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One Dollar A Year In Advance: Consider Of The Principle

One Dollar A Year In Advance: Consider Of The Principle image
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Day
6
Month
January
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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Tïie Pcnricrals tot nvny yoars Imvo mpu tod to the Wliigs the poiitical a.xioin that the Government shotild take care of the Kich, aud ;he Rich wrnuld tnke enre of ÍÍe I'oor. Thib iln Viiirn luive alwny diwrcd. But lierenilie lostimony f Hornee Greeley Wint al Sluvoliolileiv pnictice on this principie, wheth er liu-y tie Wliijis or Petnourats. Sureh Hornee must liave forguilen the n!;ige abou "living in gliys houpes," nnd ':throwing stDiiGs.'' Jirst rctnembsr the ociuvs principie ;ind chnrge it u[ion the partió.! But heic i the c.viract: 'Po.YOU Sat it?- A party of Alabnm Locolocos receinly went over to Mr. l'olk reeidenco in Tcnnosoo, to conjfratultite liin on his puccefs and urjje Inm lo imite wil tliem in n. public dinner. Thoir siiokesinni m the courtc of his liarwng-nr, ilnis cxu'.l cd: "We congratulóte you upor. í lie rrpudintio ly the pcöiilo of lie ductrinc that Hht govern inent should tnke care of tkü riek and th take 7-ich care of the poor.' " Wa let pass the sneakiny lie here intinna teJ that the Whjg party hold any such seu timent as the people are said to have ropudialed. It cauuot injure tliose it slaiiders, ani we presume it connot fariher degrade thos wlio utier it. We choo.-e at present to brío matter noirer home to'the congratula tot ani the conprntulnted. You, Meesrs. Deputifi: from Alabaoia! are donbtiess slavehojders cer'.ainly supprlers of slavery, and ihe man Polk is a very pxiensivo sjaveholder, owning at least n hundred negroes. How riht or wrong lhi wy be we won't discuss now - Butif tlavery on't imply tliat il is ihe righi woy to "take care of the rich and let them tako care of the poor," what does it menn? How do you juslify it? We have just been readiny a vfry íible letter fnun Governor Hammond, of Sonth Carolina, to the Presbytery of Glaacow, foicibly defonding flnvery, nnd on this very principie, if we can iinrtersiand hun. He argües precisely tbat government shoulr! take care of the rich (whits) and they wil! tnke the best possible care of the poor Claves). And if the people liave really "repudiaïed'' this principie, what will lecome of Pesident Polk's ricjrroe!;? Who ft-ü] henceforth "lake care" of ihem?''

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Signal of Liberty
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