Liberty State Convention: For The Signal Of Liberty

Pursuant to public notice, a Libert State Convention met at the court hous in Adrián Lena wee county, on Tuesday the 13th day of Ociober, instant. On motion of D. C. Fuller, of Hillsdale Paul Tabor was called to the chair, anc J. Carpenter, of Lena wee, appointed Sec retary. On motion of S, B. Treadwoll, voted thal a cornmittee consislingoffive persons be appointed to draft rosolutions exprcssiveof the views of the convention, J. Carpenter, Thomas Tabor, and H. Tripp of Lenawee; S. B. Treadwell, of Jackson, and Nathan Stevens, of Hillsdale, wereappoined eaid committee. The following resolutions were reported and unanimously adopted by the Convenlion.Resolved, That liberty cannot be purchased va too great a price, nor the patriot or phihuithropist bo more properly or nobly einpfoyed than ia endeavoring to knock tiie shuckles from the innocently en slavcd. Resolved, That American Slavery is not only a system of the most cruel, tyrannical and wicked enslavement of 3,000,000 of unoííending colored people in ihis nation, but is made the basis ufan unjust and dangerous poliiical monopoly, vyjelding fhe cnormous amount of 1200,000,000 in human clinttels, which has already gone far in subverting the constiiutional liberties of the greal mass of the American people. Rsolvcd, That the acts of the framersjof the coMslitution upon the subject of American slavery and the whole history of the times in wluch the constitution was adopted, show clearly that it was the great anxiety and the noble design ot' our ïathers that slavery shcu!d not incrcase hut drminish and ultiraately become extincl within the boundsof the thirteen original Stutes which furmed the union. Resolved, That had not this been the view of the Northern States at the adoption of the constilution,contemplating as they did the speedy abolition of their own slavery, as iheir at'ter acts demonstatc, they would never have consented toa constitution which gave to slaveholders the exclusive privilege of voting for their slave property, so dangerous and so abhorrent to every principie of republican representalion. Resolved, That the hope of purifyiug the ecclesiastical or the politica! bodiesof our country or of prosperously or penna nently establishing the ficancesof the nation, while the overwhelming and corrupt slave power constantly moulds all these great interest as ulay is mouldcd in the hands of the potter, is as inconsistent and as die as it would be to devote our energios in vainij altempting to cleanse so many filthy streams whose lountains are incessantly sending forth Iheir poisonous nnd perturbed waters. Resolved, That inasmuch as it has been of late demonstrated that while ihe body of the people composing the old par" lies are bontst and patnottc and that the few national leaders are sure le control their sufFragcs, as wcil as a lurge sha re of their means for the special benefit of the 250,000 slaveholders that govern this de!u ded nation, the lime has fully come for every true puilamhropifat nnd patriot, in order to bnng the utmost powers of the constiiution into requisition, at once to ranounce all allegiance to eithar of these parlies and to rally around and mainttin the noble standard of the Liberty parly.Resolved, iliat we hearuly thank the slaveholding gentlemen and tlieir abettors alter they had robbed us of our constitutional right of petition, for four yflrs for the timely suggcstion that a free peopie should not peütionbutcommand their sero vants and we will henceforth issue our mándales to them throughthatshrill speuking trumpet - the ballot box. Resolved, That moral suasion alone on the paft of the northern peopie to resist the long continued and enormous encroachmenis of the slave power upon their coustitutional rights and liberties would be as inefficacious as moral suasion would have been on ihe part of our fathers to resist the tyrannical encroachments of Greal Britain upou their rights and liberties. Resolved, That moral sunsion alone against the political Moloch of this country, the twelve hundred million slave power, that votes for 3,000.000 chattclized human beings, would be tike firing blank curtridges at a powerful,hostile, invading army, in exchange for their musket, grape and cannon shots. Resolved, That until the Northern peopie spenk through the ballot box in language that cannot be misunclerstood that slavery and the slave trade shall no more be tolerated in the District of Colnmbia, the lerritories, the slave traffic between twecn the Statcs,lhe unjust and oppressive disabilitics upon colored peopie at the North, and that no more slave States shall be admitted into the union, their inconsistent, not to say, in some instances, hypocritical, moral suasion upon souihern slave holders will be to them like sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Resolved, That we will give our most cordial support, at the ballot box, to James G. Birney, for President, and Thomas Morris, for Vice President of the United States, and to Jabez S. Fitch, for Governor, and Nathan Power, for Lieut. Governor of this State, and also for our respective senatorial and county liberty nomnominations.Resolved, Thai we respectfully and earnestly recemmend to all tho friends of liberty in ibe State to lose no time n appoiniing, 11 addition to the county central cornmittees, active and efficiënt liberty coüi'tniltees in all the towns and school districtsas fustas one true man can be found to act. Resolved, That we earnestly recomtnend to all the friends of liborty in this I State amply and titnely to supply the peopleof their respective ceuntiep, towns and school districts with the national addresses, the Signa I of Liberty, and an abundance of Liberty tickets for the aproaching eleclion. [We have been obliged to omit severa! resolutione, on account of their ex:rerae length.] Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be publishod in the Signal of Liberty. Convention then adjnurned, sine die. PAUL TABOR, Chairman. J. Carpekter, tiec'y.MisssrsEditors:- Notwithstanciingihe difh'culüos underwhich wc labored in gotting iip the above conveniions, frorn the want of' a lecturer to rousc the people to he impoctance of the subject, yet it was especlably attendcd and much was done u encourage us in our great and anrduous nderlaking. Fur ihree ór four ycars the 'riends of' liberty in these parts uffered thcmseives lo lie in iistless apathy and gage with uninicrestcd feelinga apace the exerlions of thcir bretliren aruund thc-m. But now a different feeling appears to begin to manifest itself. Lnough of u slirhas been made to a waken curiosity on the subject, and when ihe aboliliontsts look around and see that there is a truly democratie party springing up in their ver)' midst we have reason to believc they will endeavor to inform themselves as to its object,and information on the subject of our glorious cause is advancement in il. Keep líie true principie before their eyes, let Ihem know that the object is emancipation ann nothing but cmancipation. - Let no collateral issue, nothing foreign to the one great principie of universal liberty be dragged in to awaken their prejudices or disiract their exertions, and depend upon it our great and glorious cause will be onward andonward, till every individual on whom an American sun shincs, shall stand forth the recipiënt of that glorious boon for which our falhers Ibught. Yours truly,