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Day
30
Month
January
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Houso of Representativos could not eiect a speaker at fotir trials. At the fourth ballot, the rcsult was as followe. Whole number ensr, 350 Neceisnry for a clioicr, J76 Seth J. Thomas, (Dera ) 175 Thomas Kinnicut, (Whig) 172 Daniel P. King, (A.) 8 Af ter Ihc rcsult was declar ed, Mr. Kinnicutt, aulhor of ihe Clay resolutions, the Boston aristocracy candidnte, witlidrew his nnme. Mr. Thomas, tho J)emocratic candidate, 6aid he did not decline. The fift'i ballot was then ordered, and reeuhed thua: Whole number of vote.-, 5th ballot, S51 Necessnry to a choice, 176 Daniel P. King, (Abolition) jq Lewis Williams, (Lib. Party Abolition) 172 Seth J. Thomas, (Dcm.) Thus it will fee seen both Whigs and Democrats forsook thrir own candidated, and united on abolitionio-ts. Wecnnnot pretend to explain thisstiddensoi.icreet, eicept each pnrty hnped for abolition Votes euougii to turn the peale. Mr. King the present epeaker, a a Whigabolitionist, and has acted and voted as astraigbtout abtjlifionif, in both branches of tlie Lpgislature, for yearp. Mr. Williams was nominated as a Liberty party min, and eleotcd by the votes ofn portion of theDemocratsat tho second trial for Representatives. Thus we see that under the New England systenj of electingr officers, the people must soon do one of these thrco things; elect Liberty men, go without any officero, or alter their consticufions. We see also that the presRure opérales equally on both partios. OA notice oflhe Calhoun County Meeting on the SOth was not received in eeaaon for last weeks paper. lGHon. Marco Morton has been eJected Gavernor of Masoacbuscttf,

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Signal of Liberty
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