The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-02-24
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY. VT.
Tuesday, Feb. o. 1916.
CONSISTENCY THOU ART A JEW

Ell.
In the approaching Convention to revise
the Constitution of the State OF New York,
the Liberty Party are anxious TO secure the
right of suffrage to people of color. The at
tempt TO accomplish this object by voting for
Liberty candidates is acknowledged TO be ut
terly hopeless. But Carrot Smith insists up
on voting for no other. Alvan Stewart, how
ever, seems to have lucid interval about alb
oliIionism. as will appear from the following
extract of letter written by him upon this
subject:
"But for us to nominate candidates and TO
elect none, and set every body at defiance,
and encourage the old parties to roll on in
their old tracks and unman the colored man
of New York by robbing him of his vote, du
ring this generation, is load must bear if
God so will il, but will leave no stone I'M
turned 10 prevent so calamtous and terrible
an event, and IFS sin shall not be on my head.
But il is said, that a man who is not a
Liberty man has moral iDapttude to act in
the cause OF humanity, because he is men,
Der of pro-savery party, and therefore
should not receive our vote for he can do no
good thing which we can recognize and ratify
while others say we cannot vote for him
a delegate in Convention, though we know
be will vote for every thing in Convention,
the best Liberty man in the State would
vote Cor, if delegate; and though we knew
that, in consequence Of our refusal to give him
our vote he would lose his seat, and an anti
suffrage man be elected. and the 5000 or
10000 colored citizens Of this State and
their sons, are to be trodden down vote-less'
for this entire generation. I cannot sub
scribe to this dreadful strange d9ctrine.
But suppose, for the want ofour votes at the
polls, true pledge men for coIored suffrage,
conld not be elected, aud with our votes
would have been, and the colored man has
lost the golden prize, aud is to suffer on be-
meath the proud mans contumely and the
FOOLS reproach, until another half century is
come and gone. How stand we then
Why could not Mr. Stewart have reasoned
thus forcibly about the annexation of Texas,
a subject of incenceivably more consequence
10 the great cause of human freedom in this
nation and throughout the habitable globe
! Did not Alvan Stewart know that Birney
could not be elected in The last Presidential
campaign, and did he no: know that every
whig vote cast for him increase the chance Of
power of the Union. in opposition to a party
which comprised all the elements of resis-
lance which could stand in successful array
against it! Why pursue the empty phan-
tom of abolitionism in abandonment of the
impulses of common humanity towards the
sutferinss of the poor lash-marked slaves,
whose bonds, by the Texas villainy, are
made ten times stronger than everl If AL
van Stewatt is a true and fast friend of the
black man, how lacerated must his conscience
be when he reflects that the most terrible and
lasting calamity which has ever overtaken the
colored race in this country, extinguishing
all the hopes of emancipation for at least
half century to come, has arisen from the
very bgotry and infatualion of which he now
complains, of setting up candidates and cleo
ting none, and thus securing the triumph of
the sworn ard avowed foes of human free
dom.
10 another respect the course now pursued
by Mr.. Stewart is worthy of notice. 1t is
concession that vote given by an abolition
ist 10 member of the other parties is not
necessarily pro-slavery. This false prn-
ciple has been twice abandoned by abolition
lists in supporting Johu Quincy Adams TO
& ght the battles of freedom in Congress. and
should they reIinquish it altogether, and sup
port the wing party, the determination of sla-
very would be much more certain. There
never has been time within 20 years when
the wing party has not been essentially anti
slavery, and there never was time when the
loco party was so radically and necessarily
pro-slavery as at the present moment.
Beside, there never can be permanently in
any great force but two parties in this coun-
try. Under whatever name they enroll them
selves, one will embrace the principles of the
wings, and the other the no-principles Of The
locofocos. The wings of the North, except
some in our commercial cities under the in
huence of cotton planters, are anti-slavery,
and even the wings OF the South are much
more attached TO the principles of impartial
! freedom than even the locofocos of the North.