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Not To Be Misunderstood

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Day
17
Month
February
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Holmes, a member of Congress f rom South Carolina, said, in a speech on Texas, "that (I lake from the Cleveland Herald's Washington Correspondent) Mr. Monroe had been induced to enter into it, because he saw then a little Anti-Slavery cloud arising not larger than a man's land, and which burst upon the country at the time of the Missouri Compromise; nd he thought that it was necessary for he slaveholding interesls to have Florida, nd Mr. Holmes approved of bis course. He said that the same little cloud had risen again - that it exhibited itself in he sixty five thousand votes given for iirney - that it was spreading with great and fearful rapidity - that it already held n its hand the balance of power in a 'residential election - and that mrtny members, who, when they parted last ummer, pledged themselves to go for Texas this session, were aïarmed at the )owerof this party, and were afraid to support the measure. He said that he ïad looked with great anxiety to the forthcoming message o( the Govemor of New York; expecting when it carne, it would contain something to cheer on the fríends of Annexation. But that thisshrewd poitical tactician was alarmed at the growng Anti-Slavery sentiment ofthe North, and daré not utter a word in favor of the measure." Mr. Holmes don't think a vote for Bimey is "half a vote for Polk and Texas." Slaveholders won't mistake themeaning of a Liberty vote. - Exchange Paper. QjF Owing.to the absence of the Editors last week, the summnry of evioence adduced on the trial of Miss Webster, was published without any remarles. The reader will brar In mind that that art iele only purports to be a statement of the cvidence of the witnesses inbehalfof the prosecution: consequently it is not to be received as the whole trulh. - The explanatory and rebutting testimony of the 6a me witnesees when cross examined, and of the witneases summoned by the dcfendant, does nol appear at all. We must hear both sides before we can jndge correctly. From eome circumstances alledged to have takon place, 6uspicion8 are raised against the purity of Miss Webeter's character, and t is inferred that she and Fairbanks not only cnrried off the slnvep, but they were guilty of conduct still less excusable. In answer to this it is cnough to euy, that they were not guilty of both offences. It is not probuble that persons who vould deliberately set the laws of cbastity at defiance, would ever hazard the danger of a Peniíentiary for the sake of aiding two or three helpless tlaves. The Public Voice, judging from the multitude of petitions daily presented to the Legislature, loudly demands, lst a a modiñeation of the license laws, giving to the peopl ofeach township the right to determine whether any licenses for the sale of intoxicating beverages shall be granted: 2d. An amendment of the militia laws so as to dispense with musters: 3d Theexpunction of the word white from the constitution. What could be more essentially absurd and barbarous, than making the color of the skin a qualification for certain privileges of citizenship? Would it be a vhit mate absurd to make the sizeof the foot, or the length of the noso a measuri of civil rïghtsi - State Journal, i

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