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The Antislavery Whigs

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Day
24
Month
April
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlie preference beginning to be man ifested in many quarters for Gen. Taylor as the Whigcandidale fur the Presidency is cnlculated to roue up the attention of the nntislaery Whigs of the North. - Should Taylor tho slaveholder be the nomincp, where wili Seward, and Giddings, and Sladr-, and C. F. Adams, and Hamlin go? Such an evcnt would try wliether there be any genuine nntiblavery in them or not. Should ihe issue be preïenied, there cotild bc no dodging. Tlitfj" must go with their party Tor the election of a plantation Slaveholder, or refute iheir support, and thus in fact bolt from the party. Friend Ilom'in, of the Cleveland Truc Democrat, an excellent paper, and the orgnn of the Giddings School of Whigs, has come out dirccily for Thomas Corwin tra his candidate. lie claims that Corwin is right on ihe threc main points of act ion - he i opposcd to tlie war, lo tlie extensión of Slave.ry, and the aequisition of tfirrilory. It ratber strikes us that the Truc Democrnt has at sundry times advocrued the dbnlilion of Slavery by tlie use ot all constiiutional nienns, as an important measure. Flow comes it thni lliis is lost siglit of in selecting its Presideniial candidate t Is the Dcmocrat difpoaed lo abandon or lny aside for the present ihat part of its professed creed t So Tir as Mr. Corwiii's views have been made known to the public, they are such that no Liberly man, nor indeed any one who seeks for the m mediale removal of Slavery from the country, could CMirisisteiitly give him support as a Presidencial candidate. Tlie three poinis mentioned are well ; but they do not go far enough. They are all negativos. - Were they all cnrried out, tlie counjrv would be left with its present boundarie, in a slalo of [lence, but doinineered over, as t ever has been, by the Slave Powi!R. Liberty men must find in thcir candidato oihcr priiTciples than those on wliich the Truc Democrat places the claims of Mr. Corwin. No Slavb Laus, and No Si.aveholders for Officb, are objects for which they have been contending, and through their candidato; they v.-ill sustain thfun by thnir votes ntl tlie next Prfsidonlinl elec-iion.

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Signal of Liberty
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