Why Support The Liberty Nominations?

1. Becausc the candidal.es of tlüs party are the only ones who represent the principies of l'oilical Liberty, Equaliiy and Juslice. The candidates of the party may claim to hold these principie. - But ihe deception is easily esposad. - Thev holci, in a measure, to the equaliiy and liberty of a porlion of the people. Ariother porlion they would and do op pt-pss.and injuro. Here, then, is at leasl oiie goad reason for voting for the Liberty candidates. If Pul tica] Liberty and Equality be wortli anything, you sustain them wlien you suslain the caridid;les who are the true representatives of these principies. '2. Because if, is the only consistent mantier in wiich an anti slavery man can vote. There may be exopptions in other States, but we do nol believe tljat ninong the hundrecls pul in nomination in Michigan this fnll, a soliinry VV Ing or Democratie enndidate will be put up who will dare ttvow the full anti-slavery principies held by the Liberty party. It there be such men in those parlies ihey will not be nominated. But we well know wha! all the candidates will do : they wil] bow down to the Slave Power just au far as their pariy may require. Henee, when a:i aniislavery man rotea fbr one of the candidates of those parlies, hè voles for a pro-slavery man. Are we not riglit in this ? Sotne mny be pro-slavery more than olhers, and yet are tiiey nut all proslavery to some exlent ? How, then, enn one who calis iiiraself a consistent antis'avery man vote for onr; of these, who will strengthen and uphold ihat wliich he is laboring to pull down? He cannot. - To be consistent, he must vote for the Rr-prescnlativcs of liberly, or not vote at all. 3. Hecau.se the eandidales are of sood. characler, inlegrity and ubilily, and if elected, would eonscientiously and faillifully perform the duties ot" llieir rt-sppetve offices. We believe ihis to be true of ihe Liberty party to a greater exient tlian of eitherof the others. 4. Becaue in this tcay only can an anli-slavery man maintain his oten self-respcct. But by doing this, he will have a olear conscienco, and can face all mankind. But he cnnnot but feel degraded in his own estimntion, when he is conscious that iie has given his infiuence and vote fot the eleetion of a man who is enlisted on ihe side of Slavery. 5. Becnuse ín this way only can he maintain an anli-slavery characler amovg his pro-slavery neighhors. They all expeet him to be consistent, and vote only according to his nvowed principies. - And no matler how great leinptations may be !aid before nn anli-slavery man, when he yields and votes "this once" for a proslavery candidate, he infallibly stiffers in reputation and influence arnong his neighbors. "Alia," say they, "with all his prelensions, he has no more consistency than the rest of us." Such a man becomes shorn of his infhience. Ile will never do any thingeñectual for tlie cause. 6. Beuause ft consistent vote und actioi will strenglhen the hearts of anti-slavery m?n. If every ant:-s!avery man we mee ".pnears to be fully determinad that, Ie oihers do os ihey will, ns for him, he will do his whole dmy, we feel individu unlly sirengthened in our previous hope of good, and resolutions of perseverance But if all we tal k wiih nre deponding and disposed to abandon the c.-iuse, Is natural tendency is to d spirit and discourage rnnny. These muy be considerei trite remarks, yet in an associated enter prize, the infiuence exerted even by a few inincis on the remainder may greatly re lard or advance ihe cause. Everv antislnve:-y man ought to feel ihat he hns lrinci)lps wliich he believes to be rïght and good, and wliich ie will act out, ivheiher olhers do so ov not. So ihat on the suppnsiiion ihat n ihe whole Uniled States there was to be only one al who at all times nnd JJ nll cii'cumstam es would exliibit a perfeetly wise and consistent onti-slovery course, from whntever po i n t of vievv his conduct might be viewed, each anti-slavery man should act as ihough he were ihat ndividiuil. Wbat could not such "a bancl of brothers" acomplish '■ Mind nets '.ipon minr!. The anti.slavery man, who, at the coming election, shall vote for pro-slavery candi; datos, or stay at home, and not vote at al!, will be gitilty, to that exlont, of discuurnging, by hisexample and influcnce, e;ghty thousand ot his bretliren. When lliey look al the voto of Michigan, and find it even one le?s than it should have been, their faith and zen] will lif, to that extent, abated. And if evRi-y other antislavery man dit! likewise, tliere would be not n vote given for frecdom in the Stnte! The vote of Micliigan, in common with tho other Statos, will be published nnd pondered on the other side of tlie Atlaul ie, and, if it be what it st ould, it will cheer the hearls of multitudes ihero who are deeply interested spectators o( the antislavery contest among us. In the presence of such "a great cloud of witnpsses," who vrjuld prove a traitor or a lnggard ? 7. Becnuse consistent anti-slavery action will have a strong rffect on the public generally. The "eternal protest" of Libeity voies is a standing evidence to llie adherents of tlie pro-slavery parties thnt there iá n grent and ovcrshadowing Slave Power. CnndicUnnd sensible men in ihose parlies see their old associates and friends whom they highly respect, scpnraüng frorn tliem and voting exclusively on anti-slavery grounds; and by Uiis spect;icle, Bjchibiled before their eyes fiom yenr to year, they are led to inquire i ii to ihe ransons of their faith and practice, and thus their own eyes are grarlually opened. Henee the anti-slavery enactments in New Hampshire, Massachuselts, Pennsylvania, and otlier Staten. - The changp in public opinión, since 1835, in favor of anti-slavery principies, has heen owing very Jargelv to consistent anli-slavery voting. Without tln's, there would liave been no Wilrnot Proviso last ye;r, oi' it would have been far less fully supported. And Slnvery, as we all know, in some of Is relations, hns beeome the g'ent politica! question of the nge. This lias been brought ahont only by consistent anti-slavery action. 8. Bpcnuse tn this way can th. Slavekolders best be reached. Mr. Calhoun's speech at home, on the 9th of Maren, in which he i-lassified the voters of the Free Siate?, and reckoned the percentage of voting Abolitionists, exliibits the vigilance vitli whioh they watch the state of poiitical abolition in the Norlh. Our neighors snmRtimes aílect lo despise us ; but lie keer.-fyed stntesmen of ihe Souih fcar is. There is reas n to believe that the. nfluenco of ihe Liberty vote upori the S'aveh"lders generully, is much grealer lian Liberty men themselvcs generally uppose. A correspondent of a le.nding Vorthern paper, writing from VV'ashington, recently remarked, that the Abolilionists had more influence at the South than Ihey did at home, and that he had never heard tlieir operaiions contemptuusly spoken of by a snuthern. man. - And in the Charleston Circular, whicli we lublished a few weeks since, the signers jenr ihe most expücit testimóny to tho effect of that steady fiJelity to principie sa constant ly mnnifested by Aboliiionsts. Every Liberty vote casi in Michigan will be a solemn protest agninst Slavery, which will be read and registered at the South. 9. Becaikse an anti-slavery vote at the coming election will ham an influencefor good on the Presidenlial election, by encournging those who are preparing for a vigorous anti-slavery elTort on that occasion. 10. The final and most important reason we shall give for anti-slavery poliiical nction at ihe coming election is, t hal it is an essenlial part of a great sistem of anli-slavery means, which, in n future day, will entirely regenérate our country, and sweep Slavery fiom our nation and ihe world. We liave reason to believe that by f ar the most importan resuls of our present anli-savery efforls are to be developed in the future. We are doing n great work on the heart of our nation. - II is a work that will last througli coming generations. What though tlie Slave Power sits enthroned in llie Presidential Cbair, and is greedily snheming the acquisilion of new empires for the spread of Slavery, and none can slay its hand ? It may go on, adding provinee to province, and State to State, but it will not nlways be ilnis. We have been creating an AnliSlavery Power atibe nortli,wliich dily follow up ilie Slave Power ihrough all its ncquisitions. We had to bogin wiib the leading men of the Noith - old proslavery veterans, on whom the new antislavery truths nade comparntivcly little impression. VVith these we have labored during fifteen years. In fiftecn year. more, these will all be removed f rom pub lic lile; and ollour Free States will ihei be governed and controlled by those wlio have grown up from their boy houd wiil a íull knowledge of the great principie of our enterprize. These will not be the same servile, ciouc'uing doughfaces thei fdihers weet. They will know tliei righls, and the rights of humnnity, aiK will dare maintain tliem. Tlie whol community will become eminen'.ly anti slavery in feeling and BCtiou, till notliin of an opposing nature vvill ba tolerntec A ml this spirit will spread f'urther townrd the South, carrying wit!i it nnti-slavoi' light and truth, till it extends tlirongli the wliole empire of Slavery. ■ Alieady it has crossed tlie line of Slavery, and boldly speaks oui, in Washington and Louisvillc, from week to wrek. Ton years henee, t mny bu iieard in Charleston and New Orieans. Let ihoe who may sneer at iliose anticinittions as the delusions of ent'iusi.'ism, fxainine tlie lessons of liistory. How rnany long ycars did VVilberfurce and lii.s coarljutors labor in the cause of emanoipMion liefore they set freo a single slave ? It required a half-century - an enlire life-lime - lo get tlie British nalion into a state of feeüng suitable for antlslavery nel ion. But did the anti-slavery influence expire wilh the first deerre of emnncipation 1 Far otherwise. The rising generution in England have becotne entirely abolitionized, and anti-slavery influencps govern the policy of her rulers and her slntcsmen. The sway of the nalion extends over a tenlh part of the hurann nee, through every varlety of climaie and country ; and wherever her flng fluals, llie people of every race and kindred and tongue, are pkeb And at thnl nation annunlly progPesspS" fn ts career of con]iiest nnd territon'n] ncquisition, the roar of its cannon proclaims to every slave wlio hears it, thnt whatever other ills may betide him, deliverance from the curse of Slavery is nigh. And so it will be tlirough coming generations. The British Abolitionists who spent their Uves in indoctrinating their countrymen with the great truth that man cannot hold property in man, secured also the future abolition of slavery through all portions of the earth whore that indomitable pie may carry their language, llieir arts, and their arms. We, too, are pariakers of tlie same Anglo Saxon bliod, and recent events make it sure that we nherit also tlie same rapac-ity of spirit, and ambition for dominion end conquest. The anti-slavery men at the North are doing tlie sanie work forour nation thnt the I3ritish Abolilionists dd for England ; and our work, ]ke theirs, will be fell Par more in the coming generations than in ihe present. It will not be a mere tempornrv impression, to lade away after a lew spasmodic effbrls at emanciparon, but a h;il' century henee anti-slavery will be llie governing policy of a great Anglo-American empire - a policy that wi'l be spread and natmalized ihrough all her wide extended dominions. Now. reader, if you will believe it,you are to have a part - a smal!, an humble one t may be - in accomplihing these great resulta. They are to be brought nbuut by means ; and a part of ihtte means isthe system of anii-slavery voting in Michigan. Do not repine that your chance is so small, but act well your parí, whatever it may be, knowing that your labor will not be in vain, if you persevere nto tlie end. A single drop of' rain ivü) o but litlle on a parched fifild ; yet every rop does somelhing ; and multitudes ol' tem united will fertilize the whole land, nd swell every fountain and sirram. - i;icli drop does good n the place where t fails ; and every ami-slavery b.'illot caries vvith it an influence for good. Let very nnti-slavery man, then, determine o contribute his mite at the coming elecion. Let him cheerfully register his estimony against the grealest evil in omand, being assured tliat enougli more will be added to it to in; ke their united influnce ultiinalely eíTectual for that for whicli it was bestowed.