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A Coincidence

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the year 1819, a bill passed llie House of Representativesin Congress, providing that all slaves which shoiilt) theroarter be bom in Arkansas, ahould become free on arriving al the age of twenty-five. Tho vo(e, ho wever was reconsiderad, and the provisión final ly rejected by the cnsting voie of tJie speaker, Hert Clay. Had the bil! become a law, the first slaves born under its provisions n 1819, would have bccome free in 1844. - Those men and vvomen, native-born Americans, who are thia year arrivingat the nge of twenty-fivp, and looking forward lo interminable servitude, both for themselvea and their potterity, are sla ves forever by the sole vote of Henry Clay. And the very yeat that that hia vofe first becom.es thus diabolically operative npon the actual condilmn of men, he is a candidatefor the presidency,ind aboli tionists are called upon to reward him for that vote,& are told that voting for hitn is the only way to prove the sincerity of their opposition to slaverj'. Says the Christian Citizen: ''It is a fact most singular and paiufdlly sign:ficant, that the vory year in whicl; he s set np for the highest office in the nation, would have been a year of jubilee to thousande now held in hopelesa slavery, had it not been for tiis succesbful resistunce to the principies of 7reedom. It is a bitter thought - would thal it might reach his heart - thai, had it nol been Jor his single vole, evcry slave bvrn in Arkansas in 1319, would have been undm'med f rom his eloomful destiny in 1344. That vote! it doomed gcuerations of human

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Signal of Liberty
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