The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-11-11
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY. VT.
Tuesday, Nov. Il. 1845.
BIRNEY ABOLITIONISM.

felt inc keenest sympathy Tor th0Se VINO
would adopt any measures for its overthrow
of which VIC could entertain any reasonable
hope of success. Under the influence of
such feelings, we have never been able to
doubt for moment that the Third party
abolitlonists as body, are perfectly hon
est, and that they believed. they were in
the line of duty in fpursuing the most
mistaken measures they could 10 defeat
their own purposes, during the last Presi-
Dental canvass. But if there was ever par
ty who more than any other which has ex-
| lsted in the country, has been outraged, cheat
ed and deceived by unprrcipled and ambi-
,ious leaders, il is that to which we have al
luded. No intelligent man who has been
conversant with our political history fortwen-
" years past, but will at once conclude that
The Wing party have uniformly done the
work Of consistent and patriotic abolition
ism. Both in Congress and out, they have
always breasted themselves against the polit-
zeal aggressions Of the South upon the
North. They have ever done all that men
could de to repress the encroachments of
slavery-to adopt measures Of sradual'eman-
cpai0n, when it could be done consistent
with the peace and harmony of the Union, and
above all TO prevent the odious institution
from extending its limits beyond the States
where the guarantees of the constitution le-
" I. yeilf l.. IL.
the sincerity OF the Wing party was most
sirihingly eSemplihed during the last session
Of Congress, when every Northern Wing and
every Southern Wing, with very few OK
cePtions, in both Houses ofCong ress, voted
against the annexation O: Texas, in opposi-
ton to the great body of the loco party who
voted for it.
But in defiance OF the most undsputa-
bic evidence to the contrary, Brney asd
his satellites, throughout the country. during
the last Presidential election, had the brazen
eliroutry to denounce the Wing party as
much the friends of annexation as their op-
ponents; and stignatized them as corrupt
and hypocritical in the spirit and language
of The most feudish malignity. Even at this /
moment when argument has ended in I
demonstration, the same wretched misrep
reservations are paraded before their follow
ers by the leaders of Third partyism, to bliud !
them to the outrageous wrongs which their !
own unpIincipled ambition and hypocricy
h1va t,f Il.
But the same change of hypocricy urged
by these men against the Wings for voting
for Mr.. Clay we hurl back upon them for re-
fusing to do so. They professed TO be dead.
ly hostile to annexation as the means of
the saveocratic domination in
the government. They knew that Henry
Clay, Of all Southern statesmen, had ever I
been most friendly to Northern policy
that in word and deed, he was friend to
human ireedOm,-that he had condemned
slavery as great moral and political evil
hat he bad ever advocated gradual emanci
patton, and like Washington, Jefferson and
Madison, looked forward with delight to the
lay when this odious plague spot should be
wiped out ef The escaicheon of the country.
md that he had repeatedly declared himself
opposed to the annexation OF Texas, unless
he free consent of Mexico and the great
'ody ofthe people of this Union could be
'btained. In his last letter upon the sub
ect, he declared that be was opposed to an l.
Iexation as in itself dishonorahle, and that t
t could not be effected upon any just and v
dmissible conditions.
But disirust Mr.. Clay as tLey pleased, o
hey knew he was but one of party who in "
'ublic and in private protested TO abhor an
exation, and whose sincerity has since been u
erifed by an almost unanimous vote against C
hat measure during the last session of Con- II
ress. il
They knew too that Mr.. Polk was the YER u
liable Magnus Apollo of annexation, and
he untireing champion of the slave pow
r in its worst and widest movements,and >
Or that very reason was preferred as candi- II
ate by the Loco party who before and u
nce his election, have done all in their pow
r to consummate that odious measure
hey knew too, as there was not the least G.
respect Of the election of Mr.. Birney, that
very vote cast for him essened the chances Z
success for party in whom all hopes of .
efeat to annexation were concentrated v
'ul in the teeth of all these facts, Birney and IT
is drill sergeants openly avowed their pref u
renee for Mr.. Polk. They opened their Oh
arteries against Mr.. Clay and the Wing C;
arty with feriocity Of abuse which out al
eroded even Loco bitterness aud n.alig- IL
ity. They accomplished the only thing n
ear their hearts. They Frustrated the Wing u
arty, by throwing away their votes upon e. :.
iird candidate, knowing that thereby they -
ere aiding tine election of an annexation
andidate
But what is the excuse for this base hetray-
oT ,b. o,,.o ~ ,boI;tion xxh n these Lead