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Letter From S. B. Treadwell

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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Permit me to say tha t 1 have witnessed vrith considerable pain, too great an eagerncss, as I thought. among some of our most valued libertv friends throughout thecouniry lo solicit men of somc popular'tt'j, but who have not been pvblicly known as " outspokcn:" fcarlcss, liberty party men, to accept of liberty nominations n hopes, ■doubtless by this course, the more rapidly to advance the liberty cause. Itappears to me however that a inore mistaken and dangerous policy to the purily. pervionency, and final trinmph of our fcavsc, could not well be purtued. It seems clear to me that it tends directly to bring our principies, our motives, and our party into public coiuempt. I think the practice wrong, both in principie and policy. The whigshave recently found it so, to their sorrow, in tlieir nomination of John Tylef for the 2nd office in the gifi of the people. The pract ce 1 th ink is ilike wrong and dangerous in every department of political aciion. In these times of so mnch pol tical duplicity. it will I think, be found as unsafe, as it is wreng in itself, to lavish our nominations upon men, how ever otherwise respectable, or prpular, who have not for a reasonahle i'nne privlous. voluntarily and opekly, fully renounccd all pAitical allegiancc to the old political partics, and unequivocüll'j declared tluir sincere regard for, and idvitity with, the liberty party. An y requisition short of this, ï think. would be unreasonable and unsafe, and overtaxing the coniidence of our niends who are expccied 10 support liberty nominations. We should be more jealous, even, of n om nating tnsovnd men, than if our party were now in the ascendant.Men sliould not be draw n out from their old porties by the touch of líber tv nominations but rnthershould they previously and voluntarily comí out froui them by tho magie power of principie, nnd be "knoicn and rcad of all min" by their open, consistent course, as being i'ully and heartily with the lihtrlij pury. By this means there will be few injurious apos tacies from our ranks. Thosa who are i;ofus" will continue with üs. Let lis go swre, and tlien the fasrer the better. Should we, by pursuing an upright course in all our measures, lack numbers for a time , we shall at least be safe, while on the rock of principie. Ifour cause shall be conducted with spirit, and with wisdom, and integrity, it lias never bid fairerto make rapid advances. It is true oppressors in high places, in the church and the State, rage, but the God of the oppressed is highei thnn thcy, and issignally showing himself gn.ns. them Will Ha not yet "have the.n ia derision" 1 With much estcem,

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Signal of Liberty
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