Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-09-16
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Signal Of Liberty against the Sentinel.
PROSLAvERY PAPERS.
The Ypslanti Sentinel, Wing, heads an article
respecting US, ".Neanness Extraordinary" because
we published an article from the Emancipation, adj
vsing Liberty men to discourage all yoH can the cir
cuiation of Pr0sl0Uery papers," Well do you argue
the contrary of this neghbor: Do you think papers
that will advocate the continuance of such an un-
christian curse slavery ought to be circulated: ~
But you say that shy prosiarery papers" ~ Ali
(a) understand the papers of the other parties
that sustain Shareholders for office. AL Wing pa
pers do not do this. We have on our exchange list
avery honorable exception.
The Editor has given the planest notice that nei
ther personally by his vote nor by his paper, will he
even (ever) sustain STAKEHOLDER for any Office. Now
the Ypsanti paper will neither say nor do any such
thing: therefore, call it proslapery: E, and deem
it, with all others of like character unworthy of
circulation in free community. 1t sustains the
Stare Poicer of this nation in continuing In exist
ence the curse of Human Slavery.
The proof is found in the fact that it stands ready
to support for President and Vice President, in l84S
the whig nominees, should they be one or both of
them Shareholders. Of course it would fill other Of
fees of the Government with scourgers, buyers and
sellers of their fellow-men, provided they were
'sgood WhigsI']
BY doing this, it supportsSavery in the strongest
manner, and Is unworthy of encouragement by a
Liberty man.
ror at these charges, we will prove them by text
that cannot be set aside. Will you refuse to sup
port Shareholders for office not! Dare you to make
this simple statement In your paper:lH
s.Should Shareholder be nominated by the Whig
party as their nert candidate for President Vice
the Electoriut ELECTORAL ticket UOte personally
and the influence Of our paper its support"
Dare you up to this simple and just test, and
answer, YEs[? You kno,o you dare mott!
How, then, can you complain of being called "pro-
slavery" while your influence and paper are pledged
to support for the highest Offices in the natlon any
Wing Shareholder that may be called for by South
ern Wings!
Our charges are predicated on your refusal to vote
for Shareholders Should you respond unqualifedly
YES to the test of your sincerity have proposed,
we will retract every word of the foregoing. But
there is in abiding to the suppostion for we
knoU you dare not do it; and by refusing, you con-
Uict yourself of the worst kind of 'sPROsLAvERY."
But refusal of the Sentinel will not only demon
strated its determination to support Wing Slaveho-
ders, and therefore SUSTAIN SLAVE POWER, but It
will require us to say still more.
The Sentinel is now full of antislavery talk, and
propositions, and denuncaton of Slavery, &c., yet 1t
belongs to proslavery party and will support slave
holders! Here is double game going on, the OBJ
many antslarery (antisorery) votes to its prosLd-
Gerry party, and its slareholding nominees, pos
sibIe By antislavery talk and patarer, it labors to
get the support of antsavery men for its candidates,
whether they be shareholders or not. Is not this a
shutting, underhanded contemplate course! We
will let the Sentinel answer.
The same remark apply to several other Whig pa
of this State that deal largely in antislavery pro-
fessions.
The above copy word for word, letter for letter
and point for point, from the Signal, with the excep-
ton of the WORDS letters and points included in brack-
ets which are intended to correct typographical er-
rors in the text, Immediately preceding them. The
Signal has set example of this kind of courtesy,
by thus correcting, in quotation from the Sentinel
the word ''interested' which was msprint for Sin
tended" we are now even on that score, SO to the
subject.
The article which called forth this reply was short
and might have easily been copied in the Signal but
that would not have accorded with its principle of
sdscouraging the circulation of proslavery papers"
or, what is the thing, of any representation of
the Wing and Democratic parties, except what It
self chooses to give. We are, therefore, obliged to
recapitulate briefly the sentiments of that article.
In reply to the Signals suggestion, we said that
the price of papers was so low that most men could
afford to take several; that where error and truth
were opposed the closer the contact the greater the
victory; that preferred that any Democrat or Alb
otionist, who wished to take paper, would do
so with out disseminating those of his own party
that the Signalon the contrary,wshed its readers to
avoid Wing papers particularly, and receive nothing
but its own representations of their proslavery char
acter: we'll knowing that could wing paper find its
way into the hands of every of its party the tone
and sentiment constantly exhibited would efactually
refute all the groundess assertions of the Signat-
that the Signal therefore, Stunned this comparison,
and thereby affords proof of insincerty. All this
we now re-afhrm.
But it concerns us now to examine these grave
charges: First we are called proslavery because we
will not say that by vote influence, will never
support STAKEHOLDER for any Office, and therefore,
our paper is unworthy circulation in free COM
munty. But Mr.. Signal, you called us proslavery
before you knew that we would not do or say thus
and SO; and supposing were avowedly proslavery,
would it not show more intelligence & candor in the
community to Judge our sentiments by our own rep
reservations than by yours! Or, would you as the
shareholders do, apply Inch law to all publications
except your own. Yet look at your own course, and
tell us, if you cam wherein the principle differs from
that of the slave despots They wish not to discuss
they would silence. With them an antislavay pa
pers is unfit to circulate. They fear light, and SO