Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-25
From The CleUeiand american.
The Presidential Convention.

Mr.. EpIroR :-Why do you go for post
poning until another year, the convention for
nominating candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency? For one, | confess my
self unable to see how the nomination can
be made too soon. | doubt not, either, that
such is likewise the sentiment of the great
mass of Liberty men on the Reserve, as /
know it to be that of leading members of
the party elsewhere, even in the vicinity OF
some of those Liberty presses which have
expressed an opinion similar to your own.
have seen no good reasons given for de-
ferring the convention till 1913. The rea-
sons for this, stated by the National Era,
are almost as unsatisfactory TO my mind, as
The views that journal has been so busy in
putting forth relative 10 the character Of our
national Constitution. ! should be sorry to
see the judgment, and, still more, the action
of the Liberty party, determined by either.
The amount of those reasons is, that the
Wings, or the Democrats, or both, may make
such nominations as will render it inexpe-
dient for the Liberty men to nominate sepa-
rate candidates; and that therefore, it would
be unwise for the latter 10 meet in convention
before the former shall have acted in the pre-
misses. "We know not" says the Era,
''what a day or an hour may bring forth. +
lDtlpIG utAb NAY a pltlNl WI
rect opinion can he formed Of the character Of
the tickets to be presented for the sufIrages
of the people, and, of the final policy of the
old parties-ard then we can shape our NOM
nations accordingly. Till then, it seems to
us wise to let our enterprise move along upon
its own merits, without the embarrassment
of any nomination."
trust it is for no such reasons that the
| A,,nri,,n r,noc u-ii1, thn Erp for DnStnOnInU
the proposed convention. lcan scarcely con-
ceiye OF greater DISQUALIFICATION, than would
be implied in a Liberty editors fancying,
that either the Wings or the Democrats, as a
party, are going to take anti-slavery ground
in the coming Presidential campaign. Nay
is it not quite certain, and was not the Lib
erty party founded in part on the idea, tina.
neither OF those parties, as a party, can take
anti-slavery ground; that either, in virtue o
that which makes tia Wing or a Democratic
party, is incouigibly pro-slaveryl Wait
see what the Wings and Democrats will do
sand then we can shape our nominations &C
cordingIy." The Liberty party claims to b,
right. Then it should go ahead waiting
like time and tide, for no man, and least o
all for men in any p%iratical organizations
And what means the Era by talking Of 9Th
embarrassment" Of a nomination fit mean
what it says, it should urge, it seems to me
a longer postponement than that Of a lively
month. fit would be, indeed, an embarrass
ment to have before the people a true repre-
sentative of the Liberty cause in the perso
of some tried and faithful Abolitionist, the
the longer we postpone the nomination {
sucha man for the Presidency, the BETTER
And it would be better still, TO make II
nomination at all; to %''letour enterprisemo TO-
along upon its own merits until the time {
its consummation. Plainly enough, on this
as on the Constitutional question, the Ell
and the Liberator are not nearly so wide aPaI
as they might be-.
The Cincinnati Herald, which, in tie ma
ter of the convention, as in most others, TO
lows the Era, as the shadow its substance.
of opinion, thai, in case the old parties shoul
persist in their pro-siavery course, many
their numbers will be ''driven out;'' that
would not be ''irrational in that coniingenC
to count upon their cooperation with Il
Liberty party in the great work Of confirm
the curse OF human slavery to its constit