The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-17

with $4,000 worth of slaves, toilng under the
lash on his plantation!
A new party is like the ocean tide-whenever
it ceases to advance it has reached high-water
mark, and Immediately recedes.
Now. reader, after an attentive examination of
this singular appeal to the abotionists, we re-
specially suggest recurrence to the evidence
we have hitherto presented of the existence of
coalition-a bargain between the Locofoco party
and the abolition leader, James G. Birney. Mr..
Birney has been nominated to the Legislature of
Michigan by the Locofoco party he acknowledges
the fact in letter to the New York Tribune of
Tuesday, and leaves the reader to infer that he
will serve
In this connection, we quote from the letter oil
Mr.. Birney to which we have referred, the ex-
tract, in which he distinctly admits that he has
been nominated by the Locofoco party and, ia
city, that he is now on mission to the Eastern
States, for the purpose of inducing the abolition
lists to vote for Mr.. Polk. For mark his cautious
language he denies that he has undertaken such
a mission at The suggestion of, or in pursuance Of
an agreement with leading Locofoco Gen. Has
Cd, ous uCtClLLiCICooS duiHitos ~
ton, that he is engaged in electoneerng for Polk
Whatever have done has been done openly"
says Mr.. Birney, which is clear admission that
he has been SIDING openly" all in his power to
transfer his abolition friends to Mr.. Polk, as a
choice of evils in this same letter he repeats
what he has before declared, that he will prefer
the election of Mr.. Polk to that of Mr.. Clay and
protesting opposition to both, he nevertheless has
preference, and will doubtless act upon it.
We put it to the Southern people-we put it to
the whole country, to say if there is not good
ground to believe that Northern Locofocos have
operate with them in their schemes of emancipa-
ton! What else can induce aboltionsts to CO.
alesce with Locofocos? Has not one party
pledged itself to the perpeuation of slavery, and
the other to its abolition! How, then, have they
been brought together! How, unless Northern
Locofocos, the leaders of whom are capable Of any
baseness, have pledged themselves to assist the
abolitioniss in executing their favorite schemes |?
Mr.. Birney says:
although | have been nominated by my DEM
ocratlc neighbors, no one in the county would
have spoken of me as of that party, had not the
cue been given by the wire-workers Of the Wing
especially by the originator Of the coalition
story, the Detroit Advertiser, print that has
spared neither fact nor fiction to win over the Lib.
erty party in Michigan TO the support of the
Wings, by weakening their confidence in me. A
specimen of its recklessness may be seen in the
statement transferred to the Tribune-that if
my conference with General Hascall at Flint
were divulged, it would doubtless disclose that
my mission to The East was undertaken at the in
stance of the Locofocos, as well as leading aboli-
tionists of New York, though coaked under the
prctence of visit to my son residing in Connec-
ticut. | neither saw General Hascall when I
was at Flint, nor have ever exchanged with him
dozen words on any matter of party politics.
This is all fiction. Whatever have done has
been done openly; and absolve from every obi
gallon OF secrecy all persons with whom | have
conversed on matters pertaining to public men or
party measures"