Communications: Extract Of A Letter From S. B. Treadwell

"Tbough you hear irom me of Inte butseldom, owing to the unusual pressure of niy private afj fairs. yet I feel no less interest and decisión than ever in the great cause of humanity, and the redemption of our beíoved but deluded and slavery opnressed country, from oneof the most lyrannical and deceitful monopolies that ever subverted the liberties of any people. I need not say to you I mean the slave power of this nation. Wben speaking and wriiing upon ibis subject for the laat seven years, I have I have uniformïy spoken of rcrlcenütiz, not of preserving our lost liberties. This I have strongly feit was the true view of the subject, andl amnow oiten paincd to witness m the ulclresses of somo good aboliüonists even. exhortations to the people to resist the aggrssions of the slavo power, as ifsome compara [ively tnfling infringe 1 ment only upon ourrights liad been or was atout to be committed by it. Mr. Birncy once very justly remarked, that the "North is is a con" quered province by the SLAVE POWER." To sny nothirig af the terrible conition of the tliree millions of fellow men, already literally under the laskmasters cruel lash. Mr. Birney's true I view of the subject, is the only one that will ever arrest thoattentionof the phlegmatic party-going, raoney-loving JVorth. To many in these times scem willing to sacrifice great national interests lor small local inatters. To talk 'o some abont the "sniTerings of the slave, orabout preserving our liberties G-om some "anticipatcd encroackmenti" of the slnve power at some distan tperiod we scem to them as "one that mocks," and they quietly fold thcir arms, determined to have a little more of their favorite party, bank. sub-treasnry, tariñl or any thlng elsc youj)Uas% except tbs only (hing that can everredeem our lost libertiss- universat. abolíTtn.I have been fuïly satisfied for a number of years that the strong and clearview taken of our great enterprize by sneli men os Birney, Morris. Stewart, Earle, Goudell, Holly. Lcavitt, Smith, Jny, Stanton and a host of otherslikeunto fhom, was the correct one, that is, that it is no lees an entcrprise than one to redeem the libertics of the white and the colored man from one comnion destiny, the one from physical, and the other from (idlitical bondage growing out of the enslaved and political condition of the formen Who that impartially looks into this great subject must not see that the great calamity wliich so many of the fathers of the revolution so much feared, ifslavery contlnued and increased in our country, has indeed aiready come upon us! Surely mny not a "nation loo.se its liberties ín a day and not miss them for a ccntury." And miglu not the father of our country well say in liis (arewell that "our liberties would ever be more endangered from a blind party spirit at homo than from any foreign foe,"The slave power obtained the entire ascendenI cy over the politics of ihfs country aboutSO years eince, at tho memorable Missouri Clay compromise. Henry CIny has ior some time been, and ia . still ihe most dangerouB man in this nation to the liberté of this country. CaHroun, for thereason that hc is bold and overbearing, in cunsummating his plans and designs of establishing the uniuierrupted and perpetual reign of the slavk power over this country, Texas and Mexico, is by no I means öo dangercus a man as Cr.iv. Tyranny, to be lmted and timelij resisted" by any people, needs but to be teen by them. C.-.lhoun woulc!meet the fnends of freedoni at the very tlireshhold of the temple of Jiberty, and siernly forbid iliem to entor. Clay with "bewitching su.ivity" would rather invite them to enter, and then would b'e sure to desiroy thera with seeming kindnsssr. These arch spirits have remarkably exhibitcd these two opposite charncteristics in their treatment of the petitions of the frienda of liberty. I mean not by this comparison that we should ever vote for eithcr of such enormous evils. Far froni it. O how long will the subjugnted north be overawed by the one, or deluded ancldoceived by theother! It is to be fcare'd that even Calhoun, of late, is taking lessons of the prince ofpromisers tne Dctter to consummaie the dreadful end of these adroit co-workers. These master spirits, wiih temperaments and talents the very oppoaite, being nominally connected as thcyare to opposing political parties, and hoving their one great favorito end in view- the entiro supremacy ofthesLAVK power, are virtually copartners, and mutual political movere of the destiny of seventeen millions of people, strangelv boastmg to be the freest people in the world.- No northern politicinn reccives the least csumennnce from these slnvcholding primo ministers of j this country uniesa emphatically a "northen man wi.h southern principies"- that is. his shadow for fieodom. and himsdf, soul and body, for slavcry. Then perchance he may occnsionally recoive a political crumb that felle from his master's table. This is the melancholy bat truc,oiuu ui me poimcal of our slaveryridden country, and so long as a fcw rival demagogucs for the favor of the slave power succeed n enslaving thepress, arrd fhus delnding the peoole and kecping them under their control, so long his greeft political conspiracy against the liberies of our country between a few slaveholdinnnd duelling politicians cf the South and their ervilc allies of the North will become more and more lirmly consuinmated. The él'ave otigarchy having our govornment completelyin their hands efiectually control the Amerioan press (except the Anti-Shveiy press, ) and thus the leadng politicians of botJi he old pnrties and through them the finance, the commerce, the agricultur'e, j the army, the nnvy, the post office department' the foreign diplomacy, &c. The president and thepresiding oificers of both houses of Con-ressDeing aUvayeslaveholdcrs. are aure to exert the controlling influence of these high stations to appoint none but slaveholding or pro sla - very committees, and 10 nomínate Tor the confirmation of the senate. 6 out of 7 slaveholding foreign ministers to negotiate in foreign courts for the free trade aud high prices of southern products, which always results by way of ministerial compromiso in the low prices or tho entire prohibkion of northern free labor producís into foreign ports. Who ought to wonder that under such a slaveholding governmenf, wheat in Michigan should be but 3s. 6d. per bushei, in cash, and but 4s in goods. Thus the great leagued slave aristocricy of Americaf and the powerful land aristocracy of Englnnd are shaking hands in this wholesale oppression over the body of the deluded people of both coumries. This sad codition of things will never be permanenfíy bettered while theSLA VE LORDS of America and the LAND LORDS of Englnncí are suflered by ihe subjugated peopleof both countries to blindfold them and to rulo them with a rod oí iron. The land despots of England have trodden their "subjects lower than the alave despo:s of America have trodden theirs, for the only reason that they have been longer at rt. Bul no people ever tended more rnpidly to a condition of absolute vassaloge, than do the American people under '.he present reign. No pro-slavery party, be it whig or democratie, ever will or can arrest our dowmvard oourse. Their leaders must and will obey their slaveholding maaiers. Whatever taritf" or financia! sysiem we may have, theslave power, ifnot kntikkly ovERTHRow.v. will be sure to drag us down into one common ruin. The avowedpoliíicn! creed of the SLAVE LORDS, and the LAND LORDS of England and America, ie, ihat the faborirtg portion of all countries are fit only for seris and slaves and that it is dnngerous to despotic reign that "laloring serfs" should be enlightcned any furiher than their few assumcd lordly leaders who are "born to command," deern it salë or expedient to enlighten them. The slavery and pro-slavery leaders of bath the old parties will connive liy threats or false promiscs to stavo ofT the great issue between liberty and slavery in this country as long as possible- Their conduct in this respect has oten reminded me of the aiiccdote of Mr. Fox and the Jews. Tlie Prime minister of England, t appearcd, had long owed the Jews a large amount. At a time lien they unusunfly importuned him at least to appoint eomc time, however distant, when thelr clnim should be adjusted. (he cunning Fox replied, "agreeable to the request. tbe time shull be fixedtbr our final settlement- t shall be fixed at the ciny of jiuJgment." Tiiis, replied the Jews, will bo too busy fi cfay with us all. Then, replied Reynard, as I olways wish to nccommodate my friencls. what say you to the day after? The slave aristocracy of America and the land aristocracy of Englnnd design, and hope to succeed in kceping the yeomanry of both countries entirely and porpetually under their despotic 6way, andI il.c few nat' o nal Ieading politiciana of both countrics are n the great secret to consummate this wholesale tyraany. Every art and lying subterfuge will be rcaorted to by these kindrcd spirite of bothcounuíes to conceal their nefarious designs from the truc deniocracy of both countrics. How íong will a 6aro pretcnsión oíf.ísndsUp to onr principies frorn any party dupe the friends I of liberty while thcy VOTE upon principies the very opposito Clay, Calhoun, or Van Euren's friendsliip to our cause is but like the iriendsliip of the wolf ior the lamb. Should ány re.il friend to liberiy trust in such friendsliip he must I think be acting under a strange kind of mcsmerlsm.Mr. Beniont hns becn lccturing n our counly upon the ascendency of the slavc power with I great eft'ect. He presenta the sulj ct fully up to the times and every wheíe makes new and vahiablo convertsto the cause ofliherty. Undcr his expositiorí of the subject, mahy seem to awakc from thcir oíd party clelusions as by cnchfintment nnd wonder how they could have been kept under darkncssrand prejudicc so long upon a subject involvirïgthe hïghest interests of our country and humaDity. Can he irot be constantly in the field? If our friends in all the counties and towns fail nof tíotto fnrnish thomselves imniediotclij with an ample supply of liberty tickets, nnd use níl due cfforts at the polls, the Iiberty vote in this state will bc more than doublé what it was last fail, notwithstanding all the arts and subterfuges that will be resorted to, to deceive and iniureus.