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Third Congressional District

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
September
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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We continue to rcceivo the most encouraTing accounts from different counties in this District. Considerable accessions to our i icsiption list Jiavo been made from Calhoun, Kalumazoo, St. Joseph and Cass. Fil'teen ; Inindred copies of the Address of the nomi - nating Convention nre in circulation: nnd we lUiderslond that Me.-srs. Gnrney, Bement, and others will personally picad llie canse of human Líbeity before the, farmers of the West. In IÍIinojí, the Fourtn Congressionul District has given a Liberty vote of lL00 which they claim to be t!ie highest ccording to the population of ony District in il.e country. We tliink Michigan will beat tlrnl; and we look to the Third District to do .it. The following extract from a letter of a prominent Bnptist Clejrgyman will show thnt tlio cause of ihe slave is not forotïen by Ghrjsliqn?: "I have 'm my own mind most tindeniable ■ evidence lliat our cause is just, nnd its opponents nre the same nsthose of pure ehristinnitv. When svns there a reformation in the Church of any age or among nny people, that was not opposed by wickcd pi iests or ministère, and politicnl demngogues, and an ignorant commuity. In luany places tlie darkness is irrcat. Say any thing to some persons on the subject of emancipation, nnd they will at once expres3 their willingness that the poor Devils shpuld bc free, but they are ut once horror st riek en at the abolition movements. Tin Whi- llie Whiys, it isa plan of tho whigs, and the whigs were ail Tories and the only aim is to put down the pure old Democratie party. The spirit of truc Dcmocracy hos departed from that party as much as the spirit of christianity has departed from that old 'corrupt Clmrch of Rome. The very name eends fortli a eulphurous odor, and at once presentí? the idea of racks, flame?, and dungenns, licentiousness, nrïd all the blacker vices of the Man oF Sin. But othors are nfruid our country will be overrun with thej black dogs, and our wives and (knghter's daughters will be rnvislied in the-streef. Soaie have o much pity for the poor slaves that tlicy cannut bear tíie idea to have them all nt once set free, they wotilil starve to death v Hite there is here and there one that s under ! great conscienlious feelings for the owners, they botight them, and it is very unjn&t to take a man's properly without compensation, while others are overeóme with the thoughts of amalgamnlion. Now, my brother, you know thal it is necessary to have n great deal of patienceto deal with such horrid ignorance i and hypocrisy. But I trust that the arm of the Lord. will fight for as, and rond the va il, and lay open the hidden things of the wicked. I rrjoice thal that the cause is on the gain, and the best blood m Church and State is with us, and if tl:e great objret is not accomplishcd j in my day, I vvi'l glory in the thought that I am numbered with those who pray, preach and Votk for the destruction of slavery ." r-= a j - ,f„: - -i" " ' " Convención of London, consisting of four gentlemen from the United States,lately wait. ed on Louis Philip of Franco, with a respectfi;l request of that body, addressed to all the goverñments of Christendom, to cause a clause to be iiiíerfcd in all their treatie?, binding Ihecontractiiifr parties to submit their ! ferencesto orbitration instead of the sword. - The king received Ihom .very graciously; and said in reply: fIle had ever been pleaf-ed when urbitralion had lieen resorted to, as in the case bclween the United States and Mexico, and bet ween Knglftnd aud Americi. He said he confidently beheved .the time wo.uid come' wlien such references wou ld bo general, and when war ■■. il! bo u'niyersally banishcd from amoii": civilizad nations. War was" n great. en la mi Ly,. and thank God, added he very emphnticaüy, it oosts too much, and nations ennnot nffórdto play at the game. Napoleon, contmued ho," began his great wars with thiiiy five milüons ín it is treasury, but it was a (hop to the ocenn rp(]uired to carry on his vast operations.' He s-jid 'that thesontiment, or rather tlie principio, thal 'in ence you must prepare for war,' was eno of difficul'y nnd danger; for while he kepf armies on 'hand to preserve the peace, they are at war. He rejoiced in all cflbrts made to preserve peace, for that was what nll needed. Arbitraron might not al - ways be efiectual In preserving peace in the present state of the world, for the bad passions fif men may provpnt. and war ; ofun occasioned by sucii passioiis.' OLT3 We rnentioned some time sincc that Mr.Tyler had in view the consummation of a commercial treaty with EngJand upon the reciprocity system. This is to be'lhe distingumhing glory' of his administration. For its nccomplishmjcnf, Gen. Düff Grekn was sent to England to act ás ïhc exponent óf the Presidentprivate views;but he eeems to have met with rathern cold recep'.ion. n a late debate inthc'British Parliament, Sir Robeit Peel complained that the Americana had uot -met t'.ie recent reduction of the Engltsh Tariff by a corresponding spirit'; but they liad imposed a high Tariff, whicii had caueed-a falling off in the nmount ó' Britjsh exports U the United Statee. But there is reason,to beliijye our governmènt. will persevere in its attempu to perfect an arrangement rn the basis suggesled br Webster in his Baltimore speech, by which ctton, rice, tobáceo, and cofn, the products or the Slave States, may find an advantageous market, while the incalculable amount of wheat and pork ot the Norlhwesi ia to be left entirely out of the arrangement. i fCr" The QuarterlyHubscriptions will be received until nfter election. Send In-your jiame8and quartert.

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