Detroit Liberty Association

The second meeting of the Associotion was well attended, and was very ably addressed by Judge Wilkins. A valued friend writes us as follows: Our Liberty Association meeting last evening carne off vvith great eclat. We had a crowded room and a most attentive auditory. The subjoined resolutions were o fie red by the Executive Committee tbr discussion as embracing prominent questions for debate. Judge Wilkins occupied the whole evening on the Texan question, and rarely has it been our privilege to enjoy a higher intellectual trea!: to say that it was able and eloquent would be faint praise. A little incident intended for evil but overruled for good, gave additional interest to the occasion. A short time before the meeting Ihe President of the Association received an annonymous letter thro' the Post Office, evidently of Whig parentage, of a menacing character, asking how Judge W. could reconcile his support of the Liberty party views with his oath f office - how he could faithfully and mpartially administer the law of '93 in elation to recaption of slaves, expressng doubt of his sincerity - a belief that ie is still "an old hunker," (that is, as vas understood, still a Democrat in priniple) and asking how he could answer o his friend Senator Walker, and his cinsman Secretary Wilkins for his presnt Texan views. I believe if the capous author were present at the meeting, nd his understanding bears any just reation to his cowardice, he left that Hall bundantly satisfigd on all these pointa; t any rate the audience were so. In egard to his political sentiments, Judge W. avowed his still unwavering attachment to all the principies and measures f the late National administraron saving n?, but observed that it was quite possile that Üiatone was of such transcendent nterest, as to merge all otherquestions n the views of every enlighened christan and patriot, and here the eloquent speaker drew a picture of the blighting in fluence of slavery on our free instituttons by contrasting the comparative condition of the non-slaveholding and slaveholding states. But before he could more than glance at the principies and measures of the Liberty party,the great rèmedy, - the time as well as the strength of the speaker was exhausted and the Association adjourned. It is to be hoped that Judge W. may be induced to give o. sketch of his argument for publication. On the whole, our cause in Detroit; wears an encou raging aspect. You know we have a flinty soil here to work upon, but we feel confident, as we trust our ballot box will show, not hopelessly ster-■le.We hope our country friends and you n particular will not fail to look in upon us at some of our gatherings. Our Whig riends of the Detroit Advertiser, declined )ublishing our resolutions in relaiion to Texas, from which wemayjudge of the sincerity of their new-born zeal in opposition to annexation. There are some retty plain indications that it is already "dying away."JlESOLUTIONS. Whereas,- public rumor, strengfhenec by the statement of the Government press avers that the chief Executive Magis trate of the Nation has negotiated a Trea ty of cession with the Republic of Texas and has already signed and communica ted the same to the Senate for ratifica tion:And, whereas, it is furthermore averred that by the terms of Ibis Treaty, the whole Territory embraced within the Sovreignty of Texas, as acknowledged by the United States, is annexed and to be admitted into the Union of these States as a Sovereign State: And, whereas, there is no provisión in the Constitution for the exercise of sucl authority by the President and Senate: Therefore Resolved, lst, That as citizens of the Unitec States,wedo mostsolemnly protest agains the annexation or admission of Texas in to the Union, either by Treaty or by Ac of Congress, as unconstitutional, unwise and designed and calculated to perpetúate Human Slavery. 2nd, That the Article of the Constitu tion regulating the admission of New States confers the power only on Congress and the Treaty Power of the Presiden and Senate, does not comprehend authori ty to receive within the Constitutiona folds of the Union Foreign Governments or their whole Territorial jurisdiction,anc People and obligations.3rd, That the measure itseli in th mode proposed is disreputable to the Hig Functionaries of our Government: - ac complishing surreptitiously, an objec hateful to the People, and which coul not bear the light of preliminary discuss ion. 4th. That we deern the measure peri! ous to the Union of the States, - con ceived in the spirit of iniquitous specula tion, - pregnant with fraud, and well wor thy of its monstrous travail, and ve de votftly hope that there is yet virtue enoug in the Senate to soar aloft above Party and crush this Progeny of Avarice anc unhallówcd Ambition in its birth.5th, That it is a mensure calculated to erpetuate in the South the curse of Hu■nan Slavery, by raising the price of Human blood and sufíeriñg, in the increased emand in the slave markets of Washingon and other Southern cities, for Human Voperty. 6th, Thatthis daring and unhallowed ttempt, presente to the friends of Human Rights in the North, an unanswerable argument drawn from experience, why they howld organize on distinctive ground as a Liberty Party, merging all questions f mere temporary expediency, until the vhole country becomes rescued from the moral and political blight vvhich this curse nflicts upon our character and course as a Nation: - for the present administraron was brought irito power by our Whig ieighbore - deluding themselves and others with the Sy ren song of safety under 'Tyler too," and erïtreating the friends of Liberty to go with them. allegingtheir cause and principies were safe under whig eaders and whig domination: - Satisfied hen by the lessons of Experience that he cause of Human Rfghts is onïy safe n the hands of its avowed friends, we enreat the Liberty Party everywhere hroughout the Land to stand to their principies of organization, and present a bold unwavering front toboth Whigsand Dem ccrats: - nail their flag to the mast - never to be torn down. - and malee no comromise, until oppression shall cease and "The captive be made free " Resolved, That the fact deliberately and solemnly asserted in a report of. the Comfnittee on Foreign Relations on the ubject of the demand of the Spanish Vlinister, of indemnity for the Amistad 'her cargo and the Slaves on board" Tiade to the House of Representatives on he lOth inst., that "The wise and virtuous founders of this great Republican Empire laid its basis on Servile as well as Free Institutions," is untrue, unsupported by the history of the Constitution, calculated tobringour form of Government into just reproach, and calis loudly for the rebuke of the whole Catión. Resolved, That the attempt to elévate o the chief magistracy of this Union, a ïoary and practiced duellist, is not onlyan insult to the moral sense ot the iNation, ut a practical invitation to a continuance of that aggressive bullying demeauor of Southern tovvards Northern men, which ïas disgraced our Halls of Congrèssional liegislation the last half .eentury. Resolved, That the melancholy truth iroclaimed by Henry Clay in the Senate n 1839, that "it is not truc - that either of the two great parties in this country msany design or airn at abolition," sustained as it is by innumerable facts, lays broad the foundation for the organization of the Liberty Party. Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be tendered to its President for bis able and interesting address at the opening meeting, and that he be requested to furhish a copy of it, or uch parts thereof ashe judge proper, for publication in the Signal of Liberty. Resolved, That this Association shall be governed in its deliberations by the ordinary rules of debate in other public bodies, with such exceptions only as the following rules may créate: 1. Noperson who is not a member shall be allowed to occupy the floor more than fifteen minutes at one time. 2. No member of the Society shall be allowed more than fifteen minutes in reply to any person who is not á member. 3. No member shall be allowed to speak more than twice the same evening. 4. No two persons shall be allowed to speak consecutively on the same side of a question, if objection be made. 5. If, in the course of discussion, denial shall be made of any alleged matters of fact of which convenient proof cannot be adduced at the moment, it shall be the privilege of the person thus challenged to request a record to be made by the Secretary of the matter denied, in which case he shall be bound to substantiate the same at the next ensuing meeting.