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Party Intolerance

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
June
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Grand Rapids Engle, which electioneers for General Tnylor wilh an awful grent cnnnon ot its editorial head, is much ofFended vvith our neighbor of the State Journal for liis frank nnd manlv pxpressions of opposition to Gen. Taylor's nomtnation. We copy tlie artcle, as showing ie mennnpss and ntolerance of leeling whicli prevail in a large porlion nf the Whig presset. The pnth of an honest nnd sincerfi Eteformpr is a difïicult nne, while he tries to walk wilh that parly, and yel perseveres in advocating noble .md patriolic principies and mensures in prefi'renee lo chiminpr in with the voice of his party in favor of nnc.ient abuses, and tl e glorificaron of military héroes : '■The editor of the Mich'gan Siatp Jotirnnl seorns to bn fired witli tliR most extrnoniinary ambition to disünguUh hiinself by o iposi on to Whig nnininali(HW. Lnst fll Iip lurnel his back upon tlie Wliigcindi'latps for thp Seinte in his disuict, and gave the Locnfnco n mineps the henfii of a VVh;g papar in thfir suppi ri. The l.uiguagp Iip uses reepQtfing the nomiiiaiion of Gen. Tïiylor inakex it nppnreni that f nominated iIip o]d eteian rn:iy he s unfoitimiite Ba not li share ihe cniifideiice and support of thp St.ite Jniirnali Tlie firtn nnd iridpjipnflfnt xuppoit of riglit principie-! and maurps i in the higlipst (Jpgre nnmnipnitablp ; bui ibis w q ito h (JifFerprit thing frorn the mere nd'Üty thit habitu.illv splits a lickel, nnd funis just so inm-h fault wilh every meüu'e lo nhojv one's splf wise nnH iruiepe"denr above his neighbors The excfllent lptiprs of 'Vnx popii'i.' writien at Dptroii 1-ist wini'T, and sont loihe Whig pnpprs in iho St ile, bflfokefled n ch.nracter thnl nngrht to be nbove the rpacl) "f ihe paltrv illusions of the errpatnss to bf üpquired hv quaflllinx with his Whig fripns for tlio stikfl nf appwiring more indep"ndfnt Ih-ui oiIipi-s, whn tnke less pflim tii jost'e pvpi'v one with wh'-m thpv hppen lo be ass'ci"tei. Such hldpendm-e. that denonncps Whig men nnd Whig nomination, isa vcv chpnp way of purchaing Locofoco npplau-e."

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Signal of Liberty
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