Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-11-26
W1spoM OF THE LIBERTY Patty Organic

article on the p0icy oil Inc Li0erty farty last week
naturally brings US to consider the wisdom Of or.
g,nizins and maintaining party in the manner
therein plainly confessed viz: of raising adherents
upon some great question Of public interest, lea
wing on; of sight altogether other equally impor.
tan interests upon which people are divided in
sentiments, until prospects" of success becomes
sufficiently "fal,ering. aid then taking sides ex.
pecting that the cohesive power Of party dscl-
pline will draw the masses in the wake of the lea
ders. We Inadvertently said the extract led us to
make some remarks OIL the wisdom of such a
course, we might better have said the folly oft;
we might without violation Of language say the
dishonesty Of it. The folly of it is mos, apparent
in its entire want of its success.
The Anti Masonic excitement affords fair
sample Of this. though we are far from saying tina:
in that there was any dishonesty. 1t was spon-
taueous movement OF a large part Of the people Of
the state of New York to punish the most Outra.
geous INVASION ofpersonal Liberty and life. For
thus PURPOSE they attacked the powerful secret
fraternity which they believe guilty otihe outrage
through the ballot box, and far from the meagre
successwhIch so well peases the Liberty party lea
ders, they gained powerful footing in the State
Legislature they defeated themselves by division
aud thus only failed to carry the state. In the
New Eng and states they gained great victories,
and there now remains fragment Of the party IN
Pennsylvania to show that they existed there; and
this powerful party fell away, melted like wax
before the sun. ere the exigency which gave rise
to it had passed merely because other topics were
hurried ON in the course Of Jacksoa's headloDg ad.
mlnlstration, aud men were driven to act upon
them. Those who had but yesterday stood an .
tagonists, were to day fighting side by side in de-
fence of the Tariff, National Bank, Deposiles, De-
postes. Specie, Circular, Land Distribution, Sur.
plus Revenue Distribution, &c. and Anti. Masonry
passed away among the things that were.
The present Liberty Party" is destined to a
eulI shorter continuance, at least to less fater-
ing promises of success. The whole attendant
circumstances is most unfortunate. Destined to
support what itself styles 'fhorough Democ' aic''
DOCTRINES aud what we have shown from its own
authority to be only sleeper deep" of those same
measures we have ever opposed in It's "natural
ally" the original "Democratc" party, is yet al
most exclusively CONFUSED of Wings who have
Joined ii,not because they have changed their opin-
ions in regard to other subjects, but because they
could, in ;her opinions thereby render more effec-
tual, their sympathy for the slave. In the mean
time. the Wing Party in body. north and south,
are rapidly advancing towards that State of heal
thy sentiment and acun, OH the subject OF Slavery
and slave preponderance, which every we'll wisher
to his COUNT desires to see il occupy. Let the
"Liberty" leaders avow then their Free Trade,
Anti Internal Improven ent, Sub Treasury senti-
ments openly ifthey wish to be desere by their
party, and find themselves without the shadow Of
excuse for no, shrinking back into their former
places in the ranks of The so called democracy. {"
| SALE OF THE RAILRoADs.-Says the Express,
1--WE like the irmness Of the Editor of the "fpsl-
ant Sentinel" in opposition to the sale Of the Rail
roads, but we like better to see the state rid of the
enormous debt which is hanging over US, &c.
We reply, we are not less socitous than the
Express that the state should be rid Of the debt
aud we were not less solicitous, previous 10 the
election, that she should be rid Of the manage.
men, which has plunged her INTO debt. but with
all our solicude, we do not believe that the case
is yet so desperate that she has no choice as to the
manner in which she shall emancipate herself
Nor are the leading advocates of the SAFE in either
party as much Influenced by desire TO preserve
The honor ofthe state as by other Influences. Some
4 Of them in the Wing party nave not hesiied to
cast upon that party the foul aspersion, tha
should the State administration fall into its hands
the same corruption and Encouragement woule
characterize its conduct. As an humble membe
of the party we repel The charge as far as it bears
upon eny except those who make il; and they
having thus exposed themselves. must not expec
that their motives will be regarded with mucf
tenderness. trzl az !, 49, = 81 r
Were the bonds Of the State, at this time, il
the hands of individual holders, scattered here ant
there an hundred or thousand dollars in place
we believe we should hear little SAID about ihs
credit of the state. But this is not the case ihes
bonds have all been purchased at great discount
aud ire now IN the hands of those who ''mak
overtures'' TO the stale for the purchase OF tn
roads. Those whose wealth has enabled then
TO SOW the seed, in the poverty of others, The fu
harvest Of which they are about 10 reap in TN
sale of The roads. They can make their voIc
heard they can speak through leading presses @