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Slavery Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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There isa strong tendoncy id the present nge to associiUion, frotn tl:c faü.ige dcbiiling club to a Convention of tho World. Cmnbi nntiona exist for nenrly every pnrjOJsr, whethcr go-)d or cv il. A Woild's Anti-s-Iaverv Convention meets at London ncxt innntn to (l.'Jibcrate on mcaeuroe for the fxtcrmin.it ion ofslavery frmi tlie carth; while a cali is issued for ft grand Slnvery Convention, to moet in New Orlcand in September or October.- The document cencertiing this pnyect re Mil)lisliod in l.e Cowirr dtt l'Uals Unís, u Frunch paper in New Vork. Our readers re nware that the Frrnch Governnieut have for fiometime had under considerotion a plan for the nbolifion of slavcry in the French West India isUpdfl The slaveholders aro bilterly ofipocd to cmancipation. Tlie delégale from Vfnriiiiiqiie to ihe Frfuch Cimmber of Deputics, A Ji'Jüvel, writeo from Vari?, 'in a short time (Hesites chosen from omong thu most nfluenfial inhtbi?ftnt8 of MftrtlrrtqneandOÓwealoupe, will visit the Southern Siales of the Union and tlie Spanish Islands to arrange the basis of ft common drfenct.' Ue bays thnt tho Fiench Colonies have just rejected urianimously the propositions for emancipation made by the Home governmen', and they wil begreally strenr;ihened in thnir opposition by tlie countenance and support of our Southcin Slttve Statee; and as their cause is common he urges the necessity of a concert of action. We do not au'icipate any thing very Eeri-is from this movement, siipgosing it ehould be perfectcd. What "coninion defence" can slavcholders mnke apainst advancing light nd truth? No systcm of meaeures can be perfected or eustained without a concert of action; nnd that will necessarily involve ditcnssion,whicH will infallibly has:en tlieovertbrow of the whole system. The holdcrs of shve are u fimoIJ minority of tho popnlation of the South. Tliey hold their power by mere sufferance. Like the wiihes which bound Sampson, the power of Iheir oppressor? will become perfect wcakness thé moment it is resisted. The Bufialo Patriot has a notice of these facts, and sujrgests that the scheuie of ?muggling Texas into the Union noxt winter may be concocting in conjunction with this project. The Patriot, according to the enstom of the Clay papers, represents nine-tenths of the North es oppnsed to slavery, and declaies that "any orgimizcd cöbrts of this kii:d to perpetúate it, or still further to extend it, wotild rouse them as one man against the system." What! rouee them against a syslem which Mr. Clny says hns been -sanct{fied"' for two hundred years? The Patriot is nlso ind'ignant aljoreign interfcrencc- whether of "itinerant lecturers" upon abolition or slavery. The anicle conchuics with Uie following declaration: "The Norih hns borne with uno.xampled pntience and forbearance the taunis, the yers, and insultó and ontruges of the South, nnd it has consented, time and ngain, lo the adoption of a line of policy directly hostile to its own interest, simply bccause it favored the 'peculiar inslitulion' of the South." Yet the Wliir pnpers, which thus acknowledge the subjection of the Northern Statep, are fierce fnr a slavebreeding President, and of course for an administration "directly hostile to the interests" of the North. And they declaim wilh cloqupnco against thp obstinacy of those who believe the enme truths, and yet refuse to follow them in their inconsistent action. (Lƒ The Democratie party have on excelloirt method of allowing the largest liberty to all their party in supporting Presidentml candiratep, and yet preserving their national uaanimity at t!ie polls. Tliey prrmit coeh section to noninate its own favorite candidate, onl y subject in every case to the decisión of a National Oonvention. In this way the vnnity of the various aspiranis isgrntified by hnvmg; their claims presented before the public, whilo the different portions of the party are pleased with an opportunity of avowinj their preferenecs. Bnt after the national decisión is made, every voter must wnlk op in the troces, nnd 6tislain the successful candidnte. After the elecüon, the same game mny be played over again. This system tends to preserve discipline, and yet keep all good-natured. It operates well. The Whigs are aware of this, and 6eem determined to bow dissenlions between the different factions. CC Jt will be seen by the proceedings thot our friends of the Second Congressional District have had a spirited meeting at ünion City. The Second District will givo the largest Liberty vote of tbc ihree.

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