The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-12-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DOLLARS REWARD.  The rewird will be given, on the delivery to the Committee of Vigilance for the parish of East Feliciana La., of the notorious abolitionist, ARTHUR TAPPAN, of New York.  K`-- Papers opposed to abolition throughout the United States are requested to give publicity to the above. Jackson, La., Oct. 15,1835.  The above is in most of the New York papers. TAPPAN, the.man thus threatened, is a citizen of New York. He has committed no offence known to the laws—he is not guilty of any crime—but he is believed to be favourable to slave emancipation, and for thus exercising his free opinions a price is set upon his head, and fifty thousand dollars are offered to any scoundrel, or any band of scoundrels, who shall do violence to his body, seize him by force of arms, and convey him to Louisiana, where most unquestionably he would be murdered. And this is the land of liberty ! GOD preserve us from such liberty ! The citizen has equal rights provided he chooses to exercise equal cruelty, and practise corresponding barbarity; but the moment he interferes with the traffic of the spoiler, and moots an abStract principle at variance with their rude notions of justice and selfishness, that very moment be becomes a marked man, and fifty thousand dollars are offered to any wretch who shall convey him before. Judge LYNcti, and deliver him over to the republican gallows! ! !  It is singularly characteristic of the faction at present in power that they hare never carried or attempted to carry any measure Of reform without having recourse to some mean and disingenuous artifice. They have never tnet any question in a candid and honest manner. So tortuous has been, and still is, their policy, that they labour to arrive at their object by the must tedious circumlocution in preference to the open and plain l ath by  I  which it might be easily and directly reached.• They are not satisfied with the adoption of a principle until they have seasoned it with a spice of falsehood, just as persons of a vitiated or sublimated taste are not content with the pepper and salt of the cook until they have administered an extra dash of their own. It would be no difficult task to show that every measure of the Whig party for the last four years is tainted lin this manner. In every instance they have taken care that each and all of their contemplated reforms should be ushered in by a job—by some sort of commission or other—by certain forms of inquiry, setting at defiance all the rules of evidence, and making a jest of the first maxims of justice, but by which they might provide for a long tail and dove-tailed band of needy adherents to do their pleasure and obey their instructions, without a spark of pride or independence. The Irish church commission was one of these barefaced impositions concocted for the sake of patronage. Lord Atit)* stated that he could not enter upon the reform of the Irish church without inquiry, and he accordingly ordered a travelling commission, which was composed of the most needy of his creatures. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was-of the same opinion in 1834, and he sup ported Lord