Edward L. Fuller

The recent course of tbis gentleman n ref erence to the Liberty party, renders a brief al lusion to him appropriate. He is the same person who formerly represented this couniy in the Lcgislature, and who moved the rererence of the anti-elavery petitions to the Commi'.tee on the Slate Prison! We hear that in several parts of this county he has denounced Liberty men as necessarily pledged to commit perjury. At the largt Whig meeting on Tuesday lust, he reiteraied his aüegations against members of the party as intending' to commit premeditated perjury as soon as they should be elected (o office and as tkcrefore utterly umvorthy of public confideBce, Ihus disracmg their professions o Chrisfianity, and fast lmstening to take up their abode in their appropriate place - (h gvlfofinfoviy! We have repeatedly sent to Mr. Fuller a denial of these allegations, and requested hin to meet s in fair debnte, and substantiate them, if he could, bef ore' an impar'Jal audi ence. We are informcd that similnr offers have been made by olhers. Now we do no complain becau?e he refuses to discnss with iis or others: for he may have the best of reasor8 for refusing. No person is undcr obligation to enter into a public discussion. - But what we say is, that when he vilifies a whole class of respectable men - declarincr them guilty of crime - a State Prisoft offencu - when, in meetings of his own party, he singles out Liberty men by name, and publicly, repeatedly, und i their absence, applies to them the hnguage of the lowest ribaldry and contumelyT as he. has done to us - we hold ihat as a gentleman and a man, he is bound pubJicly to make good his charges upon his fellow citizen?, or to cease chargmg them, especially in their absence, with crime of the blackest dyc.We, therefore, once for all, invite Mr. Fuller publicly to discuss the principies of the Liberty party at the Court House in Ann Arbor, in person, or by nny advocate he uiay select. Jf he accept thisinvitation,lhe public wil! judge whethcr Liberty men are nll felons, fit only for the Penilentiary: bul if he reftise this request, and still persist in making euch charges of alrocious crime upon Liberty men whom lie dare not meet - coiiched, too, in the lansuage of the most vulgar abuse - the same public wijl judge whether he ought noí to be regnrded by honorable men, as on e of those despicable beings, who slrive to do hat mischief" in a base and contemptible manner, which the have not the courage to attempt bv open and monly means. This is all we have to say on the subject.- We shall have no private controversy with Yfr. Fuller. If he compiles with our invitaion, Iike aman, the public will jurlge: if he refuse, and vet persevere in his present course, we are perfectly willing he should recéive 'rom the tribunal of public opinión that kind and degreeof distinction to which his course may euiiüe liim, wel! knowing that )je is pre)aring himself for admission into that unenviableclas8 of beings whoee degreda'ion is so great that tkeir example ceases to he pernicious.