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Liberty Principles

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
April
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Cincinnati Morning Herald concludes a well written article in review of an anti-Texas Speech, by Mr. Greene, with the following enunciation of principies held by the Liberty Party. "The Constitution was ordained to establish justice. It no where recognizes the right of Congress to establish or continue Slavery. Within the exclasive ju-, risdiction of the General Government, slavery cannot exist, except as a positiveusurpation. When Louisiana and Florida passed within this jurisdïction, their local laws ceased, and the slave becamefree. Cengress had power to re-enact or continue any or all of those laws whicb did not conflict with the Constitution - but no other. The law of Slavery did so conflict. There was no grant of power to Congress to enact it. The preamble of the Constitution forbade it; as did also the 5th article of Amendments. Therefore, there is no slavery in Florida or Louisiana, or the States formed out of the latter, but such as exists in violation of the Federal Constitution. For the same reason, the annexation óf Texas would be the death of slavery, there. Every fetter would be snapped asunder, every slave would rise up, a free man, ly ihatsimple act. These are our principies - simple,clearj comprehensive, conclusive."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News