Selections: Objections To The Liberty Party

lst Objection - Some of íhose tcho origina" frd thh mensure, and some of those tch't ncnt patronize it, favur itfrom amhitio-ut or thet: impute motives. Whether this allegation is truc or false, rt certainly contaius no argument ngainst the mensure. The measnre is lo be jtuJged of by ita own tnerits instead of the raerits of thosa who eKpouse ii. 21 O!jection. - Jlbolitianists'might as teell form a new church as a neto political party. If this objection were properly Btated, it would assert not what it doe, but that abolitioiiietö mijlit as wïll fojm a new rehgious, as as a nv poliUoal party. It'would bc perfectly proper and anlogical to eay, that abolitionist:s ncrht ns well be cnllfd on to ccasc to be PresEytecians, Methodist, tac. Sic. asto cease to be whiLs or demócrata. But we do not c] on uboJitionists to ccase to be whigs or democrat!. We do not cali on them to give np tlicir political any more thun their religious crerds. We only say, that it is 8 reasonable for ftbolittpnists'to form a new politici] as a new religieus party. íf it ia reaeonable for tiiem to form a Northern or Anti-slavery Conforoiice- a Northern or Anti-slavery Presbyterinn Ahsembly- it isalso reasonable for thern to ffirm a Northern or Anti-slavery , party, or, in other wordp, a "Libcrjy P'arty.,1 Whi-ism or Deoiocrary is no more Iven np in the fotmatlon of the new politica! party, tlisn Metlioili(=:n or Presbyterianisin is in that of th r.o v religtons pnrty. We say to the abolitionistá.' "bt;, if yon please; a whígr or a detnccrot- iv Pretbyteriun or a Methodist - but remoin nnt in connoxion with any pro-slavery prty : aml fcel as free tü conaect yourself with hn auti-Klavery poüticat, as with an anti-slave- ry rciü.'irHis party.1 dJ Objection. - Í political party cannot (■wa-.ed, f it propase the accompli shnent of but one object: and thal henee the Liberty parVj cannot rucceed. But the Liberty party hae as many object ín view, as the dpmoerntic or whig pnrty. it is truc, Ihnt the Liberty party bas humane test of merabership - tincompromising hostilitY toslavery. Uut the other pnrlips have sometimes but one, nnd nover more thcin two or thToo tests of mcmLcrship. For inntance, in 1840, lle whi parfy rxiicted of rts member, bul ihat iHey opposc the Indf-pendent Trea6Ury; and the dernobratic parfy of Ha members, but that tliev stand by thnt mensure. More ovrr, t!ie probabilitr now is, that in the ap- pro:ic:injT Prcsidcntial canvass, tlie only requirement of the members of the whicr partyvnll bs ineir support of a high tariffj and the only reqtiiremeut of the members of the democratie party their opposñin to it. A9 wellr therefore, might il bc chnrged, that the democratie or wliïg psiiy is 'a or.e idea party,' n tóat -he Liherfy pnrtv is. And, even if it were tree, lh.it its one test of memberehip makel the Liberty party 'u onp iiea party,' rrmy not (hat one idea be more important thaiï ihe thousanrt deus which ëoter iiito the thou sond teats of another party? If the promotion of a thoijaml objectSi snch as banks and treas!ne?, and tnnffs, weren sino qua n.n of thomjership in the demoerniic snd whig1 porties, world not tlioo th'jns'iirds if dollars nnd cent otijcef.! he iníiniidy outweighed by tlie "one dea"' of ,imartil nnd universal liberty? Mobing hogtüHj to nliivery the only test of r.i-i!i[ership in the Liberty jwrty jx ;inrensonablein the eyes of those only who hnve litile r no conceptioji of the evil nf Snppoe that the two great politic&l pirtiesin this ceuniry favored horse -Btealintr löw-inakers, ïvbuld it be nnrensonnbie to ntfempt to rally an Hri'i.lio se-siealinnf poli'ica.1-. party? - a pary, vvhose sinie ipst of merrborship should be rao stenlins'? Would sucha mrly deserye to foll under the reproach of beiirr 'a ore idfn pnrfy?' i;'t is not man stealmj un infniiti'ly jreater crime- an infinitely idos- íhrvn horse stealin? The Liberty nirfy do not propone to put an end to all the politica! ond legalizod r'ils un-' er which the country suffers; but it believes, .at tiic breaHifg np of slivery will preparo' he way Cm ihe torminntion of the other potical and legaíízed eviK nnd it bt-lieves, that o liiiijj as siovery ia stiilèred to continue, tho ttenpK 10 remove tliose othei evila wil! bo ui 'to holu at the fpigot, whilst it runs at the bunf.' Tiiö ohject of the Li'nerty party is to unito the enemies cf lavry in poiitical action agalnst obvery. But to nake tlus union depond on their groiug for or Kain.t certuin other things would bc? oflectu&])y preventive of ■ he union, and exceedinljf ofii?nive to those who fc-J, that, compared with this union, an agreernent or di-arcemsnt cbout any or all other puhtical evila is insiernificant.4th Objection. - The British abolilionisls did nol retort to nn indrprvdent political orgarihahon to Jfect the cvertkrow of BritisJt West Ir.dict Stavent. But therolntion of fliitnin to slavery w.ia too unlike that of Arnorica to slavery to jiis'ify the conclusa ?, !);it heMiccess of the anti-flavery menorsi :n the one coontry should confüie na to the empfayroent of those mensures in the oiher. íínr" VVèèt India slavery wr.?too remóte from her, niu! too inrlireclly nnd loosely connected whh her, to have a place ámpngst hor controlliug :).tere8ts. But in our country the swayinf influence of stavery is feit i" n!' rclari'ius - poliiical, ecclesiustical, comnicrcia]. social. In Britain slavery wna no ruore than a disease of the extremities. In America it i Rqva at the vitáis. Honce if it was wise to interrofraie on the subject of elavory, the lt,?i.s!ative cajuliilates in the former, t doe s noï folio w that it would be wípc to do so i the latttir. The political partiea of Britnin tlid r,ot require their members to do homige to slavery : but in our country all ihe tiational pnrties are bound, band anti foot, by s'averv; and to 'm'errocrate thoir niombrs on the ;u' j et of slavery is to be jEftulty of the folly of looking for free apency and fidelity to principio, whftn both re tiecsssarily pielmlod. 5ih Objection . - ii h beller Jor ubolilion" isls to scatter their rotes (han concéntrate thetn in an independent politieel pariy. To sehtter our volos u a teoiporary e.rpedient for bringing baci; the parties with vvhicli wp nre connected, iiom söme error or errors tbat we reqtiirc Iheui to forsuke, ere we will ajrain act witli them. For uwtonee, if t'0