The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-22
IMPORTANT ANIl-SlAvERY MOVEMENTS
from the National Era
Proposals for tho formation OF New Anti.
Slavery Association.

Of the TRENDS OF freedom. Durng the last Two years
we have seen vast conspiracy against the rights OF
man formed and carried forward by the union Of po
lical parties and leaders previously the most hos
tile to each other. The leaders of the wing 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 euegizing each other. We have
the patronage and power OF a Northern whig Presi-
dent put forth toquell all opposition to these
promises with evil We have seen the greatest in
ellec of the land prostituted to the task Of making
conscientious men despise and reject their convic
0ns of duty. We have seen the respectable journals
of the North forgetting their ancient gentilty in
their rage against the men who stood up for the
law of God. And we have seen great mutitudes Of
wcll-meanng but soft-minded people persuaded that
this effort was all necessary to save the Union from
apostacies from the cause of freedom have been
uerous. But still, the worst has been dsne, aud
great multitudes stand firm for the law of God and
the rights of man. Now the question comes, how
shall they take advantage of the coming reaction
and organize their efforts as to do the most se-
vice in the cause OF freedom
Three movements have hitherto included nearly
all of antslayery eort-the first exclusively moral,
the second partly moral and partly political, the
thirdmost)y political. The first is the original Gar.
TisOnian movement, which is still continued. The
second that of the liberty party, which absorbed
into the free soil party III lS4s, at Buffalo. Ihe
third is the free soil party This last is poliisa
party, With It's regular nominations and newsp tp3F.
and with the machinery and policy Of q psiiticl
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 tho public mind 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 libert party
cndeayored to be at political party and
moral influence they were 100 impYactoabe tvr the
one. too polite for the other. The free soil party il
'A, &c aoAt
intent On carrying the next election and losing It's
high moral prestige. When it maintains this it
does not act well a party. Yet both these
agencies are needed, and il would be yilifetcer
should be abandoned. | have 10 idea Of opposing
q single anti slavery influence Let every mar cry
bis plan, and have his way. Thank God for t,arri-
SON and for Horace Greedy, for Wendell Phillips and
for Horace Mann-for the 1900 subscribers Of the
National Era for the 10, 900 subscribers Of the Tt
bnnr and The 100000 purchasers Of Tacle Tom.
believe in Gorrit Smith and in Fred Douglas, ID
anti-s'avery churches and in anti-slayer7 come
cutters. But do not believe in the attacks made
on Horace Mann by Wendell Phillips, on Kossuth
by Garrison, on the Era by the IfibtosC AMI the
Tribune by the Err, on free sellers by Stephen
Foster, or the churches by Parker Pillsbury.
We want union among antislaVery people Of al
colors and stripes We want a 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 an organization which
will unite in practical action anti. slavery wings
and anii-savery democrats, and yet leave them.
as before, wings and democrats. We want n way Of
acting on politics without making another political
Inrty-polIticol action which shall not be party
action. We wish to give a practical dircc Jon to
moral effort, and moral work to practical and eff
iicieit combination. All these ends, think, will be
attained in the League, the plan Of which ] now
TIE LEAGUE.
Sec, l. The name ofthis association shall be The
League of Freedom Its object shall be to d.lfuse
anti. slavery convictions BY means Of lectures and