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The Holy Alliance Of The South

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Day
24
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The first and foremost stands oíd Virginia. tJotli her Legislaiure and lier people, without distinction of party) promptly rejected and denounced the Wilinot Proviso, and declared their " unalterable and fixed delennination not to sübirlit to its principles,but to resist them,if need be, with arms in hand. The Democratie Convention of Alabama and her peoplc in primary meetings, without distinctiun of party, have made the same unöinehing declarationsi The Governor of Mississippi the fearlessand manly Brown, has spoken for the land o( Davis and the héroes of Buena Vista. The people of South Carolina have spoken with Virginia. What Georgia will say ; or rather wha the Democrats of tieorgia will say, next Monday will teil. She will hardly be as a sheop, d'Jinlj at the slaughtcr of hor rights, and patiënt in suhrh'isSion to indignity and insult, which would have kindled all the fires of her Jacksons, Crawfords nnd Troups, in the days when men daröd to speak and act thoir minds. "The Whigs of thö South we w i 1 1 not. cannot douht - Party ties mu-t be snapt as cobwebs when tlie existcnce of our institutions, and the honor and cquaüiy of the Slave States.is assailed. This is now tlio case; and the instant pence ia signcd with Mexico, begins tbat far more vital siruggle, which will prefigure! precede and shnpe the destinies of the Slave States. Shall we be sleeping on our posls, or found anwüs opibusque parati?"

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Signal of Liberty
Old News