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Union Of Antislavery Efforts

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Day
24
Month
March
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following communication in the Liberator from J. Fulton Jr. of Philadelphia, n velera n abolit ionisl , ond a momber of the society of Friends shows tliu iucreaeing confidence with which the Liberty pnrty is regarded by thetrue hearted of the organizaron Abolitionists. "Myorn course, tnuching antislovery queslion, s but süghlly chang-ed within the pa6t threo years. True, i} within q year past, I fearcd a sepárale political orgahizotion wns not the bctter vvay, and had w ritten and spoken much flgainst it prevlously to 1341; but, at the fall election of that year, I witli tnnny others voted for Lrsioyne, their candidate for Governor, not being able to vote ibr either of the others. Mcanwhilo, our Libprty friends miitiplying in every qnarter clearly evin eed, thnt this mode of net ion was more than any other meaeure feared ond droaded. Then entne our Hundred Convention Lecturers, Gay, Bradburn, White, Remond, Dotujia-s, and Monroe, rather more tlinn a yenr ngo, - all of them testifying to the faithfnlness nnd efficiency of Third Party in every district of country they passed through, excrpling New England; which was followed by theDecnde Meeting,' at which S. S. Foster took the lead in passing resoliitions, designed to hcai nll post dilTicultios between our contending friends, and that that pnrty should henceforth be regarded ae an antislavery instrumentality, - which seemed at tito time to give very genernl atirifactinn to all presen', incJuding the long nd well-known opponents of sucii a party! - ""o add lo my increasing fvor fora separate rganization, politicnlly, was the reception, r some tirne previonsly, gratuitorsly. from friend in Cincinnati, of a copy of the Phianthronifi', whose editor, I speedilved, was a man of great power as a writer, and great nmiability os a man - standing aloof from all denuncialory controversy withfriencis of the cause, with Chri.ninn dignity of hearing, whicii won my confidence, love and admiration. Since t.his period, a large number of copies of his paper have boen introduced into our county, and I believe it is universally admired by those.whoreod it. Thus the way was opened to a favorable consideration of the subject, and our voting f'iends generally, in our own county, unitrd upon a separate ticket at the late eleciion, headed, for Congress, by Daniel Potts, Jr., that high-toned, dignified ond uncompromising abolitiomst, who, for eight jears, represe.ited our District in Congress, stood by to countenance and support in the Senate Chamber, the intrepid Morris, when he delivered his famous repljr co Clay, in 1839, - and who, I believe, has been the only thorough abolitionist who haB, in hstter times, at least, had a spat upon the floor of the House. In our county, those who have thus organ ized are, perhaps to a man, 'old organization sts.' They have feit that the movement haa een productive of good, and being solely deirous of serving the slave, they feel disposed o give it a fair trial - heilig ever ready to bondon the course the moment they ehall ee a bet ter pointed out. A better, as yet, ïey have failed to see, with Liberator, and Standard, and Freeman to instruct themi."

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Signal of Liberty
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