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A Liberty Member Of Congress

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Day
2
Month
October
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Uré nötiee that a majority of the papers of both psrtiesj North and Souih, speak öf ihe neVv'y elccted Representative from the Rockingham and Stafford dUtricts, in New Hampsliire, as a Whig Even our frietid of thé Ciucinnali JVational Press, fulísimo the sanie mistake. The genfleinan in qucstioiij Amos Tuck, Esq.: of Exeier, Was always known asa membör of the Democralic party, up to the proscriptiou of John P. Hale, for his bold stand agmnst Texas and annexalion. He was probubly the flrst Iemocr:it in the State to take thesideof Hale on that quesliun-. Through his e.xertions the first Convention of Independent Democrats was brought togelher, at Exéter, where an ab!e and manly address to the people, from his pen was adopted. In company witb Hale he traveled his own and neighboring countif., e.xposing the servilitv of the dominant party towards the Slnve Power, and their arregnnce and tyranny towards the frielulsof Freeuom at home. In his address he took decided anti-slavery groundj and in the summcr of last year, at a large meeting of Liberty men ! & Independent he introducid resolntions distinctly nfñrming the principies of the Libei'ty parly, and Urged their adoption, on the ground that the time had come for a cordial Ütiion of Liberty men and Jeffeisonian Democrats, who eie laboring for a common cause, and striving against i a enmmon enemy. Ile was nominatcd foi Corigjess by a Convention of Liberty men and Independents acting as one body, and it is j said that manv of the radical Democrats i also voted for him, giving him a mnjorii tv in nearly all the towns in his district. We have tl e best autliority for saying that he goes in'.o Cuiigress pledged only to Freedom. Ile retains, we presume, on other aybjeutS) his Democratie opinions, hut with him as with his l'riend Hale, the One Idea of Liberty is paranionnt. Ile isalawyer suecessfully engaged in his profession. As a speaker he is sound and ai-gnineniative rather than iluent. - Regarding the advo acy of tbc cause of the slave as n part of his religious o'uty. his fiiitlifulness to thnt cause niay be depended upon we llunk in any emorgencv. The election of such a man upon such an issue, forma a new eni in the history of American politics. It is result of ono of thoFe moral revohitions that never gei backward: and which is destined to fill, ere lang, the places now occupied by men of compromise and expediency, with a new order of Christian civilians, plfdged to Rigliteousness and Trutli, and preparedtoadop'the langunge of O'Connell, in one of lu's eloquent appeais n behalf of the West India Slave: "I trample as dust under my fret the blasphemy that the law of Elernnl Justice is to be ncknowledged in tlieory only, because unsafe in practico. 1 will for one, enter inlo no compiomise wilh slaverv. I care not vvhat cast, creed or color, it may assume, wlietlier personal or politica!, iniellpctu;il or spiriua!, lam for ilstutal, its imn-.edinte abolition. I am for justice - juslice in t! ie nime of huinaiiity. and nccoiding to the law of the living God."

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