our support, neither did they ask or e.xpect it of us. This party supports slaveholders - go for slavery and Texas, and opcnïy glory in it, for the sake of the harmony óf their party.After a few slavednvers of the south at the late Baltimore National Demo cratic Convention, issucd their word o ■ command to their northern allies to be head their own favorite candidato, flin Iris labqred and then loudly applaudec 'Texas letter, with the northern democra cy to the winds, and at once bow thei 'long party and slavery-ridden necks t the Southern Texas Poke, they meekl submitted, like a caught slave or a whip ped spaniel, and shouted, great is th Goddess Diana, [slavery.] from hercom eth every good and perfect gift, upon th seven principies oí five loaves and tw ñshes. At once íhe Washington Spectator, the most able and leading organ of this party, comes out as usual, with the following pompous southern boast: 'Never was there a more remarkable proofof the power of the South when united, than in controlling the nomination of the Baltimore Democratie Convention. The man in whose favor the whole south & southwest had declored, carne out against a policy essential to her peace and safety. Slïe made one brave sally, and swept all opposition beiore her. - And só rr witi! ever be.'í!"1 he northern democratie leaders read it, shrug tlieir shoulders a few times, and brave it all lustily (or the love they bear the 'dear spoils" in prospect, ïf the "democracy" can by any meems whatever be kept together aud come off victorious over the naughtyichigs. Mr. Polk is a large slaveholder, anda strong Texas man. It is said also that he hires them out upon otlicr's plantations, that he may enjoy the more leisure to govem bis northern whiie slaves." With the open slavery and Texas proceedings and bold avowals of thüs party therefore, there has been. no instance of professed abolitionists or liberty men giving their sufFrages to it. , Vastly different, however, has been the ".modus oPEitANDi" or the mere external policy or northern electioneering pretensions of the Whig party. When Capt. Tyler forced the Texan question upon Clay and Van Buren, each refused in contemptuoussilence as long as they dared, to take the course to reply at all to the repcated calis among thc people of the north and west to express an opinión on the Texas question. But when they could put it olí" no longer, each fcaring thc position llie other would take upon the question, asif by concert, they wrote atlhesame timo their labored and ingenious letters which wcj-e doubtless mutually expected would pass pretfy well in all latitudes. Mr. Van Buren, beinga nonsl.iveliolucr, and a northern man, the south dropped him without further; ceremony. But Mr. Clay being a south-i ern man, a large slaveholder, and long one oí' their principal champions ibr tbeirpeculiar institutions, as wcll éé the advocate in the Sonate of the U. S. for the ïasty fecognition .of the indcpendence ofj Texas, with a view. as it was then well understood by all the irieiids of this most; lefarious plot, to extend slavery indefilitely- the slavcholders in the Whig Balimore Convention, all declared lor their old and long tried slavery champion, by icclamation, notwitbsianding his firsti Texas letter, which had just appeared, and vhich the northern Iriends of Mr. Clay o eagerly seized, and have cvery where t the xoRTir carped upon ever sfrïcë to educe abolitionists, and all anti-annexaon men into his support, on the ground s has been roundly asseverated, that he 'as totally opposed to, and would linly prevent the annexation of Texas, , f the abolitionists would all turn in and i clpelecthim. l Bul during the whole of this .northek teralion to duik ABOLmoNisTsand aiui-unnexation men,- the staveholders, who never leave a man tliaj they vote for an inch of even secmrg neutral ground to stand on, (as we cred om and gulüblé ankees do.) have been cat echising Mr. Clny on annexation untij thej have turned Iheir scrufeupon him the 4th time which has finally brbnght him oiuhigh and dry to confesa the whoie,that he should BE GLAD TO SER" TbXAS AN.VKXEDthot "SnAVKRY UAS NOTUING TO OO WlTH AíHlXA - TIO.V, TUAT IT WQCLD xOT PIIOLOSG SLAVKRV: THAT. IT WOULD BE U.NWISE TO RKFUSK TI1S JTJlMANENT ACQ.ÓÍSIT1OK OF TexaS WI1ICII WILL RKMA1N AS LÓKG AS TUK GLOBE STANW5,- ON account of a lempiranj instilution [slavery] j wkich tvill become cxlinct ut sumj distunt day, [perlmps 500 or lOOOyears] by the inevitable laws of populotion" [wlioiesale adulterons atnalgaination.] As f this 3d letter were not enoogh, Mr. Clay mut issue his 4th to sever the last string, by which aboliüon.ists at the north were to be draiva into his support. His 4th letter roundly contradicted the eleclioneering opinions which Cassitis M. Clay has for sonie time been disseminating at the north, that Henry Clay was in reality favorable to emancipationü! In the 4th letter also, he takes the occasion to re-affirm in strongèr terma thari ever. the most odious slavery senüments expressed in his 1339 k in his Monden hall speeches, amoiig which are tbe following:?'ÏT IS KOT TRUE, AND I RKJO1CR T1IAT IT IS not truc, that ehhvr of the greut poi.itical PARTIES IN OUR COUNTRY HAS AST DKSION OR A1M AT ABOLITfON. I SHOl'LD GUEATiY LAMENT IT IK IT WERE TRUE." How is t possible tbat any im.partiul person, whose eyea are not greatly blinded by CLAY, can read these two speeches to whjch Ilenry Clay, has of:en triumphantly pointed the south for his slavery principie, ond not sce as before the sun at noon day, that he is the uncompromisingr advocate for perpetual slavery. He says that slavery cannot be touclied by Congress in thn District cf Columbia, or the Territories any more than in the 6lave states. He also stales that the freedom of the , white and colorcd races in this country are "incompatible." What must we think of men loudly professing great abliorrence to sluvery, and still idolatrously a man for the highest iifficé in thenntion who vaunts and glories ir? such abominable principies? Whoever shall imparlially look at Mr. Glay's-oft ropeated slavery principies, his unwavermgr, parseverinnr course to extend and establish siavery from llie boasted Missouri compromise, and iriumph for alavervj and the downfall of the north- his Sd and 4th letterp, for Texas, and against Cus.-ïus M. CIayrs views, and the hosts of leading C!ny and Texas men and presses at tiio souih, strenuously claiming for_,Henry C.'ay, that he is the most sagacioiis - llie ehrewdest, and safest man in the tiation, to bnng about t!ie annexation of Texas, in the only practicuble manner" - can they fail to see evsn tliroiigh Ci,y, that who. ever shall vote for liim to keep Texas out of the Union, will only niake work for repentonce when too late, as is the caee of their election of John Tyler.Etit "convince oneogainst his t'i7. be wil] be of the same opinión stil).?' Whoever is determínéct lo vote fur Henry Clay, just to "carry tlie day.;' or beat the lucos "oiïcc more" at all hnzards, they will do ït of course. Not a le'uding man or press of any party at the soülh, is known to be ópposed to the final annexation of Texas WITH SLAVERY. It ia true, C. M. Clay is oppo&ed to it,but he is already a vctoui man by Henry Glay, who calis hit nn "independent1' ciüzon of Kenlucky' meaning donbtless that he properly beloHgs to no particular party, whicli ip virtunlhj the fact . Bui on the other hand, tlie foilnwing are a few of the hundreds of' conclusivo evidences and abundnnce more like unto :t, are every do coming out, thai the entire phaíánx of Mr. Clay's friendá, the same as Mr. Pollts friends, atibe south are fully detemiined to sustain hini to tlie fullest exient, to bring about tlie anne.vnüon of 'l'exas. just as soon as it shall be foutul practicable to attempt it without the defeat that Tylcr met with. by reasou of too much haste and oveructiui), and wliich the Texns friends of Mr. Clay contend, wil] be ilié foto of the Pulk sciieme as wcll as the Tyler schcme of annexation. The friends of Mr. Clay and Texas at the Sou! h, much p'refer the ííéép b'and, muderation, Clay scbeme to annex Texas, as beingaltogether Uie safcst and stirest, to ficcom plish il without waking tip íhe north too t much. They lemember Tyier's defeat. They f nlso remember, as well they may, Henry c Clay's blnnd and orcli mode of comproinising e Missouri with all her slavery iuto this Union, c which so completely efiected the ascendencv I and triumph of slavery and the slavr; power in t the nation. ;EXTIIACTS FROM CLAY PAPERS SPEECHES, &c. TIjo Ballimore American, a leading Yhi paper, as late ns ihe I7th of July says: "If those who roally desire the iinnexatio of" 'IVxutj would cbusidèr the strbject, ihey vyould probabiy iïod tlie chances in favor of saki: tnd s:vcl'k: uimexalion are ghkatku witli Mr. Cl.AY IN TUK PniiS!DKTlAL ClUtR, TIIA A.NY OTIIIÍR MA.n"! "We speak 011 this subjoct merely from the inferences yrowin oot of' Mr. Clny'a ovvn opinious and f'ormer course with regard to 'i'cxas, and from these nferonces, we are persuaded t lint the chances of ultímate niinexation wül be greater in the event of his eleclion tJia n the view of any olher cveiit." What this shrewd; far seeing wbig editor aJludes to is Mr. Clay's former cotirse rclative to Texop, in his extraordinary efl'orts ( in the Senate, while Mexico wis at war with , ïer revolled province - to efl'ect the recog'ni, ion of ite independence, with a view to its ui ,timóte annexRtioti to ilie U. S. This sair.e paper againsayBj 'iXSTBAU OK C Oil.VC THK DOOR AG.UXSTTHE u.mjsmon of Texas ikto ul-r Cmon.Mi:. Ci. vv's fQUnbRj roïNTn UT THK ONI.Y WAÏ IN WHICH S'JCH ADMISIÓN C VX :Vjt.VrUAl.l,Y TAKB At the late Whïg Convention to nominate Cla electors in the State of Georgia, it unanimouijiy adopicd llie followiñg Resolutiun; "Resolved, Tliat vc are m favor of tlie annexntion of Texas to tlie Ü. &. ni the earl-est ppriod consistent with the honor ai.d ood íaiih of the natioii." A Whig Legishiture in Tcnrtessee in 1842. passed tlie Resoluiion: "Reíolvoí?, Th;it our Representatives in Qpjigress be rcquested to use ever exertion in their power lo procure the auupxation oJ" Texas ni this Union with equ.il righlf, and on pqnnl footinir mtü the sovereiini states of tbese U. S. of America. " TiieRichmond Whijj- tliia true exponent of Mr. Clay's sentiments eays: "Tlie people of Virginia are in favor of annc.vation at the proper li:ne, and under the the proper circumstances." iThëgreé Nationtil Intélligenccr, Mr. Clay's oton mouthpiece, says: "We doat so mnch object to tlie tfcve tselj, [unnexntron] as to the man and the party [TylerJ hy wriich it is tobe accomplishíd.V The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, a leadng Wliig paper says: ' Muny of the fnends of Mr. Clay asserl, Ihftt he gocs lar eiioiijrh f,,r them, for tljev cqnficlemly biliove tliat Mkxico wl Ís'Sl Kt to TH-: mmasurk. None hut those íiaving interests staked on immediate nnnexation wíl! oppose Mr. Cluy's viewtí.1' Hon. S. S. Pientiss of Missíssippi, a-strong Cl:iy and Texas man, has recently coiné out Una published letter in which he saya: 'The jrrouñd taken by some in thid q!Jarter that time who support Mr. Clay are unfriendly to southern mstitutioris, ami so-ithern .inicrests, g a iNfULTi.No as t is kalsk, and shoulü arouse un honest indignalion in the breast of every true w!iig." Hon. Ephiaim II. Poster, a U. S. whig Senator from Tennessee, remarked i ti a speech ïn the Senate:"I repeat the conviction that'the territory and domnm of Texa, as ]jmitd and defina! by the trea.y of 1313, will all again into ihii expansive Union, and tl;e "loue star' wil sh'ino in the bright gulaxry wbich beau tifies and adurn our gtorious natiónal bunnor.'' The Hemphis [Tennessee] Eagle, a strong CJay and Texns paper, save: "In gix'uig ptiWiciiy to Mr. Ciay's very oble letter on the nnnexaiion of Texas, we have time only to remnrk, that it is all Mr. Clay'á friendá cuuhis cou-ilry could demanfj on the subject." He adds, '-We are fully saÜsfied with it." ín a late speech of Mr. Rivet-, U. S. Sen ator from Virginia, as reported in the Kich mond Whigs, he eays: "lom not opposed to the ultímate annexation of Texas, I declare my full belief that Mr CJay is lor ultímate aimexatioj). The who'e course of Mr. Clay shows tin?, and I au wüïïfig to leüve it in" the hands of Mr. Clay.' Hou. James Lyons, of Virginia, a Harrison aswell as a Cla) E:ecLor said in a publiíhec letter:"In Mr. Clay'sabüity, experience, and patriotism, the people wiil have the surest g-uaruutee that Texas tiTft bc annexed in the most SECUUR íind HONORABLE MAiSXEK." The Resol n ton wns lately pased by acclamation at a large whig meeting al Cahauba, in tlie State of Aláfcartís: 'Resolved, That as whigs, good and truc, we vHil support llenry Clnynnd Thcodore FrpinThnyseR, fot the Presidcncy and Vice Presidency of ihe U. S., aa a rneaiís of carryijng into eilect our principies, and vltiniately o sëcüring ihe unncxaliou oí' Texas." In a late. pubiislied letter from John W. Ciockef, a whig member of Cungress fruni Tennesee, he says: "JVe are f ar the acqui sitian of Texas upon proper pnuciplts and condition?, but nol a single vote, so ínt as I can lenrn, has been, or can be gained into the support of Polk on Uiis issue." In a late speech of II. Marshall Esq., of Kentucky wíjo Ís spoken of as one of Mr. Clay's cabinet, shonld he be Hected e says ' as one 'vho would really desire lo ei? the '■Jone sfar' of Texas addcd to the einblem of oirr om liberly, I am (ree to declarethat I reg-ard annexation as more sprkdy, ceiitain, sure, on just and honorable ternis, uniler the auspiceá of Mr. Clay than under ihe guidance of h is cumpoliior."Indeed, it is needtes3 to quote more of the ropiciïy aiul èYèrwliéïafihs testimony tliat all the suuthern frieni's of Mr. Clay are strstaininjr him on the Texas question, on the gronnd thnt he is decidedly a more expeñonced puhticiun and a vastly shrewder coMPROMisr'rt to Inng h around snfely than Mr Polk. We udiriit thnt wliile we have altributed u full shurc oí' credit to the disposition of Mr. Pulk todo the deed', we have paid no very high compliment ' comparaliveJy, to hid skill to effect it. And now, fcüow citizens, shouïd tho Liberly party at once disband, nnd all vote either Tor Clay or Poflrj so far from its tending io the ïè&ét degree to prevent Uie sad calarnity to the slave, our country5 and üiir posterity, o( the annex uion of Texas to llie Unitea S'ates - it won ld in our opinión, have directly thè cuntiary effect to accoinplish the deed the more speedily, and the more securely, and als-o to perpetuare the slavery, nnd the alieady overwljelming ascendency-of theSLAVE Puwer in our country. We are utterly opposed io the anuexation of Texas to the U. S. not merely on account of the entire nbsence of constitutional power to do it any more than to aunex any other forcign nation, but mainly ind eternilly on the ground of sluvery. We nostfully agrea vi;h Daniel Webster who said in his late Springfield speech, thal the 'great fü.VDAMEXTAI, EVBRLASTl.NG OIUKCTJO' ITO N, S, ftíl íí í, fl écheme, FOa TBH KXTKNSrorf OF THE SLAVERY Of TBR ÁFRICA race." Wc cannot ag-ree with Henry CJay, who declares in his Sd Texas letter,that slayí;hv had noihing to do vith the question, akd TH AT ANA'KXATION IVOOiD KOT TaOtOStO 8LAVERT." We present you two pood and true mert, fellow ciiizens, JAMES G. BIRNEY and THOMAS MORRIS for your support for the Prcsidency and Vice Presidency of this natioiv at t!jo coming: election. They are both welt tried uble ond upnght men, and openly pledged agansl anneiatioii on the ground of elavery and tKe want of constilutional power lo annex it. We shalj give these men our undividedt und most cordial eupport, upon principie, and iully lieüèying also tliat it is the only possiblehope hflus to nboljSh the slavery in our country, and ultimately prevent the nnnexation of Texas by a negntivc, checking, and parifyinf infliierice upon the blind desperation of thevhole southjwho will do the deed indeapita of any mere wordy declarations frora men whonv slaveholders wcll know can care very littla nbout slavery in Texas or any whero else, so, long as they delight to honor with the highest offices in the nat ion, the greáíeet and moet notorious sfavcholders in it. Finally, Fellowciiizens, we would again respectfully present for your support, ïnnn vyfioun tnany of yo admit to be rigiit on 6lavëry and Texas, lf you cl o not support them, our skirts areclear. We are with all due respect, your fellowcountrymen und l'cllow citizena,

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