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Presidential Nomination

Presidential Nomination image
Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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Uur readers were intormea last weeK, that the National Anti-SIavery Convention, held at New York, had nominated Mr. Birney for the Presidency, and Thomas Morra, of ihis city, for the Vice Presidency of the United Stutes. Wc necd not say, that we shall sustain the nomination. This our friends might know from our past course. We are glad that the movement is made at this early period. - It cannot be attributed now, to a sinister disposition to interfere with one party, for the sake of promoting the interests of the ther. Abolitionists wil) have time to make up their minds, coolly, deliberately, and before they are entangled with party pledges. The country will learn from it, that we are notdispirited, but thnt we are bent on carrying out our views of what we hold to be the true policy of our country : and the nominntion will serve as a standard, around which to rally friends of Universal Liberty. It is now demonstrated to the country, that the anti-slavery question is one of high political importance, and that the people of the free States are involved in Ihe evil of slavery, to such an extent politically, that the exercise of their political power is necessary to relieve them from its injurious influence. Political abolitionists hold that it is the greutest political evil in the nation, without the removal of which there can be no essential reform in ihe administration of the government. On this principie, they are resolved to act. - Finding that otherparties are arrayed on different principies, all of them regarding subordínate inconveniences, as principa! evils, all of them indifferent to the great övil, all of them pledged to connive at and sustain it: but one result is left them - ihey must have candidates of their own, representing primarily the intere3ts of free labor, and the doctrine of equality of ri-jhts in all classes of people in this country. This policy may have the appearance of temerity - but their trust is in the truth of their principies, which they believe can be best illustraled and enforced by thiscourse. They expectnotimmediate triumph, but they are willing to wait. - Fifteea times was Marcus Morton nominated for the Governorship of Massachusetts. The sixteenth time he was elecled by a majority of one vote. He is again a candidato. This is the result of perseverence. Who will say, that the party clecling him, holds principies of more vital importance than ours? They were laughed at when they comraenced with their "everlasting" candidate, as we now are. We bide our time patiently. For ono, I would rather stand with abolitiono ststs, and bedefeated twice sixteen years, and at last succeed, than to go on truckling to the slave power, and voting for its kandidates, till the country is ruined with- jut remedy. We hardly know what words could be nore cheering to us, than those written ibove by Dr. Bailey, the editor of the 3incinnati Philanthropist. It will do the .vork of "defining his position," which bas ïot long since been regarded by some as juite doubtful , on the question of third pary policy. We shall now have to own hat Br. Bailey is in advance of us. Why he Doctor has made up his mind for a 'twice sixteen" years campaign ! The hing 3 well said, "we can wait," trustng truth, - truth, the power of our principies. Girt then with a new panoply of )atient pereverence, Iet us on to action. The case cited above, in the present ;andidate for Governor of Massachusetts, s quite remarkable. Let its hearings be ïoted. A single vote makes the majoriy. And at the sixteenth nomination, -