The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-09-23
for it if they really believed they should b6
called to stand 10 their vote2 No.n

odileu 10 stand 10 theIr vOte2 No."
The contrast in the language of the aboeg
quotations will not fail to strike The reader,
The conduct oil the party correspondent will
lhls language. They set themselves im,nes
diateIy TO bring about indirectly the aunexas
lion Of Texas Their motive for This strn,
Their leaders have avowed, was the FEAR that
Il tley mad united with the Wings and de-
ieated the annexation Of Texas, they shodfd
nave ceased TO exist as party. Mr. Birney
said on this pointi
"But suppose re had all voted for Mr. CldV
suppose him elected, and Texas kept ont
where would have been the Liberty partt Z
Scattered among Shareholders ard their allies
without having accomplished anything. The
Liberty party would not have been in exis--
iehce at this time II would have been COM
plelely dissolved"
MIR. Alvin Stewart on the same subject
said:
"ifwe had run with our 10000 originally
wings. now liberty men, TO the support OF Mr..
Clay. AID the q 600, formerly democrats, To-
Nr: Polk the liberty party would have been
eNtinct, and we should have been remember
ed only TO be despised. as body Of men who
tor want OF capacity or integrity, had allowed
our enemies TO take our arms out of our hands
ter Tor us than we could Tor ourselves, and
that we, the aboilionisis. had agreed 10 fire.
20 the splendors eftte rising sun of liberty.
lorthe heat and light ola Texas glow ,vorm!"
The unblushiug proficiency and The daring
hypocrisy Of these ;lvowals has no pareIlel IN
the poliical-unnals oil orr naiion ard, we
would hope, not in any Other. "Ralher than
have their arms taken ont oftheir hands - III
other words, rather than have the Whirss
vote against annexation. the ahoiionisf-
would prefer, and did prefer, that Texas
should be annexed, and thai thousands of
slaves should now be on their way TO Texas.
Yet these are the agitators who pretend To-
call their neighbors ''pro-savery men,
Finding that the Wings we're in earnest In
attempting to defeat annexation the Liberty
men resOrted TO means of unsurpassed wick
edness in attempting TO defeat their candl=
dates. In their opposition theymade no dis
elimination between candidates. whether they
were Shareholders or not. They were lust as
abusive towards John Quincy adams as to-
wards Henry Clay. lCthey were called up
on 10 vote for MIR. CLAY, they said they could
not vote for stakeholder; If they were cal
led upon to vote for Mr.. Adams. ii ey replicd
they could not vote for any thing but their
principles. What those principles were, no
two OF them agreed in; for. while MIR. Jay
| came out for a dissolution of the Union. Mr..
A. Stewart declared all such in substance.
| traitors. Yet both were aboIiiionistst
Among other methods resorted 10 by the
Liberty men 10 defeat the elcetfnn Of the
Wings, was The falseiiood uttered BY their
papers every where, declaring :has Nj Clay
was IN favor OF annexation. In ono or 1iS
letters 10 the public, Mr.. Clay had said. in all
fusion to the annexation of Texas:
81 should be glad 10 see it, (annexni:pnt
without war, without dishonor, and with the
common consent ofthe Unions
The ALBANY Patriot" an abolition paper,
the organ Of the party in this State. preien<
ding 10 give Mr. Clay's opinions, thus quoted
this sentence:
AaneratiOa-"I should be glad 10 see IT,"
H. Clay.
Leaving ont tire remainder offhe sentence
entirely. Yet this payer was then, and is
row. the mouih-picce Of Gerritt Smrih, and
we believe The Editor is high both in his con-
fidence and friendship, as well as the other
leaders Of the "Liberty men, of this State
This forgery, for such it IS. was kept standing
for weeks in the paper alluded to. and wag
circulated in extrus all over the State, gratul
itously.
We therefore feel justified in sayinr, fiat
the evidence which We have here addnced il
sufficient 10 prove on the leaders Of this party
a total desiiution Of political honor, disre-
gard oil truth. a want Of moral principle, and
a baseness towards political opponents. all
most uneqIaled in our history. There is nd
circumstance in their favor, ulIcss
he bold and unbiushing avowals Of their
such rs we have guo;ed, may he
considered Of that characier--M Y cypress,