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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Liberty cause seems to be flourishing largclyin this State. Mr. Birney has addressed meetings in Boston, Cambridge, Lynn, Worcester, Lowell and Haverhill. "These meetings have been f uil and gloriöusly good. They have drawn out men and women by hundreds, who have never before given their attention to the claims of the slave. We had before some faith both in the speaker and the trictJi which always comes with its own peculiar power from his lips; but our faith was altogether too weak. We therefore now cali upon our friends, in a louder and more confident tone, to rally for the meetings yet to'take place. You may believe it or not, friends, the tide has turned, bur bark is afloat,and is moving onward to the victory." Mr. Birney will attend meetings at East Abington, Hollistoñ,Roxbury,Taunton, Northhampton. and Pittsfield. J. G. Whittier, the mblehea;ted man and poet. is a Liberty candidate for Congress from one of the vacant Distncis. The following cliarges are enumerated against him, which, it is said, are to prove him an enemy to the church and dergy. How do they compare with thoso we alieged as disqualificalions in Mr. Howard? I. ThntMr. Whittier isa Quaker. 2nd. That he says thee and thou and wears a plain coaf. 3rd. That he does not believe Slaveholding one of the Christian gracea. 4tb. That he makes no secret of his opinión - that it is almost ae bad to 6Leal a man, body and sou], as to steal a horsc. 5th. That without undertaking to decide for oïhere, he is ratlier of the opinión, that any church which holds fellowship with o churcli of horse stealers, is in somewliatsuspicious company. éth. That he considers it a matter of perfect indifference whether those who habïtually viólate all the commands of the docalogue, are Calholic or ProteBlant, Orthodox or Hetorodox."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News