Communications: The State Central Committee To The Liberty P...

The season ofpolitical cxeiiement haring passcd awoy, our community once moreresis in tranquiliiy, an'd he mind, freo from the heated nppcnls ofpnssion. or thecunning suggestions o(" ilie iriterested politician, submits wiih easy gracc to iis only truc and worthy influence- that of reason. At sucii intervals of cuhn reflection, truth is welcomed. and (ie more readily wlien conscicnce whispersthat principie hnsbeen conipromised. or that the politicinn hns done acts wliicli the man cannot approve. Time has no more vajuable blossing to bcstow, than in her eommentarics on tlie past, and no matter how great our iollies, or criminal ourerrors, i f we but improve tlic chenp lessona of e.xperiencc to repair the one and atone for the other. we shall deern iur folly and crime to have been slight purchasc monics fur the acquisition of future wisdom and virtue. These remarks are elicitcd by our sense of duty to you. During tho past election season, it was our duty to observe Liberty act ion in the State, and t was our lot to witnrss it in various quarters. Very much there Ins been to eau se our fnends to íejiTíce, but candor obHges us to add that there is :oom also for blame.Wc design in this address topresent ytui snn;c iruths well wjrthy of your best considcration, and shail do so n the present and a few subs2qnent addresses prior to our annual meeting. Tlie object oftlic Liberty, ns you areawnre. is to organizo a party to the trinniph of tlie grea; principios of the American revolución and to accompliah for thein wh.u they imvc hithorto iiiilea 10 ncquirc, tlicir thorough ascendenoy untántíehí cd by incon&istrney, ond frecfioni rdl ii!ili')!y nnd impulitic coniproniise wirh an antagonist principie. We would place liberty where Wash'ngton ;md his lm! I : co-pniriois of '79 deaigned it to rest - on ilie broad pcdeslal oftruili - wc would Felnove frotn our revcred Innd a deplornbje sysiciii of cruel oppression - would resciin otir Cohsritutit)n fróm tlie elcüifnt of faial disjord so qinrinijigly dövèloped by Scorctiry Upshuf i;i l:;s report of lfc'41-r-and would pift í';r nway froni usa contiivancc so deeply. ïmprcgnalod wiih destiiiclive inateriálsí - sj Kvolting to humaniiy - aud so repugnaros to the gospel of love a id mercy. as slavery. The existing polilical partios búft w;:iidercjd far away fro'm Aineiican principlps; witii t!ie:n great Iruths were long abandon - fd in the siri'c for suprem.icy - and all was forgotten n the zeal to elévate party. Politica! iscendency was thcir idolandin its worship they scrupled not to court the powerful nid of ihc jlaveholding interest, and cach vied with the other ; o gain íts decisivo support by the total nnd unconlitiond surrender of pany power to promote.the )i:ri)iancnce, and increase the profits of slavery: ' :hus neither whiggery nor democracy havo ' .u ïcd lo oiièr Preetdential candidates without the 88SU ranee ofthteir adhesión to southern interest Ou the rare occasions, wlien oihcr than a slavc holder was llie nomince, lie hasíened to proinn' gate liis possession of ihis cardinal virtue, in th whíg or in ihe democratie detílíl'ogue - uncommit teil in all elsc, .perhaps, thc candidutes suflerei nornistakc to rost firrr,. and "ppoeed, ns the wlni: or demoents otherwísc tnight he, ihey unï tod ii a fraicrnal embrace to lmg closo to tbeir bosom tlic monster slavery. It was iherefore tlnt Njfihtrn Van Buren avowed, that he wo.ild veto any bilí to abolish slavery in the D. C. pnssed by Congiess (i. e. would exercise on nnpopul,ar privilege, n onc blow to set aside popular will - crnsli liberiy and perpetuóte slavery, in the very halls of the cnpitol) and that NqfJizrn lianisüii went even further, and denied altogether tho power of Congress over the subject, unlcss whon tied to thc cirt-tail of siatc legislation in Virginia and M.rvland-Attdügainit was tlicreforc thal bjih pnnies nscJ working mnjorities tóbridie liberiy of speech and to suppress legislation for abolishing s!ivcr in territorios or the doinestic slave traje, and :hat the whigsr (liko ilieir President Harrison) farputrnn their old opponents. in pandering to llio Souili by tlicir Adams war. and thcir Giddings wnr, and their military exeluding negro bilí, but nhovc ali by iheir wicked apportionment law, whiefi gïvca tb tbc south such inercased power in fedoraJ legi&lation, and a scriously exicndcd irrflnonce in the prcsidêntiol electoial college; nnd this too to the vioiatiofi of republicnn principie nnd of every principie, save of tiiis l'r.ar(liml cirlue." Daring the 10 yenr.5 from '30 to ''10, the white nonhern population hns incrensecl. 2.71 1,728 That of ihe souih, 1,020,090 And northorn federal population hadincrcased, 2,71(5.723 And Southern du. 1,303,413 II' principie had to bc sacrificad the deed inigkt fin'l excuse in the 'pica that it favorcd liberty, the genius of our constituiion, bot that it was iminolotcd to cmtk liberty, and elévate slavcry 3 a giaring illustration of the now almost nvowed policy of ihe grejt leaders, to conven the U. S. into a slnvchulding, or at least a proslavery nation. Tiiebold move of Govérnor Ciss is also wortby of serious reflectioa; he cast his populatity to the nat ion n tlie issue of his pro-i-lavciy move in Frnnce, and how the nation has responded by unaifimotis npprobation. and suggestiim hint. as worlhy t!ieir hihest gift. Our next number wiü contain some practical suggestie ns. For the Central Comminee,