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What Is Your Position?

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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- We haveen liad occosion to spéíik ofbolhthe greál solitical parties as pro-siavery. To this charge tfiey have re? pectively picad notl ing. We supposed that ihe DeniocraUs were so far wedded to Van Buren's system of serviiity tu llyo siavholders that they would be lost lo ali 6tMi.se of'stisune on ihat, subject, and would be perfcctly content to endure the igópnmíy, provided they cou'.d, at the same tuné, pooses me spons, 'l'iie rcsull shows we wcre correct.Bat we did think the whigs had some iingering fcfclings of ehume, which would lcad theirt osiensibly to avow tliemselves in favor of liberty, although they might be slill endeavoring to reach the possession of ihe government by a compromiso wiih siavery. But we liave not yet been a'ulc (o gel iliem lo muke any declaration on the subject. We riow iiuend lo propound the iriqbiri.es to thetn once more, und ask liiem lo answer in somf. way. The greut poini tor which the Liberty parly contend are well known by our wliig Vicruls. On these poiut?, gentlemen Vhigs, we ask you, are you in favor oí icm, or opposci! to thenrr? Are you Anti siavery, Pito-slavery, or neutral? Onc of ihese threo you m;ist bo. Wiil you venture to onswer, or do you (hink it ia best to be silent?