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The Slaveholders's Policy: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
February
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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- - The policy of ihe slaveholding States of ihis union, is widely different from tlint of the States in which slavery is not lóllrated. By thcirunity, perseverenee, and efi'rocitery, the 250,000 akivcholderd have obtained, and continue to hold the ascendency of political power, in the whole nation. We may learn the principies of the slaveholders from iheir practice. They exercise themosl outragemia tyranny over ihe free colored people at thö South. - They deprive their slaves of the posses sion of every right, and they have sought to make encrouchments uon the righta of free laborera at! over the Union. Indeed, the progresa they have made,should exciie alarm and indignation in the breast of every freemen in the land. It sefiini unreasunable to suppose ihat slaveholding principies phould recogniz the riht of laborcrs to possess any ehare in the administration of the government, md llioir acliuns and even profession?, show that they aro utterly opposed tp such a feature of legialiUion. The leading trait in their aystéta of policy, as avovved Ity their moít prominent státesmeo, is, that all laborers ought to he üavea. Gov. M' 3'jffie, a distiiiguishecJ slaveholder, said that the North would be dnven to the adoption of the slave sysfo.m in less tlian twent)'-fivc ycars. Slaveholders avow il as a desira ble oljcct to reduce society into two classes - the capitalist and the laboier - in othcr word-, ihe master and the slave and thus bnn abuut a uniform pysteíjof labor thropih Üie union. Tueir feeling on tliis subject is manife?t fiom their uüür contempt of all títiárers - iheïaircd and malignity rfiahifested by some of Ibem lowards all friends of emancipaon, and the reckless course they have aken in depriving northern free laborera )f tlie riyht of peiilion, fr be it rcmem)ered Ihat Southern pe;itifins are always receivedl When was one ever denied a eception? ir it be truc, then, that they have in hese ways avowod themselves most unequivocally to be the enemys of frecdom, should not every lover of !ibt;rly pet hunseliat work to counteract their wickcd design?? If freedom and slavery are warring ibr supremac)-, ehould we not mmediaiely lake sidea n the contest? The war will not always con'.inue - the one or the o'her wiil oome nflT viclorious. Freeman of Michigan! which shall gain the victory?