Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-21
From The Cleveland american.
RIDICULOUS !

The Cincinnati Weekly Herald. of the 22d
July, has am article, in which it takes the po-
sition that it is not necessary for the Liberty
party TO nave a candidate for the Presidency.
1t intimates that the nomination of such men
as DR.. LeMoyne, of Pennsylvania; Owen
Loveioy, of Illinois; John p. Hale, of New
Hampshire, would be to make great men Of
small ones, after the style of the Democracy
in the case of Mr.. Polk. The Herald stands,
it says, uncommitted on the question of a
Presidential candidate, until some one be no.
minated whom 1t believes to be qualified
This is we'll enough, of course; but then, it
roes on to say, that = a presidential nominal
ton, although important, is not essential to
the unity Of our organization" After advert
ing to the course of the Native American
Party, in making no nomination for the Pre-
sidency, and not thereby losing its party or
ganization, it says, $50 that it should come
to pass, that no candidate for the Presidency
could be found, who would be fully qualified
to do honor to the office and good to the party
as its nominee, a nomination might be dis
pensed with" DR.. Bailey admits that DR..
LeNloyne would make a suitable candidate
for the Vice Presidency, but evidently sup
poses that a candidate for the Presidency must
have some higher qualifications than a candi-
date for the Vice Presidency. Mr.. Loveioy
is a better preacher than politician, says the
Herald, though it admits he is of 'clear in
tellect and exalted integrity" Mr.. Hale can
only go as high as to discharge the duties of
a Senator in Congress. SO the Liberty party
must have something of a larger calibre than
either of these men, or DR.. Bailey will not
support him for the Presidency. Fudge !!
This affectation of the Herald is ridiculous.
Why not specify the qualifications your can
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forward for that high office may be tested by
your standard. Frankness requires this at
the hands of the Liberty men, so that there
may be an open and earnest attempt to select
such a candidate as we can honestly and con-
s%istently support.
But there is one in the Liberty ranks now
who could be supported for Vice President,
but would not do for President. Well, sup
pose DR.. Bailey's President should die or re-
sign, then what would we do? But we must
have a candidate who "would be fully qualified
TO do honor to the Office and good to the party"
A man however, of 'clear intellect and eN-
allied integrity" is not the man-one we'll
qualified to discharge the duties of a United
States Senator for six years, is not the man
for Presidents; no, nor the man of whose
fitness for the Vice Presidency there is no
doubt" There must be something else
such men will not honor the office of Presi-
dent, nor do good TO the party" Well then,
who would? O, there does not seem to be
any one in the Liberty ranks now, so quail
fed, and so we must either toll in SOM one
of the great men from one Of the two great
Pro-Slavery parties, or we must 60 without
a Presidential candidate. And who, pray,
from these parties, would do "honor to an
Office, and good to a party" Would Daniel
tE,lr,,r ,bn uroot n,nia11 \Nnull Han
~ Clay !-great Harry of the Westl Would
Martin Van Buren,, Silas Wright, James Bu-
chanan, or Lewis Cass, or even William Al
len, of Ohio, or as he is Familiarity termed,
Bill Allen! No doubt that if we could make
the bribe of ballots tempting enough to these
men, we might obtain any one OF them as
candidates; but would they " honor the office
or do good to the party 2" Oh! these great
cieUenM hour men, "are not the men for me-
There are many in the Liberty ranks now,
whose self-denying patriotism and ripe eXpe-
%rience, would make them an honor to any
station a righteous people could bestow. But
would their nomination "do good TO the par
ty?" Aye, there's the rub. But this depends
very much on what we consider good to the
party If by this is meant, that our candi'
date must be able to bring to the support Of
the party a hungry swarm of eager Office seek
ers, | am very far from thinking his nomina'
ton would "do good to the party" But i
may be that the candidate who will edo gooC
to the party must be one who will greatly
add to its popuLariiy. Well, if one can bC
found, out of the Liberty ranks, who cal
make the principles Of the party "pQPular
and thus increase its popularity" let him BY
all means, if otherwise qualified, be nominal
ed. But if he is to be nominated, because h.
is popular, and may possibly rub off a littl,
: of his popularity on to the Liberty party,
do not think the :" game worth the candle"
The Liberty party can only be made popu
lar so that its popularity will be worth pos
sessing, by men who dare to sacrifice thei
popularity for the sake Of the slave. This
may seem a solecism-that Il cause should be
made popular by a sacrifice Of popularity
but so it is. 1t is Gods way of taking the
wise in their own craitiness." DIR. Bailey
ought to know that their is not, nor has Their,
been, in the United States, a man who has
or has had popularity enough to enable hin
to Join the Liberty party, and make the party
popular, by any other means than this OF sell
sacrifice. 1t will not be otherwise, in all pro
liability, at the next Presidential election
No popular man will be likely to %sacriic,
himself on the altar Of Liberty; so that Oh
the Doctors plan we must have no candidate
nor can we hereafter have one, until we hav
made our principles popular. Butwhen Wi
that be? Why, we shall never know but b.
voting, and we must never vote till we know
And where, let me ask, does this lead to, bu
to no-voting abolitionism | say again, on
upon such political exquisitism!
But the Doctor does not say we must nc
vote. Oh no! we may here and there pic
up some kind of shaky timber, which may d
for a Governor, or member OF Congress; an
we may vote for them, and so show what W
might do if we had the right timber for Pr
sident. This may answer for such Phllos'
pliers as DR.. Bailey but most men will II
Iect it as too refined to be practical; and
if they cannot get a man Of shining qualitle