Is The Whig Party Proslavery?
'The MarsJ.all Stntesman quotos a ürw from Ihe Signul - "'The Jïhigs are a pro-slav: j party' - and turns tt$ ils eycs in great horror ihat a papor wliose Editor is a "clerjjyrowi" 6hould "daré assert such a palpable faisehood, without tlie shadow of en argumcul to support it ." Wc made no argument at that time bccatise we did not supposc our asserticm tiecdedany. We expected it would be Conceded by common consent. We ncver icnetv bul one Whig pnper to dony it beffore. It Ã6 quite remarcable (hal the Stalestnon shou!d ibink of calling ir, qrtestioa so plain a proposi tion. We wi'l g&fc tlie editor a few questionr, whirh, ifiie can answer succesaTully, we will hereafier pretent something more tlian "the fchodow of nn argument." 5. là nnt tlie Whig pa.-fy in fiivor of letthrg -alune tde Slave Tratie and Siwvèty cvery whereiulhe United Slat-es? If so, it is to tliatextent, pruslavuiy. il. Has not the V!lig party (Kácoañtennnced, nrglected, er opposed ever y s-cheme f nnancipatioi) tliat lins been proposed, VkheÃlier gradual or immediate? If so, it Jias been the opponent of all nboliiion, nnd conse quenily in favor of continuing the inrtitahon - that is, it has bern jirosluvrry. 3. Does ncit the Wiiiw party go fnr levatingSiareiioltlcriilo tiieiirghest natiuml of ices, and is it not Ime thut tlieir last cand:!ale fot the Piesidency has dm;e more to l)U]Jd up ihe Slave Power than any man living? In supporling si:ch a candidatp, the ovowed enei y of aboütion, thfy demónstrate ihat they are a prolavery party. 4. D es not the whole Whig party, inciuding "AdÃiÃn?, Webster, Sew.irtl, Everelt, Skffe and Gido'ings,"1 staod ready to vote for ihnüur slaveliolder fur Presiden?, or Vier President, in 1848. shmild he be nnminated ty the party? The Stateman will nut deny tids,norvill il lieny thrn ihat paper woivld al po support a Slaveh.der. So far, Uien, atfilling natioruil ofiict-s wi h ihe most dele inin eJ advocates of tlavery invoJvcs ils tupporl, so far the whole Whig party is pro slavery. 5. Did not the Wliig Sonate of tho United ÃÃtaÃes admit F'orida as a State, wKh a ihree fiftli reprpsen'.aiion for Slnvep, ihereby addiny to the power of that instiUitWrf Ttiis the miglit have prevented, and have, theretore, so iar provcd tliemselves pro-slave-y. It is q'iite Bnmwhg to find the Statefrnnn putting' on tuch airs, ns tliongii the irnputat ion of fpro?!uvery:' was insulting. It is a kÃoo of pr-'gress. One question r'.re: Is the Vyhig party wti-slnvcry] Give your anBwer, yea or nay; or will you be silent? .{L Air. Needli&üi of Loulstillé, Kcntucky, was a mcniber oF !be Cincinnafi Conventinn. He made a sperch in tbat fticctintr, detatyjng incidente of oppression and cruelty in Ken tticky. Notes of this ppeech erc rcporled in the Cincinnati Ilerald, auu repub'islied iincnediately in the Jjouieville paper., witli confiifuie. Mr. Needl);nn,on arrivinr home, sent n manly andspirited vind catión of hims'-lf lo the LouiiviJlc pr. pers. C. M'. Clay,.reierrii)g io the thrcut8 of nicObing liim, says: "7'Ãio ?rear pros.'avcry cliqtic of Lotii.-vülo ppin wonderfulJy indignnnt at tlic roiinrkrfof Mr. E. Needhm, in ihe Cincionati Libcnrty Conventi'.n. 1hoy fem irtöre etnsitive lo worilp, )hun to ocle. The Otllf qurstion lo be asked in Uiis case, 6, did Nepj'hum tl 'le truth: if tho crimos of whÃcÃi lift ppke bf min, eery voror in Ifie State of EiiUlKïJty Ãs reBponsibie f.r tiietr prrpelrniinn. Jl is lijn ilint ihis Eolpiim furce shotild coosr- lÃie triitli Ãp. no Innpnae can inistepresfnt Kiavpry. "MolT Ntodhnrn, indeod! thnt is n doublé frnmo. The blaveñoldera nnd thoir pycopliauc?, wil] find tliat the frpe white laborpre of this Innd cnmorising fuiir fïl'lhs nf ihe popuhtion, nt tlic lowpfl e-timaie, are nol !ïvp. Sliivery i-i do nmd - it nwst rho! - tlip fitst art oviolmcc m i!s centje, xcUl hásIcn its falef' QLf The Demacráis of thia Conniy, at their Counly Cnnvfn'ion, deÃXBd for Jaincsi iCtiijjsloy for Gvern)r ly o grrat tnnj rity. - Thcy albo passod fmidry rppoluticis in favor of retrenchmen, judicial reCorw, againsl all b-inks. k.
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