"But What Can You Abolitionists Do?": For The Signal Of Libe...

Messrs. Editor?; - We frequenfly hear the objecüo.i raised ngninst the Libkrtt ParTr, that they are too few and weak to accom - plish their purpose, even f theircause be just. ün tiiïa account, many a man, perhaps an honest man, both whig and demoerat, prefers to remain in his party, and toil wljere ho hopes to do somcthing, rather ihan to spend his energies in vain. But let us retort tlie question upon the pro-slavery parties - Whal can you do? Democrats, What can you do? Yoii have been in exiatence froni the formation of this Government. You have had the Presidency a majority of the time; you have had Learn ing and Skill and Tulent and Power to as.-ist you. Yet, to this day, you have not succeeded in de'erniining what democracy in this government shall mean. You have no test of one's demccrncy,exceptadherence lo his pnrtj. You have as yet no settled policy, you have no particular issue to place beforp the People. You have not, and there is no prospect that you ever wilt convince this nation ot your superior excellency. Yo i hae often had the majority on your side, but have no power to retain it, and so far ns your polity is concernetl, the nation is without a Policy of ony kind. - Is your Legislation marked with wiFdom? I need not enumérate - it is sufficient to observe thal continued vnciUation is alwaye, and in all ages, the standing evidence of imbecilily. Ask not, then, what Liberty can do until you teil ua what modern democracy can do and vvül do.VVhigg, what can you do? You too have been in existence, in some form or other, under some name or other, from the beginning of this Government. You have occasional.'y hatl the Presidencv, often a majoríty,irid some times an overwhelming tnnjorily, and yet, what have you i'one? Have yon yet been able to deiermine what VVhig Policy is? Is not your policy liketliat of ihe person 6pken of by Solomon - "lier wa_v re movable?' You ia ve settled upon no policy,you have yiven no jermanency to the nstitutions of this country. You often teil about havinif great political )attles to fig-ht, and you often fight them vith an inveteracy that ill becomes theae; ut what is the result of a batlle or of a vicory? Do you íhereby settle any principie nf government? Do you therohy establisli any policy for This nation, or for even a single State in the nation? WJien ynu hnve fought no batlle, you have on)y preparcd the way o fight another. Nothing ie accomplishedtliat can be called permanem or íixed. Some if you wanted sovne things, and soaie vvanted others, but in the struggle of 1840, you as c ! party, had no issue whatever wiih tLe other pnrty. Henee the reduit wís just what any impartial statesman might have forseen - perfect flucttiatiorj in your Legis-lation - doing and undoing, till you have wasted away by your own marching and couuter-marching, Bankrupting and AntiBankrupting, modifying ond un-modifying Revenues etc. fcte. I say it not to crimínate, but to cali the attention of the candiel to the fact, thot your National Legialution is characterized by great imbecility. Honst you tnay be, but wisdoan can not be clairaed for your deiiberations. Nor has State Legislaron under eíther Whigs or Democrate been any wiaer or better. Look at the Hory of both parties in thisState, and you may well aak, what can yoti do? Lawe are enacted in relation lo taxes, to mortgnge sales, and others, whicli oro to lake eöèct from iheir passage. They are printed &. get to the People in the coursc of a number of months, but oftcn not uutil the business for whicli they were enncted is completed. The peoplo and the suborbinate officers study the new Lnvvs, so as to bc correct and legal in thcir doings the next time, but before the time comes these laws are repeiiled, and others institutod in thoir place, and tluis we go anoiher rotind, somc important business being done illegally most of the time. I believc that I have not overstated the fluctuations of our own state Laws. Then I ask, whnt have the j People lo hope for from thesuccess of either I VVhig and Democrat, but a continool fluctúa - tion, and a feeble, umvise Legislation? Come answer the question, good honest Wliigs or I Democrate, wlmt can you do, even if your policy is as goud as you would mako us think. lf neither of you can answer, 1 wül answer for you. The Whigs can (or could) get inlo office, pull down in order to build, get Iheir salaries, line their pockets, and get out of office again. The Demócrata can get into office, prnpose some measurc, talk nbout ït, get tlieir saludes, liiiR (heir pockots, and get out. of office again, and thus at the expense of the people, without any blessing to ihem, we have been experieneing these sudden alteratiuns from the beginnii: of the government, and thus we may expect it to be while Slavery rules both partios, whose interest it is to check northern enterprise by instability. This, Gentlemen Whigs and Democrats, is just what you can ilo. You can fight one another, and act in the drama of our national History the part of j the treddles of a loom mider the foot of the j weaver, ond as you rise and fnll, jou can, with j gieat propriety sing thoold baby fong, "Fiere we go tip, tip, np, Here we go don, down, flowny: Here we go backward and forward, and then we go round, round,roundy." Wliy, then, wil! honest men ad here to the old and useless dynastios? If it were true. (which I deny,) that the Liberty Paríy can do no'.hing, it is far better to stand in a good cause nml fail.than lo stand in a bad cause, Si ei'her succeed or fail. In a future orticle I may irv to show that the Liberty Party enn do