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Lieut. Governor Reed

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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This gentleman, in an article in the Detroit Advertiser, has denied the statement attributed to him by our Detroit correspondent, that the vote of Massachusetts vrould be given for Mr. Birney. - The e.xplanation we have received is this: a gentleman in Mr. McFarran's store, conversing aloud to two persons in it, said that the vote of his State this year would be Abolition - last year it . had gone Whig; and this year, as the Democrats had palpably no chance, they would unite vvith the Abolutionists and defeat the Whigs, and thus would carry the State for Birney. The speaker was announced to Mr. McF. to be Lieut. Gov. Reed, of Massachusetts. Soon after a friend of Mr. McFarren's carne in, and also stated that Lieut. Gov. Reed had elsewhere made a like statement. Public report thus seeming to corrobórate the iact, Mr. McF. mentioned t as true to different individuals. The denial of Lieut. Governor Reed, however, shows that the statement originated in error. We are careful as to the correctness of the statements which origínate in our paper; and we did not admit this communication until we were assured by a gentleman of Detroit of the very highest respectability, that the statement attributed to Lieut. Gov. Reed, was a matter of public notoriety - that it had been repeatedly made by him, and was undeniable.

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