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The Wilmot Proviso

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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We find in the Tiue Wesleyan the following resolutiun, adopted latelv at an anti-slavery meeting in New York. We notice th.it a similar doctrine has appoared in some of the Cincinnati papers. - The resolution is a condensed argument. Read it and consider it : "Resolved, That we consider the Wilmot Proviso as asserting a fundamental principie, which tho nation is bound bv every consideraron of right, interest and policy, to adopt and cnrry out ; vet we do not regard its passage as necess.try to excludeslavery frnm any territory which may be attached from Mexico to the U. States ; that ns slavery is now unlawful, and has no existence in said territory, and as the common law proliibits slavery wherever it is not restricted in its operations by local legislation, and as slavery can exist only by local legislation wiihin the limits of its own jmisdiction, and not bevond, and as the present existing slaveliolding States cannot give existence to slavery bevond their own speciñc jurisdiction, nnd as Congress has no power to créale slavery, neither in the Staies nor national territory, siich territory being received as free territory, must remain forever free under the operation of the common law." (L? Mr. W. S. Saunders of this place is agent for the Health Insurance Company, of Essex Co., Mnssachusetts. VVe noticed the plan of this Company some weeks since. The best method of providing against sickness, however, is to preserve the health with much care : the next best is to nsure one's self bv laying by a small sum while in healtli, to bo kept in the hands of the insured, to defray the expenses of sickness : the third best is to get insured in this or some other good company. Any plan of frugality is better than entire improvidence. Mr. Saunders is also agent for the Nautilus Mutual Life Insurance Company, located in New York city. {L? We liave received from the publishcr, Bela Marsh, 25, Cornhiil, Boston, a copy of Spooner's workon the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Part Second. Cheap Edition : price 25 cents. It contains 281 pages. We have not vet had time to read it. CC The Phrenologicnl Journal for October contains a likeness and character of Nicholas, Emperor of Russia. The character is drawn in strains of exalted eulogy, far bevond what we should suppose to be due to the merits of the Russian despot.

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Signal of Liberty
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