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Barbarity Of The South: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Day
15
Month
August
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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The ficqiient atrocities committed in the slaveboWing portimi of the country aro vc!I known ;it the North, sacfa as Jynching, liangiiïg and bbrning live füpposed criminnis without trïaj, and cdvir act?, v.hich, ií' clone by nny other peoplo ihan our own countiympn, would bo (Joomcd rooil reasnns for reqardlng fc treatingthcin as barb;iri:ui3. Yct the peiple of this sectioii and of ihis diameter mie and govern the country through Uieir Representatives in Congres?, and the people ofthe JNorth quietly snbruit wiihimt resistance or reinonstrance. If thcy see fit tö usc the Nation's nnny to catch tiieir runaway negroos, it is (Jone at the expense of tfleJSforth; ifthey want bloodhonnds to as.=i.-t liic anny thoy are nurchased, and the dignified epectacle i.s p.eBdDted to the world of the U. S. army nssociatcd wiih a gang1 of b!oodhound3 pursinng and capturing Aar.erican bom citizens, wliohad taken refnge from elavery nmong the savages of Florida. Thsse proceedings, together with the Gag rule, against petitioES and the nntional eftorta to eustain the slave tradc on the High Seas, nnd many other thingg tliat might be narned, are undoubtodly contrary to the wishes and feelings of a large majority of the people; but 'the people havo masteri, and their master's will must be obey-t ed. Many of these men, who govern this naticn, are so lost to all respect for their own moral rectitude, and for the character ofthö nation, tliat 6ociety to do justice to itself ought to "spew them out" mmediately, and thereby save the nation from sinking lower in moral degradation. But instcad of pursuing the cnly safe course,vhcn they offer themselveá as candidatos for the ofiicers in the nation, the' peopie bestow upon them their euffrages as readily as if they u ere the worthiest men,forgetting that they are guihy of crimes for whichj as jurors, orjudges, they would readily condemn them to the State Prisod. Theso remarks are especially true as re-" garda Mr. Clay, the vvhig candidate for President. It is well known that he ia a professecl duclist, has fonght ono or more duels, was principal leader in gettir.g up the duel betweerl Cilley and Graves, and carne near fighting a duel with a Senator within a year or t vo past Now I have no doubt but every Northern whig voler would, if sittiog as juilge or juror in a case where a common man was being' tried for fighting or aiding in a duel, readily pronounce the sentence of the law against liim. How can they then consistently vote for a President of the United States, who is now, and has for many years, been guilty of Bupporting this practice by his exaraple? Besides, this Mr. Clay is known to be one of those men who buy, sell, and vvork without pay, hls fellow men, and is the open advocate' of slavery, thus wilfully and knowingly exerting his talent and influence to perpetúate upón milliona of his countrj'tnen the greatest evil which human nature is heir to; and of this fact I am willing each voter sbould be his own judge, putting himfelf in the place ofthö slave. Now ï appeal to every mari who has himself tasted tbe benefits of personal libeity, and ask him how he can, in ol edience to his moral obligations to Gud and his fellow men; givö his vote to elévate to the highest power in thd nation a man who is willing and desirous of robbing millions of liis fellow beings of all their liberty, of all íhey earn or can possibly obtain; a man ivhose known creed is ''that ia property which the law makes property," thongh it be yourself, your wife and child.- ■ Remember the creed - "that is property which the law makes property;" remember also, that the slaveholders say their elaves are betler oSt tlian the working people of the Nörtb. Consequently, according their creed they will be doing you a reat favor by" extending the law of property over you as soon as yon bestow upon them stifiicient power, and that you will soon doj by elévating them to the highest places of power in the Nation. The writer of this has no sympathy With the democratie party: he considera thern, asa partv, more subraissive to the 6lave power tban the whigs. Their greatest glory seems lo consist in being obedient to their masters;

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Signal of Liberty
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