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South Look Out!!!

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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McDuffie, Citlhoun, Clay, where are you? - The Democracy of the Norlh s turning traitor to your "institution," and recoinmending insurrection and murder to your slaves! Do you doubt it? Read the following fanatical piece from the Detroit Free Press which Í6 going the rounds: The Principt.e - The whigssay that thepeople of Rhode Islnnd have no reason to compldin of their old Chartor, bccause under it they hare been governed we.ll. We do not enqllire wheth(r the people have been governed well or not. - Are they permitted to goern themselves is ihe question. If their existing institutions deprive ihem of this power it is their duty to assume it. The "ight of self-government was the hi.ige on which ihe Revoluibn of '7(i turned, and it is the binh-right of the majority of the people of each of tile United S:ates. Ayc, here is the doctrine that will unhinge the Union: "Tie right of gover nment is the birthright of the MAJORITY cf the people in EACH of the United Stalcs." Whai can be nure "treasonable" than tiiis? It is worse than Giddings' resolutions. It tells the negro savages of South Carolina, Miesissippi, and L misiuna. where they are a majority, that they need notinquire whether they have been well governed or not, but only whether they have been permitted t'i g'.vzrw thcmscLves! "Il their exisiing insiitutions deprive them of this power, it is theik DUTY to ASSUM E it!" And they are pointed to the héroes of '76 for an example. This exceeds any thing Garrison ever wrotd Should the Editor of the Free Presago South, he would stand a good chance to be %'hung likea dog " We hope the Editor of the Cineinnaü Anti Abolitionist will enter his name on the list of fa naties, that the South may be aware of her enemies, und give them their The authoi of the abovc atrocious sentiments is John S. Bagg, of Detioit.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News