Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-09-22
THE LIBERTY PARTY.

teTPrlSe, gives tle lOlOWinS ueSOl lptiOh vi
the origin of the Liberty Party. The rea.
soning by which he shows the inconsistent
cy of liberty party men stopping short oil
Garrisonism, seems clear and forcible. We
commend it TO the notice Of our readers.
The New Organization had gone off on
the avowed ground that they could not
scripturally and conscienciousy, remain in
an association where women were deemed
to be "persons," and to have a voice. This
will soon seem as wonderful as the witch
delusion. With this, and with no other
distinctive and avowed principle, did New
Organization start. They soon saw that
they could make nothing of it; and that
as party, they must expire under general
odium, ''for their false clamor," unless
''they got up a new issue" This they did,
by voting that they were "the liberty party"
and nominating themselves for all the great
offices in the country. This Liberty Party
is not therefore, form of political action
emanating from principle, but arising from
the necessity of their position. The party
came into existence not for the sake of the
principle, but the principle for the sake of
the party. 1t is nothing genuine-it is ar
ti6cial, Fictitious a; in short, it is sham.
1t has hatched whole brood Of shams.-
The most notable Of these is the dogma
that an aboltionist connot, without betray-
ing the bleeding slave, retain connection
with either Of the political parties, but is
bound to COME OUT from them. This is
cunning device for driving men into their
own ranks. But to make the operation
doubly sure, and render escape from their
tolls impossible, a subsidiary sham was
wanted. This was supplied by the sudden
discovery that it is the bounden duty of
every abolitiouist to go to the polls, at all
elections, and put in his vote Thus, out
of the sin of voting with either of the great
parties, and the sin of not voting at all, they
have made up scarecrows, enough to urn all
the terrified sinners in the country from
their old accomplces to the third party.
The American Anti-Slavery Society, the
original organization, saw that these were
mere pretences, got up to get money and
gain adherents and this they proceeded to
demonstrate, by applying the following test
''If (sad they,) it be a sin to remain in con-
nection with political parties on account of
their pro-slavery character and measures,
much more is it sin to remain, as you are
doing, in churches which write on their
brow, "Holiness TO the Lord" and yet fell
lowship slavery, 'the sum Of all vllanies,
and invite into their ulpits-churches
which your own political chief has shown to
be "The bulwark of American slavery
This is perfectly unanswerable as an argu-
ment to third party politicians, who remain
in connection with pro-slavery churches,
but it is applicable to no other class 1t
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or'out of their party; or they ought to be
set down as men who are insincere, and
have sinister purposes. Honest and we'll
meaning men cannot be inconsistent We
do not assert that there are not sincere alb
ofitionsts in the Liberty Party We know,
as certainly as we can know any thing of the
hearts of men, that there are such. There
were always pious and benevolent Jesuts
but. this did not rescue the character of the
rest
The abolitionists did not succeed in
shaming New Organization into consisten-
cy, but they did succeed in subecting them
selves to the tyranny of shams. AS they
called upon their opponents "to come OUT
of the pro-savery churches, as well as the
Pro-slavery parties, some of them imagined
do no less than come out Of both whereas, |
the argument against the consistency and
sincerity of the politco-abolition party stood
an all It's force as against them, without our
giving into their original sham, or into that
with which, for the sake of argument merely, |
we matched it. Some of our friends, how
ever, thought otherwise, and acted according
iy We bring no impeachment against
them on that account, knowing that they
thought and acted for what they believed to
be the best. But we do affirm as hstori-
cal fact, most instructive and important in
itself, that from this snarl of shams COME
oUTER-IsM had its birth. Third party was
ats real father, though they deny the paterni-
ty, and have refused it aliment.
We are far from saying or believing that it
rs never right for an aboIitionist to dissolve
his connection with political or ecclesiasti-
cal bodies which are found or supposed to
be Incorrlgibly welded to slavery. 1t may
be very proper for those who are brought
by inward convictions and outward circum-
stances to the conclusion that they can do
most good by coming out, and setting forth
the causes OF their separation but as sys-
TEN OF organized action, as test to be ap-
piled to all, it is just as foreign from our
constitution, Just as offensive to individual /
freedom, just as destructive to our platform.
as the assumption that NONRESIDENT. or
one in favor of women's rights, ought to
come out from those who sympathze and
think with him on those subjects, before he
can take the name or perform the duties of
an abolltionist. Some may say that the
cases are not parallel, inasmuch as the one,
the remuneration would be of that which the
renopncer deems true and good but in the
other. of that which is ack nnwlednnd Lu Ill