Objections Considered

The Ypsilanti Sentinel (Whig) hasns article of more thnn a column in travesty of one in a recent number of the Signa! on the relativa standing of the several parties. Were tlio producüon charactcrized by any merit, we would copy it entire; for we like to meet an able and mauly opponent. But it is poorly writteh and worse printod, and would not pay our subscribers for reading. Our oniy object in )ioticing it is to correct one or two of its misrepresentations. The writer makes us to requiro the Whigs to "support the candidates of theBiniey party," as the only condition of our coopcration,sinee embracing the princi pies of the Liberty party isnot suiEcientto secure our aid. A support of our candidates is, indeed.a necessary pre-requisite to our united action wilh others. The Liberty party was not formed as a ten.iporary combination for amassing a liltle political capita], to be sold out to the highesl bidder os soon as it would command any price in tlie market. It was formed to carry out the great principie of Equai, Rights in all their rainifications. To do this pr act ie all y , it is necessary that we support Principies andMen of' the right stamp. We therefore. admit none to fellowship wilh us unless they will do this. When tlie Whigswill do tliis, they will become one with us lo all intents and purposes. But they will do neither. The writerbefore us, in this ong arricie, daré noí avow himself in favor of one of the distinctive principies of the Liberty party, and vet the whole drift of his argument is toconvict us of selfishnessbecause we will not support Whig candidates who never avowed our principies, and who seek the destruction of our organization! In requrring assenl to our principies and support of our candidates as pre-requisiles of noliticalship, we establish no new test. Would the writer wish to have any class of men received into the Whig party unless they would support its principies and men? Again, ho takes exception to our remnrk that Slavery would be virlnally abolished within four years from the accession of a Liberty President merely by refusing to appoint slaveholders to office. Our position is that should the nationalExecutive reluse to maKe any appomiments for office from among the slaveholders for four years, it would go very far towards establishing a healthy antislavery sentiment through the nation. - The vast majority of the Northern people, after the step was once taken, would say it was right. The lower and middling classes of white, people at the South, who are non-slaveholders, when the principie should be fairly understood by them would rally to its support, and would be encouraged to strike for their own rights The whole colored population of the United States would say it was right. From foreign lands, from every kind red and nation and people, a response of thelanthropic and liberal minded would come booming over the waters, saying "It is right." In opposition to this universal voice of the noble and great nrinded, who would respond in the negative? The Slaveholders only, and such Whigs as James Watson Webb and the writer in the Sentinel. And what couM they consistently say but this: "We believe that those who daily trample on every principie of Republicanism are bestqualifiedto hold office in a Republican government; that those who viólate the first principies of Christianity can best rule a Christian people; and that their atrocious outrages upon Christianity and Equal Rights aren themselves reason enough why the perpetrators should be rewarded witli ofiï3nl emoluments and honor." Is süch a doctrine one of the principies of Whiggery? When slaveholding shall be abolished by law, il will probably be done ihrough the State Governments. lt is not to be supposed that all the States will abolisl slavery in the same year, or by statute precisely alike, Someofthe States wil begin, and the example once set, it will b discussed in the other Slave States anc they will soon follow. The wilhdrawaof the Executive patronage from Slavcholders for four years, with the prospect of its everlasting withdrawal, would virtually abolish slavery in all the Stales. It would induce such a state of feeling throughout the nation that Slavery would never recover its vigor. If it did not die immediately, it would be mortally wounded. Let those who consider this a sloio or an uncertain method of abolishing slavery, shew us one that is more sure orspeedy. Since Ibis writer in the Sentinel has begnn to instruct us, we will thank him to teil us whether it isa principie of VVhiggery that Slaveholders ought to bc, pui into nalional offices and if so, will he teil us whij?Ör" Some weeks since we published an article by Mrs. Stowe,entitled Immediate Emancipation." The Western Citizen says ihat the article has been copied into many papers not favorable to Abolition; and theEdilors, to prevent faült-finding in thcir eaptious readers, have baptized it as "The Generous Slavcholder" ! ,"Whaï,'sin a