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'the New Hampshire Policy'

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
July
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Bangor Gazette, an nfluential and lalented Liberty paper oí" Mair goes in npparently for a general amalgamation ofidl paittiës in favor of Liberty. Wc suppose it speaks the sentiments of mos! Liberty men in thnt cjuarter. It snysof the policy pui'süed in New Hampshire: "Yes: blcssed be thöl pdlicy which inilG3 the best and ablest men in the State of all porties and seets to carrv oul rinciples like these. We nak not their name-s - we dermnd Ho Creriei.tials but feady haiids and open faces in such a cause. We figlit for no party is such. Our party is a means- not an end- -and our .notto has ever been, nnd God help;ing us, it ever shall be l-Our p.atv is Irium-phant teken its iUxciples aré tri umphant." Wëwishto see Maine ÑeV Iíarnpshireized, and Nev York, and every State in this glorious Ünion. And they will be when the honest and politie men of all pafties are imbued whh the spirit of the noble band in that State.'5 i We do not mention this because we coincide in sentiment with the Bangor ö-azette : for our readers are well awnre that from thevery beginning we havesup ported the Liberty party as a permanent, national organization. But such is not the view of our fel low 'labore rs generally. We perceive that many, if not most of them, are looking for a kind of coalilion similar to that in New# Hampshire: and here is in factj a direc! invilation for such a unión in Maihe. Whether the Whig politicians will be dispnsed to accept tho proposal, will doübtless bó detetmined by the profits to be derived by them from it. The Whigs, Liberty men anda few Demoefats coulddoubtless overthfow the pro'slnvery Hunkeis of that state, artd elect a full set of rulers and Congfessrrten, ostensibly, and te some extent, trüly antislaveryi We meniio'n these' facits that our readers may be apprizëd of the state of feeling in other sectidnS of the party: The extraordinafy results in New Hampshire have arrested the attentlon of politicians, and it would not be strange if some of them, Sam Patch like, werc inqulring whelher some things could not be done as well as others. The Gazette, however, is consistent in wishing to "New-Hampshireize" Maine. If such a coursö bc commeudable in one state, why dhduld it not be practised in every other state? - We have ever öpposed this "policy" of voting for the upholders of Slavefy and Slaveholders as suicidal ; nor have we vet found occasion te alter out opinión. Á timely abandonment of the practiso hiay yet preserve the Liberty party of New Hampshire in existence ; but nolh' ing else wil!. Á correspondent of the Bangor Gazetle has a formal proposition to carry out the suggestiöns öf the Editor by put= ting up the Liberty votes of Maine at auction, to be knocked off tö the highest bidder. To show what idëaa rire ifl Cogitation among ollr ehstern friends We extraci his proposal as follows : lirto make my idöas suiHciently clèar, without entering intö a prolonged detail, I will take the election of our öhief Aíagistrate of this Stale5 a case that will illustrate all, of nearly dll politica! eleclions: The Democfats and Whigá are stíon to nomínate the men fof Whom they wiíl vote, at the next eleclion. After these nominatiotis are made", let the Abolitionists hold their convention, and appoint a corresponding Comrnittee to require of the above named nominees to give an exposure of their abolition principies; and how fur théy will sustaitl them ; giving, as befol-e stated, the pledge of the influence of the Abolitionists to the nomirieewho will adopt their (Abolition) politics: 1 will close with these suggestions hoping that thö strong men of our party may not deern my humble self presumptuous for my imperfect ofTering, but giveiidue consideraron, end let us froin