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Progress In The South

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Day
8
Month
April
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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In many parts of tho South our causa is assuming a bold and decided attitude. In Delaware a Convention met last week, and made arrangements for efficiënt action against the. remnants of slavery in that State - men are embarked in it who will never sleep nor tire. In Makyt.and it ishighly probable that a similar movement will be made, before summer. The Baltimore Saturday Visitor (a large, and well established literary paper, $2,00 a year, which many of our wealthy abolitionists ought to take) may be deemed the organ of Maryland and Virginia abolitionism. It is as deci ded an abolition paper as the Patriot.- ' And what is better', I have good authority for saying thatitscoursemeets theapprobation of most of its large circle of subscri oers, including many slaveholders. In Virginia, in five or six counties, quite distant from each other, there will be a good number of votes for Birney and Morris; and Abolitionism may be considered as organized for future and efficiënt action. In Kentucky, the movement for freedom is daily assuming a more and more decided character. Cassius M. Clay, whose name will soon be found worthy tobe associated with that of the honored James G. Birney, is not without a host of ardent friends and co-laborers. There are not wanting indications of effort in Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiann,. Florida and North Carolina. A large slaveholder in Wake county has recently decided to emancípate his slaves, from a conviction of the sinfulness of the relation he held to them. A female of the Society of Friends has been preaching extensively in this State against slavery, within a few months past, and has been well receivedand done much good. In a word, we may consider the antislavery movement as having assuraed an organized form in five of the slave States, and as rapidly approaching the samo po sition in at least four more - Day is Dawning!C. T. T. 07a" The indignation of the civilized world can make itself feit even in South Carolina. The Governor of this State has commuted the senteo.ee of Jokn Lv Brown, who was condemned to be huug for helping a woman to escape frovn slavo. ry, to thirly lasies on the bare hack"- rhis commutation was undoubtedly secuved by "a decent respect for the opinïons of mankind." The infamy of such , an execution would have secured a united voice of reprobation fom every Christian

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Signal of Liberty
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