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Liberty Conventions

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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In another column will be found a cali ,; for a Convëntion of the Liberty party ót Washtenaw and of the Second Senatom] Pist riet.' We trust th'at exertions will ba ' made to secure a fuíl delegat ion f rom cv- enj loicn. Senators, Representatives, and Üounty officérs are to be nominated, and efficiënt and vlgorous efforts should be made fcr' the advancemént of the Liberty cause. Let every man turn outJx■ ET The pressure of other matters has prventbd us from giving the details of the great YVeaturn floocl, which has produced immense ruin and Jistress. The Arkansns, White River, Red Rter, Missouri, and finally the Missistippi have risen to a heiglit almost unprecedented. ThO 'Alton Telcgraph says the dumagc is incalculable. On the Missouri, froin Westom to the mouth, ihe bottoms are generally inundated; the crops Jestroyed; the cattle, sheep, hogs, &c, drowned; and the inhabi.iants have been compelled to ibnndon their dvellings, many of.which hova ieen sweptuway, in order to take refuge ,on tht iiigh-londs, or on bteam or flat boats. Tlicsame is the case with the Mi.sissippi, tho Illinois, and their tributarie: and the whole of the great "American Bottom," from this point to Cairo, containing about 288.C0 ) acres of the fineat land ïn tho world, some of which is in a high state of cultivation, is believed to be under water, anti perhaps, ntarly ruinen'. (CTThe iVlexican Congress has refused to grtnlf to Santa Anna the $4,000,000 and 30,000 men ' which he asked for. Henee it is conjectured (hat no invasión of Texas will be attempied.O The Jackson Whig Gazette'ÍB becoming quite compliinentnry to Liberiy men. It ay { the leaders of the Aboütion party of thii coun-' (y, and State, are wily and close-calculating polrhician3."' By the way, is not the Gazette afroid (hat'the Whigsin Jackson county wilt come out 'the thirtl party" next fall? Lnst yenr the Toté was about 1.100 Dimocrats, 650 Whigs; nd 400 Liberty men. Rather a dangerous po8tion,neighbur, when surrounded by "wily and close calcu-jationg politicians"! 2 fl6 The Liberty Association of " gor adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That the reeent ' (" ment of Charles T. Torrey, in the jail at Baltimore on the charge of stealing negroes (or aiding sla v es to", escape fröni', bondage) in the States óf Virginia 'an'd ' Maryland, excites the utíer abhorrence of the Liberty men of Bangor, wfaèiher the charge be truc or fulse; sinee.every man has an inalienable right hfè own person, and he does nothing more than perform a solemn duty who aids,' at any time, and in any place, any person eseaping frotri the foül böndaige of aU rery

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Signal of Liberty
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