The poor man's party
Subtitle: to the poor men of the county of Madison
By: [by Gerrit Smith]
Contributors: Liberty Party (Madison County, N.Y.)
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Peterboro, N.Y.?
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Campaign literature, 1846; Liberty Party; Poor; Elections; African Americans; Suffrage; Constitutional law; Politics and government; Liberty Party (N.Y.); New York (State)
Notes: Against adoption of New York's recently reformed constitution, citing a resolution of the Liberty Party "that Liberty men should never cease, no not for a day, to strive for a new constitution for the state of New-York, so long as its existing constitution fails to recognize the right of a man to his vote, whatever may be the color of his skin, or the right of a man to his honestly obtained home, whatever the debts he may owe."

Signed and dated: "Your friend [i.e., Gerrit Smith]. Peterboro, October 17, 1846."

Reproduction of the original from the Oberlin College Library.

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