Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-04
Ccrrit Smith and the Pittsburgh Platform.
TO THE LIBERTY PARTY OF THE
COUNTY OF MADISON.
TITTsBURG, AugIIst I3. IS5Q.


hope, that il would take whnt deem TO he
the proper ground of political pnrty. II
has not taken IL distinctly perhaps not all
But whether il has, or has not taken it, it llaa
come much nearer 10 it thun feared il would.
Again, whilst ! shall 20 home less dsptased
with the proceedings of the Convention than
] ienred ! should be, | shall, also. 20 home
entertaining far more favorable opinions than
| before of the mass of the nboliiionisis.
! think npi safe in saying that of the thous-
ands who came Ia the Convention, there are
/ not five hundred nor three hundred, who
nrc no, with us in spirit aud in principle.-
/ Not only Is IL true, that Charles Durkee and
General Paine of Wisconsin nre heartily and
wholly with the Liberty Party; hut it is also
true, that those noble men are, in this respect
no mare than inir specimens of the great
innlority of the Western aholii0nlsis.
The West is ahead of the Enst. The ar
dcnt, generous, confding West is not so
trnunneled MS the Eust with the liahit of cir
cunsppctiOn aud calculation. Whilst the
Eastern man pauses to reckon results, the
| Western man pushes on to realize them. The
/ Eastern alulitoniSts are, however, making
progress. Aholilinnisis ofthe type of Charles
| Francis Adams will not he able To nIhuc
with their conservative spirit the reformers
/ around them. On the contrary, these re-
formers will he continually mining with
! their radical spirit nboIiiouists of the tvne nc
| Charles Francis Adams.
lnve nanrd Mr. Admins. cannot for
hear too add, that am greatly pleased with
! him. His characteristic diguity is the per-
ircI!y natural outrrowth of his biuh.sonlsd
integrity aud rare mental discipline was
| happy ~ see, that his lmbif OF caution aud
conservatism wns no proof against the nt
mospI,rre. which surro,,nd.J hin, bcrn lie
mnd, un,,iiest nro,rsss il, ,l,, t,vo I,vs. ,,,d
could he ,uiuyl, far t,vantv d,vs yitl, Wcst.
fern nhuIi,io,ists he wn,II n,y c,nr ,Lo, ,L,
cause of Liberty 10 in dng.r oc L,.;u., ,,,isI;.
r,ctrd ar harmed in ,beir hands I, ,,orJ
il did Me. Adam. mud sona o,h.r N.,y ~
land men grtr,t good 20 com. ,,, ,L,, rus.
hugh Convention.
As / have already virtually said, the i'm
niense ",nass Convention" ns il wns called. |
was prepared TO plant itself on the hich !
ground of the Liberty P.rty-wns. indeed. !
alrenIy on thai ground. But the Convcntion
proper, hring n selection from the masses.
ronlninrd, as wns natural. n grenter relntiye
nunollut ol wnriirss and tinidity. Nryerrlc.
less had the Convention proper. iustcnd of
appointing Committee TO prepare n plat.
lorrn, prepared il without such interyeniinn
have no doubt, that the platform would
have been distinctly and fully that of the
Liberty Party. But thus Committee, being
II selection from the select, wns still more
characterized Than even in the Convention
proper hy wariness aud ri,nidity. Indeed. |
have, scarcely. n doubt that. 6ad this Con
vention continued another dny. its nln,torm
would have been nearly nil. that we could
desire. What rnpid progress the Convention
made in the Session of The Inst afternoon! =
la that Session il struck out the most often
sve ofall those wretched Resolutions. which
contain limitations and Implications against
Liberty. In that Session, il came very near
adopting MIR. Tappan's Resolution, the n,op.
iiun of which would have nullifcd all those
limitations and inplicalions. And il was i'm
that Session, that the Convention ndoptcd
so enthusiastically, and with hut three dis
sen,ing voices, the glorious Resolution in
favor of Lind Reiorm-that Reform, which
is cnphn,ically the own sister of the AboI-
lion Reform.
came To the Convention with the nnrnose
of insisting on but Iwo things; aud adhered
To my purpose. These Two things nre
Isl. That the Convention should organize
II permanent pariy--nnd, therefore. n pnrly,
which should he MS comprehensive in iis |
scope, as is civil government itselE-nnd,
therefore, pnriy, which should look after
all the political interests of all the people.
white aud black, male aud female.
2d. Tint the Convention should declare
slavery 10 be utterly inea!pab lie OF legalizaIion.
Oh i'fse Two things Insisted, both ~ the
Committee and in The Convention. -Four
menihers OF the Conimlltee were with me:
ana must do the dozen, who opposed us,
the justice to say, That several OF them evl-
drntly believed, that the Two things, which
Insisted on' were IN Their own series OF Res