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Ingham County: For The Signal Of Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
December
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
Letter to the Editor
OCR Text

JV1A505, iNov. -4, 1840. ' Friesd Foster :- I herewith 6end you o etatement of the Liberty vote for Representative in iho county of lnchain no compared iüi tho voto for Birney in 1843. Both are compiled from tho official returnsActual ninercnce 33. V0 are beat - uaed up. Insttad of polling 100 votes as we reasonably boped, ve have lost 33. lt ia rather hard io encounter the jeers of Whigs and Demócrata at the " prospect " o! the Liberty party, but nol half a bad as the conviction that Liberty men cinnot debar thcmeel res the privilege of mingling in the pseudo comba: of Whiggery and Locofocoistn. Our Ioís o numbera is nolhing compared with our lot influ enee. V.'o r.o longsr liold the positiori of á ring parfy. Tne respect with which ven agpiring dcmagogucs wero compclled to viow us, has eiven place to contempt. Tho same efibrts which wíll be nccessnry to regain oar lost poïition wouiti liavc given ws ?h political balance, and a we'eU) of moral inflience which migbt have been brought to bear vvíth poworful effect upon ihe " power that bt," whatever th%ir poüiics or pñnc;ples. Tíiere ore, liowevor, somepalliating consider atíons for thote who have lefi lis. The eiruggle beiwecn the inns and the ouls over our county offices, could nol have been more desperate, had Ufe depended upon the issue of thecomest. Every nioiive bas been app'ealed to, every wire pulled, and the seduction ot a Liberty man irom hi party has beenlooked upon wilh more triumph thnn wo'd have been feh ovor ten ordinary conversión?. Our friends are o widely scaticred, that the unmon of elT.rt and feeling whieh would havt foilcd all their machinali ns, has been impasible. Despite all the influences which may br brought to bear upon us, therc jet is, and shall le a Liberty party in Ingham Couniy. Wc have 8ome spirits among us who will vote a Liberty ticket ulvcays. From the Litlc nucicus whu-h yet remains, we hope mnch, without the fear At our hoocs will not bc icalized.