Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-09-19

= fnent, bound TO protect them 'agalllstsnVt
sions from without and copVulsons with
in, at the same time using all its patron
age to take from them what the Constis1i
ton guaranteed to them as property.
Another consideration. By d fuhdamer
tai rule Of that party no man who happen
< TO own a negrocan, in any event, reeev
a vote or appointment to any post OF hon
or, trust, OR profit, and consequently, tn
whole patronage of the General Govern
ment when under the controI Of the ali
berty men," would be welded in favor o
the Liberty party" and a siave-holde
would have no better chance to he an off
cerofGovernlHentunder.,Nr BiERey thar
would a Whig ander James K. POLE
What spectacle it would present to the
friends of law androrder, to see Tappan,
JAY or Garrison, or some of tde other .Abo-
ltionists Of New York, Boston, or else
; where, sent 10 be the Postmaster at
Charleston, South Caroinal You would
expect all.kind of inhanatory pamphlets
and pictorial representations, with the
usual erithels accompanying them, call
ing the slave-holders muTdcrcrS, roG ers,
thieves, &c, to circulate, and he, the Post
master, Custom house officers, and all 9TH
ers, sent there by the Federal Government
to be constant agitators. Does any one
suppose that any Stare would pernitsuch
fire brands to be thrown among such com
bustible materials? We think not.
What would be the condition OF our for
eign affairs under the Regime of these Ii
berty men? This is a9uestion about which
we could say much, ifroom andtine would
permit, bat we must iOrbear. We have
large commercial relations with many
countries where slavery does exist. Would |
the .Libefiy patty, II atthe head of affairs,
Observe course of strict neutraityi OrE
would they not rather ntcrmeddIe with the
internafatiairs Of foreign States! We think
they would. Our reason forso tt7ilAiipgis
founded on the well known fact that they
are perpetuaiiy engaged in aiding negroes
toescape from our sister States, and from
their misguided and enthusiastic, wild and
unbrdIed notions of Liberty, nothing bet
tercoud be expected. Much more could
lie SAID if time would permit. In Short, \
they (the'rLtbHly" abolilionists1 set up
tests for voting unknown to our admirable
We think Phe least reAee- t
ton imaginable will enable the candid en- Il
9uirer after truth to see as in mirror, that
The whole tendency of the Libery PARTY
is revolutionary in its character, and cal
neIated to produce feelings antagonist to
the permanency ofthe union Of these Uni
led States. Fl
WhatwiIl they accomplish if they sue h
.eed ingetting to the head of the Govern C
nent! We have, we thiIAl, shown con- S
luslveiy that Their success as u party y
would amount to a disruption of the Con- II
ttut'on, and where.wou they ana their a
I-dircctcd sympathy for the negro then a
e! With the country from the Rio Del |
Iorte to the Potomac in one entire Gov OF
rnment, and slavery there fostered for be
ges. &C
What good 1--WE now ask those who left fu
lie Wing party have your efforts as par 81
done for the negro! Wcask, if bygour h;
forts as political party .youItIarr in any u
sy abridged the area Of negro slavery! al
dhe other hand eve are bold to assert, m
I'd no man dare deny il, that you have, an
your organization, been the means afsn- lei
king Texas TO this country--lheraby of
tending Nfgro S3aUery. .You have, in pa
ords, been keeping apa constant war Ira
anst the shareholders, and at the same lie
he building tVp u great overslIadowing th
I'VE market for the slave-breeders of,Vir- led
nia}&c. wi
You have been ostensibfy cendeavoring hc
loosen, whilst in. factyou have fastened Fo
Int, the chains of slavery on the negro. th'
u have heen engaged i'm aiding runa- "
ly slaves to escape from tire Statrs me
lere they are recognized as property; ha
d that, toO,' in'open and direct violation cri
the laws OF your country and your Con- nc
tuition, which many fof you have often tnt
'egnto support. All these, and many aff
ler things you have done undera mis- an
tded notion of religion Or "a false philan- pre-
'Opy. pal
We say to that portion Of you with ter
lom we have often acted. and with me
ION we have aided in bearing Sloft an
, Whig Banner, consider the whole IN
omd, examine your position in a mcn- ng
T becoming American citizens, and re- $50