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Signs Of Life

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The General Conference now sitting ín New York have confirmed the decisión of the Baltimore Annual Conference, by a large majority, ín the case of Francis A. Harding, one of the ministers, who for having married a woman owning slaves, was required by his Conference to libérate them by a giventime, and baving refused to do so, was suspended froun the ministry, and to remain so till the decisión of the Conference should be complied with. The jslaveholders fought on the naked question thai slavery, practical south&rn slavery is right. They trim raed the go-betveens without merey: denying the silly proposition that slavery is wrong in the abstract, but right under certain circumstances. We are glad they did Ihis. The conservatives deserved the dressing the slaveholders gave them. - Alb. Patriot. Ü?3 The Legislature of Maine was petitioned last winter for the passage o laws prohibiting the use of State jails to slave catchers, and prohibiting State mag istrates from aiding in the arrest or de tention of persons claimed as fugitive slaves. The Kennebcck Journal, a lead ing Whig paper of that State, approves the prayer of the petitioners, but thinks that such legislation was unnecessary be cause popular sentiment was so strong against slavery that fugitive slaves were in no danger of having injustice done them.

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Signal of Liberty
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