Press enter after choosing selection

Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: Present State Of ...

Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: Present State Of ... image
Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
April
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Mkfsrs. Editohs: - A political crisis is cvdently forming, if it is nol already formed in his country. The old pnrty qnestion, Bank or no Bank, Tariff or no Tariff. have beconie i 'obsolete." Tliey are never to be the rallyng words of politica! demegogues. Nobody hinks of resuscitating the former, and nobody think6 of anmhilating ihelatter. In his Inaugural Addresa, Mr, Polk says, "It je the dnly of the Government to extend as far as may be practicable to do so, by its revenue laws, snd all other means in its power, fair and jast prolection to all the great nterosts of the whole Union, embracing agriculture, manufacturen, the mechanic arts, commerce and navigatim." "In levying duties for revenue. it is doobtless proper to make sucb discriminntions witlijn the revenue principie, es will aflnrd incidental protection to ourhome interests." The most ultra Whig of the present day. even Mr. Clay "the emboctiment" would not udopt a materially different finnncial policy froin that which Mr. Polk has put forth in his Inaugura] . If he carnes out the policy which he has thus bronched, he will effectually destry the principal barrier between hfs party and the'Whigs. Indeed, it must be obvious to the most casual observer, that the old party principies of the W hijs and Democrals have become so amalganiated that, in order to carry on the party war, a new issue must be made. On the part of the Democrats, the issue isready made. That Mr. Polk was elecled under thebloodstaincd banner of slavery, cannot be disguisedJo Pemócrat will be foolïsh enough to deny heflag Onder wbicli he fowght during the lale ampaicrn. He might-as well deny his own existente s m ovtrg rtpwi aiavery, alter llirust ng Mr. Van Buren aside, Jictated t:ie nominalion of Mr. Po!k. He Tiight aa well cal! tlie ïght darkness, and the dnrkness üght,ae to pre end that slavery was not the moving. principie of his pai ty during the late presidential cöntest. Die trnth is, the Democratie party, at the Bullhnore Convention, hung its bnnrrer to the brcezp - the banner of slavery. Itwaves t Washington- it waves al Delrou- it waves all over the country where a community ots Demociats is to be found. It carried Mr. Polk into the presidential Chair- it carried Gen. Cass into the U. S. Senate- and it brings Texas, with her sins, into the Union. The "Demcoratic jiarty" is no longer Democratie party. It leaders have abndoned be first principies of democracy, - anfl its rank and file have followed in their wake. They yo for the enslavement of a eixlh p;irt of thpeople of this Union. Thejr go for the ex tensión and perpetnation of thevilest instini tulion ever established by fallen mnn. Tlie go for au Oligtuchy of 250,000 slaveholders The American name has bie-n tnrnished b American dem-crats. The glory of our R.è publican fabric has leen soiled by the pro fe?sed Chompions of its domocracy. L'Ho are tho mighty fullen, and the weapons of war pcrished.r'The Democratie party has mide sluvery ilie issue. It lias thrown down the gantlet - who will take it op? Whigs! "The voice of your fathers' blood cries to yon from ihe ground, - my &uns, fcorn to be slavvs.'' The vice of Adams, Giddings, Slade, Sewnrd, Fillmore, and otliers of your party, is ringir.g througfi tiic land - "come 'o lo tlie. rescue. The iron heel of the slave power is about to ernsh the white mn! come then, come to the rescue." The voice of your favorite, Cassius M. Clay. comes up from KenUicky, througfï the Boston AUas of Jan. 6th- "Until tlie spirit of liberty in 5he free States, shall become ns strong and cop.troüing as the power of slarery here, oll will continue tobe lost. Ifthereisany thing in Repnblicanism worth preserving, it can be maintained on!y by an elernul and uncompromising wur against the criminal usurpa'ions of.he slave power. I teil you ihe time has comt ngxi the friends of liberty and ihe craven laves of de?potierrí musí smnd upnrt. I sny ;hen, mise the standard of liberty and unión, noiv.and forevcr. The kinduess shown me by the people of tlie N"orth, mnkcs me fold in the ivow.il of rny full confidence, that they ■.vill oio bo true to themselvcs - to liberty-rto mankind - to God ."' Jt is yet to be seen whetlier the Whisfs will takc up thc ganilet vthieh has bcen tiirown down by their íbol-liardy opp.onenis. If they conclude to do do, if they conclode to show thetnselvQs worthy the nome wliich they t-ometimes abjure - "thetrue hberly party," I will venture, as on n the liberty army; to give theni a Few hiuts by way of advice. Gentlemen Whigs, come into the field with clea handd, ond with gorments unspoUed from the stain of slavery. ou musí not think uf holding commuii'on wiih slavery and liberty at ihe same ime. Your altcmpt lodo solast fall, was the ruin of yonr cn.e. learn wiádom {'rom your ast exjierience. You made a Eíid mistake in 1S40, by olevating a slaveholdei tothe Vice Preifltíncy, in tle perspn of John Tyier. Thnt snine John Tyler was soon lo bc yonr President, and vvas soon to cause you to blush nnd hang your head. Remcmbn't it was the man of your otvii choiee, who extended the bounds of tluverj, by adí-iríg' Texas to Union. Teil me uot ilial hproved a truitor to hts party and his principias. []e bctrayed no principie touching the "pecul iar inititution'' of th9 section to vrhich he belonged. f lis daily habiis of trampling the glorious "Decleration" of your forefathers under iiis feet, was known to you si', and sbould havo been a permanent barrier to hts elevation. You made a mistake in sending men to the Senate who could pause some two or three months on euch a nominal ion as lliat of Edward Everett to the Conrt of St. James, simply becanse he belonged to the Noilh, after confirminur twelve slaveboldcrs out of fourteen nomini.es for similar stations, - thus, cviucinjj the most abjpct submwsion to the slave power. You made a mistake ia ha ving men of your party in the Senate in 1844, who were ready to confir.tj the noininaüon of John C. Calhoun, to iill the place of the deceased Mr. Upsher, when they knew the sole object of his nomination was the completion of the unfinished annexation scheme of his predecessor. But, your grealest mistake of all, that which yon should most deplore, and thnt which yon should improveas your strongest lesson, Was in tnnking a alaveholder your candidate for the Presidency laüt year ; especiallr such a man as Henry Cay, who declared in the Senate, Feb. 7, 1839, that he was opposed to any scheme of emancipation in the planting States, either gradual or immediate, - and after his nominatipn, that he bad no peieonal oltjections to the onnexation of Texas to this Union, but would be glad to see it honorably and fairly done, irrespective of slavery.3ucli re the mistakes of your parly, which you will do well to look at, if you dreom of your own, or your country's redemption.- You had bUer shed no more teare over your late defeat-k. yon had heller fire no more 6quibs t the liberty party, or their late candidate. All this wiU do no good. Indeed, yourdefeat ould be o eubject of rejoicing, rnther thon amentation. It snved you Trom the disgrnce nd mortification of witnssing the consumlation of the annexation scheme, under the ye, if nol under the auspicia of yotirdeiit elect, imd you been s-uccessfnl. It is in ain to clamor about the consorvafive inflnence of Mr. C!ay in this matter, had he been elected. He could no more have turned Mr. Pyler and his men from their couree, than hfi could have reversori tl ■■'■-'■ ■■ i ssippi: nor ia it tobe beüeved that, having "no personal objeclions to annexation," he wou ld iiave placed hiinsHf much in the way of its completion. At any rate, i is noi? ton ate in the day for you to tliink of meeting1 your Inte cooquerors i a nother great battle, witli any prospect of succecs, only by punfyng yourselve8 from the filth of slavtry, and reaolving yourselves into a Northern, no slavery, or Liberty party. Take what name you alenfie, the Bank nnd TarifT questions being setlled, there is bnt "one idea," - but one peg left, upon which you can hang an idea of euffi cient expansión to make an issue,- and that is - the overthroir of slavery. Are you, as a party, loo proud to ftdopt au idea which you have so long drrided? Are you too proud, now that whigiefln is abolished, to meet your opponents as aboliiiouists, emancipntionists, or northernis!6? The lliere isno hope in your case. You hive alrendy met y ou r doom. Your defeat last Nov. was the grave of yotir porty. Bot, let me ask you, Gentlemen Whigs, is tliere nol a greater charm in the word"liberly," than "slavery?' Ia there not 6omething cheering n the thoiight that, whüe you have the power to emancípate yourselves from tliral dom. youcan restore to their rights, three millions of your fellow men? And is therelot sufficient exhüaration 'm such n thought :o ruise you toaction? Come Uien, conm to the rescue. And, as I have already remarkcd, come witli dean hands, and with gatmente unspottod frotn Ihe slain ofslovery. If you resolve thiiB to come- if yon conclude to bucklc on the armour of Liberty, niakiug yourselves a party of "one idea," and only o'iip, your eoccess will bev certain - victory wil! perch uptm yoiir bannier. Come thus, and ihe army of your opponents WW be weakened be desertion, while the little band of invincibles, who occupied the American Thermopyle in 1844, will be yoor vanguard in ihe next orreat battfn Come thus, and you cannot tail, - 'or the God of baldes will beyotirrearruard - your shield- your certain delivcrer.

Article

Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News