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Delaware

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
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We have just receivftd " The Delaware Abolitionist, " an nbly ediied and spiriteil anü-slavery paper, devoted to Emancipation in Delaware. Liberty men are doing a great worjc. Already papers are starting up one after another in the Slave States. From what has been, we may see what can be effected through the instrumentaüty of tlie Liberty press of the Northern States: - Let us not be discoureged,but labor on with rene wed energy. The first number contains many valueble articles, only one of which we can give our readers: - Emancipator. "The population of Delaware is now about 83,000, ar.d is made up of slaves aboul 2,000 in number, 3,000 free colo red people, 800 slaveholders, who, together with their families and all others interested in the continuation of slavery, will amount to, say 4,000, leaving a balance of 74,000, who have no interest in its continuance,whosö interest in truth is in its down-fall; being in the proportion of eighteen, whose interests are sacrificed, to maintain' the fancied interests of one. ís this republican? Is this democratie ? Is this the result of legisluting for the greatest good of ihe greatest numberi - VVhy should a body so small control all other interests, and shape the lawsto suit ilself, at the expense -of the mass? Is it because of the clamor which has been raised about "vested rights" nd "peculiar institution?" The doy has gone by when dust can be thrown in the eyes of the intelligent masses, by uttering these stale cries. This is a country in which the majority has the right to govern : more especially has so overvhelming a majority of freedom as has been shown to exist in the State, the right to declare that their interests, and the prosperity of the State, shall no longerbe sacrificecï to uphold this eternal dead weight to all improvement. VVhy, look at the subject. Let us take one interest nlonc, the landed interest of the State. We have 1,465,800 acres ntersected by navigable stronms, more convenierit to market, of a better quality of soil nalurally, than the adjoining parts of l'ennsylvania; yet bringing an average price of not' more than one third of these Pennsylvania lands,for no other reason Ihan that ours is impoverished by slave-labor tillage - the Pennsylvanian enrichcd by freelabor." !Lƒ" The Liberty vote in Frar.klin, Lenawee Cojnly, at the last election, was 36.