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The Gag Renewed

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Il will bc ecen by the proceedings of Congress, that the Gag has been temporariJy renewpd, witli some prospect of iis ado,ted for tuo ycars 10 cóme. We have not yet rcceived tho proceedings in full. We have official evider.ce, however, ihat we are aiibjtcted to a Gag, by a letter frota Hon J M Hoirard, dated Washington. Dec. 16; informijng us that th; petitions of some fifty legal voters of Woshlenaw Couniy, for the Abolition oflavery in FJoridaand the Fedeinl Disirict, were kot receivkd. oning lo the pro!'.bitioncontained intheülst rule of , ihe House.Whoamjng us wiil now deny that the slavc power governs the nation? It says that the peliiions of fifi y freo cleclors of this County sfiall nol be received by üm House. Has tlie Whig party withstood thia insolence? Has the Democratie? Has not every Gag forsix years bee-nestablished by Wliig and Democratie votes! And if the Whig and Democratie nitmbers of Conorcss crOw the people, do we not need a Liberty party to withstand them both?(CfWtí would suggOEl to our l'riends the propriety of uaintr their personal influence with the members of the Legislature in refenco to the objects of thé Liberty party. Tliey aro raen, and our neiglibors, and are nflucnced by thc same motives that opérate on olíier people. VVe venlure to say also, vith all dcferencfi to the honorable gentle-. men, that hoivever intelligent they may beon other subjects, on ihis subject neorly all ofthem are uninformcd, wliilc ot a few of them are well o'isposed towards our objects ns faros they understand them, and would bc glad to know more ofthem. By communicatinffwith them, by vvriting oc cpnversation, yon may be able to remove their prejudices, and enlarge their views, and thtis benefit the cause oí' the slave.