Extract From An Address To The Anti Slavery Voters Of Connec...

t■ YVe are CtIZens, and ' as sucb, we enjoy the rights and tiea of citizens. Rights and duties, are ' corrolative terms. The privileges secured ' tous, as citizens of a coinmonweakh, '' pose upon us corresponding duties. Our ' country has claims upon us - the slave has ' claims upon us - humaniiy has claims upon us, which we are not at liberty to ' regard. To'think of influencing tors to do justice, by staying away from the polls, is as rational, as to attempt to prumote honesty by oñeriog a bounty to rogues. Bul, il were a waste of words to urge upon you the duty of voting. You will vote, and by that act publish to the world ihe strenglh of your love lor the slave, or seal your apostacy from the canse of freedom. VVill you not then, nmke an applicr.linn of your unti-slavery principies nt the ballot box? Shall not your volipg teil for liberty, as well as your t.ilking and praying? Can you be consislent in tbc eycsofthc world - can you justify yourselves to yourown cor.sciences, in praying for the removal of slavery and then voting down that pniyer? ithall your conductat ihe polls belie your professions, or shall your hands ralily tho covehantyour hcarts liuve tirade, and confirm the word3 your lips huve uuered? But you stand bcibre lbo world in the characler of petitioners. Ofwhat use fur you to petitiun, f you do not cari y out your pclilioning by voting? What ! petition for a law and then vote against it, or appoint an agent to do it for you? What do pollticians care for our talking and petilioning, as long as we will vote to continue them in power? Rest assurec', that legislators will do nothing for us, ui.til wo do some hing for ourselves, besidcb mere talkiig. We have talkcd, and talkkd, and TALKED, ■pctitioned, and tetitioked, and PETITlONEü invain. i ne aay ior woras nas passed, and the time for deeds has come. The petilions we have sent up to the Council Halls of the State and Nation, have been dishouored aul spurned - henceforth we must scnd uur petitions to the ballot box. We can deposit them there without fear oí rejeclion. The ballot box is an open door. io s'.aveholding minions stand at the entrance to whisper lies, of "oí at home." - We can "walk in" without knocUinr, and drive out the "money changen'' f om the sacred temple of Freedom. It s the only access left us to the halls of lcgislaiion, which is not guarded by slavery. The voice of 300,000 petitioners, has beenstifled un the Hoor of Congress. The moral auasioa of the ballot box, will give lo that voice a resurrection power, like the trump of God, lo waken ffotn her long slumbers the genius of Liberty, and send the spirit of slavery. a doomed and howling ghost, back to Us own dwelling place. Do not then, Abolilionists of Connecticul! Uimely surrender your birlhright,and betray the interests of humanity at the polte. What 1 shall the anti-slavcry host stand up like tremblingsunpliants around tbc door oftheir own sanctuary, and be driven away unheard, by their own servants, whcn they have the right todemand and the power to enforceudmission? Sha II we be treaíed with contumely nnd outrajre and oppression, and then lick the tyrani's hand, and vote him a patriot and a philanthropist? There is but one consistent course for us to pursue - ihecourse expected of us by friends and foes - and that is to make our voting harmonizo wiih our talking and praying. By sodoing, we shall not only exerta political influence, but we shall add to our capital of moral power,and strengthn the holy purposes of our heart. To break away from the altachments and associations of party, at tho inception of a new enterprise, requires moral courage and firmness, and to whom shall we look for an exempliñeation of tfaese qualiiie-, if not to abolilionists. Those who voted the Freeinan's ticket, at the last election by that very act, strenglhened their principies. Moral power is increased by exer-- cise. This is the law of our nature. Accountability follows us to the ballotbox, as weli as to the house of God. Responsibility treads as closely in our foot-sieps, through tho week, as on the Sabbathday. Moral principie is the generating force, and political action, the instrument by which that force is to be applied. for the removal of slavery. By what syttem of voting, then, shall we carry out our principies? Shall we adopt the plan of scattering our votes, in order to induce political leaders to nomínate Anti-Slavery candidatcs.What if they should, out of dcference to our wishes, and for the sake of our votes put VYhig or Democratie Abolilionists in nomination? Can we trust them in the day of trial? Will not their partizanism eat out their abolitionism? What has been their course, when partizan and anti-slavery interests have come in conflict? They have almost uniformly gone with their par lies, and left the cause of humanity to take care of itself. Can we commit the interests of our cauae to Slade's and Gateas,vbo will wind up their anti-slavery speech Bh Congrcss, vilh exhortations to uholtlonists, to voto for pro-slavcry men, and ?laveholders fpr the highest offices in the ift of the Natiün? And can we Mame ihem for their uawillingness lo sacririce ihemselvesand tbeir party, for ihose who ire not themselves willing to orw.k away Erom the trammels of party ? We ca n never have Representativo? in the Halls of Legislation, who will be faithful io ie cause of tho slftve, till they are norainated and Biipportcd by abolitionist. Men con nevor be persuaded, in any great numbers, to vote on the scattering system. This was fully proved at the last Presidential election. Nearly all lhose who were truc to their professions, at the polls voted the Birney ticket. The lessuns of the past, may teach us wiscli in in the future. But the time has not come for a third poitical party in this State. We are not all agreed as to tho expedienoy of Independent Policy jusl now - we are too few in numbers! VVhen shall we begin? Shall we wait lili our cause becomes popular? Wait till we havo a majority? When dii) a reforrnation ever commcncc with a tnajority? What would have become of the cause of God, and of hurnanily, in this world, if popular sentiment had been the uiding principie of Reformers? Wait till the Bails of political action can catch the popular breeze, before we launch the Anti Slavery ship. Wait till public sentiment is aboluionized puliticully, before we begin io apply anti-slavery principies (o politics? Wait lili the work is all finished before we commence t? Is Ihatthe way to promoie Reformation? Why should you hesitate tojoin the Freeman's Purty, and make Anii-Slavery a test quesiion at the polls? Most of you admitthat it must ultimately come to this. The candid of the whigand dem cratic partie?, even declare that the TIME is near, when there will be buttwo parties in this country, and that Liberty or Slavery will be the issue bctweon them. - The time HAS come íor united action ogainst Slavery, m ihe polls. The abolitiouisls of other Stales, havo taken tbc liigh ground of Independent action, and invite us to emulate their example. The enemies of our cause, at the North anc South, measure our sincerily, and gradu ale their fears by our faitbfulness at the ballot box. Nearly 7,000 votes for Freedom has alarrned the South. What trem bling would &eize upon Slavery, should ihe wiiole Anti-Slavery host raarblml thei forces at the polls.