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Livingston County

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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In another column will be found ft cali fo a Counly Conventiun at II nvell, on the thirt of September. We trust our Liberty friend will attcnd Irom every part of the County nnd consult toge'her for the prosperity, o their canso, and tlien act! The Liberty vote increased lost year in that county about 70 per cenr. Tliis year it should not be les than 100.OCf Thomas F. Marshall, Ex-Member of Congress, of Kentucky, thus expresses his opinión of the Abolilionists: "That the importance of the Abolitionists as a party in the United States is infinitely greater than 1 imagined - that the institution of slavery, and the views and projects of this sect in regard to it, excites the keenest interest in foreign countries, particularly in England - that they are hostile to the continuance of the Union upon principie, and will be Ibund the ready ally of a foreign power in any scheme to curb the Southern extensión of our empire, or to break in twain the fame of the Republic, in pursuit of what they cali human emancipation, are facts which the events of the last four yers hnve foiced upon me. The determined fanaticism of this sect alone, would make them formidable. The number is so great that they al ready aspire te hold the balance in the great national election. They claim to be henrd, and consume much of the time of the National Legislature, in the fierce agifation of the question of (he power of the Government to execute their scheme of liberating two millionsanda half of African slaves. - They rave at the National Constitution for the guarantees it contains, and the protection it aflbrds lo this destested instilution. They have presented pelitions at tho haf of the House af Representatives. by the most learnedthe most pefsevering, the most eloquent, the most distinguished, and decidedly the ablest and most efficiënt mcmber of that body. What is to bo the future course and terminntion of this question- what the final sölution ai this terrible problem m Amerieam History, is beyond my ken, ftnd isscarcely a fit subject for present speculation.""Wcslcrn Citizen and Battle Creck Champion'1 is the title of n new pnpe just commenced in Battle Creek, by L Stillson, publisher nnd proprietor. Price $2,00 a year. The paper professes to be JefTersonian in its politics- "Aere fore," it is for" the "leading mensures o the present National and Slate administra tions." The typographical appearance of f he paper is fKiï'. 05a Tho Native American Convention of Massaehuselta passed a resolution ir favar of Judge McLean as their candidate for President, it is said the Judge hns Written a letter ratlver favorable to the objects of the Naüm,Oí? The papers confnin an account of a great fwe nl St. Johns, Ñ. B. by which about 40 buildings were burned. The loss is estimated nt L60,000.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News