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Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: To The Liberty Pa...

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Day
29
Month
September
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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Dbar Frienos: - Your State Central Committee repare the present a more important crisis in otir history thoti any preceding one. Will you therfforc permit us, rnrnestly to cnll upo yon one nnd all, to buckle on your old libcrty ortnor njrein, nnd to be up and doing - prepared for the coming onset. We havo been in corre6pondence with a number of oor lonp triedand fmthful frienilp, relalive lo devising wnys and menns to put into opeation a simultaneóos 6ystem of lecturing tfcrough tho State for at leat five or tix weeks. Througli the instrumentaliiy principally- of a few of our we'.I knowu nnd ever activo frïénda in De troit, tlie pían is nearlv completed. It seems onJy to nwait ymit sonction as you pee in the Signal. The kind of sanction called for, is peculiarlv a prnctical one, to sustam the labore in the field by your menns. The on!y romaining question secms to bo, wül yon oc tually pive this practical sanction. Good tiieory merely may costa min notliingr - bnt pood practice often costs us selt'-denying effort3 and fiacrificos. Reader, so far as you are concerned, will you without delar commenco making tlip ame personal contributions and eff.)rts to oblain theni from each and all the Liberty men in your lovn,ns thcugh tlie gloriou9 success, or disastrous failurc of our cause depended uhollv upon your own personal efforls and sacnfices. Ifyou will, your own heart ond the hearf of cvery true lover of liberty in the Slate, ehall be made to rejoice in November next at the happy result. Our cause is yet emphntically a missionary cause - no one is eo idle as to look for nffice or profit 'm his pfforts lo promote it. It is one of the very first principies jn abolitJon (nsstnndinsf opposed to tinreqnited toil) that the laborer is worthy of his hire. But elavery stands opposed to this sentimonf. We have few or no men in our ranks iu our State, able to devote much time to our cnuse. exclusively, by way of leaving his business ond family, and becoming a travelling lecturer unremunernted, without duing manifest !ij]6tice either to his family, or creditors, er both. What then shall antislaery lecturero do when called npon to lecture, and travel ninny miles from their homos without the neceasarv remuneration? Shall they forget one of the plainest injunctions, "he that neglects to provide for his household iias denied the faith," fcc?But how vcry easy, dear friends, would it be, if all of us feil dtep enough for the slave in the right place - the pocket - al onco to obviate all thisdifficulty and to save the warm Jieartcd aiid zealous antislavery lecturer from becoming a living marlyr for t!:e love he bears the slave. Wliy - O, why, flhould il be so, while three inüliona of our cnslaved fellow men in our country, are still raising their imploring hand to üs foraid; and wliile God in his obund'int mercies to us hns fi'iled our bnrns and our granaries to overflow ing. Ifthisehall miicii Jonger be so, hovewe not reoeon to fear fhát the Great Father of those blessings inny speedily withholdthem from us too, who ore but his elewerds and tenanfs at will. No good cause, 6hort of some miraculoiis inlervenlion has been rapidly advanced without ad equate pecuniary means. We cannot for a moment believe thnt their Í6 onc true hearted friend of the slave, skould he speedüy be called to render up a si riet account of his stewardship os some of our lamented biethren have been eo recently - who would ever regret hnvingacted too much the part of the "good Samaritan' But on the contrary, i!nar brethren, have e not all tor rr.uch reason to fear, that we have too often pasEed by n the other side of our wounded brother, vvhose nnhappy lot is tiiat of having fallen "among tfaiev.es.1! Thero is not ene of us who, should we eee a poor pnnting fugitivo Blave n wnnt, tnfl'ering hunger - nakedneet, and cold, from hip extreme destitution - poverty - and wreichedneee, who would no quickly feel in the right direction ni;d promptly eMend to him the kind and benevolen hand of relief. Why not, then, liberally and chcerfully enstoin the public advócales o crushcd and bleeding humanity? Why not then, cheerfully bid ihem God speed, by a generous contribution of all the pecuniar) mcons necessary to their romfortalile eupport while zealously and ardently dpvoting their time to the slave's deüvernnce? Would not n dollar thus contributed in all probability, relieve as much human sufiering in ihe end a6 a dollnr given direciljto the siave? Has noi the amount of mean3 expended to promote the cause of tempernnce, hy way of snpporting temperance leclurtre- done as niuch positive good, and prevented a's much homan rnisery nrieing from intempernnce, n.ó the eanie means could have done, had it been given directly ti the wrerched victima of intemperance thetneelves? Will not then the intelligent plulanthropist -the true lover of human happiuess who regards the subject in this most rationnl light, as cheerfully and generously give of his nienns to support ench public advocates of liberty as James G. Birney, Henry Bibb, &tc., as he would give directly to (he suffering slave hirneelf'. Let r.ll true friends of humanity thuá ice], and tbus act, instead of acling from any mere temporary impulse, excited by the sight of his eyes, and the slave's tong dclayed deJiverance would speedily draw nigh - and the joyful sound of the jubilee would soon be heard witb 6houling in every valley and on every hilltop, throughoot the lengtb and breodth of our then redeemed and happy land. Whero is the man to whom God has given the pecuniary ability who would not be an efficiënt instrument, to bring about this bles-ed state of things vvhen a nation may indeed be bom in a day. The commfttee porceive with great plramre por only theeiïurls of our friemla in Detroit, and in other paris of the State, to get up a hrislr and ppirited campaign - hut the noble tienipt of ihc liberty young mf-n of the State'o organize tlieir forre for uction. While ilie commiitce entcrtniu higli liopes of our cause from tliis qnortor, they would tnci'.whilo earneálly culi upmi the oidor soldier. to telnb!e their oiliírence in ilieir onvvatd njarcii tn VÍCtorj, lest thpy sonn he leñ lennd by theii yonnger Lrethren. Let as niany of oh ae poasible be present on the occisión, ''xpecliiig to witiiesa the liirjM'ft eonvorition of patrioiic youiiif men ever beforc liold h tho State. - Let the oldcr soldiers be io be provoked to good wuiks by the younger. For the slave's poke let there be even a no! le and geneious rivnUlup be hetwcen na to sce who shnll do, gve, and occmnplish the most, 'o acchieve the greot nnd glorions viclory before lis. The CMnmittee tliink from nll pa&t exporionce, thntthe onlv way to support a genern] systrm ís for some voluntser, active, dmyinfr, überty man in each neighborhood. vvho is not afraid nor ashaineil to jeg earnestly and boldlv in behalf of three millions of his fellows, wiio liave lona been far worse thon brggnrcd by iliis griilty k.deceitful nation, to c.ill on cscli and all of the professed fiends of Jibcrty in Iiia immediate vicinity, grnprously tocontributeof thomeans with ivhich God hns b!e?spd him to raise a neighborhood LIBERTY FUND. Depend npon it. denr friend!, íf this shnll ot once be fatthfully attended to, surh noigbborhood will not long1 want for antislavery leeturers. Antislavery lectiirers are but men, full ofica-Jita for theme!ves and families, like ponrselvep. They cannot subFist upon the wind. Our proslovnry cnemies from thebe ginningr. have been ready to cali it all speculalion. jf an antislnvery lecturer received one farthinwfor his eervices. But the tn.'th e, thtt thry are proslavcry, and like slaveholders thrmselve8 wonld dmibtless rejoice if every antielavery lectnrer in the Innd shonld be compelled from fear of starvation to close his lips forever for the slave. But the lovers of lumia nity must never take counsel from ene mies bnt fnmds. Mr. Hammond, of Centreville, nnd Mr. Montngue, of Kalarnazoo, have written ns Int csch of them, have already raised beween (pSO and $40 for a neiïrhborhood LIBERTY FÜND. Our eastern friends have ong pursucd tliis course to stiütRin lecturers and they have abundantly reaped their reward. Shal! the friends of liberty in the Península State, fall behind their noble example1? We ancy e hear a practical íesponse, never, no lever. Up tlien, ye chosen few, to do with, your might what yourhands find to do,to move orwaid the glorious enterprize wilh which all good men sympathize nnd at the consummation of which all Ileaven will reioico.P. S. The Committee think thft wide circjlation of the invaluab'e Signnl of Liberty at this timp, should be a prominent object of all the friends of liberty in the State. In this wny every liberty imn (if he would) could make another libprly man. We carnestly enlreatall onr liberty friende that !n making their nominations, thcy will continue, as usual, rigidly to reject every species of compromise, however specioufl and plausible it may appear. It would prove fatal.

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