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Whig Abolition

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
October
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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George Dawson, of the Monroe (N. Y.) Democrat, a Whig paper, is lecturing the Whigs of New York on the best method of abridginglhe Slave Power: for he begins by asserting that it cannot be consiitutionally abolished. He thinks all Northern Whigs and aiitislavery'mcn ehould unite in accoonplishing the following objects: 1. The extensión of Equal Suffrage to colored men. 2. Trial by jury for fugitivo slaves. S. Abolition of Sla ver in the District of Columbia. 4. The "abating" of the internal Slave Trïde. 5. Prohibit the use of our jails to slavecstchere. 6. Nonew Slave States t o be admitted. - [N. B. All the Wbiga in the U. S. Senate voted for admilting Florida, except 9; and not onc of them voted againgt its admission becauHc it was a Slave State. Not one of them dared to advance such an objection.] 7. Slaver? shall not be allowed in any territory. 8. Tbo rignt of Petition shall be inviolate.9. Free colored men from the North sha]] pot be nrrested at the South. Mr. Dawson eays: ♦'Upon theBe pointe - and all others in whicb are infti.ed the same república n epint- the Whigs of the JYorth are generally agreed. - They ore, we doubt not, prepared to resort to the ballot-box to tnaintain these principies." Weshoold like extremely well toseethe practical evidence that the Whigs of the North are "agreed" in favor of theae points. It would seem, by their action, that tho agreement hitherto has been to let them alona.- They have done nolhing in favor of them yet - or almost nothing. None but a very few have professtd to be for them.

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Signal of Liberty
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