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Gov. Polk On The Gag

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
October
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- The followingrextract is from whnt ia called his "Nashville Iron speech," nut] fornis part of a review of the doings of tlie extra session of the L7th Congress. The governor is mistaken in-saying that the Congress repealed the gag. It wns duly preserved. "Their second meaure was to re peal ihat saJutary rule of procee.ding which shut out ■frotn thi? hall of represen! ati ves the ngitation of the aboJiliomV.s, an agitaiiou which has for ils object nn unconstitulional interference wïih the viial interests of a large portion 'of the Union; an. ogitation which can by no possibility'result in gootl, but if per.sisted in must produce incalcul.iliie mischief. The door was opened and they were !et in. The body of, the oholiiióniíts wlio had aided in the eleciion of ''Tippecanoe and Tyler too," and who had increased the nuniber of their reprefentatives in Congress, had become too"forniiduble as a politicul fnction to be disregarded, and wcre to be coiïciliated. I Imve no hesitation in re-affinning-whnt upon a former occasion I-declared, tliot modern abolitionism, with rare and few exceplions, has become purely a politica! question. And I have as little hesition in decJaring my conviction, from the evidence of the fuc(, before the public, that the great body of abolitionisis are federales, aud in the lost presi.leniidl eleciion called themselves Whigs, and nnited in the support of tbr Whig ticket. THËGREAT BODY OF THE DEMOCRACY OP THE NORTTH, I WlbL ADD, ARE NOVV AS THEY ALWAVS ÍÍAVE 13EKN, THE NATURAL AND PAÏTHPÜL ALLIES OF THE SOUTH AND OF SOUTHERN IKTERESTS."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News