About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 The Right Sort of Politics 1 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/risorptc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: EMANCIPATOR EXTRA. SEPT. 14, 1843. TRACT NO. 2. No.1 THE RIGHT SORT OF POLITICS. READER, If you read election news you must have seen it, of late years, given under three heads, [thus -D.mx., WHIG, SCAT. ; and if you have watched this Seat., you must have seen a wonderful degree of contagion and per- severance in it. It keeps growing. We first notice it in the election returns of the great presidential contest of 1840, when the two great parties organized with such enthusiasm that we could hardly have expected a single scattering vote. Here is a table giving the progress of this singular political heresy for three years- riot fully, but it will serve as an illustration. 1840. 1841. 1842. Scat. Scat. Scat. Maine, 194 1,662 2,998 New Hampshire, 111 2,358 3,110 Vermont, 319 2,7941 2,093 Massachusetts, 1,415 3,722 6,452 Connecticut, 174 1,319 1,777 New York, 2,808 5.882 7,262 Pennsylvania, 343 818t 1, 114t Ohio, 903 2,748 5,423 Illinois, 159 527 1,500t Michigan, 328 858 1,665t Total, 6,754 20,688 33,394 Inreased by a peculiar local cause. f Partial. And so far as elections have taken place this year, 1843, the increase is still more marked. Here is a leaven wide- ly diffused and actively at work, which by the rules of arithmetic will leaven the whole lump of doughby the year' 1848. What means this Scat. column, then, and what is the right and wrong of the matter? It means this-though the partisan editors do not like to say it-there is a LIBERTY PARTY organized on the principles of '76, founded on the truth that Honesty is the best policy, that Righteousness exalteth a nation - a sort of Good Samaritan Party, which don't pass by on the other side. The members of this party find that there is one question in the politics of this countiy which must be settled right before any other can be settled at all ; and till that great question is settled right, our glorious revolution is incomplete, and our national history unfit to be written. They find that under the form of. republican- ism, the country is really governed by a combination of about 259,000 slaveholders, who hold, on an. average, ten or eleven slaves each, and contrive to wield the power and

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most