Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-11-15
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BEDFoRp, Oct. 9Th ls49.
M Deuy SIR: At the Buffalo Con-
vention in le4S, new party was FORM
ed, STYLED by some the Free Soil party,
and BY others the Free Democracy
This party was composed of Seceders
from she two national parties, and en-
braced almost the whole of the old Lib
erty party. The Wing and Democratic
issues were discarded as to nnlmportant
to divide the friends of human freedom
Accordingly Mr.. Van Buren,, seeding
Democrat, was nominated in opposition
to Mr.. Cass, the Democratic candidate
and Mr.. Adams, a seeding Wing, in
opposition to Mr.. Fillmore the Wing
candidate, while the Liberty party, TO
the good of the common cause, with,
drew the candidate. already nominated
by them.
Recently the Democratic seceders III
New York who hal joined the Free Soil
party, have returned into the bosom Of
the old National Pro-Slavery Democrat
ic party and while protesting individual
hostility to slavery, declare that such
hostility will not be made by them q
party test They have accordingly con-
scented to support candidates brought
forward by men who utterly repudiatc
the Free Soil creed. Hence these New
York Democratic Free Sellers are now
bound by all the ties which their own
professions can forge, torsupport Cass or
Calhoun at the next Presidential Elect
ion, should either be the Democratic can
didate. The avowed object of the late
union is, not to rescue our territories from
the curse of slavery but to WHIP THE
Wires to get Office by reviving the
very issues sacrificed at Buffalo on the
altar of freedom.
In this reunion and its motive, I think
see not only surrender of principle,
but betraying Of those members of the
Wing and Liberty parties who acted
with the seeding Democrats in voting
for Mr.. Van Buren,. Hence, l feel un-
der no obligation whatever, to support
the present mongrel Democratic ticket.
So far as profession goes, regard the
Wing party in New York, Judging from
their late addresses, as far more relia-
BILE Free Soil party than the New York
Democratic Coalition; and where the
candidates are in other respects equally
qualified, I prefer the Wing nominees as
apparently the most true to the Anti
Slavery cause /; at least the Wings have
not abandoned, cheated and betrayed
their friends and fellow laborers for
moiety Of the spoils
It is under these circumstances, that
in your letter (received last evening" you
ask my opinion of the expediency Of
Immediately calling a convention Of the
old Liberty party. The sxpediency of
such call must Of course depend in a
great degree upon the disposition Of the
party to respond to it. I am too much
retired, and have too little intercourse
with the gentlemen Of the party to know
their views in the present unexpected
emergency. If such call should be
cordially welcomed by the party, and
the Liberty ticket should receive fifteen
or twenty thousand votes, a wholesome
rebuke would be administered to onr
recreant Democrats, and the result would
tend to prevent similar treachery else
where. But should the ticket receive a
languid support, its failure would be re-
garded by the public as Indicative Of the
decline Of the Anti-Slavery feeling in
our State. 1t is also somewhat ques-
tionable whether there is sufficient time |
before the election, for an efficient party |
organization.
You tell me the Liberty party men are
generally more inclined to support the
Wings than the Democratic nominees.
Such feeling is, think. under existing
circumstances, but natural and honora-
he. How far this feeling would disin-
Cline our friends to Liberty party nom
nation, have no means Of Judging. On
the whole, feel that I am not in pos
session Of the information requisite to
justify me in giving decided opinion on
question so important as the one you
propose.
Your visit to Bedford affords us agree
able recollections, and you will confer
favor upon us by repeating it when con-
venient to yourself.
I remain, my dear sir, yours truly.
WILLIAM JAY.
J. w. TAYLOR.
For the Litch field Enquirer.