The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-15
ORGANIZATION OF A NATIONAL PARTY OF
PROGRESS AND FREEDOM.

To the Editor of the National Era.
The friends of Progress and Freedom through
out the country feel and acknowledge the ne
cessity of some kind of a national organization
| to carry into successful operation their meas
ures and principles. There is, however, diff
ference of opinion respecting the precise nature
| of such organization. Some, through fear OF
utrasm, are 10 favor of low, commonplace
standard of principles; others, through deter
| mnation to maintain the right claim high
| and noble one Some prefer temporary or
ganization; others, permanent one. Proba-
bly, both have reasons. satisfactory to their own
minds, for their preferences.
The experience and observation of several
wears have convinced the writer of this article
of the absolute necessity of separate and en-
during National Party OF Progress and Free
dom. This great desideratum is the natural
fruit Of the season, the result of the political
movements of the country for it IL lamentaby
true that the Wing and Democratic parties are
not such as the spirit of the age, the honor Of
our country, and the rights of man, require.
Their issues are merely temporary policies
they are based on no distinctive principle, but
upon contest for the spols Of office. They
adrotly play any game upon the political
chest board, in order to gain the ascendency.
They gladly bend the supple hinges Of the
knee, that thrift may follow fawning" They
| dcify their PARTY, and bow a. heather before
their idol god! Their summum bonum consists
in the practical appreciation Of the sacred
| mysteries in the figure Z, comprising "the
| five roaycs and two fishes ~ II in this CO.
hesive power of the spols of Office that rem
ders these parties the natural and faithful
| allies of the Slave Power, which has NEARLY
ever since the formation Of the Government
bestowed its fayors and showered its blessings
upon its fawning sycophants and obcdient
lackeys! IL is upon the altar of expediency
and success that they have inundated their
hecatombs of human beings in sacrificing the
present and eternal interests Of one-sixth OF the
entire population Of
"The land Of the free and the home Of the brave
In these respects they must be regarded as
insidious foes sapping the foundation OF our
national honor, dignity, and prosperity. They
must be dreaded as the Upas tree, whose pesti'
lential influence corrupts all the avenues OF
public and private life Therefore the salur
populi, vel amor patre requires their immedl
ate burial in the tomb Of oblivion.
These expressions may appear wantonly
rash, but they only possess the severity OF truth
None will deny this, when it is>known that
(mainly) under the auspices Of these parties
nine new States have been admitted into the
Union, cursed with the incubus Of slavery
that the chattcl population of this land has
increased from 900. 900 TO more than 100000
and that the entire national domain has been
converted into an Unreasonable park, in which
Americans can be hunted, seized. and reduced
to slavery, under the sanction Of law
The unprincipled political legerdemain, the
base servility and wantou contempt Of human
rights, characteristic Of these parties, hav,
made thousands of their honest members be
lievc that federation has already ceased TO be d
virtue and their hearts are sick, through hope
deferred Hence they are anxiously waiting
for some favorable movement in the political
waters.
Now, then, in this peculiar exigency, the ole
Liberty Guard and Free Soil Army should re-
member that
There Ia tide in tho Affairs Of men, which taksr
at the food, leads ON TO fortune
Three National Conventions are TO be held
within three months The delegates to both
the Wing and Democratic ssscmblages ma,
be styled SERVICES, judging Of the future by
the past and those to the other, LIBERALs
judging from the signs Of the times. A. thes<
two parties are 50 organized with their North