Slavery And The North: For The Signal Of Liberty

Messrs. Editors:- It is wiih deep anri thrilling interest that I have rcad a nnmber of nrticles in the Signal of late, exhibitmg the compnrativc proportion that the free Siates hoid and have held in the Gowrnment from its organization down to the present coy, and I must acknowledge that it ia with shanie that I discover the degradation to which the free States have submittcd, not. having at any time eince the organization of the government had a ehnre of the nfiicos propnrtioned to theirfree population. Great and unrenso able as tliis evil was at first, I discover tftifl it basgrown with our growth and strehgthened wiih our etrentli, until ihe free Siates have lees than one fourth of the offices to j which they are jnslly entitled, and this state of things (whicb arises from the subservicncy of the two grent political parties to the mandates of the South) is üke to continue as long as either of these parties rctain the power of the Government, neither party being able to retain power without the nid of the southern portion of the party. Now I would enquire of the freemen of the North how long this state of things shall continue, and whether it Vill ever be removed by slavery parties, since both thpse parties readily yield to the unjust demands of the South for the sake of retaining power. This sore evil has long been endured; how long shall we endure it? I answer not only till the cities are wasted without inhabitanr, but until Gabriel's trump shall cali the sleeping millions to come to judgment, unless men will learn to disregard the cry of interested politicians who are drumming them up to vote fQr their respective parties, and who will ever find somcthinjj lo be accomplished by the coming elecrion of sufficient importnnce to induce them for this once to vote as they have heretofore done, and then they ndmit it will be proper to yiold to the voico of reason and vote for the righteous cnuse ofL'berty. In the view of what we are now sufiering, I cali upon the free enlightened citizens of the North to ralJy around the standard of Liberty al ready e ree ted, with its banner floating on the breeze, and cast their votes for Birney and Stevens and the other friends who are in nominaiion on the Liberty ticket, and enjoy the consolation which arises from a scuse of having done right, and no longer hav e to upbraid themselves with having voted for men that will uphold the dark crime of slavery, and thug continue and prolong the evils under which the country is now sufrWing-.