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It is not too late, however, for the Democratic party to secure to itself a pure renown and an almost certain perpetuation of its power. Let it pt once discard the worship of slavery, and do earnest battle for the principles of freedom, and it will live victoriously to a period far in the futare. On the other hand, if it does not soon repudiate the fatal here- sies which it has incorporated into its creed, its doom will be inevitable. Until the black flag entirely disappears from its array, we ...warn the non- slavoholders of the South to repulse and keep it at a distance, as they would the emblazoned skull and cross-bones thatflout them from the flag of the pirate. With regard to the sophistical reasoning which teaches that abolition- ists, before abolishing slavery, slnuld compensate the slaveholders foj all HOW SLAVEET CAN BE ABOLISHED. 85 or any number of the negroes in their possession, we shall endeavor not to be wearisome ; but wishing to brace our arguments, in every imi)or- taat particular, with unequivocal testimony from men whom we are ac- customed to regard as models of political sagacity and integrity — from Southern men as far as possible — we herewith present an extract from a speech delivered in the Virginia House of Delegates, January 20, 1832, by Charles James Faulkner, whose sentiments, as then and there ax["ressed, can hardly faU to find a response in the heart of every intelli- gent, upright man : ' ' But, air, it is said that society having conferred this property on the slaveholder, it cannot now take it from him without an adequate compensation, by which in meant full value.
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