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How Stand The Facts?

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
February
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Anti-Slavery Whigs, as they cali ihemselves, have denounced the Liberiy party for refusing to be humbugged into the belief that the resistance lo the further extensión of slavcry. depended whully upontheRepresentativesof the Whig party. But Iiow stand the facts 1 The Bostou W hig says : " Thüs fnr we must say that the Democrnts stand a little botter than the Whigs. Mr. Grover is aDemocrat of New York. He does nol makeso many wry mouths about mentioning the subject of dissolution of the Union, as the Whigs do. Neitherdooshe magnify the dauger uutil il becomes a bugbearto hisownnnngination ; exactly as those who make the threüt, wish that it should. He says that the slaveholding interest will ttxink twicc and three iimes,beforc it consenls to tbrow up the game it has so successfully played for so many years under the eon.stiuilion." Two females had a set to in tbc breéis of Philadelphia a Cew days since, and belorc Ihey could be separated one had conjpletely bitten oF the noso and ear of tho oiher. The convicts in the jail at Pittsburgh, organized Ihemselves nnd endeavored lo efleel their escape. Tho plan was frustratcd by vigilance of theofilcers of the prison. An immense iceberg lately flpnted intothe hatborof Enstport, Mair.e, dashing into pieces several vessels lying at the wharves. It is supposed to have been blown from the Arctic soa in tho Jato gales. U'm. A. Powell, who was found guilty jf the crime of negro-stealing, at the last session of Common Pleas, for DarJiogon district, Va. was e.xecuted at Darlinon, according to the sentence, on Friday Lst instance. W e underatandthathe deilared himself innucent up to the time of he execution. Honor to whom honor is due.

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Signal of Liberty
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