Letter From Thomas Earle

The following is an extract of a letter Yom Thomas Earlc, of Philadelphia, to he Cincinnati Liberty Convention, to vhich he was an invited guest. He is iot, we believe, a Liberty man, but has icted wïth the Garrison Abolitionists for several years. He was forunerly a Demacrat, and the extract belovTexhibits Denocracy of the "straitest kind:" "I would rendera Liberty party dem. cratic: firstly, because democracy is but general consistency with the single principie of oppositioii to slavery, or xalher it is but opposition to every' species of slavery; and secondly, because the support of democracy is the surest and speediest road to success. I would liketoaee a party even more democratie than was that which sustained the adminislralion of Jeffersorr, and I believe tbat sucha party, with clearly deírned principies, would absorb the genuine democratie material from all other parties, and soon become the strongest. "True democracy embraces three great points or principies: I. Popular Suvereignly; 2. Equality of Uightsj 3. Liberty- tll. Popular sovereignly can existonly with universal su ffra ge and short terms of office. All attempts to secure order, tranquiüty, stabilily, and freedom frorrr op pression, without the incorporaron o these ingredients into the frame of governmenl, have ever proved, and I think ever will prove abortive. The experi ence of San Marino, of Connecticut Rhodelsland, and, I believe, some Swiss cantón?, in the use of semi-annual elee tions; prove that no terms are so short especiajly for the Legislature, as ta be detrimental, otherwise than by mere inconvenience; whilehistory demonslrates that no land which has establisljcd its elections less frequent than annually, has been able long io preserve more of the practical blessings of good government than areenjoyed even under absolutepotisms. "2. Equahty of rights, will give to all the same privileges; whalever their complexion, their birlh place, their desceñí, their weallh or their educaiion. If one man isallowed to be a banker, all must must be free to become so. If one set of men are permitted (o use the facilities of corporate association lor business all other men nmst be free to associate for the same purposes and in the same manner. "3. Liberfy - truc liberJy- embraces not nrerely the absence of chattclslavory, but of every other reslraint not imperiously required by the principies of selfdefence, and the palpable necessities pf our nnturo. Tlic mojority has tiie riglit to jndge of its own rightful power, but it has no ríolit', knowingly, to.act the tyrant in reference to the minority. It lias no right to díctate to the minority wliat m:ichinerv, lools, currency or mode oí business it shall employ, nor uhere nor vi:h whom it shatl trude, nor whaj k'intl al' contracts it shall make, anv further than may be evidently required in sell-defence against fraud or outrage. "I think public opinión is suíTiciently advanced, or in sufilcient progress of mivancement, to sustain a consistent party whicli sliall ombrace, generaíly, the furegoing principios, and which, in reference to frcedoin of trade, sball go so far as to ader tp return gradually to nere revenue faties, in reference lo all nations whichwil] consent to reciprócate ourliberaüty. "Opposilion to large military and naval forcès, to high salaries and to extensive patronage, should constittite d part of the creed of a democratie party, as being essontial to the preservation of liberty and puriry ofnational morality.'