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Day
28
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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It issnid, tliat no annual meetings of Cliurches, South or Nnrth, has been hold, in which s!avery, in one form or n nother, has notbeen disc-ussed. W Lat is thesigr.? That our whole peoplenre rliscussing it - thinking about it - preparing lo act upori it. A lettsr from a fi end of ours in Georgia says : "No maiter what is nid. If you in Kenlucky could movA, nnd give the impulse to Tenni-s?e,so thai she could aut, all of Western Georgia would gn for etnuncipntion. Sueh eunties as Habersl.am, are made up ofsmall farmers, and tiiey dfiest the institution. - We all look to Kenlucky and toyou with hope. We have s'milar lettsrs from Tennese, Enst. A writer from Jonesb iro,' s:iys 'Give ths word in Knrucky nod we will nnswe.r you insiautly. VVe nre redy." A friend from JefTerson, Ashe County, North Carolina, declares - "Sla very exists in mme here, but we have all its evils forcei upon us, and 1 don't know but two leading men who would opp.ise the doing awuy of it - Away down to middle Nonh Carolina, the ieeling is the sarao." Other letters from tha Slave Staies are equally sirong. We may wnderstand, therefore, why il is that the Chorchas have this subject up before them so con-t.i,Uv. The poople are di.cussing i(. It is the theine, almot everywhere, of social debate, anH

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