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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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The news from this State continúes to be of the most cbeering character. Gerrit Smith is following up with energy the proect he hes nndertaken of' convërting the county of Madison to Liberty principies. In spite of the opposition of pro-slavery priests and poliliciaiis, and the clisapproval of scrupuous anti-elavery men, his meetings have been urgely altended, and are described by those present as orderly, solemn, and profitabloy conducted in every respect in a maoner befiting the Sabbath. In a letter to the Emanci pator, Sept.3o, Mr. Smith says: "You wiïl be happy to hcnr that Madison coiinly is sliJl the theatre of strenuous and hopeful anti-slavery effbrle. If we do not carry the county fnr the slave at the approachng election, it will be because two thousand otes aro insufficient for that piypose. I aporehend that our vote, to be successful, must exeeed 3,5oo. "I look lo Mnssachusetfs for ten thousand Liberty votes at the coming election. It willbe o .ving to guilty daünqi e: cy on the part of abolitionists, íf.the number be leas." Mr. Smitli has held a discussion with sevral clergymen at Syracuse, on the propriely of his lecturing on the Sabbath. The audience was large, and the discussion lasted til) a lale hour at night. At the recent anniversnry of the N. Y. A. S. Society, Gerrit Smilh proposed that a mon'ument be erected to the meni'-ry of Myron Holley, une vC the firt originutors of tlie Ll!?rty party. The resnhitions read thus: Resolved, Tliat Gerrit Smith be authnrized to erret the momiinent of a expense tf about #200; ana lliat the only testimony lo Mr Holly's worth whicli shall be incribed on it as follows: "Tlic Liberty Party ofthe United States of America have erected t his monument v.0 ihe memorv of ITSYRO HOIJEY, the friend of the elave, and the most effective as well as one of the very carliest ofthe friends of thnt Party" Resolved, That each member ofthe Libei ty Psrty have the privilege of conlributin one cent, no more, toward the expense of erectin? the monument: and that the said Gerrit Smith be aulhorized to appoint n person ín each of (he free States and free Territorie.=, whose dnty it shall be to gather the contributióna of his respective St:ite or Territory, and send the saine to him, the said Gerrit Smith.

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Signal of Liberty
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