To The Electors Of The Third Congressional District

-TEIiLOW ClTIZENS : TIir time lias arrived when the exercise oí a most important duty is to be peformed by us. We are cal led upon to declare how we will cast our vote, in the pending election, for the Chief Magistrate of our Nation. Three candidates are placed bofore us, whose respective claims ave to be tested. In the examination, tberefore, of the line of duty proper for us to follow, it will not be nmiss to surv.ey the present condition of the political partios; theirpast and present airns - the causes which have operated, hitherto, in efTecting the changes that have been wrought - and especially we will examine the principies of tho Liberty Party; its origin - its iniluence on the welfare of the nation - and the question whether the objects at which it aims have been accomplished; or so far forth accomplished as to render the continuation of the Liberty Party any ionger necessary. From the commencement of our national existence, our country has been under the control of one or the other of two great Political parties. These parties, while each has claimed from. the very first to be the true embodiment of the great principies set forth in the declaration of the National Independence, and to be the firm defenders of the principies of the constitution, have, on minor rhatters, differed. It cannot have escapcd the notice alsoof any attentive observer, of the history of our country, as connecled with those parties, that although at the first, tliere may have been a commendable degree of right principies manifested, yet in later times, there has been a most lamentable defection from those principies, and other principies, adverse and antngonistic have been adopted. In other words Liberty has been supplanted by slavery. This principie, which our Fathers found to be so adverse, and so difficult to mannge, in theirdeliberatinns concerning the conslitqtion, and which they strove to erndicate from our entire system,.and whichthey fain hoped would long before iliis have been banished from our nation; has by its cancerous gnawing inwrought it self intoihe entire body, aöecting all ih members in all its parts - nppropriating te itself the entire control of the nation - its laws - its principies, present and future. And all thi.s slavcry has efiected througli the co-operation and in the body of these self same Whig and Democratie parties. For neither of them is so clear of jhis deadly gangrene as to be able to say,I ara whole and need no physician. But both, are, as a matter of fnct, at this time and have been for a series of years, under the domination of the slaveocracy; which has dictated to each, froni time to time, such terms and such laws as would best answer its own ends. And peculiarly alarming has this become of late years. For it had appropriated to itself not only the things mentioned above, but also, al most the entire list of offices of the general government;: - its treasury, - its foreign embassadors- and consuls - the subjects on which legislation might be had,- theright of petition and of the press; and in a word, every thing that might render our government dear, or in any way to be desired above the governments of the nations, had the slave power wrested from the hand of the two great political parties, and substituted whatever she might have pleased in stead thereof. It was in view of these developements, that the Abolition movement was first commenced. Tho great and horrible injury that slavèry was inilictincr on theslave, and the consequent unauthorized, and determined attacks made on all the rest of the na! ion f o enslave them also. called forth the friënds of Liberty. Th is movement aimed,at first,at the abolilion of Slavery by moral means alone. But ere long it was ibund tliat moral means could not effect, what the entirenation, in its legislative capacity alone, had power to accomplish. And here was learned the necessity of uniting poldical with moral -power; the one to ex ecu te what the other might declare to be du tv, and right. And having learned too by sad experience, that nothing could be hoped for, from either of the then existing politica! partiesj it was resolved, by those who loved libererty and who wished to secure theenjoyment of it to all the nation, "that wc carry to the polls our principies of liierly, and ppppsition to slavery." " This was the origin of the Liberty Party - and this was a blow feit at the very vitáis of Siavery. For, soon the cry was raised, throughout the length and breadth of the land,- both by the slaveholder and his abettor. The former feit that his "peculiar institutions" were now endangered indeed- tb at abolitionists were now wielding an engine that slavery was unable to resist, and unless disarTned they' Would ere long undermine and' deströy its fablcd [emple of despotism.Henee !is nbe'ttor at the north, from bolh parties, raised the cry; "you are runing the cause of Abolitionü" "You are putting emancipation back a bundred ycars.T!" But what sincerity! Cared tbey ought for abolition? What matter was it to them, how soon both the abolitionists and tbcir cause were destroyed together?-! But they too, feit, allhough it were the feeling of one spell-bound. and about to bo entwined by the coil of some deadly monster, ihat Abolitionists were in earnest' and likely to brenk the charm in which they had been held by the demon, S]„ very. They did break the charm, nnd many rushed from their positions to the On ground ofsafety and consistoncy vizrigU. politica! action. ' And soonhow changcd. Instead of ruiling against the Liberty Party J hearthose very Whig and Democratie Partios, odvocntmg or trying to advocate the very principies on which this Libertv party was founded. Espociolly was tl true with respect to the Whigparly?who claimed to be the Grcat UbcrtypZ opposition to the Democratie party -land thatthey were soon " going to set' them. selvcs, in right earnest, to deliver our country from the grasp of Slavery - (Poorsouls, still heldby tlle charm of the monster.) Henee in the campaign of 18 40, how eagerly the cry of "Libertv'' was raised, by the Whigs, who were most prompt and boisterous in their promises, that if Abohtionists would only vote with them thü once, they would then be rendv to luimess in with the Abolitionists, and cany the country in triumph against slaand oppression. But aks! How ftlse these promises! And why shoüld thoy be otherwise? For, what can be the strenth" of promises made on the principie of do. ing e vil that good may come. ' This ex ampie ought to have taught abolitionists a" Iession, never to be forgotten. But now aflew bah is held out,- a new case ha3 ansen, on the issue of which depentis the fate of our nation. Now, every Liberty man is called upon lo vote once more for the Whig party, "that we may bo preserved from impending ruin." Yes, cali, ed upon, to come to the resace of Lib erty! Let us, now, examine thïs matter. What is the present attitude of the Uro grcat partjes? Is it the same now, as formerly; or have they changed their position? Have thoy chosen a new mnster; or are they stil] under the dominationoftheself-same fyrant? Notatal} . changed. Stil] the same. Not under j another controlling power, but under the I same. No hett leader have they chosen, but the same old öne wbo leads them captivo his will." For both parties are now bound, hooowinked, gagged, and led awfty to execution, by thát very demon, who has been determinately enclosing them in his toils for the last thirty years. For, the Whig party, in a fíme of cotral parative quietness, nomínate, hj accïamalion, a man for the Presidency, who is not only a Slaveholder, but who determinntely opposes all modes of the abolition of Slavery, whether immediate, or remóte. (See Mr. Clay 's speech made in the Sonate of U. S. ia 1839. Also his reply to Mr. Mendenhall.) And the Democratie party, on the very heels of this, assemble also at Baltimore, and there, adoptinga rule by slaveocratic dictation, for the purpose of getting rid of Mr. Van Buren, they nomínate a man who is not only a slaveholder, but also a determínate defender of the annexation of Texas. And, what is still more revolting, almost the enfire party are "going with fi rush" for "Polk and Dallas;" while, ft & believed, a majority of the party, at the north at least, are bpposed to both Slavery and Texas! Now, what can this mean? Arethereno men of principie in that party? Have they all sold themselves to Siavery, and go and come at its bidding, and shout hi'rra, at the sign, right or wrong! Why will men do such violence to their principies? Why will they, with their eyes open, put the poison to their own Ups? - Or, are they blind? Can they not see,. that ruin, utter ruin, is impending? What hope, then, can there be for Lib-; erty, from the Democratie party? Alas! none, but this perchance. That, this their last fearful leap, may, by. its shock, arouse some of them from their awfuh lethargy, in time to fleo as from the city" of destruction.Yes, says the Whig, "Ihat's rigíil. - ' The Democrats are all gone over to slavery." But uwc are the people and knowïedge shatt diè willi us." We have' the true principies, and we are goíng to' save the nation. Come now, ye Libei'ïy men, one and alJ-, a great crisis isfoi'ming. Now is the time to strike fóV Liberty!' Ah, indeed! And what are the means by which you propóse to secure freedom? - Why, surely, c:put a slaveholder, and" champion of slavery into the temple oQ Liberty, orid defend it!" Let us lcct to the Presidency a man who says tliat. " The Liberty of the descendant frica is iKCosirATiBi.K toüh the saety andliberty of the European descendant" instead of ooewho. holds ihe dangerous principlej "that all men, areequally entüled to liberiy" Tlúsisoutplan." IJow oppropriate the meana to' tbeends! What n pity that it could npt liave befl. known sooner; that tke heet way toany place. is a couise that cade in oppoeite direclion, - that the way ta secure universal.' libertyi' íhroughout all the land, isto turn the governnent over into the hands of slaveholdere, andi su t the prince of slaveholdere in as the chief xecutor of the nation. Then we sheuld bavo iberty indeed! Ycs, liberty wlth a YCH? jeance!