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No Claim On Us

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Liberty men contend, with Cassius M. Clay, that the violationofthe fundamental principies of Republicanism and Christinnity by holding slaves, is a sufficient ground for refusing our suffrages for Presidential candidates who are slaveholders. But suppose we concede all that our opponenfs claim. Suppose we concede that the slaveholders, as a class, should have the Presidential office their just proportion of the time, how soon would abolitionists, according lo this rule be called opon to vote for another slaveholding candidate? Wouïd it be at the next election? Let us see: The whole number of voters at the last Presidential election was 2.409,437. The slaveholders namber about 250.000, or nearly one tenth of the whole. Consequently, they should hold the office one tenth part of the time. Have they had their proportion? How stands the case? The Slaveholders will have possessed' the Presidential office 44 years at the expiration of Tyler's term, and the Non-slaveholders 12 years. A little calculation will show that the Nonslaveholders should have the Presidency just tkree hundred and eighty-two years to make up their lost time, and then they may be properly called upon to vote for a staveholding candidate. We guess they will be scarce beíore that time.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News