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Whig National Economy

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
December
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The purser of asnip oí war receives a daily cornpensation of dezen dollars, or $3,500 a year. Of this sum Michigan paya her part. Our farmers now receive for thoir wheat on an average about thiriy three cents per bushel. Supposing this purser to be paid in wheat, h'e would receive ten thousand fivelmndred bushels of wheat every year.- Allowing itrequiree the labor ofone man to ra'iso 250 busliels, it follows, that forty two farmers are constan tly at work to pay the salary of a very inferior officer in the navy. Will the farmers think of this, andconsidcr how much they liave gained by Whig Reform? The salaries of the pursera are reduced according to tho size of the vessel, the purser of a sloop of war receiving $1500 a year, equa 1 to 4,500 bushels of wheat, which would require the labor of tighecn farmers.[EFThe Detroit Advertiser is tor continuin to enslavc those in the Federal District, who'are already slaves. We nre about asking our Legislature for the preparatory steps to an extensión af the right of sufirage to the colored population f this state. What say you, gentlemen, do yoa ipprove Uie nicasure? Pray, let ua know how our "czccïsicc" northern attachment will be nanifested ia this case. iCTThe Liberty vote in Maine is jrtatcd to be 1,230- last year about 1,700. CCrLiberty votes weregiven n every couny in New York except four. The highest v&s given in Oneida, being 622.ftJTlie Liberty vote of Genesee county a sairf to be nearly a hundred. The vote in Livingston for Representatives was for Daniel Cook, 53- for Isaac Smith, 51. The average vote in the County was L4. itOur citizens were entertnined for three evenings last week, by General Bennett, formerly of Nauvoo, who gave a detailed account of the city of the Latter Day Saints, its population, geographical position, thèextraordinary privileges conferred on the people by the Illinois Legislature, and the outlines of the Mormon government, civil, military, and religious. He detailed various instances of fraud, intemperance, licentiousness, murder and other crimes, which he alleged were perpetrated by Joseph Smith and his followers He was listcned to by very full houses.{Charles T. Torrey, the present Editor of the Tocsiri, at Albany, proposes to publiah on the first of Jannary, a daily Liberty paper to be called the Daily Patriot. The terms are $5 per year, or $3 for eix months, n advañce- Albany is an excellent location fora daily Liberty paper. Success to it.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News