The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-22
IMPORTANT ANII-SlAvERY MOVEMENTS


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Slavery Association.
The present condition in the anti slavery cause in
tho United States seems to indicate that some new
and general effort is needed in order to give
traiion union, and aim, to the existing convictions
Of the friends of freedom During the last TWO years
we have seen vast conspiracy against the rights Of
man formed and carried forward by the union Of po-
litica parties and leaders previously the most hos
tile to each other. The leaders Of the whig and
democratic parties at the North have united with
the slave power to give to slavery new guarantees
and securities. We have seen Clay and Cass, Web
ster and Buchanan. Fillmore and Foote, working
together, and eulegizing each other. We have seen
the patronage and power of Northern wing Pres-
dent put forth to- qucll all opposition to these
promises with evil. We have seen the greatest in
tcllect of the land prostuted to the task Of making
conscientious men despise and reject their convic-
tions Of duty We have seen the respectable journals
Of the North forgetting their ancient gentility in
| their rage against the men who stood up for the
| law of God. Aud we have great multitudes Of
well-meaning but soft-minded people persuaded that
this effort all necessary, to the Union from
some supposed danger The result has been that
apostacies from the cause of freedom have been
merous. But still, the worst has been dsnc, aud
great multitudes stand firm for the law of God and
| the rights of man. Now the question comes, no "
shall they take advantage of the coming reaction,
and SO organize their efforts to do the most SCI.
| vice in the cause of freedom
| Three movements have hitherto included nearly
all of antisavery elort-thc first exclusively moral
the second partly moral and partly political, the
third mosty political The first is the original Gar
rlsonian movement, which is still continued. The
second that of the liberty party, which absorbed
into the free soil party in JSiS, at Buffalo The
third is the free soil party This last is politisa
party, with its regular nominations and ewsp spar.
and with the machinery and policy of n p,iiticl
party
All these movements have done good-all are
doing good-but all, We believe. are deficient 70
William Lloyd Garrison and his friends VIII ever be
long the merit of awakening the public mind 70 the
guilt of slave holding, and the duty OF emancipation
They proclaimed the law and the ond-thc way
and means they did not indicate. The liberty party
underworld to be at once political paTty and a
moral influence they too iulpractioable Tor the
one too polite for the other The free soil party II
IN danger Of becoming more and more mere party,
intent On carrying the next election. and losing its
high moral prestige. When il maintains this. it
does not act so well as party. Yet both these
agencies needed, and It would be an evil ifeitG4r
should be abandoned. l have 10 idea Of opposing
. single anti. slavery Influence Let every man try
and for Horace Greedy, for Wendell Phillips and
for Horace Mann-for the 1000 subscriber Of the
Not0nG! Era for the 10 600 subscribers Of the III
6uhr, and The 100000 purchasers OF Uac'e Tom.
anti-savery churches and in anti-slayers como
cutters. But do not believe IN the attacks made
on Horace Mann by Wendell Phillips, On kossuth
BY Garrison on the Era by the I,ribenc AMI on the
l167'ne by the Err, on free sellers by Stephen
Foster, or the churches by Parker Pillsbury
We want union among anti-savery people Of al
coloTs ard stripes We want basis Of action where
all can stand together yet without losing their in
dlyidual preferences or giving up their fiyorite
methods We wish to have organization which
vii unite in practical action anti slavery whigs
and aniislavery democrats, and yet leave them.
as before, wings and democrats We want way of
acting politics without making another political
lnrty-politicol action which shall not lie party
action. We wish to give practical dircc ion 70
moral effort, and moral work to practical and ef
icient combination. A these ends, think, vii, De
attained in the League, the plan Of which now
proceed to state =
TIE LEAGUE
Sec. ]. The name Of this association shall be The
League OF Freedom Its object shall be TO dilfuse
anti slavery convictions by means of lectures and
publications, and to organise these convictions in
practical and efficient course Of action.
Sec. z. All persons shall become members Of this
association by signing the pledge, and by SUBJ
ssribing not less than annually to its funds
Sec. The pledge should he as follows
we, whose names are subscribed, agree not to
yos Tor any person Tor a. Office Of truss under the
state o. federal government. Who does not, before
De election publicly ayow himself in favor of the
following measures -:
Hepcal q tie Fugitive Slave Jay II $50.
= Trial ~ .'aIy to every pereon claimed = fu.5-
tive from slavery.
j Prohibition Of slavery Ii tho territories aod
"a ion Of slavery IL tic District of Go!u-iJtt
I. ~ more Save States to lie admitted
: n----~l i-OyctHliient 10 To renewed from III
connection with slavery
Sec. (. The League shall rs. nominate i's avn
he romcs Of those card dates ii either party who
have publicly agreed 70 act according @ i.s prn-
ciplcs.
sec :. There may be local lodges u lie League
u recon- . S.aie lodges end general lodge This
iast shall publish q newspaper which shail 10 sent
70 every member who desires it, il return for his an
neal subscription. Lecturers may be appointed ~
the state lodges, and there shall he Debates social
meetings, public festivals, and whatever else shall
tend e bind together and increase the League
TfTr WAY t,.tr u-,-,y
u vii place all the North on the side Of freedom
suppose that in Congressional district, whore par
tes are nearly balanced, 200 wings and democrats
should belong to the earue BofL ra,.ties ~ tba,
certain that to elect their candidate tbcy must take
one WHO agrees with the leagliers on theso points
sooner or later they vii all do 50. So 81 Governor
50 ot state Legislators, 80 finally of President
~ VIII furnish bond Of union and co orerati1a
to genuine anti slavery mon 81 AL parties
me pledge i Y 10 voting pledge, and therefore
detuches no mQn frop his party. The WHY is not
asked 10 vote Tor the democrat n0r the democrat
tor whig. He is only pledged to obstain from
voting when his own PARTY candidate i asl untit one
Thus the anti.sayeTy element is mol taken out of
the wing and democratic parties, but IS made Ell
cieLt T. bring both right.
lt Will prevent political corruption among anti
slavery men.
AZ the league viii nominate 10 candidates, 10
ambitious Office seekers will hive any motive 10
mike themselves prominent IN its movement Noe
can any charge q oice-seeking " brought against
Us active members
y viii give practical aim % moral efIor,
The object 70 BE accomplished is to yet new sig
natures 70 the pledge, and new members - he
league. But in doing tbs the whole subject Of
slavery and its evils Of freedom and humanity and
justice, Is opened M ormora and intellectual effort
lac above Is q hasty sketch Of the Plan. ~ de-
tails may have to be altered. Eat It's main feature
q no-yotiug pledge is Tie essential thing, and by
~ means q tins a DeW movement may " COM
inenced, which shall not till slavery bc rooted
out Of the land.
May | ak of the friends Of freedom to consider
tbs plan, and t. speak their minds concerning Il.
IRON Frederick Douglass Papor. June IL
Ihc Dem rats ard thcir lautfori,r.
Jhc democrats have nominated Their Presidents
and fixed their platform. We have no doubt lhat
Gorgral Pierce, of New Hampshire, and King, 81
Alabama, arc well adapted T. the platform. ond t.
the taste Of slaved0m. There are u great number
Of what Mr. Greeley very property ealis I" fossil
issues stated III the platform, which arc thought
Of now days only rs antiquarian relics, but s.
nothing q interest in these times Such arc matters
in regard na Onal be nix internal In, prnyenipnts