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"Coalition."

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Whigs do not seem lo be at all alarmed whcn there are any indications of a coalition between their own party and the Liberty men. On the contrary, if we mayjudge from the tone of the Advertiser, they not only have no objection, but are glad to see it. That paper huils as a favorable omen the fact that the Librty party of Sleuben county, at a recent county convention, determined to support Dr. L. G. Thompson, the Whig candidate for Congress, from the Fort Wane Pistricf. The facts of the case, as we find them in the Indiana Freeman, are these: Thrce Liberty Convenüons were held in Sieuben County in four weeks. At the first, the claims of L. G. Thompson, the Whig nominee.were strongly urged, and stronglo opposed. The conrention adjourned one week. In the interview Thompson was written to for a definition of his position, and at th meeting of the convention his answer was read and the debate resumed. A majority of the convention, a part of whom were Whigs, voted to ] support Thompson, and the minority ' drew, and subsequently held another [ vention, andpassed resolutions adverse to l his support by Liberty men. nThey were ríght. Dr. Thompson was a member of a proslavery party. He did not answer all, an inquiry addressed to him respecting the support of slaveholders. He doubtless supposed that the Whig nominee for President or Vice President in 1848 raight be of that class, and he wishcd to support him. But he declared himself a decided opponent of the internal Slave Trade: he would also "vote for any and every proposition which leads to the abolishment of Slnvery and the Slave Trade" in the Federal District, but did not intímate thal he would propase. öny thing himself. The Doctor declares he will go it to the death against the ex] tensión of Slavery, but will not disturb the compromises of theConstitution," &c. &c. We are happy to find that the true Liberty men were not caught in thesnare.- The Whigs are a proslavery party They try to elect slaveholdere to office, tnd the Northern portion of the party are ' still determined to hold on their 400,000 ' Whig slaveholding votes. While they L do this, no Liberty man can consistently support the party. If they want our votes, t Jet Ihem come with clean hands, avowing t the principie of No Union with holders." They cannot expect us to support slaveholders for office, or the l avowed friends and advocates of the a tem. a o

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Signal of Liberty