Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29
THE NEW YORK LIBERTY PARTY.

held it's convention and nominated its candidates.
At that Convention it also issued m address, from
which we learn that its members have become dis
~couraged about ever obtaining n majority Of votes.
Nevertheless tho address urges a continued ad-
horence to the party, and a continuance of vot-
ing as a perpetual protest against the wrongs it
socks to remove a and testimony for the right it
would establish.
We copy the greater portion of the address:
ADDRESS.
TO The members Ct The Liberty Party:
ff'1t is between fifteen and sixteen years since our
party came into existence. Its sole purpose was
to promote the abolition of American slavery by
using political power to that end. In process of
time however, some of us began to perceive, that
the great principle on which this purpose was
founded, and by which it was to be guided, re-
quired the application of our political power to the
removal of other wrongs. as we'll as slavery. This
principle was The EQUAL RIGHTS OF ALL" If
in obedience to this principle, We were bound to
employ our political power for the overthrow of
slavery in the like obedience were also bound to
employ it for the termination of such wrongs as
war and land-monopoiy, and tariffs, and the traffic
I'm intoxicating drinks, and the unjust civil and
political distinctions between man and woman.
Against this group of wrongs we would, doubtless
have sooner required our candidates to express
themselves, but for the idea, that they may be pre-
sumcd TO 60 against these wrongs. who go against
these wrongs, who 60 against the greater wrong
of Slavery. This was n delusive idea. We ad.
init, that where mans opposition to slavery is
based on everlasting true and allcomprehensive
principles, his opposition to these wrongs also
may be safely counted on. But oftimes, nay gen
orally, the opposition to slavery is superficial, and
rests on grounds, which to a great extent, are
false. Such opposition, SO far from implying op'
position TO other forms of wrong, cannot be relied
on to be effective. or enduring, against even its
one specific object.
In the year 1913. our party, with few excep
tions, went over to a new party. In doing SO
it proved not that it was not earnestly, if at all, op
posed to these other wrongs, of which we have
spoken but that it was not so intelligently ant
earnestly opposed 10 slavery, as to refrain from
identifying itself with a very shallow and worth
less kind Of opposition to that matcbless crime
This new party signalized its birth by nominating
Martin Van iuIen for President of the United
States; and in this nomination ii signalized ii
lack Of radical hostility to slavery, and its indif
ference to that whole circle of reforms. which !
is the duty Of every political party to espouse. Fo
although Mr.. Van Buren, had come to with
stand some of the fresh claims of Slavery. h
had never repented Of his s%ervility to it; an,
although he may have been dissatisfied with som
: Of tho existing institutions and usages, he, nev
erthsIess. had not, as get earned the title of a re
former.
.g'.Such as we have here described it, was tn,
breaking up of the Liberty party. They, tina
we're not carried away in this Good of detection
: we're but a handful. Nevertheless. this handful
rhas never failed to maintain the name of the Lib
erty Party and to hold annual or more frequcn