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Mr. Birney's Anti-Texas Letter

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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- jl no euuui ui ine ín. i. neraia in noticing this alle production and its position of 'eternal, uncompromising, unchang.v sle opposition to the annexation of new Slave tërritonf - a position which no other candidate, for the Presidency has taken, remarks: 'This is the position of the 'Liberty Party' who expect to poll from 100,000 to 150,000 votes at the next election; and the Texas question, from the peculiar position in which h is placed, and the qualijled ground occupied by Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren will certainly:ncrease tae aDonuon voie. - jxcnangu Paper. Üj' The number killed in the late riot at Philadelphia is stated at 14- the woimded, 39. The loss was chieñy orí' the part of the Native Americans. The attack is said to have been commeneed by the foreigners: but the ferocity of the American party in resorting to arms and burning dweilings and churches was ccrtainly not behind that of the opponents. ( Hon. Mr. Graves, the murderer of Cilley, has lately addressed large bodíes of Whigs in Philadelphia. What an advocóte for Frelinghuysen! CTIn the case of Gov. Dorr, of Rhodö' Island. application has been made for a new trial. The application will be decided upon in June. ff? -In the Baltimore Whig Convention, the vote of the thirteen Slave States stood thus: Fülmore JDavis Frelinghuysen 3 7 103 The delegates from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, and Virginia, through which Mr. Clay had reoently passed, voted unanimously for Frelinghuysen. Eleven slave States did not give either Fillmore or Davis a singla vote! The thirteen free States gave a majority against Frelinghuysen of 58. (t? The receipts for the New York Custom House, for the first four months of 1843 were $3,010,125. For the same months ia 1844, $7,627,351.

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