The Whig standard., 1843-12-05
W A S II N G I @ N.
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. s, ls43.
/" THE LIBERTY PARTY"

In republic like ours, where all The honors
and high stations in the Government are thus
virtually within the reach Of, and attainable by
every man, but practically only by very few, it
is TO be expected that there will be an abundance
of restless ambitious spirits who, finding them
selves unable to push forward to the van Of the
great crowd that throng the common highway,
and are each one striving to be foremost, will
endeavor to strike out new paths, and gain their
object by ga short cut" Such men usually sue
ceed in persuading others, greater or less num-
Der, that the new path they have taken is either
the true one, or that by taking il they will fare
better upon it, and find their ultimate objects
easier of attainment in that direction.
1t is on the principle here illustrated, and On
no other, that we can account for the madness
and folly Of few restless spirits in Massachu-
setts, New York, Ohio, &C., who have banded
together, and started new party under the en-
ticng name of 4" the Liberty Party" and are
preaching up crusade against the South, and
enlisting recruits into their ranks with all the
zeal and industry of Peter the Hermit and
truth 10 say, they are enlisting the same kind Of
restless spirits, and men Of the same desperate
(poliucaD fortunes as those who swelled the
hosts which he led blindly to their destruction
A heaven-inspired purpose, extraordinary sane
tity, and even a mission from Deity ITSELF are
usually claimed by such men, well knowing how
much the supposition that they are instruments
in the hands Of God 10 affect great purposes,
influences the minds OF the multitude. The
leaders Of this " Liberty party" are by no means
wanting in sagacity and cunning, and are there
fore not backward in claiming to have mission
from Heaven 10 accomplish what they profess to
be their design, e TO give freedom to all men,
and so arrange society that all men shall be born
free and equal, Natures partialities, and the i'm
mutable law.of God that some shall be rich and
some poor; some healthy and robust, and some
feeble and diseased some tall and others short
to the contrary notwithstanding.
But what are the avowed objects of the +" Lib
erty party 2" They are to make war upon the
institutions of the south? Or more accurately
speaking, the institution Of slavery. TO attain
the abolition Of slavery nothing is considered by
them--the leaders we mean--too sacred to be
demolished; their march must be over the ruins
of the Constitution; but what Of that ? the Con-
stitution is not regarded by them as of any mo-
ment, when compared with what they call the
rights and the happiness of the blacks They
would rear their Temple of Liberty upon the
ruins Of that magnificent structure, which was
erected by Washington and his fellow-laborers
of the Revolution, and whose blood and treasure
formed lis cement. We are not called upon to
defend slavery; it is the misfortune Of the coun-
try not its fault, that it was attached to the soil
while we were yet colonies and in our infancy
1t took deep root at the south, and became
part and parcel Of the domestic habits usages,
and necessaries of the people. It's existence was
recognised by the Constitution, and its regula-
listed; other States separately, and the Union as
a whole, bound themselves not to interfere with
il, or disturb the people Of the south in the pos
session of their property. The Constitution was
acompact between all the members Of the Union,
agreed to only by different sections yiediug some
thing, and each taking the concessions of the
other as equivalents for what they themselves
gave up Thus formed, it was not only bond
of union, but mutual shield of protection,
against foreign nations aud each other. Under
this Constitution, thus formed, our country has
enjoyed an extraordinary degree of happiness and
prosperity, checked at times by the ignorance,
mismanagement, or corruption of the Govern
ment, but on the whole rapidly progressive.
But what now do the leaders of the third
or "Liberty party" propose Wiser in their
own conceits than those who framed the Consti-
tuition, and purer and more conscientious than
the patriots OF that day, they declare the Consti-
tuition all wrong, and that those who have here
tofore lived in peace and prosperity under it, and
enjoyed mutual protection from its broad, pro-