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The Christian Citizen

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
February
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Mr. Elibu Borritt,commonly known as the Learned Blacksmith, lias commenced a paper with this tille in Worcester, Mass. We havo not been favored with a copy, luit it is higíiíy spoken of by our cxcliang-es. It is devo led to Tcmperance, Anti Slavcry, Peace, and Seíf Cúltivafion.- We jncïgfc thftt this Blockm1tli s not a mero walking Diciionary of LanLunL-C!=, to bo consnlied orry by 'nntiqnarians, but be has nlso a dept!) of tliougJií. and feeüncr, uich w} jqc.alil him for abuudant usefu]neL9 in practical ü:"e. We extra,ct the followinsr sntence :A iicw yoíir s just' emerging frota !he threshhold f)f'Eíerniy; nn uncommorj ypnr a-year of illusnions novelty, to bereinembereí! forever ti the liistory of out race: a year of the ri_'lit hnti(J pf God, of luimamí v, and the trnspel of Gracc; when human freédom sh; I Itnnjrhiírfi hor bannerof hope and Ir.iumphjover the bnndmen of rhii? American Eoypí, mu evéry o;il0r Butilo of Slayery, as o rainbow ofheavenly prnmisi?,' Xhnt 'the dny of their re flemptimi is.niri! Oh ir s m honor, equtva lent to a heavenly knilühno', to )ive ai)d no áf I his 'crisis of our country nn! world. Wp ara jun entering upon Tfí'v. Iíkrotc Agrof I'mLA.vrnRojpuv; ivlien tlie Cüpnán of our Sul vatiuñyshaU ktaght wité "a nev namf," evory christinn ];ero who proes valumt i'or tniti ni! firedom. Chrisiinns, p-Unot, a fioiaí aBeldJ tlit? haflc-í.'!cund ís iho woríd. The bá'nneí wlüch led our. theario-els in briWit hrrny befure man v.tí mntle is over fho fceue of mrity conqucst, where deods nf línmortni rr.eríiory ore lo be dunc Ymir r.idei Wtííeféj the angels ' nnd .-atribules ol Uod are th.;re; he Gospel, wirh al] its m;icr_ iizines of prace, is ihere; ihe l;ivvs of niuure, mu the ileepest pvmpathies and necessities 5 the hnrnai) sou1 arr ihere; n)í alj are pressing to (he rescue í' faÜeu man'!1' LL? Northern men havo been quite incredulou's whcn w.é have told thcm of the rapid advance of aati-slavory principies. But we can sometimes present tan[ giblé evidence of the f-ict. Listen to C. Mv Clay's declaration in a fuil mcctino in Keniucky ín' the prcscnce of many laveholders; "I carc.not Cor hr p, -. ......rif.,jif! of thn past, I DECLARÉ TfíAT TOfígfe ÍS NO POWER IN THE FEDERAL CONSTITÜTION BY WlUCK A SLAVtí -STATli CAN BE ADWIT TEDINTO THLS UNION. Slavery CQ-nnot cxisL htjthe law of nature: itXOTEXÍSTRY ACT OF ÜONGRESS. SLiVCry did o.xist by the law of the soverei-n States, in -the íbrmatioii of the Constiiutioi),ihut so íar they retained their .sovereignty, denying it to that c.xtent to the creature of' their united will- [br if they vesled in Congress the power to make a 7V0' the they at the saïne timeyielded tho power to unmake him. If then, the Oongress can make a slave State, they can unmake a slave State; and if she has that power, it is her bounden cluty ijot to add new slávé States to the Union hut to purge it immediately of this fatal disease which threatens death to the liberties of the whole country. "Mr. Clay is endorsed by the N. Y. Tribune as a fírst rate Whig. What say his brother Whigsof Michigan to ihcse doctrines?

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Signal of Liberty
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