Radicalism

paper, published at Adrián, contaming much reading matter, and edited by Calvin Townscnd Esq. formorly of this place. We have befo re spoken of bis articlea os being well writtcn and nbove mediocrity as to litcrary mcrit, and we shall not tlierefore be considered as over querulous should we allude to a peculiarity in his political course, which, if persisted in, will infallibly up-spl him as a vhg polltician. As none of his political bruthren feave" warned him of it, we trust Jie will take the adinonition kindly from us. In many of his articles we bave noticed a disposition to take sides vvitli the Many against the Few - with the Laborer againBt the Idler - with the Masses against the Anstocracy. But he net only takes sides with the werking classes, but he expresses his opinions witli the most undisguised bluntness; and calis loudly for reform. Lest we should be accused of slandering the editor, we subjoin the folIowing extract frrm the last Expositor as n. specimen of that etyle of writing to whxh we allude "If we pay Judies on the bench - if the tnembers of our State and National Legislature, draw extravagant salaries - if the Governors of the several States, and the President of the nation, reccive salaries sufficient to nabie them to ape the extravagant aristoerncies of the old worid, t!i3 laboring men chitfiy must frot the bil!. Our Judiciary is by no rneans the only brnnch in fault. The President of the United States - his Cnbinct - tbe , ten thousand Post Masters scattered tip and down the country from the Atlantic to the ïiocky Mountains, and from the Northern Lakes to the Gulph of Mexico - the Judges of the Supreme Court and of the inferior Courtfi of record - the members of Congress, and the mcmb"rs of the severnl State Legislntnres, all receive m st oufrRgeoiiFl v extravagant salaries. Their services command such exorbitant sums. a? oríable them to ride over ihe plebeians or "low classes of community" rongh shod. This is the chiof instrument which separates the dernocracy, heavcnwide from the arisloracy. Take a single instance. A short session of our National Lpgislature, lasis from the first Monday in December to the 4th day of Maren. Tiie nominal sum which each mem ler receivcs per day, in eight doilar? - while t!ie pcrquisites aresufRcipnt to bring it up to near sixteen dollars. In the first place, if a member is Jnrlunale enough to reside 500 rnilea from Washington, (and there are mnny Biich.) he receiveö for travelling to and from that city, th suin of FIV E HUNDREÜ DOLLARS! for he has eighl dollars for everjr twenty miles travel. Then, whon ihe gentleman arrivés nt Washington, he has fiirnished him lo order, every sheet of paper which he fihds occasion to nse, every pen and the makingof it, every item of sealing wox, evory wafer, evpry inch of tape, his penknives, his ink, ink stands, eeals, pencils, folders, twine, memorandum books, public documents of evory di'KCription, newspapers, (ze. fcc. In short, every want or desire however unreasonnble and expensive, is instantly snpplied. And who pnys for it? The veople, WHO ARE TOILING AT FIFTY CENTS A DAY! Poslagc is a word, the mcamng of which '.e bardly understands- except' wben he is about to vote for imposing it upon his constituents. With his own Communications, both -rporttve and j'ntportive, the mails aro orowded to overflowing. And to what does hit bilí of postge amoinit? Just nothing nt all. Every man who eoes to the Post Office and pays his little bill of postage, pays his aliqnot fractional share of postno-e of these gentlemen Congrêssmen. The evil has now grown to that mnf nitude, thnt it is an enormouB one; nnd if the laboring men of this conntry wou!d but exorcise ïhat right which they popsess, thcy mignt put an effectual stop to the matter." itfeis kind may be jnst befare elcclion; yet when a Whig Editor bangs awayat the aristocracy in thia styJe, week after week, and inomh after Hiontli, he carrics the joke too far, and sets a dangorous example to bis editorial brethren of the Whig porty. The donger arises from the fact íhat the tvorking clames wil! believe iie is in earnest in advocnting their interests, and will arise in their migh:, and cali for on ef fectual and radical reform. Were the Whigs a party of reformerp,this wculd al] be appropri flte. But Biich is not the case. It is mainly conservative in its chnracter Si is poorly adapted to effect any reform, because it wants tbat imity of purpoee-thaí "one-ideam" which is so much despised ig tlie Liben y party. Well, to arouse the Inboring portiou of the party to reform, when the conservative and aristocratie portion of it are determined to withstand that reform, is highly impolitic and suicida!. It isdividing a house agninst irself. Let us ilhistrate by a single case. The Expositor takes ground against paying raembers of Congress sixteen dollars i day, and five hundred dollars for travelling five hundred miles, while other men have to earn it Ktfijty cenU per day. All this is right enough in iteelf, and would bo proper, were it not that the Whig members and candida) es for Congress, and all the would-fae-candidates, desire Uie large salary instead of a small one, and will oppose all propositions for reduction as long as they daré. Henee, while the Ex. positor takes this ground in earneet H oppoee the interests and wishes of twenty or thirty of the leading Whigs of Michigan who weuld hk to be member3 of Congress, and its course lends to produce collision between the laboring and the non Jaboring portions of ; the party. He says the President oi the Uni ' ted States has "a most outrageously ' gant salary r Who doe not see that in no : aying he opposes the pecuniary interest of ' Mr. Clay? H epeaks of the salaries of the members of our State Legisiature as "otttrw geously extravagant." Suppose there were Beventy Whig membere in the Legisiature, ( would they wish for & reduction of their pay? i Of conree not. Neithw would the hundreds who would hope to be members in future .- 5 The interestj of the members is to consume l as much of the people'a money as they can Ity handaon; while it is the interest of the orkinff men, the producers, to keep their anos low.Her is a direct antagonism ofintereits and the Expositor takes the part of the producers, and C8l!s on them for action in thèjr own behalf. The consequence will be, if tbis course be pursued, that the producers in the party will be arrayed against the office -holders and consumere, and thus impair or destory the union of the party. The Expositor might profitably tnke lessons of the Detroit Advertiser in this respect. That paper has no radicalism of this kind. It justly and ably expescs the extravagant expenditures and high salaries of ita locofoco adversaries; but it has no such s weeping denunciations of the salaries of the whole body of office holders, like this we have quoted from the Expositor. The reason is plain enoug-h. The Advertiser is under the influence of the aristocratie portion of the party. Wlng canáidates for Governor, sr.d for Members of Congress, and whig Senators, do not want their salaries to be reduced! We would not be understood as intimating that the course of the Expositor is wrong in itself in this respect, or thot it is not for the public good. But we do sny it is noi adopted promote the best interests the of W hig party. That is not a reform party, and never will be In the few reforms it attempted in our National Government in 1841, it was pectiliarly unfortunate. In the several Statee, Whig administrations ai e no more productive of re forma than those of their opponents. Neither would we wish to monopolize all reform principies in the Liberty party. We are not of that bigoted class who would forbid others io cast out devils because ihey follow not us. We have already said that the course of the Expositor is right in itself, and we are pleased lo see the cupe of the mass ef the People so plainly and ably set forth. It may be said that there will be the same diversity ni interests in tho Liberty parly, if il should be successful. There wilJ be officeholders and the expectants of office on one sirle, and the tax-payers and producers on the other. That is truo. But there is this fundamental diflference between the Liberty and the other patties. The former is radically a reform party, originated by the oppressiong of the Aristocratie Consumers on the Laborng CJossess, nnd it will succeed only by advocating the cause of the people. It is mainly i reform party, and cannot hope for support in any other capacity. Whereas the oïher parties are decidcdly conservative, and cannot change their fundamental characier.A farnous Whig writer at the East. known as ':Junius," has written a tract against political abolition, which ís said to be first rate. Weshall examine it when we can obtain it. This open attempt of the Whigs to use up the Liberty party, makes their true position apparent, which is, direct antagonism to the Liberty party. We have no objection to this issue, if they choose to make it. - Sig. of Laberty. This comes with a peculiar grace from an Abolition editor, whose weekly work it has long been to wage an indiscriminate and unscrupulous warupon the Whig party. The simple and unconscious innocence, which he affecis to assume, in speaking of the Whigs as making this issue, is really admirable, and has few parallels in the annals of hypocrisy. - Machiavel or Talleyrand might rise from their unhonored graves, and learn something in their own line, from this most iccomplished master in the art of dissimjlation. . "Junius," however, has written a canlid and liberal in which he clearly ?xposes the folly and danger of political xbotionism, without abating one jot of lis opposition to the system of slavery tself. It is a seasonable as well as sen;ible production, and we hope it will be miversally read? The fact that such Lo:ofoco tacticians as the editor of the edtor of the Signal, are disposed to make var upon it, shows that it is calculatedto lo good. - Bet. Adv. We are far too highly honored by the :ompliments here paid us. We never , hought of comparing our abilities with hose of Talleyrand or Machiavel! The dea we had in our mind was simply, that laving had no disposition to make war ipon the Whig party anyfurther than the )ractice of that party carne in collision mth our objects and principies we were lisposed to continue the same course, uness they should comraence an aggressive - rar upon the Liberty party. This it pould seem, they are determined to do. - Ve are called hypocrites, dissemblers, ocofoco tacticians, and other epithets ( hat look to us quite hostile, if no belligrent! Some of the eastern Whig i ers cali us the the llCharcoal Partyl" Lny thing you please, gentlemen! Only o not blow hot and cold with the same reath. Do not denounce us as political naves and idiots, and at the same time all yours "the most favorable party," L anti-slavery," and all that,and ask antilavery men to vote your Whig ticket on lat account. Such a course looks to us ïuch like "dissimulation"-- rather ivellian, is it not?CC?5 We have been absent to the Anüversaries during the week, and our paer is just what our printers have made it. Several egregious errors have been verlooked, which the reader will correct brhimself. We shall bring up ou'r sumnary of Legislative and Congressional loings next week. (CThe strictures on the Junius tract 'f "Political Abolition," which we j ish to-day, are worthy of attentive p al. It will be seen that the tract takes ro-slavery ground. v (t?3 Do not fail to read the account of & ur National Slave Market, by J. G. Vhittier, the poet. p