The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-11-13
LIBERTY
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L "A ~ Z
1t would seem TO US that no position could
be more preposterous than that in which the
Third Party have placed themselves before
the public. They boast of themselves as be-
ing the exclusive friends of the slave and vet
| cooperate with locos who would extend and
perpetuate slavery & against the wings who
would limit and firmly oppose it, while
loudly protesting incorporating hostility
to both parties and to discard all interference
with those measures of national policy which
divide them as ofittle consequence in compar-
iSon with abolition. The liberty men have
uniformly poured their bitterest gall upon the
Wings while they have applied but soft i'm
parchment to their adversaries. Thus so
emulous are they in their hatred to the wings
that they reject their aid and cling to the Bit
terest revilers of those very principles which
form the basis Of their party organization
In debate between Mr.. Giddings and Judge
King, recently in Ohio, the former asked the
latter il he would vote for Mr.. Clay if there
by he would prevent the annexation of
Texas: Judge King declared he would not
The Third party leaders well know that the
annexation Of Texas eau never take effect
under the conditions which Mr. Clay has
uniformly prefixed 10 ii, and at the same time
they just as well know that Polk was brought
forward for the purpose of carrying out
annexation, and that his cause is denounced at
the South upon that very ground. But moth
ing can assuage their yinemous hostility to
Mr.. Clay, or iuduce:the least determination
with the Wings in their assaults upon Polk
the common enemy of their common princi-
pies.
1t svery futile for Liberty party men to in
sist that they have candidate in the field
whom they must support to sustain their
principles. when the most sanguine among
them know their candidate caunot succeed,
and every vote cast upon him enures to the
benefit ola deadly foe to their cause. To the
conscientious portion of this party we say
nothing can be more wicked than this. 1t is
virtually, wilfully, rnd Willingly supporting
candidate for the very purpose of defeating
the principles you profess. Abolitionists
thus convict themselves of base hvpocricy
in pretending to an amiable sympathy in their
heats TO the slave which all their actions and
associations belle. In relation to many of
the more noisy leaders of the party we uever
had the slenderest confidence in the tender
ness oftheir philanthropy. They have far
other objects in view than the emancipation
f,he poor degraded slave. Whether the
down-trodden blackman is bound or free will
never break their hearts, If by agitating the
public mind they can acquire power, popu-
larity or emolumeut by their political organi-
cation. How clearly the recent course of Mr.. |
Bimey in declaring for free trade, and per
uniting himself to become loco candidate
for the Legislature of Michigan, belle his
professors of limiting the operations of third |
partyism to the abolition of Slavery Into |
what degrading alliance with locoiocoism is
he now debasing it; an alliance which will
promote the election of men to Office who |
are pledged to sustain and perpetuate the |
slave power in all its revolving relations.
From the course pursued by Birney men who
can,doubt that they have far more at heart the
defeat ofthe Wing ticket than the protection
of the slave or the exclusion of Texas from
the grasp of slave power. Such indeed is the
inconsistent course more recently pursued
by Birney and majority Of his leading fol-
lowers that many believe that they would not
have slavery peacibly abolished if it could
be. Should agitation cease, how many press
es, lecturers, and salary-men, would lose
heir emoluments.and how many vaulting po-
itical aspirants will be doomed to witness
heir brilliant prospects blasted in the bud.
We would however observe that our re-
marks are directed TO the leaders Of the Lib
'rty Party, who claim to be apostles in the
Holy warfare of impartial freedom. We
'now full well the honest purpose. of multi
udes of their followers who sincerely desire
o carry out the great plans Of P hpanth,opy