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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
September
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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r Some friends have icquested us to repub J Ni the vote by which all the freemen of th United Slates are gaggcd by their servans - Congress. The fullowing from an echaifg - paper contains the sum oí matter. The pa"r - ties may iry to shift the rcsponsibüily U)0 each other, when summoned before tiie people but iï bolones lo them both. If therc was " ■ Whig majnrity of more than forty i„ g I House,' it is obvious they could have eisil - voied down the Gag, ]iad they been so dispos" ■ ed. In this case it wül be seon the vote of th, t 14 Wlng SlavohoJJers estal lishedthe rule ' p Y'S?-- As yet the odmus Twenty-ii'rs Rule dj&racti the journaJs of Congress Z ■ rn -"'"c-acy'-Nonhem Democracyn 1. ' e ftlCi;t Pretsis. ba&b% abo.il therghtsofmacheatsiout of the mos S!S,,lhlS indis-D3'-b'e f%fct of petK! Tl)is 'odious Twentyíirst Rule' was adom ed by tlje ,aSt congress, wluéh Cong-S, ffi major üxj of more tlian oïy „ the H-n.se of Represéntate, when the 6ane rule was odopied- liegislcr. iesterday we could not place oUr hand on the yo e of the last scasion of Conrrress on resemdine („ot adopting') the Twenty-first Kule. We hnve the vote now before in. wlncl, we su bjpin No commont is necesary f the Nonhor Dcmocraoj can extort one ray of comfort from it, they are wc.come to The A vus werc- Whifr?, 3(5 Loco?, 5 Total, 77 NAVs-Whigs, i4 Locos, 79 Tol al, LonOíf fgfá FrecSlales vho voted nav, 45 Wbigs from Free Sirtes who voted niy. ÜO Wlngsfrom Slave Slaies who voted ave, 13 Locos from Siave Si ates wao voted aye, 00 !! i ërhaps the Rerrister may havn fomothin"to offer to iho foie-oin-r.- 'ew Bedford Bulletin. "

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News