The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-07

system OF organization. For his own part, he dIt
, not doubt that the people were heartily sick o
! both parties. The amount Of corruption on boil
sides was great, considering the infancy of our ma
tlonal life. There was an abundant foundation 70
the formation of third party The doubt in thu
minds OF many was, whether they should at once
; declare that the abolition question was paramount
to all other considerations, and in all their acts DO
litical as we'll as other, they should determine tt
act for the slave, and at once appoint great con
servative committee TO speak for them. If they
were united they could hold the balance of power
But while they remain in their present condition
and were debarred from taking part with one par
ty or the other, they were as nothing. If they
would form third party, they could throw fifteen
men into Congress and thirty into the State LIE.
gislature. AS things were, by simply consentne
to vote either ticket they could control the cleo
ton of Senators. Some said that this was cor
ruption. Mr.. S. did not know how that might be
One thing was certain, that many abolitionists
were so corruptas to vote ticket that had no alb
olitionist on it at all For his own part he regar-
ded this business of voting as an agency appoint
ed of God, and in the dilemma he would ask the
slave what he should do He would tell him
that in eight of the free states they had so many
votes that they could fling hundred men into
Congress if they would act with any of the parties
who wanted TO elect their clerks and SherifS, &c.
for three years. but their candidates were pro-sla-
very men. Should he vote or should he not vote?
Would not the slave reply, Do for us the best
you can strike high-never vote ticket unless
there are strong abolition men upon it," Here
they had practical illustration. By electing alb
olitonists to Congress, they could change the
course of the national legislation and could ilu-
inmate society far more efectually than by. turn
ing their pockets inside out to sustain agencies
With all their efforts the people did not get light
1t was seduously barred out Other papers which
said nothing on the beet, turned the anti-slayery
papers from the door. But these aboitionists in
Congress could illuminate the nation; their dis
cussions and debates and documents would reach
far and wide, and do more than all other things
to disseminate the truth. Let it once be known
that they never would vote ticket unless it had
strong abolitionists upon it, and such men would
soon be put upon the tickets. When one party
found that this course was pursued by the other,
they would pursue it also, and then the abolition
lists could select the best men from both.
The great difficulty with regard to third par
ty was that the abolition friends would become dis
couraged before they got a plurality, stragglers
would be picked off and many true men would be
disheartened-yet on the whole he preferred to
form third party to act as they now did without
any organization or union. Whatever instrument
tally God was pleased to bless, Mr.. S. was not
at liberty to decline. Some men said that they
would not condescend to hold seat in Congress
if they knew that Il pro-slavery man or drunk
ard voted for them, while others feared that if
they formed third party it would become cor
rupt. Well, if they did, they would be no worse
than they are now. They now hoped to be NOM
mated by one of the parties-and where was the
great difference whether they were voted for BY
pro-slavery men or by men of their own princi-
pies AS to taking that portion of ticket which
a large central convention should say was right
the moment that should be known to be their plan
of tactics, political leaders would begin to look at
them. They would begin to perceive that to be
an abotlonist was one road to the qualification of
their ambition, and we must take the world as we
find it. The young ambitious aspirant would soon
be found buying anti-savery books, and undera-
king to examine the question anew. At present,
the upper classes of community eschewed them
The faint of abotonsm was like the plague; but
let abotioniss make it their interest to elect their
friends and to instruct them on the subject, and
their power would soon be felt They must ell
Their resort to this course must form third par
ty. BY acting under the resolution as it now
stood, they could do nothing, because they could
hold out to neither party a sufficient lnducementI
TO put abolitonists in nomination. MIR. S. conclu.
ded with an apology for the desultory character of
his remarks, which, he said, were intended to be
rather practical than theoretical.
Mr.. Samuel Webb, OF Philadelp hia, then ad-
dressed the Convention in speech of much in
crest, which our limits compel us to postpone till
lext week.
The Convention now passed to the order of The
lay. which was to receive the report Of the FL
lance Committee, the proceedings under which
We are obliged to postpone.
THURSDAY p. M.
The question required on the adoption of the
esolutons and discussion ensued which occu-
lied the residue of the sitting.
Mr. Stanton stated, that heretofore, the Execu-
i've Committee and the general meetings Of the {
society, had advised the friends the t
ause against organizing distinct party with can
dates of their own but it was obvious from ma {
W resolutions which had been proposed to the l
BUSINESS committee, and from private conversation
ince the Convention had met, as well as the in {
cations abroad, that the Abolition mind of the c
United States was in transition state. Gentle
zen were present who felt very anxious indeed, t
hat the formation of third party should be rec G
Some went so far as to desire that t
ne Convention would at once nominate political d
andidates-others wished that a contingent NOM t
nation should be made while others were entire r