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Selections: To The Liberty Party Abolitionists Of The U. S.

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Day
13
Month
November
Year
1843
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Permit me, as the chnirman of the Nationn A. SCommitlee, latrly appoiriled by tlie Na tional Convention held at B'iíTalo, to cali tl) attentiou of the Liberty Party to the importan subject of tvaet distribution. To be sure, ï an but ono of the National Committce, whic consists of 12 or 13, or one froni'each of th free StateSi and the great difficulfy of assem bling that Committeé, or corrospending wit 'such a number, is rny humble apology for in apparent presumption, in the follöwing cem münïc&iiön. To be su re, my only object ha bi en to carry out the resolutions of the lat National Conveiition on the great practica question of Tr-acl distribution. Our cause suffers amazingly for_ tvanl o liglil. Our enemies are ever active in misrep resentín the object and character of pur sub lime undertaking. We have fairly beaten our enemies from th field on fhe elemontary questions. We Iiav proved man is not a brute. We have provee thatamm (who' is innocent, lias a botle ■nghtlo bis ówn limbs, a beUer right to hi ov.n wifeand his oien cbildren, t!;an any oth er man in the universe of God . We hav proved that God's laws cslabüsh thcfe rights We have proved that all hmnan !avs enactet to convert men intochaUtls or pioperty, anc depri ve human betpga óf life, liberty aml th pursuit of happinesf, are opposcd lo the fun dainental lawa of the Universe, nnd violiit tfie first and last. J&wS of human naturo. W have jprovcd onr Government a despotism, i attemptjng lo destroy human rights, inslear oí doi)g the legitímale business of Govern ment, protectmg human rights. We have proved that certain portons of the Constitution of the United Stutes have beci perverted lo the support of SJavery, and cit'ic portions thereof, uiiich might thnny open thousands of priton doors, are the great itnex ercised portions of that instrument, &nd vJio ifall parts of that glorious Conslitution couh be brotigiit tnto hannonious pluy under the inñnence nnd spirit of holy and impartial 3iberty, this grent country would be redoeajed from her present degradation, and would occupy as lofty a position among the nations o the earth, in the point of pracüce, as she does ■now in ab3traction. But although we have asserted and jrovedïese 'propositions ten thousand limes in the st ten vears, yet by n moat fearful conspiray of the two grtat pohticul pnrties, nnd the mr great reiïgious denominaiions of Ihis ounlry against the deliverance of the nan, cvery ultempt to llutninnfo the public line] witfi the ligkt ofjusf.ee and mercy hae een opposcd by these conspirntors W'lh a ehemeuce and zeal which, alus-, has beon tqo t;il!y successful in sbtitiing the light of nowledge - and in lieu thereof, the conspinors have fil led the niind of the vost majority 'ith falseliocMÜnnd higotry. The Tract is the only feasible mode of ; eaching the mind of the million. A traet of i octavo payes enn be sent to 3S families 12 i mesa ynar, at fhe expense cfone newspaer to a single family for one year. Tracts f4 pagos can be prmtecl for í?-2 a thousand. le íract distributor shotild have S$5 a thouand, and this wonld enable os to put 103 men nto Ihe field, with a horse and waggon, at n expense of $250 or -.o n ve!ir. jjet the ! acts be soid for 85 per thonsand, and this 'ould enüble the disiribulor to rise, by visitïg every school district in bis circuit once a ronth, his 6pport. Let him go to the chool moater or mistress, nnd leave. a tract for ach family in the district, to be carried home y some scliolar in that family. But if the laster or mistress of the school are under a. roslavery ínfinence, then let the diatribvitor ná some scholar in that school who would ake the tract3 and give them to a chïïd in ach family of the district, to carry home. - iy Ibis means, niuctenths of our population can be reached by tracts. We never have hud lifFiciilty in selling tract8 to individuals, 500 or 1,000 at a time, but the difficnlly, with all other plans hos beenrthe impossibility of dis- tribuüon. We do not wieh to write tracts, ane sell them to rol on the ehelvos of purchosera. The tract distributor would not generally find over 500 families in a town tobe reached thraufrh schoola once a month, and after he hod given awny the town'8 portion, let him ca)l, by some procesa to be agreed on on some 5 or 8 persons for the valué of the 500 trncts, or &" Our frienda, if they know their town haa received a new tract into most, or nine-tenths oí their families, wpuld rcjoice to raise the sum to pay for the tract, after djstribution, and ir will encourage our friends, so that thcre would be a systern agreed on by which the distributor would get his money in an hour or two after distribution through the school districís, and be ready to go on to the next town . The difficulty with all fonner methods haa been, that tracts were bought and paid for in profusión, and Iefl to perish in piles in some stoi e, office or house. The purchaser feit thnt he lind done his part in buying the tracts, and the djstvibution was, as a consequence, irregular, accidental, and as a system was neglected and eutirely failed. We. must 6ecure a permanent and energetic distribution, and have a distributor who shall see Ibis work 'done ín eacli school district, as a means of procuring his o w n daily bread. Each State should cali ïts State Committee and organize a Tract Committee of five, which Committeu should prepare the Tracts, agree with a printer, and forthwith. commission their distributors to require such sum to be paid by our friends in .the towns as will compénsate them. It is supposed O3 of profi) on a thousnnd will pay a distributor for liis time, Lis horeo and wagon. Let the distribuior report the money received and tracts given in eacli school district, monthly, io the State Committee. The frec States should issue one million of tracts monthly. The following number o distributori, it is believcd, might work profitahly for tlie cause and tkemsclves. I think, without pretending to ictate, that the following number of tract distributor?, triight be succesafully employed in this momentons woik. Let the States have distnbutors as follows: - Say for New York, 20 Maesachueetts 15 Maine, 15 New Uninpshire, C Vermont, 6 Connecticuf, 6 Rhode lsland," 1 New Jersey, 1 Ohio, l,r) Indiana, 5 Pennsjlvania, 5 Miclii-.au), 4 Illinois, 5 Wisconsin, 1 lowa, l Total, 103 This number can be enlarjred or diminishcd acording to the discretioti of" the State Committees. I have nót the least doubt, f this system is persisted in fahly for one yenr, it would add 100,000 voters to the Liberty Party öj a single year, by enlightening the public mind, and add 8,000 to our Anti-slavery subsenpiion lists. These 10Í) men ave travelüng Jeciurers, in the very naiure of their ('mjvl'iyment. Where íhe cause fris but few Iriends in a cotmty, soino of our generous friends must make up any little deficit, but the ncw convertí-, bcfore the year was out, would pay for the last 5 months of the year. One half the families in the free States do not takfi, in a time of depression ike this, a newspaper, and to such families our monthly tracts would be the only frosh inteUectual food Ihoy would have, and it would make a prodigious impression. T1Ú3 movomejit is simple nnd mnjcs:ie,and will trente the great impulsice era in our cnuáe. I hope ench of our Anti-shvery papers will publish this doenmeni fü:jr successive weeks, and that the system will go inïö opcralion carlv ín November" nexf.

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