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property to be seized to pay for the shortage. The state eventually restored his property after an investigation revealed no suspicious amount of money in his bank account and no unexplained change in his lifestyle. One of Holley's biographers offered possible reasons for the discrepancy in the accounts, including the difficulty of managing a huge number of receipts under challenging conditions, and the state's practice of sometimes dispensing funds for the project through the other commissioners without informing Holley.
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candidates for U.S. President and Vice
President. The meeting voted to oppose his attempt to convert the AASS itself into a political party. In November, at a convention to discuss the issue that was led by Holley in Warsaw, New York, he introduced the same resolution, and this time it passed. This convention called for a national convention to be held on April 1, 1840, in
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at his gravesite as a memorial to him and attached to it a stone medallion with his image. The monument's inscription reads, "The
Liberty Party of the United States of America have erected this monument to the memory of Myron Holley, the friend of the slave, and the most effective, as well as one of
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Holley worked full-time as a campaigner for the party in New York state and in 1840 ran unsuccessfully for state senator on its ticket. The
Liberty Party was a minor party, one that never received many votes. It did, however, contribute to the process of making slavery an issue that was addressed by
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Rochester in 1837. He also earned money by giving anti-slavery lectures throughout the area. He later sold the farm and moved to a rental home in downtown Rochester, using the proceeds from the sale to buy a printing press. In 1839, in failing
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Holleys, and he did so. She was freed in 1827 when slavery was outlawed in New York. Holley afterwards became convinced that slavery was wrong, and he eventually became a national leader of the emerging movement to abolish it entirely.
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323:, which had just ended, demonstrated that a lack of adequate transportation made it difficult to defend western New York against the British. Despite its obvious benefits, not everyone agreed that the proposed canal was feasible. In 1809, President
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