Disagreements

Sincc the time of holding ilie National Liberty Convention lias ben discussed, our readers are aware ihal tlie Liberty pn[icrs have been about equnlly dividcd, one half, hended by the Emaiicipntor, being urgent f'or a convcnlion this ful], while the others, of vvhom the Era was prominent, have been for a potponcment I six months longor. During iho discusi sion, the Emancipator, perhaps unintenlionnlly, hasassumed wliat appeared to us a forward and dictatorial air.and indicated a readiness to impute b;td motives to those 1 holding opposite views. Iinrripdiatflv upon receiving the approval of six of the ! eleven members of the committee for a fall convention, Mr. Leavitt published nn ' official article in the Emancipator, thnt it was seltled ihat the convenlion should be held in Octoher, as a majority of llie committee had so dei:idfid, The next Era carne out in an article complaining of the extraordinary mode of fhis decisión : that Mr. Leavitt, "without awaiting the opinions of ihe rest of the members of the commiitee, publisliing them in the Einan. cipator, and then allowing some little time for himself and the whole committee to compare the opposing views and reasons - an net of deliberntion certainly requircd whereconsulïation is impossible - instead of proceeding in this deliborate, respectfu! manner, so that the decisión, whalever it mighl be, should be divested of anything ofiensive to the numerous Liberty men who have opposed an early Convenlion, the chsirman pro tem. treats the ten Libeny editors who diner from him, and :he five members of the committee, representing the entile weót, (with a single exception,) who have not had time yet to signify their views, as f tlmy had no existence." The Editor of the Era further says lie shall not throw a. single obst.icle in the I way of the meeting of the National Convention at any time, and that he does uot regard a Convention as a matter of much importance, ns it is now ascertaiued thnt Gerrit Smith will accept the Macedón nominaüon. On ihis he speculates as follows : "Supposp, then, the National Norainating Convention of Liberty men assemble next fall, as resolved by the seven members of the Central Commktee. IIow is this Macedón nomination to be disposec of? It is not reasonable to underrate the imporlance ofa movernent headed by such men as Wüliam Goodell, James G. Birney, Gerrit Smhh. and Elihu Burritt. - Already we notice a disposition on the parof some Liberty papers to sustain the not mination. The Boston Chronotype and Young America, the oigan of the Land Reformers, too, have come out ir. its support. We fully expect to see many other journals doing the same. The question then recurs, how will the Libnrtv Nominnting Convention dispose of il ? If it adopt the Macedón nomination, the Liberty party, to all intentsand purposes,will be merged in the Liberty League. If not, and t proceed to make a nomination of its own, what can be expeeled Irom such a demonstraron ? The ñames of Gerrit Smith and Elihu Burritt, on another ticket, would be a host agninst us. "In either conlingrncy, there will be gr.'at perplex ity and diflicuity. Meanlime, we feel disposed to retire froni these divisions; and our readers will excuse us, if henceforth we takelitlle pait in the controversiesgrowing out of (hem. It is to be hoped that the time may come when the great massof anti-slavery men, of all parties, dissatisfied with confusión of longues, will be prepared !o cu-operate more effectively. "For one, while we shall not support Mr. Smith, in view of the circumslances under which he was broughtou, we s'all not oppose him, in any contingency which we can now imagine probable." Whereupon Mr. Lovejoy, one of the Editors of the Emancipato.-, in reference to Dr. Bailey's remarle that he '-feit disposed to retire from these divisions," and neither support nor oppose Gerrit Smith, replies : 'Ver)' wel], no one can complnin of this, but if so we entreat you to retire frorn the editorial chair which was placed for you by the hands of Liberty men, and the funds contributed by them to advocate their principies. If you have made up your mind to wait for Thomas Corwin or any other Whig to come out on the Wilmot proviso, and Uien go with Mr. ilings nnd Mr. Ilomlin for him, tlien say so. Bnt we solenwly protet ngninst iliis arguing for a póstponemenl till spring of the Liberty Convention, wlien you snem to have no purpote of lieing guitied by its aeiion, eitlier in spring or auturnn." We have insertad this menvorandam of fncts, ihat lliDFe of oji' readers who do not see otlier Liberty pnpers may have an idea of the state ol leeling rtow developing it-e!f, nnd try to stay its prngiess. We caonot innkc nny commenls to day. We onlv observe Ihat if tliis p!i"it progresses ruri'ing us, we f hall exliibit nnother insiance of the truth of the maxin nculcated by the great Teacher, "A house uividcd against ilself cannot stand."