The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-28

approve the measures and policy of Hen
ry Clay or Martin Van Buren,, excepting
so Jar as either of them may be connect.
ed with the sole question of Immediate
Emancipation? Is it not true that the
Liberty party while aiming to obtain the
management of the General Government
are silent as the grave on all the great
questions of principles and policy, which
are vitality indispensable to the successful
administration of that Government Is il
not true that, in presenting the names of
James G, Birney and Thomas Morris as
the Candidates of the Liberty party for
the exalted Offices of President and Vice
President of the United States, al the head
of the leading column of the Voice of
Freedom, you recommend them 10 the
popular suffrage by quoting from their
published letters certain opinions of theirs
on the sole question of Abolition Is it
not true that your doughty cham pion,
Investigator in recent articles occupying
some eight or niue columns of your pa
per vehemently agonizes over the sole
topic OF the hypocrisy Of the Wings of
Vermont and their State Committee in
regard to the single question of Slavery I?
Is not all this true, Mr.. Holcomb, and if
SO. ask you, in pertec! sincerity and res
pec', HOW MANY ideas the Liberty party
embraces2 | have before me your pa pers
of Feb. 22nd and 29th, and March 9TH
and 18th, 1874, and there is not one SIM
gle political topic discussed in them,
either by the Eiitor,his correspondence or
by the extracts from other Journals, but
that of Abolition. Attach as comprehen-
slve an importance, therelore,as you please
10 this single idea, it is zone idea still;
and | beseech you TO reflect whether it is
wise or statesmanlike, thus to neglect
and oppose, as you virtually do, all the
other great interests of great people, al!
the principles which are admitted 10 exert
a controlling influence over our national
prosperity, and confine yourself TO the
pursuit of single object, meritorious and
desirable as it is, which, after all, can on
" be reached through the voluntary ac-
tion OF the Save-hoIdng States, or thro'
violation of the Constitution, and over
the fragments of our glorious Uniou.
say cannot be otherwise reached, because
the widest abolItionist in the world will
not pretend that the Southern States will
consent 10 surrender their constitutional
rights at the bidding of the North, and the
abolition of Slavery in riOlation of those
constitutional rights, IS, in and of itself,
the dissolution of the Union. Will YOU
assert that the question Of Slavery is the
only one deserving the consideration OF
the American People in a Presidential
canvass, land that the questions of the Tar.
if, the Currency, the Pnblic Domain, the
Sing lie Term, and the National Policy
generally, may safely be lief; to take care
of themselves? Or will you declare that
your OBJECT is the immediate and uncon-
ditional abolition OF Slavery, Constitution
or no Constitution, Union or no Union i?
If you will, Mr.. Editor, though | NAV
not have overrated your integrity, l have
mistaken your Intelligence and your pat
riotism. With those who seek ann OBJ
ject, in opposition to the Constitution and
the Laws, | can have no controversy; and
| respectfully ask, If you believe that the
probabilities of the Abolition of Slavery
would be rendered brighter, and our in
fuence TO hasten it enlarged, by the dis
solution of the Union? | ask you then,
and | would thank you for a candid re-
ply, ifthe Wings of Vermont have not
done all that the Liberty party could con.
statutiOmaLly do to advance the cause of
Emancipation if they should attain pos
session ofevery department of our State
Government address these questions
and considerations to you, Mr.. Hocomb,
because | believe you TO be not a mere
parizan, blind or Indifferent to the means
so that you reach desired end and, fur
thermore, because | believe you to be as
distinguished from your correspondent,
investigator in every quality of fair
and honorable opponent, as | think YOU