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The New York Whigs

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Day
5
Month
August
Year
1844
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Gov. Seward and Millard Fillmore, in New York are mak ing anii-slavery speeches in various places to immense congregations of Whigs Gov. Seward reeen tly addressed mnny thousnnds at Syracuse, and afier a long anii-slavery dscourse, he nssurcd the Abolitionists they migln as well cast iheir suflrages in(o Onondaga lake. as to besiow thein for Mr. Birncyl In a repea! meeting at Utica he snid (hat the repenl cause "involved more benefit and more of hope for the human race than any other cause, which now engages the atiention of the civilized world, czcejyt one, and thul is the emanápation" of Ütc inslaced. Mr. Fillinore'a aniislavery speeches on several oecnsions in reference to Texae are said to have made a strong impression. On. one occasion, he produced the statistics showing how many Pr&sidents and Vice Presidents have been southern men. Heinfonned his hearersthat this immense inequality wasowing to the influence of slavery. How this fact would induce them to vote for nnother Southern Slaveho'der, and increase iheir proportion to 48 years to our 12, does not appear. .wsow These n rguments and references to the power of' the slaveholders show how sirong is the ant'ishvery teeling of the people: or. at least, it shows how strong the speakers supposed it to be. How well they will succeed in convincing the people of the Free States that the best way to desiroy ihis Slave Pu-er u lo vote for a slaveholtler as chief admiiiistrator of the Government, reniains to be seen. However, we hipe they will continue to discuss the great evil of slavery in every way. We have no fears that the people will he at a losshow to remove it. Where tbere is a will, there is a toay.Gen. Waddy Thompson, of S. Caroli na, is as good a Whig as Millard Fill more, or Gov. Seward. A letter of his on Annexation has recently appeared in the National Jntelligencer, in which he takes ground against Annexation, because it will be prejudicial to the inter ests of sjavery, which he seems to think should be paramount to all other considerations. Mr. Barrow, Whig Senator from Louisiana, has taken grounds against Annexation similar to those advanced by General Thompson. The following is an'extrajpt from Gen. Thompson's letter: "I believe that slavery is IN NO SENSE ÁNEVIL, that the African is not only more contented and happy, enjoys more physical comfort, and is more moral, religious, and virtuous in the condition of domestic slavery, than in nny other, but I do most confidently believe that the only alternative of that condition is vice, idleness, and debauchery, ultimately leading to barbarism." "I ara firmly persuaded that the CERTAIN AND INEVITABLE TENDENCIES of the annexntionof Texas are to promote THE AB0LIT10N OF SLAVERY; more so, indeed, than any other measure which has heretofore been proposed. Nor am I without support in this opinión from distinguished advocates of the measure."HF O. A. Buwe Esq , was fornierly Editor of tiie Herkimer Journa!, an able Whig paper. - Mr. Bowe relinquished the chnrgeof that paper, because he could not congoientipusly advoca' e ílenry Clay for the Presidency. Since then. ,he has coinmenced a Liberty paper by ihe appellntion of the Herkimer fVeeman. He goes to Diknky and Stxwart. I not tliis accession to us a fair counterpoise io the loss(f) of Mr. Burchard? The Freeman is tho fifth Liberty paper in Nuw Yurk. O A írieiid writes us from Lima, Ja. July 15: "Wehad a.very respcctablegatheringof warm liearted Liberty men. This is the second. eflürt oí Libeity nien in UiLj Coun y. and wc hopo to bhovr n goot) Last year a majoriiy werc _dieposed to question and scatter their votes umong trie Pro alavery Panies. The eiperience though dear bought has proved a cure,(os they had oeen umely advised) and a general rally to our jirinciples is the résult. Lngrarfge Couniy wiil redeem heisell this year, notwithstanding the. Syren Song of Clay an'd anii-Tcxas. I Would adel :ny tesiimony. that I do not know ol' a oingkLibcrty man that will vote for Cl'iy upon the vain iiop'6 that lie will oppose Texas."O3 Thero s no news o( iniportnnce f rom Nauvoo. The Mornion paper has published on acount of the deuih of the Prophet antl bis broiher 1 1 was supposed, from lecent indications that the -Ylornions would rally under a nevv leader - psruups under Riilon. IT The notice of the Fair of the Colored Femnle Bcnevolent Aesociation of Detroit, was iccidenialty mislaid till it was too late to publieh iu Bm.NEY ia,THfs Mar!, Read the, arttclc on the firal page with thia ti tle. It 9 frorn the Emancipator, and , containa spme thougbts which cannot fuil to arrest the attomion of thick'mg men.' Tbe question is oden asked why ministers of ihe Gospel bo generally are opposed lo tho Liberty party. Perhaps the following may serv to answer ihe abovc question. Iu conversaron wnh an aged minister not long since, the following queation was asked hitu:- . Qi.es. Why do you refuse to act with the Lib eny pnrty - are not our principies the principies of justice? Ans. Yes; and let a few more of our first men join you, and I will go wiih you. How far ilis feeling prevails I will not undcrtake to determine, but 1 fenr it is too prevalent. - Emancipntor. Cati there be u churcli without a bishop? Most certainly thero can. Stop their pay, and you will see plenty of cliurches without a buh op. Axn Arbor, Aug. 3, 1844. All the information we can gather Trom our exchanges, leads us to believe that the prices of agricultural producís will be low during the coming year. It is stated that there is a very considerable surplus of the fiour. pork, provisions, &c. of last year on hand, while the new crops and supplies will certainly not be less than those of any former year, but probaly greater. Professor Walker, the Cincinnati correspondent of the Boston Chronicle, ex)resses the opinión that the country will soon be flooded with a superabundance of every manufactured article. Manufacturing afibrds higher profits than agrieulure. The shoemakers of Massachusetts, on an average, earn a dollar a day; and hat dollar in Michigan or Ohio will purchase about two bushels of wheat, which s more than any farmer can afford to pay for his yearly help. There is one estabishment for making tbickshoes and boots in Cincinnati which constantly employs seventy five hands, and doubtless with profit. But the wages of the different branches of industry are as certain ultimately to find an average, as water is tq find its level. The consequence of an over. production of manufactures will be an ultímate diminution in the price, and thus the mechanics will again be placed on an equality with the agricultural laborers. No new Wheat has y et appeared in market. Buyers offer 56 cents for the old erop.

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