The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-04-16
THIRDPARTY LEADERS.

Although the Wing party have ever open
ly denounced Slavery as Il cruel curse upon
the country, although from the very com
mencement of the abolition excitement both
in Congress and the nation the Wing leaders
and press have spared no efforts and shrunk
from no responsibility to PREVENT its bursting
from lis original limits, and pouring its desc
lating lava over the land, and on this ground
have uniformly and determinedy opposed The
extension Of Slavery to the territories, and
the Infamous scheme of Texas annexation,
while the Locofocoism has been all this time
waging deadly warfare against abolition,
yet the leaders OF Third Partyism have swell
ed with the most poisonous hate and yiiupsr-
alton against those who have exhibited the
nearest affinity TO the principles they profess,
and the purposes they would accomplish
They have even declared their preference,
70; Locofocoisn, arrayed themselves as its al
lies, and rejoiced in its trurnphs.
The unremitted and giant efforts of the
Wing party to prevent annexation which Le-
colocoism with equal energy is endeayorins
TO fix upon the nation can have no power 10
convince these leaders whose professions are
as empty as their motives are grovelug and
selfish. The events Of the last Presidential
canvass show most clearly that freedom to the
slave is nothing to these men in comparison
with the preservation OF their party & the graf
ifcaiiOn of their aspirations. Never have they
had better opportunity for fixing a limit to
the boundaries of slavery, and yet with their
eyes wide open they have pursued course
which will extend and perPetuate Slavery for
ever. Their votes in The State of New YORK
would have ensured the triumph ofthe Wing
party and prevented annexation. But they
choose 10 give the victory into the hands of
the most deadly foes ofemanciPation. They
choose to sacrifice liberty humanity aud even
at the shrine of an uuhallowed
ambition. Says Birney in Il speech recently
at Jacksonville, "What would have
become of the Third Party had We voted for
Mr. Clayl" How patriotic! How magnsn-
imous!!
The developemen's Of the last Congress
show how vain and empty were the preie1ts
under which Third party leaders would shell
ter themselves from the shame and dishonor
Of annexation. There could not be invented
a baser mockery Of the truth than the preteuce
tina, Henry Clay and the Wing party we're as
likely TO accede to annexation as James K.
Polk and his adhcrcnts. If the constant and
efforts Of the Wings to prevent
cannot convince these Third par
Iy gainsayers, human acts and human testify
Eau be of no avail. Pressed with the force of
the evidence they in vain endeavor to escape
lnder the cry of NypJcricy! HyPOcricy!!-
But here is a fixed fact which meets them at
every turn. Well enough do they see and
we'll enough have these leaders before seen
he full extent of their own folly and infaiua-
ion and the doom which awaits them. That
loom is the abandonment of the whole
cheme of Third party aboli;ionism. The
moment Third partyism submitted to pursue
policy which would add FIVE new slave
States 10 the Union without the least equiva-
en-, to the free States, its moral influence was
nnihilated. The leaders can no longer ex-
ect recruits from the Wing party whom
hey have so shamefuly abused in sustaining
lie cause of abolition which they have SO
eacherously abandoned. They can inGulge
no hope that Wings who have ever ven
rated the Union aad Constitution would
mite with them in a course of measures
hich must inevitably result in the destruc-
ON ofboth. Far less can they expect sym
athv from the slaveocratc Democracy
hich has ever treated them with derision
id contempt.
But Notwithstanding the feelings of eAas-
grafton at the leaders Of Third Partyism to
hose selfish and unpatriotic course the
Ihigs attribute the disasters oil the last les
entail campaign, they ought not to betran'-
rreJ TO the great body of Abolitlonists whose
most purposes o. emancipation to the slave
I'VE been so baseIy betrayed. With the
cat body of the Liberty party men we nave
onarreI w hatever. We have ever adVo-
ted ths noble principle ofimpartia freedom
a, as consistent with the harmony oil inc
ZION and the guarantees ofthe Consn'a''O"'