Review Of The Liberty Party

The on'y method of attnining a sound nnd ccuratè judg-fTient on any subject is by gainng such a knowledge respecting its intrinsic nnlities and its relations lo other things, as will enable the mind to see thein all in rapid uccession - n o glance, as it were - and then ronounce upon the matter in hand according o its general bearings. Dr. Watts inviles oiinr people to endeavor to take in extensive deas of thinjrs as a whole, and not fo rm ieir judgrnent from a survey of a portion onv. Politica! men need to aequire this habit f extensive thmight. Without it, tbey will e constontly deceived. He who does not urvey the vrhole field, will be apt to think hat all the. people of the United States are 'the same mind with nis jmmediate neighorhood, or county. If there be a large Dem cratic mnjority and few WhígF, he is cerain that Van Buren can beelected with ense: ' there be an overwhelming Whig niajuriiy n his viciniiy, he may be eqtialiy sanguine ïat Mr. Cloy will be elected by öome nndred thousand majorily. As human naure is the same, and as Liberty men are able lo be over sanguine or depressed from ie same reasons, and as atlempts will be made o turn them back to the old parties on ccount of their paucity of numbers, and di minuüve influence, we think it may be useul to wnte out a few brief and familiar notes ' the actual condilion of the Liberty party each Slate, showing its nnmbers, publicaons, chnracterj progress and prospects. We may not present any thincf new to our readrs, but the perusal of these statistics, in a ollected form, cannot be without profit - We will commer.ce with the State ofMAINE. Tbe population of this State in 1340 was bout half a miUion. The number of votes ast was 93,007, of which the Whige polled 6,613, the Democratsi46,200, the Liberty )arty, 194, or two in a thousand of the whole. n 1843, the Liberty vote was 6,351, being bout one in fifteen of the whole number of otes. In 1841, it W83 1,663 - in 1842, 2,988. Should the Liberty vote doublé annualy ir. this State, the party will hnve a majoriy of all the votes in three or four years. The diffusion of the anti-slavery leaven hrough the cominuniry generally, is an obecl worthy of the notice of Liberty men. In An'me, in 1340, Liberty votes ware given in every county but two. Now, we believe every connty is well organizeil, unless there je an exception in the "Aroslook country." In two or three of" the Congressioual District?, he Liberty vote exceeded 1,100. A rmjority of all the votes cast is required to elect in this State. Henee, obstinate trials lave taken place in very many towns and districts, the people often going to the po'ls five or six times. It has been proposed in the Legislature to elect by a plurahty, but t is een that this will only help the Liberty party into power the quicker. There are two Liberty Representatives in the State Legislature.1 here are two Liberty papers in this State, :he Bangor Gazelte, and the Liberty Standard. The former is a Daily, and the first Lib erty Daily in the United "States. It oppeors to be well sustained, and be6Ídes its faithful advocacy of Liberty principies, it has a well deserved rèpütation for hterary rnerit. The Standard is about tlie size of the Signa), and has about the same circulation. Both of (hese papers appear to be in a thriving condjtion. We jtidge that the Liberty voters are drawn from the otlier porties in nearly ecjuai proportions, ond the Liberty men are characterized by inteiligenee and undeviatingenergy of pur pose.In this ötate, as in most others, the Whigs have kept up a continual war on the Liberty party, while the Demoorats have beeo generally silent and inactive. Some of the Congressional delegatkm of the Jatter party have been remark.ible for bervilityto Southern diecatión, but all vvho supported gngs have had ieave t& stay at home. Mr. Morse, a Whig rnember, was one of the recent committee of nino on the Massachusetis Resolutions, onii he presented a separate report, taking ground against alteringr the Coristitution, but pourin out his inveciiveB against sinvery after the minner, nnd, iiideed, in the very Inncrunge of Liberty men. Mr. íáeverance, nrrother Whig member, is the Editor of the Kennebec Journ al, anda practical printer by trade. He too. is about as good an Abcxlitionist as a man can wel] be, and yet be a good Whig, and support all the measures and candidatos of his party. The Democratie party have a decideel preponderance in the State, the candidato for Governor havirg been elected by some tenthousmid majorïty. This rendera it prett certain that thoy will carry the State at th ensuing PresidenUnl el'eciion, as there will b no election by the peoplë, an.dthen it will b decided by the Legislature. We have n means of ibnning an accurate estímale of th probable Liberty vote, but all the statistic we have mentioned demónstrate Uiat the Lib erly party is "a fixed íuct"- thal it has a per manent standing with the'oiher parties, an that its present attitude is forward, and nu retrograde. We eet down Main e as certai for Libeity in 1849.NEW HAMPSHIRE. In 1840, this State had a population o 2JÏ4,481, being not very far in advunce o Michigan. The whole vote of the State wn 59,030. of which the Democratie ticket re cei ved' 32,761, and the Whig L6,158, Libert 111, or about two in a thousand of the whole In 1841, ït was 2,358- in 1842, 3,110- it 1843, 3.564 - in 1844, for Governor, 5,829 - being nearly a teuth part of the whole. This is the largest Liberty vote iu proportion to the population yet given in any State. At the recent elecüon, four tickets were run. The Whig ticket received a Jittle less than 15,000 votes, other two Democrntic tickets having a united rnnjonty of Forae eight or ten thousand. This State is hopplessly cotnmitted ogainst the Whigs, and they occupy (he position of a tettled and uniform minority. About two thirds of the Liberty vote are said to be from the Whige. The Liberty party has now fourteen members in ihe Leg. islalure. Should the vote doublé annurHy,the Liberty party will carry the State n three years more.The liioeny principies are wen aissenimated through the State. Notwithstanding New Hanipshire is Ihe land of Athertone and Burkes, the people are intelligent and moral, and our caoee finds a stea'dy and sure support. The Liberty party hassuffered greatiy in this State for want of an established, permanont, well conducted paper, whicli might give form and shape to Liberty acüon. Severa! Liberty pupers have been publisbed there for a öhort time, but although sound in their doctrines, they have been, to a considerable extent, the eXponenfs also, of personal contentions and animosities. The old orgonizntion question lias also made its appearance in this State, to iho disturbance of many, and the profit of none. There rs a pop?r printed somewhere in this State, by N. P. Rogers, called the Herad of F reed om. We have not seen it, but t _ has the repntatio.i of being a Semi Infidel, No Government, Liberty paper, with of her extravagances. The Editor was formally a lawyer, and displays much cauatic acuteness and severity in his denunciations of almost all mankind.We anticípate n krere increaee of the Lib. erly vote in this State, not only on account of the character of the people, bot because of the etate of politica] parties. The Deaiocrats ore dividedj and the Whigs being in a hopeless ra.inority. canuot exert the influence ?hey oiherwise would in hindering persons from supporting the Liberty ticket, when it is a conceded fact, that that they too, in State elections intend lo vote for men who cannot be eleeted. The Democi-alic party ín this State have manifested the most unrelentinij hostility to the nnM-elavery movemeut, and the delegation in (.'ongrese has been notorious for the most cbject servility. One of the present members, however, Mi. Ha e, has liad the couiage to vote ogainst the gag, and has manifested a eommendabïe zeal for various reforms in the Army and Navy, and for the demolition of'ihit uselesa monument of military aristocracy, the National Academy, at West Point.VERMONT. Populationin 1840, 291,843, about the same ns New Hampshire. The vote for General Harrison was 32,440 - for Van Buren, 18,018 - total 50,777, The vote for Birney was 319. In 1841, the Liberty vote was 2.794 - in 1842, 2,091- in 1843, 2,564. This is the only State or Terrilory in the Union where the Liberty vote has fallen off, alter the pnrty was fairly organiznd. This falling away wns notly redeemed at the hist eleciion, and the course of Liberty principies will heneeforth be sleadily onward. But this deficiency of 670 votes, for one eleciion, was received by the whole Whig party with one vast, universal, prolongred shout of gratificaron and joy, thnt the Liberty party was evider.tly dy- ing away, after the example of its Anti-Masonic predecessor, and vuuld soon be of no other use ihan'To point a moral, or adorri a tale." Bat. these anticipations have given peace in their minds to the sad bul undeniable convictioa, ihat the Liberty party is a stern reality. ín 1340, the Liberty vote was one in 156 of ihe whole; in 1343, it wos one n 14. There aresomeseven or eight Liberty men in the Legislature. There is a harrdsome and well conducted Liberty paper inthis State, called the Greon Mountairt Freeman, which appeara to be well sustained. The Liberty party has met with n kind of opposilion here, different from that it has experienced in any other State. The policy of both the other parties has been to grant the Liberty tnen every thing ihey desired in the shape of Legislativo acia, resolotions against slavery, &.c, and thus, by bccoming Ihemselves norr.ínalíy anti slavery parties, they have hoped to hinder the permanent establishment of the Liberty party. Were this policy can ied nut in good faith, in earnest, it would be euccessful, and the organization would be dissolved ; bnt it 'a fbrjnd that the otlier parties are mighly in worde, out inefficiënt in deed?. The Legislatura pass 6trorg resolutions at homCi but they ore presented in Congress by a set of dough face?, who are pledged to the sopport of their party, andaré trumpled under foot with impunity. Henee, the necesity of a Liberty party is feit, by which men can be elected who wirl act in earnest for Liberty principies. Bat this policy of both parties, especially of the Whigs, has not been wilhouc its effect. Thus, Gov. Mattocks, (Whig,) in hia late Fastmation, , recommends to the people to prny i that GodJ would put into the hebrteof the A merican peoplé to abolish slavery, while hc has avowed liis deuirmination to vote forone of the most invetérate slaveholciers of the land for President, The Legislature have passed an act, almost unanimously, prohibiting their citizena from elave-catching in that Slnte. VVilliam Siade, vvho formerly represented Vermant in Congress, has beeidropped by hi? friends for some reason, and is now engaged by 'he Legislante as a low reporter to ono of the Courts of lhat State. Mr. Slado tvas ahvays an excellent Abolitioniet, saying that he could support, advocate, and phold the domination of the Slnve Power, throogh thfi organizatiou of his party. The lnst we saw from his pen was an argument against the Liberty party, and an apology for euppurting Mr. Clay. " The electoral vote of thip State will bc given to Mr. Clay, without doubt, liut the Libeny State Ticket is excellent, and we prophosy it will be wel! supported. An increase for three years proportionate to that of the last three, will give the Liberty party a large ascendency n Vermont. Wc are nrat awnre that the laws of Vermont make any diflèrence in the rights of heir citizens on account of color. In all the New Englard States, except Connecticuf, colored men are allowed to vote without any ecuhar restriction. How just and reasonable hie iand yet here in the West, our remontrances agamst restrictions on account of irth or descent, that relie of the feudal ages, re received wiíh coldness, and sometimes reated with contempt, and sometimes answer d with elabórate arguments from ou r greatest ien in justification of the wrong.