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Gone Over

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
May
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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TIir Whigssay a groat deal abonttlie Democr.its sticking to. their party in all circumstances. We helieve the allegation islnie. Thcy can usually be depended on. They are soms whcrc. Tliey do not look one way and act anotlier at the snme lime, as most of the VVhigs do, especially on the Slavery question. In Mnssnchiii-etts, the sntislavery VVhigs havo been wrongiully named the " Conscience VVhigs." Their exponent, the Daily VVhig, edited by C. F. Adams, a son of the Ex-PreskJenf, has abounded wiih ablfi and conclusive antialavery articles, all looking towardsthe indopendence of the VVhig parly of all slaveholdcrs. - Dut hy the. following extract from a late paper, it wiil beseen thrtt it hos gone over to the support of another slaveholder for President. Alas for the poor, blind, slavery ridden North ! We shall look dnily for a pledge from the Tribune and Albany Journal also to go in for " a holder of some sla ves." Perhaps he Ohio True Democrat and Mr. Giddings wil] also give in. We shull ses. " Whoevcr will pledge himself to carry them out in the General Governmfnt of ihe United States, will be regnrded by iisris fairly within the range of a Whig nominatian. W hoever will come forward al the very next scssion nf Congrcss and induce the united VVhig party by the exertion of his influence to do WIIAT IT CAN DO IF IT CHOORES, tO Slop the war by stopping ihestipplie?, to place all the loiTi'tories of the Union now possessed and hereafter to be ncquired nnHer the operation of the rule of the Ordinance of 1787 now known as the Wilmoi proviso, and to place the government of the Union, to the utmost extentof his power, out of the slaveholding influence which bas heretofore pervaded it ; whoever, we say, will come forwnrd and do this, in the nomination of that man to the Presidency, should it nfierwards be mnde by the VVhigs, we will very cieerfully arquiescc, neithcr shall we, be induced to change our positron if it should so happen that. he who did it should himself be a holder of some slavcs. But in such case nothin less thnn this will do to assure us of his sincerity."

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Signal of Liberty
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