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A PROPOSITION.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL COLLEGE,
November %, 1882

MICHIGAN CENTRAL COLLEGE,
November %, 1882.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
The Presidential campaign is over, and the
smoke and dust of the last battle on the I'd inst.
having cleared away, it is natural for the de-
feated parties to ask, "What nova In this
counsel of wsr, various opinions will naturally
be brought out, and among the suggestions
made, there will of course be many that cannot
be adopted. And if the one which am about
to throw out falls into the class of impractical
bles, it will have the consolation, if not of good
company, at least of a good deal oft
What we need more than anything else is
agitation. Truth has everything to hope, and
nothing to fear, from discussion The friends
of liberty in this nation ought to expend one
hundred thousand dollars every year, for the
no.t four years, in diffasing light ON the sub
ject of slavery. And for raising part of that
amount, make the following proposition, be-
ing confident that there are men enough who
will be glad to second ii, and carry it through
IL is that one thousand men pay $40 each to
employ John p Hale until the next Presiden-
tial election, aside from such a portion of the
time as his services may be demanded in the
discharge of his present duties as u. s. Sena-
tor. And to make the machinery as copye.
nent as possible, | propose that some one in
each vicinity ascertain the names of sufficient
number to justify some responsible man in Civ
ing his name through the Era for one hun
dredth part of the whole, payable at the Office
of the Era in four annual instalments fur.
ther propose, that MIR Hale be left entirely To
his own judgment in the employment of his
time in addressing public congregations in diff.
ferent parts of the country the friends in each
locality Of course meeting his travelling ex-
penses.
The friends of Liberty cannot fail to appre-
clate the importance of securing the services Of
such an advocate as John p. Hale. There is
no man In the country who will command
such universal attention as he There is not
county in any of the Northern States where
he would not meet throng Of attentive hear
ers.
do not believe it will require one month to
raise the $4,000 proposed. Let one hundred
men send in their names immediately, each re-
sPonsbe for the payment of s25 year, for
four years, and the heaviest blow will be level
ed at the Slave Power that has been struck
since the agitation commenced You may
number my name as one Of the hundred.
Yours respectfully, E. B. FAIRFIELD.
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played upon the passions Of the shareholders
till some of them arc now ready to dissolve the
Union, unless the free States will permit them
to carry slaves within their borders-in other
words, to set up Slavery in them, in violation
Of their Constitution.
If they are anxious for agitation they are on
the right track If they wish for disappoint-
ment, defeat, modification, they are acting
wisely. If they desire to rend the Democrat
ic Party and unite the North in solid phalanx
against Slavery let them 60 ahead and push
this ridiculous claim to extremes. We tell
them that Judge Paine's decision toiH not be re-
uersed-that the law of New York wiH not be
repedled-and that the party who shall attempt
such work will suddenly fall below zero.
Mr.. HALE, addressing meeting at Salem,
Mass short time since, avowed himself in
favor of the annexation of all the regions round
about, provided they came peaceably and with
free institutions; but he "wOuld not accept the
Garden of Eden, as it came from the hand of
God, filled with beauty and adapted as the
home of bliss, if it brought with it the curse of
Slavery" He comforted the Wings present. by
telling them You are beaten, and so badly
beaten that you cannot be beaten worse but
don't say came here to taunt you, my friends;
for | was beaten too you know"
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A NEW WORK BY MRS. soUTHw0RTH

We shall commence in the first number of
the next volume of the Era, II new story by
Mrs. Southworth, which will run through a
quarter or third Of the volume, entitled us
follows
NARY ST'TUEPI Avn.
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TO SOUTHERN DEALERS.

Your attention Is respectfully invited 70 the
advantages this market offers for the sale of
your human property Most other kinds Of
merchandise and cattle may be more proftably
disposed of elsewhere, but for niggers" there
is no place like New York. It's astonishing,
the greenness of the New Workers in this branch
of trade. You can get full price and over, for
women, youngsters, and babies, that arn't worth
half price where people buy niggers to work
em. On six or eight head, you may clear as
much as $4,000 All you have to do is to let
your goods run away and catch them here or
else bring them yourselves on the way to Tex
as. Either method will prove successful, and
fetch the cash.
n B. This mode of selling don't hurt the
conscience. You give the poor devils their
freedom deserve well of Heaven, and don't
lose cent by it. This is a great advantage.
The Lennon Fund is good advertisement
in the South. We have no doubt that the sub
scribers to it will be duly announced to South
ern planters.
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THE LENNON MERCHANTS.

The New York Tritune which has stood
almost alone among the secular newspapers of
that city, in the defence of the principles and
laws of the State, is responsible for the follow
ing caustic paragraph:
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ALLEGHENY FRrE Son MOVEMENT Pits
bWgh Nov 24-The Free-Soilers of Aleshe-
ny county have determined to nominate can
didate for mayor and a full TICKET for the
eouncils
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24-Hon John Ser
geant one Of the most eminent citizens Of Phil
adelphia, died last night in the I'D year OF his
age. He has filed many important oahoes--
was member Of Congress, and one OF the
strongest sdvccates of the Missouri Compromise
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/" BRITISH INFLUENCE,

The Pro- Slavery men have been in the habit
of associating Aboltionism with British inhu-
ence, and have often labored to excite popular
prejudice against the friends of freedom, by
charging an alliance between them and British
emissaries. Alas, for their pet argument
The London Times the thunderer of the Brit.
ish press, has at last declared for them. 1t abu
ses Mrs. Stowe, apologies for American Slave
holders and denounces American Abolitionists
Ah what of British influence" now AL
right-the shareholders are delighted with theii
British ally!
We publish the following proposition for con
siderstion--what say the People about The
Free Democratic journals!
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DrAR SIR; The Democratic State Commit
tee, opposed TO coalition with the Free Sellers,
have directed us to invite your immediate at
tention to the election for Representatives on tbs
fourth Monday Of the present month-tAs 22d.
There remain i6s towns in the Common
wealth which have not yet chosen their Repre-
sentatives, and we find yours among the num-
Der We therefore most earnestly urge upon
you, and the National Democrats Of your town,
TO exert every honest means to elect National
Democrat to represent you in the next House
of Representatives, That branch Of the Legis-
lature will probably decide the political char
acter of the State, as il is to be represented in
the councils of the Commonwealth and in the
Senate Of the United States.
For this purpose, we now sxhort you to OPP
pose coalition with the Free Soil candidates
and deny oil support to coaltionists, although
calling themselves Democrats If in the mi
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PHILADELpMrA has generally been consider
ed a pro-slavefySity and county nevertheless,
there is one ward in the district of Spring Gar
den, in Philadelphia county, where the Liberty
votes have increased more than three thousand
per cent! Had Wings or Democrats increased
in that proportion, in any part of the Union, can
mons would have been fired, and perhaps iumi-
nations bonfires or other tokens of rejoicing
adopted, heralded by editorial fourishes. F.
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Seneca Castle New York, Nou. 90, 1857
am against those who support the peculiar
institution" Those who would make slave
of poor niger" would do the same with
me if they could, and they now rank me in the
same category, for | am entirely dependent on
my hands for livelihood
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