Mr. Giddings And The Liberty Party

As the vvhig papers of tliis State are publishing accounts ofccrtain speeclies of Mr. Giddings. vvhich lend to convcy an erroneous mprcssion of bis scntimcnts respecting the Liberty party, we doem t proper to publish the following extraci írom a letter of that gentleman to a friend connec'.cd with the Liberty party in this state. Mr. G. hvisgiven his nssent to its publication. It is dated, Jeffjrson, Oct, 1. 1842. "Your kind favor of the 2 3d inst. is received. So numerous are the enlls upon my tirne. that I arn in constant doubt where my duty requires me to go I have feit it my duty to address our peoplc in some of the adjoining counties of late. - O:ir wKifrst march vp in solid columns to the support oall our anti-iiuzcnj doctrines. Within the Inst two weeks, I have addressed rnany thousands. My course of retnark is, iïrst, to define, as clearly as possible, the right of the free States, to be and rcniain entirely ïree and exempt froni the guilt, the expense, and the tlisgrace of slavery. Second, that the whole pohtical object of anti-slavery men is to Iree the northern States nd he genera! govcrnnient froni the pxpénse, the guilt, and the disfrace of slave ry; nnd I tbcn culi on fho Libeny men to say wheiher this is not their entire object, to which tliey always reply a.'ïirmatively. I then turn 10 the whigs and inquire whether they will mareh straight up lo these doctrines,, nnd curry ovt-rmas principios, and í endeavor to state the queetion with íuch precisión thut there enn he no mis'iak'e about it 1 have nol yet irjoi with a singlé person, who refused to pielge himself lp go the whole length. In this icay. tny dear sir, I have done much to use up the Liberty pany !)ere. and if our whigs gcnerally will assunie these positions, our Liberty friendo will nave no excuse ibr dividing from us." it is evident froni this statement, that the posilionof the Whigs of Michigan, and those of Mr. Gidding's district, is widely dissiinilar. Thcre. the whigs support all the anti-slavery doctrines; and Mr. G. has not yet met with a single person who refuaed lïptedgè liimsclf to carry them on!. Here, we do not know taat a single whig can be found wi.o will pledge himself to carry out any onc of ihess same doctrines. Among the numerous whig conventions reccntly held in this State, not one has expressed the least favor to any one of these piinciples. If we look to the individual feelings of whigs, they are opposed to any nimediate action on the subject; ii we look to ihe doings of iheir oonventions. ihey areperfectly silent. not avowing themselve3 even in favor ol the right of petition, which, by the way, is no part ofaboiition; if we regard the course of their papers, they are opposed, with a single exception, to all pclit'oal measuresof any kind to carry out Mr. Giddings' principies. That oxception is the Marshall Statesman, which recommends substantially the questioningsystem, and is in favor abolitionisís voting for that advocate of eterna! slaveiy, Henry Clay. We may truly s;y that llour wl-igs march up in solid columns agaixst all our anti-slavery doctrines." It will be seen from this, that any attempts to make Mr. Giddings nppear hustile to the Liberty party where its principies are disavowed and opposed by the whigs, an wholly unjustifiable, und uot authorized by his present positicn.