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The Strength Of The State

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Day
21
Month
October
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- The you.ngmen of the yeomanry will be for Liberty. A correspondent of the Liberty Press details the process and results of a jiolling that took place on the 18th inst. at a review of Col. VVarren's regiment of militia, at Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. Towards the close of the day, the ' colönel, who is a Polk man, pleasantly nvited his regiment to a vote for the three candidates for the Presidency, lo which no objection was made. The writer proceeds: lst. The colonel said, "All tliose in favor of Mr. Clay will march four paces in front." This was obeyed, and about oneföurth of the regiment stepped forward. "All those iu favor of Mr. Polk will march four paces in front." Unprejudiced judges say that this vote was the larger of the two. "All m favor of Mr. Birney march four paces in front." Captain Gaodsell's company from Paris Hill, and who were made the centre of the regiment, and nearly in front of the stafi &c. to a man nearly, with their gallant captain, rushed to the front, over four paces, and the right and the left wiugs of the regiment responded so fully, that this vote was decidedly the largest of the three, notwithstanding Mr. Birney's name was put at "the tail end of the heap," and in the most unfavorable position. At this juncture, Capt. Goodsell cal led for three c heers for Birney, and it was given with great earnestness and applause, so much so, that the horses of the staff broke and scattered."dj" At the late Convention, Dr. Bement stated that his opporlunities for óbtaininga knowledge of the political predilections of Liberty men n this State, had not been inferior to those of any other man; and he was well assured that just about two thirds of them were from the Whigs. This corresponds nearly with our own judgment. Henee we see that the great outcry of the Whigs that the growth of the Liberty party very much injures them, while it helps the Democrats, is not sustained by the facts. The Liberly vote last year was 2776. - One third from the Democrats, is 908, leaving 1868 from the Whigs. The difference is less than 1,000 votes. The accessions to the Liberty party this year will be in about equal proportions from the two parties. Should we dissolve, and again unite wilh the old parties, their relative strength would not be materially al te red. (t?The Albany Patriot is . sanguine that the Liberty vote of that State will press hard upon 30,000. The letters of Henry Clay, and the Whig mission of Cassius have been highly unfavorable to the Whigs, aud tended to the enlargement of the Liberty party. The ground in favor of Slavery and Annexation assumed by the Democrats has disaffected many of that party, who will vote for Birnay,05a VVe have received a communicaíion touehing the conduct of a certain "gentleman" in Marshall, who it is ol.'edged, ñas mnnifested his hostility to the Liberty cause by tenring their notices of a public meeting from one of the warehouses in that place. We do not deem any publ catión nécessary. - We have no doubt whatever that, if the facts )e as 8tntedf the gentleman already regrets such an act of petty hostihly, and wishes it undone. Hi& ovvn feelings of eelf degradaion are a sufficient puriishment for such an act. Our friends in Marshall have recently awaked from their slumbere, and are now holding meetings in the Court House every Friday evening, where ihey offer to discusa their principies wilh either of the other parties, or bolk al once. Why do not the pro-slavei'y awyera try their hand? The Boston Atlas, the leading Clay paper of Massachusetts, hns so far become an organ for slave-catchers, that it advertises their stray froperty in ils columns! $4,00 reward is offered for Ranlal, Abel, Tertius, and Secundus. Perïaps the Atlas agrees with its great canlidate that "two hundred years of continued legislation havesANcTiONED andsANctipied negro slavesas property!"

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Signal of Liberty
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