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Birney's Letter

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
April
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The letter from-James G. Birney to the President of the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society, recommending a change in the policy of the Liberty party, will be found on our first page. lt is like all that comes from his pen, clenr, calm, able, honest, and calculated to command respectful attenlion, even where it may not produce full conviction. It puts to rest the prediction of the Whig press, that he fias closed his public labors. It shows that the pure flame of patriotism is in full life in his bosom. We confess that, accuslomed as we are to confide in his judgment, or to yield almost always to his argumenta, we are not yet satisfied of the practicability or propriety of the change of policy which he recommends. We prefer to try theold wav still farther. The whole subject has got to be full y discussed, and we mean to krep our columns reasonably open to the discussion. Next week, if possible, we intend to prosont some views of our own in regard to the tarifT question, which are somewhat novel, and we believe deserving of