Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: To The Three Thou...

Èrethrén:- The greöf stfugglé fbt 1844 is over, and yöti have acquitted yoursélves íike men who have had the' intelligenc'e to know your duty, and the fntegriïy, principie, and firmhessto do it in the face of the most unprecedented slanders, falsehoods and fó'bïöetes ötïr country ever witnessed against any class of aaf feílo'w cïtizens for consciente sdkè. Permit us thérefoVé to say fhat we do indeed regard you1 as most emphatic'ally thoroughly tried men', and thus well fitted fór' the What cetíihspité mutual cottfidencè ámonga body of men, like the trials and pérsecutions you have just pasised throtfgh. Whrlff you confi-nue íike-minded, wfth all our heart would we say to you, "whither thou goest we go, thy people shall be or people, thy God our" God- and where thou1 diest would we die also." Let us rememtoér tl'ie furnace of afflictiow was once' het seveh' times hott'e'r than ft was wont to be to fit its victims to accom'plish a great work assigned them. Liberty pafïy mén1 at thi'á crisis, may ■wéïl regard tiiemselvéS as suffering trials áttd pérsecutions for hümanit'y éttië their coüïitry's sake. But if the Lord' be for us who shall long bo againist us and prosper? Whohasevertrustedin Him in the ways of welWoing and nbt found' it bettér uiiimately fhati' to trUst tó man's devïees? Has Hé not ofteh "coiifoitnded the ihigï&y áind sent ikeïf cóttnsels keadlong," and out' of seeming weakriëss "perfected strengttií' h tí rtlich sHort of miiaculous, that with suoh odds in numbers, rtieatns and vafíous adversa influences to contend vtftff the LibëYty vot'ê'ih this State and the natioü' ha itittreed TEN f OW infotíf short ytars. We nowhave about'the same number of THOÜSANDS in our ranks in this State and the nation that we had hundreds but . four years ago." And yet our enemies being judges we, are all the whilo "dying away." Whocanask for greater encouragement than tnis to labor on, even in the face of persecution if need be. All essentially .adical reform in the world has ever met with unreasonablo and cruel opposition. If our cause in this State can gain 30 per cent in a storm, as it has done the past year, what could it not gain in a calm with proper effort and a reasonable sacriüce of time and ineans on the part of all its friends. An unjust and relentless war of extermination has been most fiercely waged against us because we would not be guilty of turning traitors to our own sacred principies in voting for plavoholder, which principies we hJHj Bublicly avowed for years before either onj we proslavery parties nominated their slaveholding Presidential candiiiates for thecampaign oí 1844. And yet in defiance of our well known and long openly avowed principies these proslavery parties as usual, as if to tantalize our feelings set up their slaveholding candidates to please slave-holders, and one of these parties at once enters upon a special crusade upon Liberty men for conscience sake, carrjed on by as recklessly a disregard to means as ever characterized the crusaders in the darkest ages of barbari3m. Notwithstanding the most solemn avowal of our principies, never to vote for a slaveholder, and our repeated declarations that from Mr. Clay's well .known slavery principies - his long and uniform public career in favor of slavery,- and his recent published letters on Texas, with the comments upon them by nearly all his Southern friends that they regarded him the "salest man of all others to bring about the ultímate annexation of Texas," we had no more confidence whatever that Mr. Clay would prevent annexalion than Mr. Polk, Mr. Tyler, or any other slaveholder, yet the most unparalleled tirade of abuse, of falsehood, slanders and forgeries weresystemnticaliy and unceasingly kept up ngainst us. Our characters were every where recklessly assailed, our motives meanly and most uncharitably impugned. But the present declarations of some who plied us alternately with "flattery and frowns" to vote for a slaveholder under the pretence of keeping Texas out of the Union shows how much their pretensions were to be relied on, and which they most desired, to prevent annexation, or to obtain our votes to ride into power at our expense. We now hear some of this class who thus abused and belabored us, and who were among the loudest when speaking for the ear of Liberty men, in their most solemn protestations against annexation, declaring in this wise, by way of wreaking their political vengeance upon Liberty men, "I hope the Polk party wili now go on and carry out all their measuresj" that is, desiring of course among other things that they should annex Texas!!!"You Liberty men," saysthis reckless "rüle or ruin" portion of Whig aspirants, "have voted for Polk, and we intend now that you shall suffer the consequence," meaning, they will thcmselves go for annexation. Just as we supposed!! "lts a po'oí rule that won't work both ways." If it be true, that by all the Libèrty m'eti voting for Mr. Clay he might have been elected, then it follows that if all the Cfay men had voted for Mr. Birney kë tfould have been elected and Polk and 'fè'xas and Slavery and all the cömbinèd projedts of ALL the slaveholdert for f he mfcifíte'ñ'ance and endless extensión of slavèfy and the slave power thu's glorióíisly deféáted. So we see that by this Whig logic that if those who voted for Birney vóted for Polk, those who voted1 for CljÍy voted for Polk, and in precisely the same sense. Henee by this Whig logic it most clearly follows that should Texas be anwexed under Mr. Polk's administration, the Clay men must take the r'espoñísi'bii'ity for theif péYseVering "obstinacy" in refusing to vote for Mr. Birney. "And if, and if," snid the Lawyer, (when the farmer's Buil goréd his ox,) "this alters the case." But happily, thi'á móét unparalleled intolerant spirit on the part ofsome Whig leaders towards Liberty men for not voting for their slaveholding candidate is confined toa few exeeedingly chagrined pditical aspirants being conscibüsof sufíering' a disgraceful dëfeat by disgraceful means--a most unrigh'teöus and wicked I pèrsecution of rnén for cönscience sake. Had t'he Whigs let Liberty men alone, they might, and probably #óuld have succeeded. For had it not been for the impression creatéd by Whig falfeehóóds and forgferies thaf aïl tbs Ibterty mèn were goitig for Clay, the Liberty party wöuld have cfraWn thöüwhds öf iibtë tyemocrats from Polk a'rifl1' Texa to tnLiberty standard. So the Whig leaders j by theirmost unjust courso in this thing, have injured u, defeated themselves, i elected Polk - and then turned in for Texas and "nativeismí 7 7" Ín a number 1 of the Stntes such was the extensiva use i made of the deeply concerted forgeries 1 on our candidate, on the very e ve of the t election, that the Liberty vote was not s increased by some thousands aslargely as s il would otherwise have been, yet our r friends are now every where confident i that a proportionate reaclion in favor of s our cause will soon follow as a natural I consequQnce, if we all continue faithftrf s in presenting its just and paramount claims lo the people. They were never f more encouraged to persevere in their ( great work oí delivering the enslaved s millions in our country, and -thusavert the s fearfully impending destruction of the c ion. Let us still be content tobe c ized by ' pro-slavery men and L sRery parties, nnd sects, as a "one t idea" party, and have confidence that all I things desirable in pecuniary matlers will t follow the glorious consummation pf our t "one great idea" of setting at Liberty I 3,000,000 of innocent people, who have s long been suffering by this blood-guilty a nation the most cruel and wicked bondage t ever inflicted upon any portion of the man race. In all fidelity to the slave as well as the highest good of the nation, let us continue unceasingly to press home upon the heart and conscience of all classes of our fellow citizens, the i bom, God-given right of the enslaved to their Liberty, and the exceeding cruelty, wrong and wickedness in the nation in withholding it from them. This hold i on the conscience of the American pie with the blessing of Divine Providence, is our only hope for the slave or our country. A mere sense of our own pecuniary suflerings, nor even the loss of our own liberties, as growing out of slavery, by way of a righteouá retribution for our extreme hard heartedness and wickedness as a nation in our cruel enskvement of one-sixih portion of the people, will not alone accotnplish the great work so desirable of universal emancipation. In seeking notking but the redemption of our own lost rights and liberties by the slave power it may all besupreme selfishness in us, and be -partially temporally effected by compromising as usual with the human flesh-mouger to AID hún to maintain kis iron grasp upon kis suffering, struggling victim. The two great pro-slavery parties who "strike hands with the oppressor" by elevating slave holders, and extending slave territory, and thus strengthening the bands of the oppressed are continually doing this very deed of violence, and glory in calling themselves good whigs, good democrats, good patriots, &c. &c. To set slaveholders to watch over the interests and liberties of freemen is like setting the "fox to guard the geese," or, the "wolf the sheep;" as in the case of John Tyler. Mr. Polk will be no exception any more than Mr. Tyler is, or any more than Mr. Clay would have been. -To completely effect the great work of universal emancipation in our country there must be begotten among the great body of the people a vastly grèater amount of active, living, disinterested philanthropy - a love and lively sympathy for our brethren in bonds. This will be created not so much by appeals to the people's pockets as tb' their hearts and consciences. While we do the one, we should by no means leave ffrê other undone. The American people have consciérice; but often alas! too often, it lies buried far beneath their most inordinate love of party and pecuniary interèsfs! Amid loud prbfessions of gbod theory, money and party have long been the idol nnd Gods of this uation!! It is indeed a task of no ordiriary magnitude to' remove this rtíbírish frcnri the mass of the Arheri-" can mind to gain a'ccess to the nóbler, more refined, and éxalted feelihgs of our nature, "justice and' mercy." It shoüld bethe special work of theLibefty party to show how much higheY and more sfccred are the Heaven-born God-given rights of all innocent mea ta life, to liberty, and the pursuit öf htíppinesá; ta tJternsehes, to their wives and their chiïdren, than to mere "dollars and cents." Party and pecunifcry intérests by the mass of the American pfeople nave so long been magnified and exalted abové évery other good that they have thus measurably lost sight of tho great fundamental principies of the inalienable rights of man. This in truth is the maih rea'son why they do under any circumstances consent to extend sla very and slave territofy, or for one moment tolérate it in thé riaKon, where they have the clear constiturtohal power to abolish it- in the District of Columbia and the Territaries. To1 thé' extent that this narrbw, selfish' spirit exists, th sympathy wilï be &ú the side of thé cfyptia&ot inaiead of the and ovory aort ofjophistry, however weak, and the most limsy subterfuge srill be rcsorted to, to lervert the Constitution, to promote slager)-, and suppress libertyü It is truly ïeart sickening to hear pro-slavery men o astonishingly pervert the constitution o favor the oppressor as to give slaveholdirs in the District of Columbia the excluive right to perpetúate slavery and the lave trade there, to the end of time unnolested, unless that "den of thieves and obbers" shall themselves ask Congress to top them from "thievingand robbingü!" ïut still this sort of miserable sophistry eems to satisfy a purely proslavery mind s well as would the soundest and most rofound argument. Mr. Polk and Mr. lay, anda majority of those who have upported them receive this glaring pro. lavery falsehood with perfect complacenency, just for the sake of the harmony f their idol parties. Tbi.is just as the pverning slaveholders would have it, and hieir faithful party tools most obediently ow assent, and thus trample the Constiufion beneath their own feet to build up he oppressor, and crush the oppressed. - Vecious "Democracy!" "What man eeing this, and having human feelings, hould not blush and hang his head to hink himself a man?" Not a man of ither party has yet dared to stand erect n the floor of Congress and boldly advo:ate the immediate abolition of this "sum L&lviUainies" - this bloody land-piracy jarried on with such bold effrontery at he very seat of the boasted "freest govïrnment in the world." Congress has iven gagged itself ten years for fear it hould discuss the subject - follow the dieptes of humanity and break the rod of the appressor there! At length, after it was well ascertained that the old gag rule had virtually becomea "dead letter" - a mere 'scare-crow" - that all the members of Congress, even John Quincy Adams himself had avowed Ihemselves opposed to the abolition of Slavery in the District, it is most graciously repealed by a vote of 56 democrats and 52 whigs. Wonder if the VVhigs for this act of "abolition' won't denounce Liberty men as "traitors to humanity," should they ever refuse after his to vote for their candidate, should they even set up Beelzebub himself the very Drince of Slaveholders? It would only be in perfect keeping with their late conduct towards us. Whatever other principie may be setled from the result of the late campaign, beyond all question, what has seemed to some a problem is now fully solved, that the Liberty party instead of being a mere faction to be swallowed up at pleaure by other larger factions, it is an established party based on eternal and immutable principlesof human rightsand destined' itself to swallow up all other jarties in its upward étná onward course to a speédy and most glorious triumph. As the Liber'ty party is openly arrayed against all the baser passions, the sordid interests, ais" Well as theproud, the haughty aristocratie powers of the country in every step it takes in its grand march to victory ft wiil: iriévitably meet with difficultiéfs which it must remove, and with obstacles which it must surmount. Tío other dass" of men in our country therefore, stands in so great need as fhe Liberty party men to be a reading thinking, reasoning, inïéttigent class. The attacks of the enemy upon us, if possible be still more insi Jious and a'ft'ïïfl ás we become more and more da'ngerous to their existence, and ttiH Teé'd' tfhBréMê more intelligence, more wisdom and slfill to parry them off; Few if any reading, thinking, true Liberty mieiV' tAVóugii the late cámpaign were for' a moment led aside from duty byall thesubtle proslavery sophistries óf either party. To sufth minds they were but as the Spider's web: Even truly principien Liberty men who do not read and think for themselves wil) be constanfly fiable to' be deceitfed by tlte mere semblance, the a'rtful counterfeit of Liberty principies andmeasures. As well migtit we distinguish genuine from countorfeit coin, withotit féférènée tb' detecers as genuine from spurious Liberty principies and measüres without a Liberty paper. We therefbre most eanrestly urge upor all Liberty men who do'fhéhiselves duly appreciate the imp'ortance of intelligence upon all matters that relate to out cause, to use all proper efforts to obtain as itta'ny subscribers as possible fok Liberty papers, and éspecially our own organ, the Signal of Liberty, of whose eöective execution upon the enemy we judge, upon the principie that "birds generally JLutter vykeivthey are wounded." Local pupers have nony adVnntages over foreijjn one, yet the more of our most bic and excellent lliberty gapers öür friends shall réad aïid circulóte exteAsively'amongf the péo pie, tlio' moré ropiöiy ahd pcrmnnently our canse will adv once. Our lectúrW htts bqeo borne by a few1. This is not rigfhf . Oijr party 4t pretent ifl-j6ntireiy unlike tb otber'par. tiea aft o' the enjoyment ofnüeanitblate its principios. They have tlieir i udeof presses, iheir lioat oí bolders or i ffice-expectants. If sorne general system ould be imroduced by which each Libertv t ínn could have the privilege :o contribuir t i mitr, it wonld be a very easy matter for orne three or four adjoiímig counlies to unite nd sustain a lecturer in them the year i jund. It is irue our enemies tauntingly i all such "hired missionaries." They are t fraid oftheir influence. That's the rub. - 1 'he mere priceof a peck, a half bushei, or a ushel of wheat from each Liberty man í i a few neighboring counties might thus put c i opera i ion and sust ai n an efficien: p y stem of a teans of disseminating our principies and a icasures among the niasB of the people which i. 'ould mnke every true hearted Liberty man c 'joice, the oppres,-ed to leap for joy, and our I ïloved country wheH clothea in its right iind,to "gloryin." b The e isnot a true hearted Liberty mnn in i ie State who would not inost cheerfully i irticipatein some tqual and easy plan of tbia S ind if he had but the opportti;)ity lo do so.- e is fully bdieved that ahould a yery few e r cient Liberty raen at the centre of each f nmty toke up this subject in earnest they t uld carry it into successtful and most effient operation by a little perseverence in u íekinir opportunitie8 to secure the ti on of each nnd all the Liberty frienda ín a es( respective coumies. Such lecturers f juld also obtain subscribers for Liberty I ere and circuíate books and tracla among the eople to aid our cause. Such is the real of ame of our Whig friends that they are now ctually proposing to make up a four year's 'residentiol salory, $100,000, to Henry Clay y Si ,0o subscriptions. Such a sum well exended by Libbrtt Men would probably dever by the blessing of a kind Providence 1,000,000 of laves from bondage and save he nation from the drendful scourge of the ?lat8, the Polks, the Calhouns, the Mc")uffibs and ull other s'avehuldmg oppressors if their raer, and speedily make our conntry n fact, what it is in name, "a home for ;he j-ee, an asylum for the oppressed." Let up, one and all, Liberty men in Michigan, corn menee the new year, 1845, by entering timultaneously and earn!stly in our respective towns upon a most thorough and efficiënt town organization, preparatory to our spproaching town meetings, so that we may then not only bring our full strength to ihe polis, bul along with it a sthono rbiní orckment. It can be donk. "Whbre tpbrk is a will thkbe ís a way'ü Let U8 all hold a weekly town and school district Liberty meetings from this time to the time of our town meetings. Let uamake our town Libïrty nominations at least four weeks previous to the lown meetings, to give us ampie time o convass our towns. Volunteer Lecturers n the towns wlll do great good to our :ause. Let each town see what percentage it :an gain on its Presidential vote. Efficiënt town organizations, and thoroughly and exrfvsively supported Liberty town nominations iré, in all cases, just as indispensable to the prosperity and growth of tbè Liberty party in Lho agqrf.gate os is the planting and prunng of nuriséries to the exi&tence of large and fruitful orchards. Lct every Liberty man in his town stil! nobly persevere in patience in voting in all cases for 'humanUy't sak strictLY vpon his principies, tíiid the lime ía nigh tohen he will no longer be made the "6ut of ridicule" by íhe pro-slavbrt aristocracï, the 6hallow dnndy, or by men of the baser sort" It is hoped the Liberty men will by no means fail to pour in their peliliona to ihe Legislature of this State to have that invidious and den ocratic term "white" stricken from our Statute Book which now so wrongfully deprives some of our most industrious nnd respectable inhabrtá'nts frorf? a representatinn while they have long been subject to taxation ü Our Legislature should also be petititioned to pass resolutions ogainst the Annexation of Texas. Congress ehould also be petitioned to vote against Annexation whenever ihat subject 6hall come before that body. Thcy will have great efFect. Let us do our duty,ad those who refuse to 6icn petitioñs, and our public eervants who refuïe rightully toact upon thern, let the responsibility re6t on their heads and not on our e. We are awaréthat you will bc contemptuously tpurned away by some who were once Ibútí áinst annexilion, because you did not vote for Henry Cláy. - But let us mark well that if euch men were ever honest in opposing nnnexation it is no shadow of a reason why they should not continue to opposo 'iY becauso you coüid not see Henry Clay in the same light that thóy did. What ha6 become of their late alarm for the dreadful conceo;uence8 of annexation? Some will teil jóú' it will do no góbn" tó pétition a 'locofoco legislature" or h. 'Polk Congress' on that subj' et. But let us bear in niind thiit these men may soon return to a constañtly Stangiag riortíiern con$titííéKtf for a re -elecúon ! ! They will need the people's vólés to re-eléct them. If the Btato-'of New York turned the election in favor of the Democratie party, this rty will emembèr as wéU iV may, this electoral vote was determined not by a thsjoriiy but by a minority of the voters of íhat State! Will 6uch a party holding its exiátence by éo írail and uncertain a tenure, nair it6 futuro beiny by a wanton disrégnrd oh" ihe wl6héí of thé ihajortty of thépeóphe, on who6e wili jts exietence must depend? Nover! Try it thorovgh ly and see. Ohty let tbat Voice of remo tist ranee Which before ■olectibn'waá'profeseédly agaiost annexation be tíow heard ín thunder toned by the people" iri thé State Legislaturés and" in Cong'tèsB agaiöst tbis rh'öfet infbxrioue slaveholÖjng Bchetno, o Mr. Webster haa wa'iT satd ''for'he everlutUng cntlnvement of ihe Jljrican racc,'% and depend upon it chis voice oí' the seople will not be unheedcd. It would seem .haí consistency olone, to say nothing of pariotism and philanthropy, would most irnpeiously rrquire that all who were ever sin:erely opposed to this dark and most wicked ilaveholdipg piralical pn.ject, should most imjortunately continuo their warning voico of emonst ranee in all possible ways to the very ast. Bccause the whigs and democrats vonld not vote with us for Mr. Birney to ■ffectnally veto this vast and corrupt écheme f fraud upon the slave and the liberties ofus 11, let t;8 Liberty men not be so fbolish and o wicked just to show our resentmenf, either 0 icmaiii pnssive, or to join this Wholesale rufade apaint Liberty aríd hutftanUy. - eave this for othera if they will do it ! In all our eíTorts let us keep prominently efore ihe peopíe the astounding fací that the mt ion lias luncr been covurned, as with a rod firon, by a knot ot slaveholders for 1,000,000 of slaves) compming but ono sixtiíth part oíffthe people of the na'ion; that the uass of ihe people both nortb and soutb are in act, but the mere dependa nt party serfa of bis slaveholding olgarchy. We rejoice to see all our Liberty friends itterly opposed to the narrow seetarian move nent of Native Americonism, growing out of fraction, by way of resentment, oftheaeeated party. Tbey regard it, with theslavelolding Archer, at its head but as an adoition1 form of pro- sla very istn to introduce a new ind dividing queslion to turn the eyes if the masa of tho pèople fróm beholdog their own degradatton aiid vnssalage un Ier the slaVs power. This party will vvithautany doubt be a most faiihful olly to the slave power of the nation. fts very spirit is ihat of pro-slavery m a more than usually plausible form The snme Iliberal and riarrow spirit m men' that woufd dfsrrañchise foreigners because a msjoriiy of thèm happened lo belong to an opposing pnrty, would ulso disfranehise abolicionista upon the same purely shlfiíh and most iYHberál principie, if they had the power ío' do ií. It is a sort of desperate resort Jo play úpon prejudice, and mortified feelings of resehfnèht fó'r défeat. It may be somevvhat in the way of the Liberty party, os it is defcigned to be, but it will by no means be suatained by any considerable portion of the American people. Arnid all these proslavery manoeuvres our course, as usual, is a straight fonrard and direct oné against flavery and the slave power, thé gréat paramount political evil and curse and danger of the nation. The recent afflicfive and sudden death of Thomas Morris, oúr honored nom?néé for the Vice Prèsi'd'ènéy, forouly retninds us t'hát we should be up and doing. ond that whal our hands find to do, do it with our might. In alt our prayers to the Guc1 of the oppres?ed, let us never forget that American slavery, whose "tender mercies aré cruelry," now holds in the voracoos jaws of her pirate celle, for obeying the dictates of God given humanily, - our beloved Torrey, Walker, Lañe, Thompson, Burr, Wort, Bueh, Fairbanks, and the amiable, accómplished and dévoied Alies Webster. Wiíile V?e would mót earriestly urge tha all the oíd soldiers for Libcriy wonld immedi aldy perfect all their own Cönniy, town ant School District organizations, to enter upo the campaicni of 1843 with r'énévved activii and vigor- from tbe suggestion of a conside able number of young gentlemen, we wótil also recommeñd toall the young men in th Staic, from the age of 18 to L6 or 8 who are friendly to thé Liberty party, to í-eñd up special delegation to Jackson at the tinie o the Anti-6lavery Anniversary, to orgonize a YouiNG men' a State Liberty Jlséocidtion to be efficieutty óarned oul by them in the formation of auxiliary kindred ossociations, in every neighborhood wherè bnt even "2 or 3" young men of the "true Libkrtt Stamp" can b found tó" form a nueleus. Young uien fo war, ícc. Lel therii faudaoly and hóíiornbly vie wit the older soldiere in rolling on tho "Libkrt Ball." As old men are fast passing off th stage," yóurig men must fill their places. Le them be ea'rly and tKorougfíly inured lo th responsibility. 50,000 who nre minors w hope and prny will nobly support the Libert ticket in 1348. There is talent among the young men of our land whioh such organizations would éliclt for the good of Hurhanity and our country. Mr. Birney has written us ihat ehoiild h3 health permit heshal] bö at óurannual meeting at Jackson, on the first Tuésday in Feb - runry. ó'nV friend Bibb, tlié celebrated fugittve slave, as well as many oiher speakers are aleo expected, nnrl we loolc for the largest and most spiri!cd Liberty gathering ever before held in the Stite. Our frierids in Jocftson, wrfl make ampie provisión to reccive you. Pour in thon, ye nvinciblfe foes to t-lavery, in largo numbi?rs, from nll the couriiiés and' toUrns in thestatp and show that cold, nor storör, nor dtsiance, does riót deler you, ony mote than sïandeis, falsehonds arid forgérieá. Your féllow Ioborer.!,