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Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: Mr. Taylor's "Add...

Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: Mr. Taylor's "Add... image
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Day
10
Month
October
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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Dear Sm: I noticed n yoüf paper for Sept. 26, i 842, an addröss to the Liberty Party writtefi by tho Hoti. H.W. Taylor. It is useless for me to íjuote the oddrëss öntire; í vvill barèly raention-one short sentence in bis sunning up, where he eays "that under the present constitutional form of our government, and the present condition of our social System, your energies are lost; and your poUtical aims by any distinct party organization are as unattainable as a railroad to Heavenü" Now I am surprised that a man of euch bril- liant tálente, such enérgy of character. and a man who has subjected bis mind to such pröfound training as Mr. Taylor, should arrive at such a conclusión- a conclusión which it appears to me, (altbough I afn only a píoügajogger) can only be formed in supínenos and apalhy, or in ignorance which last cannot be attributed to lñm. But he seems to have' drátik in the idea that becáüse tf e liave been cojolèd by a south ern influence for thö last flt'ty years we must continue tobe for fifiy years to eome; that becaüse we of the northern States have for the lost fifly eoraelecled the "natural allies'' of the soülh for cuf Corígress, Ve must continue to do so for fifty years to Come; that unlesa. the strange aúomaly of a Slave State sending antislavcry members to Congress is brought about, nothing can be done. Now in rny cogitations whilst jogging áfter tny plough, I have arrived at different conclusions. I am nol able to setí why the northern states are not fearfully responsible for all the tro.-.bte and disappoürtment, the grief the sorrovv, the pain, the anguish and for all the wickédness and sin that slavery is hierto, beeaiisö the nonslaveJ)oldlng Mates have the power constitutionaily and peaceabiytöputittlotvn, the vill cf every Itnitfhtofthecowskin to the cchtraty nötWithsianditig. Let us see. The clectorisl collete wil fcohsist ef Wt hündred and sentyfiv voters, 161 ot WhicH are ëiecteÖ by tho nor. her öMfes, and 1Í8 dïily will btl hecessary foratlibiCB Nöw whilst there are three parties, and so etualiy balanced as are the parties in thia country, four tenths of the voters ín any distinct, acting in concert will elect their candidate, and ia ifcpresutnptuous t uppose that the Liberty Party may arrive to tliis point when in 6ome few coses they have airea dy neaily nttained itl And what is encournging, the principies of the party are not confined to one district, üor one State, but may we not say that they extend to everyj State in Union : for every report we get from the South goes to prove that less than half of the votéis ín tbe soulheni States are slave holders, and the balance are abolitionists in principie. - Three hundred thouSahd fröm caféful inquiry is said to be thewhole nurrlber ofBlaveholders all told in the Southern States; and in the northerh States very few towns can be found where there are none to enuire into the subject; almoatall uniformly deprécate slavery as the greátcst of evils, but have not yet discovfered the way to get rid of it. I however find it no veryard matter to lead most of my associates to the conclusión that slavery is a polllical evil, and must be fertledied through political action - that the Northern States cari and w 111 ere long electa' President nnd Vicë President vho will be against föstering that drèadful evil, and Senators and members of thö House who will stand erectañd support thö principies which Giddings advanced in3tead of prassing censure upon him. Instead of quailing before the hot breath of those Knights of the cowsklh and dirk, they will say to therili Gentlemen, if you are píeased with your "Domestic tjistitütione," preserve them; but do not ask us to help you; we have done it too ldhg already;lwÖ shall encourage no Florida War, no mintirig iö yöur section of country, nö such extravagant bilis for clearing thé Mississippi, lic, Sic. &.c, and wherever Congress has made any law to oppress the black man, we repeal it. Now whén thls is done liöw long do you thihk slaVery would exiet? The slaveholders say it would kill it at once.

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Signal of Liberty