Whigs Vs. Abolition

We extract the lollowing from anarticle in the Free Press, signet! "A Third Party Man.' It presente in a forcible light the pusition of the whigs as national party, in refereuce to our principies, Will they alwaya teil liow favorable they are to libertj? In 1840, each party had i's Presidential candidate - Martin Van Buren's slavery creed was,as previously announ:ed,that sbould Congrcss pass a bilí to abolish sluvery in the District of Coluinhiu, !io would veto it. Htrrison avowed his opinión that Congress could not abolish slavery until Virginia and Maryland had done so. The one, admitting the power uf Congres, denied die propnety of te rnea ure-- the other denied the power itself. Wow wiiich of these doctrines is nearest that of ihe third party? Bolh ciuidulutes bowed to southerncluimti, but which bowed ihe lowest? A poütical victory unparalelled in this counttry'a hist ory placed the whigs in uncontrolled supremacy; they were thus enabled to manifest every bias. Have they evinced any to liberly? One of their first acta was to cali to the Secretarles chaira Francis Granger and Daniel Webster. Boih had been considernbly comaiitted to liberty principies, both feared to encounter a whig Senate with those principies unrevoked. and both bad to expresa penitence and a new creed ere they ven tui ed the hazard. The humiüating eubservience of a man, likc Webster, deserting the honorubld ground of advocating Liberty's noble principie, and the cringing plea formercy of Granger, giving under hit hand the consent that lepetilion of his old sentiments should hurl hirn from office, exhibit fair sjecimens of the infant spirit of an admioistratinn, whose heai had previously taken such high slavery ground. Next canie the special sessionofCongreas. Where breathes through its records liberty'f spirit? With a fainting courage they hrunl from a mnnly avuwal of eontiment, and unde the adopted rule, to attend to nought but th business in the Preöident's metssage, ther gained a few months of non-committalisra.But meantime the shade of coming events br gan to steal its creeping pace along. Sevt of our foreign Ministers, selected from tl south, wers tO uornjpefï oí a {jovewmer