The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-11-20
NOTES ON ABOLITION.

We love not Slavery; We hope and trust
we shall live TO see il banished from our coun-
try, and we mean 10 Go what is ln our power
to aid that consummatlon. In doing this We
shall choose our own time and means, avoid
ing abuse or denunciation of shareholders,
even though they be welded TO the system,
and believe it should be fortified and perpetu-
ated If thew choose to denounce us for our
conscientious hostility TO their cherished IN
stitu,ioas, that is their affair; hut if they
will hear us, we confidently expect TO con-
vince them that slavery is, not grlevous
| wrong to the slaves, certainly curse to the
shareholders, and sconrge to the commu-
nity which cherishcs i;-that il is this, and
and not something else, which is steadily
changing the fertility of the South TO barren
ness, and retarding its Social and Industrial
progress.
On this vast and profoundly interesting sub
ject we should have spoken more fully and
! frequently, but for the existence and baleful
! Influences Of that cause Of so many calamities,
the Abolition party. 1t is this which agra
Yates to absurdity the sensitiveness of the
slave-holding section to any discussion OF or
comment on Slavery, either at the North or
/ South. We can well remember the time
when Southern as well as Northern phlan-
! thropists, statesmen, and journals discussed
this subject freely, and condemned Slavery
with freedom and severity which the South
now does, but then did not regard as incendi-
airy. Ii is this misnamed "Libery" party
which now stops the ears and closes the gates
| of the South to any presentment of.the facts
and arguments which should impel TO the
Emancipation of slaves. Ii is this same par
| ty which has just given the State Of New
| York to Polk and Dallas, and thereby extend
ed the slave region of the Union from the Sa
| bine to the Colorado. 1t is this Liberty PAL
ty which has wilfully, wickedly given new
life-lease to Slavery in our country, by open
! ing new and vast market to the cupidity OF
slave-breeding, and lining with gold the peck
cts of the slaye-traders. God forgive the ig
Moran: and simple mary in the ranks of this
party for they knew not what they did. but
for the Leavitts, and Birneys, aud Alvan
| Stewarts-coRvenieDt instruments and ac-
completes of our Calhouns, McDuflies, and
! Polks-there must be righteous retribution
1t is by the Liberty party mainly that our
maiorities in the Wing Counties are broken
down, while Cortland, Cheuanso, Clinton,
&c. &c. are turned against us. Our friends
| ia the interior, in sections where Abolition
dourishcs, had no more untiring or venom
Gus adversaries than the members of the mis-
called Liberty party, who were everywhere
recognized aud fellowshipped by the Loco
! Focos as their most serviceable allies. In
some cases Liberty newspapers have been
subscribed for in quantities by the Polk
Committees and scattered broadcast over
their Counties, as their ierocious assaults Oh
Mr.. Clay and their abuse on him as a slave
holder, gambler, proGigate, &c. would be
more efectual than if poured forth through
their own better known conduits. At one
poll in Oneida Co. we are informed that :
leading Aboliiionist openly electioneered with
Biruey and Polk tickets in his hands, entreat.
ing every one to vote FOR Birney first, but il
not so then>fo Polk--at any rate, so as 10
defeat the immoral, abhorTent Clay! In
Deeriicld, Onei.a Co. we hear that scvera
who clec,ioneered savagcly for Birney, them
selves voted for Polk! This may be so, but
in spirit the conduct of the whole party thrO
the contest has been no better than this. The
old game Of two upon one has been played
most intently by the junto who gamble lol
office with slave-whips and collars, from Biz
uey down, and ii has succeeded, as it gener-
ally does. All through the contest the Al
hany Argus and its satellites have been pat
ting Birney on the back, explaining and de-
tending his course, and evidently regarding
him as the cousin or next friend of Polk and
Texas. We shall now see how the holy ALI,
ance gets on.-Iribme.