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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The CJÍnstitution has been rejected by about 1000 majority. So the Democrats will have three less Annexation members n the next Congress that they have anticipated. The principal objection urged against accepting the proflered terms of admission was the alteration of the bounariesof the State by the act of Congress. But some provisions of theConstiution itself, it is alleged, were objectionable to a part of the citizens. QC? The Observatory at Cincinnati has been completed. But the directors have established a schedule of prices as exorbitant as t will be unprofitnble. For looking through the telescope, $2,00 For walking over the ground in the afternoon, 1,00 For an evening's visit, by a nonresident, 2,00 All persons must pay these prices, or buy shares at $50 each. Small fees of admittance would produce a much greater revenue, and bring the benefits of the institution within the reach of a much larger number. But one of the Directors intends to "come it" over the others by solling the poor hisshare for $50, and after the purchaser has looked through the telescope, he will buy it back for the same sum, minus 25 cents. - ff" At the Charter election in Jackson, the No License ticket prevailed by 41 mnjority.(E7Will the Srgnal of Liben y be só goorf is to inform ub what "ovrteork" ia? It snysr "Wo have not ündcrtokcn our work ao nere children's play, ó be commenced, and ihcn hamled over tó any intcrestrd scbemers ivho mtiy be looking for a epeculation, and A'ho may offer to do it fór b compunsation.- We must do our Work oursólvès; añd wherï l shall all have been done, it will be time - ?Hongh lo determine whether we will dis- aand or continue together." Trueenough, We will fnot disband" untit' !our work" is done. But then 4tour" is a personal pronoun, the plural nutnber and possest ive cnee - indicating a common ownerehip of the "work" - mutual interest and mutual en gagements A "work" that is "ours" presupposes that the persons understood under the term have mutnally and understandingly taken n pon t hem ie! ves to do a spccific thing. Thai is all clear- and it is clear that the Liberty j Pnrty 8 pledged to the obolition of flavery- but it is not sa clear that snit] party has mado the propnpation of nny "system of polilical economy" as pertaining ta banks, tanfis, internal improvement, schools, &c, a pan of js work. U so, the time and place when the' engagement was entered into mii6t be itr ihe recollection of the parties, and the "yatem" to whicli thty have pledjyed them3elves mtist he understood. The persons concerned can scnrcely feel an obüyation much less an ntnbition to accomplish a "work" which thcy have not by the consent of the icill and th understanding made "ours."- Liberty Pi ets. We are not aware that we have laid out any "system of political economy" for tho Liberty party, or snid any thing on the subject. But. we will cheerfully respond to the interrogatories of onr brother of the Press. . 1. "üur work" is dcfincd in the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the Liberty party hoe nol been nrrnnzpd for nny témpora ry purpose by interostod pnliticians, but hns orisen fron) among the people in conseqnence of the con viction, honrly gnininr gronnd, that no othor party in the country renresents truly the principios of American liberty, or the true spirit of t he Constiuitio of the Unitrd Stnles' "Resolved. That Ihe Lib?rty party hns not bem qrgcuiized, mkrkly for the over.hrow of élavery. I's firtt and most dccifled efFort must indeed bi; dirocted sgninst blaveholdin, as the most revoltihp1 nnd jrrossrst form of drspori?m; but it will also carry odt thk PRINCiPLKS OF EqüAL RlGHTS INTO ALL THRIR PHAC1ICAL CONSKqi'KNCKS AND ATPI.ICATIOXS, AD SDPPORT P.VHRY JUST MKAM7RE CONBDCIVB TO ndCÍAl. INDIVIDUAL PkRKDOM." "Uesolveti. That the Liberty party is not a Foctio.ini pnrty, but n Nation.il pnrty - has nut on frinated in a desirr to accoinplish n sin gle übjrtt, hul in n rompiohensive regard to the inU-rcMa oí thf wholo counirr - is not a new pnrtyi ir a fhird party, hut is tho pnrty of 1776, revivinn' the principies of t har memorable era. ik! striving to cwry than into practical uppücalion.'' ♦'Carrying ont the principfea of Equat Rijrhtrt into all iheir practical conprqumcoa and npplirations" we suppoe to involve considerably inore than a pledge for the mere aboütinn of fijnverj . 2. Tliis work liernme 'owV by mnUinl ogrfemit of tlie whole liberty Pnrty in National Conveution nsüenb!ed, in the adop:ion of thebe re?olutionH. No portion nfthe parly, udIpss Ger it Sinilh and ;he Editor of the Press be exceptiuns hive yet disavowed an "ownership in the work." S. The place where thia work became '"ourp," was BnfFalo. 4. Tlie time was the Sist of August, 1843. Wil] the Editor of the Libcrtv Press be po rood ns to in'bmi us whether he intensa to elioulder tkis work 3 M(jursi," or whi:ther he lepudia'.cs i?

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Signal of Liberty
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