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Whig Falsehoods

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
September
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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If is with much rekictance that we find curselves cómpetted to come befqre the public with statements impeaching the verncity of individuáis. Yet we are driven to this, f rom time to time, in self defence. - The object of lhe Whig managers, as ev-Hiced from the lead of the Detroit Advertiser, and f rom other indicafions, is to circuíate scrch s-fanders concprning the cojiductors of the Liberty prcss in Micliigan, as shall impair theconfidence of the Liberty men in its editors, as a preparatory step towards inducingthe party generally to abandon Mr. Birxey, and vote íbr a slaveliolder. Henee tho ncces-sity we are undér of meeting again and again the same falsehoods, so long as men calling themsclves re.spectable can bo induced to repeat them. The following letter from Adrián, presents a specimen of the personal warfare with which we are assailed: "Adrián, Aug. 29, 1844.Rev. G. Beckley: Dear Sir; - I write you a few lines to-day, callingyour alieiuion to the three following accusations preferred ngainst you and the Liberty Party of Ann Arbqr. The geperal wholesale.accusation i.s that the Liberty party o ui the Loco focos are onc and the samo, and thoir objects iho same, viz:. the destruction of the Whig party. In confirmation of the above, .Cup!. Daniel Hicks, a prominent Whig, - sia.ted this week that he liad vouchers in Ann Arbor to the number.of 5 or 6, that you stated when you came to Ann Aibor, that youjntended to break, down the Wbig party, nnd that that was object in coming there, and that secondly, he bñd several good vouchers to prove -that. you hnd at two or three eleclions sincc you had heen there, voted the straight Locofoco ticket. The third speciiication was made at the same lime and place by a' Mr. Lotlirop, a weahhy and respectable man of this.village, and a member I think of the Presijyterian church. It was. that the Liberty party of Ann Arbor íasí winter and sprmghad agreed to unite with the Lo-, cofocos nt the coming Presidential Election against Mr. Clay, and some five or six of the most influc-ntial and leading Liberty party men in. Ann Arbor had stated this as bcing their plan, and the autfiority was emieavored to be placed beyorrd all cavil and doubt. He stated that lis authority was the Rev. Mr. Curtiss, of the Presbyterjan Church of )our place, a brotlier of the Presbyterian minister in this place. You doubtlesssee the hearing it is intended to have on the mind3 of some abolitionists. h L. PETERS." Now in reference tcthe charges above mentioned, we%vill mereiy say, 1. That when G. Beckley came to Ann Arbor in 1839,1 here was noLiberty organization, hut Abolitionists voted with their respective partios - that he opposed the organization in 1840 when it was first proposed at Jackson - & that he has never ptated to any one that he intended to bHpftlc down the Whig party, unless he mentiorved the destruction of the other party in the same connection. G. Beckley expects that both the proslavery paiv tteswill be "broken do-wn" by the Liberty party, unless they adopt the principie of universal and immediate emancipation, and equal rights to alï. Consequent ly, that "prominent Whig, Capt. Daniel Hicks," will either retract his assertions, or save his reputation for veracity by bringing fonvard his "5 or G vouchers-"2. G. IJeckley has never yoted any e otlicr than the regular Liberty ticket - since he carne into Michigan. W hoever è shys othrrwiso, is misin formeel, or guilty i of wil lul falsehood. "Gapt. Daniel t Hieles" wíll therefore produce lila "sev eraJ good vouchers," and prove that G. ■ íockley has voted i;a straight Locofoco i ticket," or he must acknowledge himself i to bo a propagalor of falsehood. Il is no ■ more than just that he esfablish what he has asserted. acknowledge that he was i mistaken, or be justly nccounted.a slanderer. Which course uill ho talce? 3. As to the statement of Mr. Lothrop, that the Liberty party of Anu Arbor had 'agreed to unite with the Locolocos at the coming Presidencial eïection against Mr. Clay, andsome five of six of the most ufluential and leading Liberty party men in Ann Arbor. had stalcd this as being theirplaiij" it is all gammon. No such agreement has been made, nor such statements put forth. On receiving this letter, G. Beckley, in company wi:h a friend, called on the llev. Mr. Curtis of this place, who' is cited as authority by Mr. Lothrop, vyjïosaid he had never made any .such statement to Mr. Lollirop orany other nerson - that he had no i-RcolWHonof ever having conversed with Mr. Lothrop on any political subject - that it was all news to him - and that he liad no means of knowing any thing on the subject, not having mingled ín political affairs. Tlíus the authorily for ibis statemeiit disappears at once. Mr. Lothrop, therefore, owes it to his own standing and respeetability lo retract what he has.stated on the authority of Rev. Mr. Curtis, or else prove that Mr. Curtís did make those statements which he so unequivocally denies. And now one word to our Liberty friends. Suppose the Whigs could establish to your íull satisfacíion, that Birney is a knave - íhat Leavitt is a swindler -tbat Gcrrit Smith s an infidel, and Beckley.isa trteacherous Locofoco - suppose all these things to be fulhj proved - would any onc, or all of thern be a siifficient reason wliy you shoulct abandon the noble principies of the Lírerty Party, and vote fora Siavcholder? Think of it.

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