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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
February
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Richmond Enquirer grows savageat the idea of á Libertyv Convention being heldin Washington. lts buil runs on this wise, and we have no doubt all the faithful will bow submi&sively to the decree: "We advise these gentlemen to forbear. There is a point of forbearance, teyond which the South cannot permit itself to pass. This attetnpt to defy the Southern people, and to plant a conflagration in the heart of the South, will rouse and irrítate them beyond measure. We would not answer for the consequences. It is an insulting, impudent, unavailable andnecessary interposition with those civil institutions which are guaranteed tö us by the Constitution itself. Why meet at all? Why resort to subterfuges to ustify a Convent ion, when every infornation they profess to desire, may be obtained through othersources? They wish to enquire into the numbors and treatment of slaves iii the District. Why, J. Q. Adams and Giddings will give them all the information which they desire. - They wish to collect information about the slave trade between the Beveral States, and to ';lake measures for the abohtion of said trade." They have already sources enough throügh which to obtain the facts - and wo to them - wo to the Union itself, if ihey dare to abolish the trade. We teil them, at once, to abandon all idea of this Coiiventioa. It is not evÉvry Daniel that can escape unharmei

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News