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For The Signal Of Liberty

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Day
6
Month
February
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mbssbs. Editors:- A long time has ensued fi'nce elecaon, nnd we of Lena wee county have neglectcd as yet togiveyou any account of it. Neglieence apd iJie want of time have probiibly prevented writing sooner. Notwithstnnding tiie length of time since. I presume the frieuds in other parts are solicitous to hear funv we are getiing long in Lenawee. Otir laat eleetjon, as ia wc!l known, waa not one which served lo excite and cali oul the energies of ei her party, olthougli the friends witfiiu my circle of' acquaintance most genprnlly eanw out to elcction. The last day beisg somewliat unpleasent preventec! maay from atteuding1. Ourvotein tliis county was not as lurgena vns anticipated by some, but I lliink we did pretty wetteunsidering; the embarrassmenru nnder whictr we had1 to labor, considering ulso how recently oor party was orgnnized, and the email vote which we had last year. Our vote last yenr was only fort y eight, this year one hundred andfifty two. I noticed in the Signil that you had put us down one hundred nnd forty two; tbat was a mistoke, made by the Watch Tower. I think that we mav indeed toke courage and if possible try and doublé our vote another yeor, all that is wanting is proper and efficiënt nction by every one who feels an interest in the cause of the oppressed. I feel eomevvh'at encüurnged to think thfit the people as ei;eral thing begin to4üsten more attentivcfy than they did, to the discussion of our principies. If'Iam righlly infonned, the greatest obstacl which our foreign rnissionartes have to surmount is to get the people to hcar. After that difficulty is overeóme a very -great share of the work' ís supposed to be accompliehed, I lliHk that tlie same principie might be apped vrilh propriety to our causo. But a very faw year snree ue could scaicely get a man, womaff or cliiW to hear an antislnvn-y lecture. I ffnd in tbis section of late, that we do not have imich tröuble in getting out a very reapectaMe autiience - I also find thegreat secret of our 6uccess is to keep the matter constantly before the people. If the 6iibject is properiy hnndled, it ceriainly cannot loose any thing- it being fo thoroughly rooted in justice, that nothing can ever eöace it.I presume when we come (o ha?e our congrcssipnal ctection, that our vote will be much Inrger on the necoum that it will tena more dircclly to effect the object which we have in view. The queeti.m is not unfreqiiently asked by many of intelligence how are yon going to effect your object if yon get a majority in the Stnte: we think if we get a mnjorily in our State, we will stand a cood chance to get a majonty in some others. This fact I think has been sufliciently verified by the sticcess which other states have .had. The inïelli- gence which we have received from the castern and middle portion of our union, enncerning the success of our cause istruly cratifying. Some of the:n have thus fnr exceeded our most sanguine expectativa. Ohio has indeed done niost nobly. Michigan is not far behind in proporiion to her number of innabitanta. Whcn we take a reírosprctive view of the past and look no fcrther back han 1840, we find that our numhers were but few and scattering to vvhat they are now. If our numbers increasens rapidly for two years to coni?, or in the eame ratio, what must be our vote in 1844? I think it will be si:ch a one as will amply repoy the exertions which are bfing made by those who feel an interest in thn cause of the oppressed. I regret there were some ín this BLctir:n who beforee!ection professed to be thorougli going Liberty party men, when they, cnme to ths ballot box, vn:ed the whole loco foco or whig ticket. This J3 no moie than what we shoulf] expecf, our party being made up of other partie both whig and loco, all having their prejudicos in favor of the party to which they formerly belonged.rariy lies, as we oro awarr, are apt to be very strong-. It is indeed very hard for oiie to declare oíf 11 allrginnce to the party with which he has long acted. It will be sometime before he will get rid of all the prejudj ces which have been suffered to exist in his miiid.m favor of his oíd party. Snch are the ingredients of which our party is composed. It is the businesp, thcn, or ourht to be, of ihose who have become tlio roughly wenned, or loosened from oíd party ttes, to try as fast as possible to cement the feeling's of thuse belorging to the party to

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Signal of Liberty
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