Selections: Circular: To The Democrats Of The County Of Madi...

Brethrkn: - We are, and have been, members of the Democratie party. We believed that death alone could termínate our connexion with it. lts advocacy of universal suffrage; its jealousy of a National Benk; its views respecting the public lands; and its desire for a liberal commercial intercourse between this and the ether nations of the earth; all meet our warmest npprobation. In a word, its principies are our principies; and the longer we have tried them, the more we lovë them. Such being our strong attachment to our party and its principies, the question, wirich we shall quit - the party or its principies- is de.eply painful. But, deeply painful as it is, it is nevertheless forced upon us, and we can not escape from giving it a practical answer. Tbe National Democratie Convention threw aside Mr. Van Buren for the sole reason, that he would not yield to all the demands of the mighty Slave Power of the South; and took up Mr. Polk in his stead, for the sole reason that he would. - The devotion of Mr. Dallas to that same Power was, also, the sole reason for preferring him to the other gentlemen named for the V ice, Presiden cy. Now, in view of these facts, it is certainly not too much to say, that our party has, through this Convention, abandoned its principies - bas ceased to be a party for the protection and restoration of human rights, and hasbecome a party for the destrucüon of those rights - has ceased to be a party for Liberty, and has become a party lor Slavery.It is obviously true then, that the question, whether we shall abandon our party, or abandon ils principies, is forced upon us. How shall this question be answered by us? If we endorse the doings of the National Democratie Convention, we thereby clingto our party. [f we reject those doings as our deep hatred of slavery prompts usto do, we thereby cling to its principies. Brethren, our choiceis made; our.answeris upon our lips. From the bottom of our hearts we sáy, "Much as we love our party, we love its principies more; and now that it has abandoned the cause of freedom, we abandon it; and never will we return to it, until it returns to the cause of freedom. When our party shall return from the Service af slavery to the service of freedom, we will gladly return to it." And now what shall we do in the mean time - what we shall do, whilst the Democratc party continúes false to the principies of Liberty - is another question, demaridmg an answer irom us. Shall we be active or idle? Shall we witness unmoved the encroachments of the Slnve Power? - or shall we resist them? To be idle at such a crisis, is to bo traitorous to God and man. We must, thereforo, be active. Shall we join the Whig party? - That would be joining a party opposed tö all our principies, and a party nö less devoted than the Democratie to Slaverv. - That the Whig party is moving heaven and earth ta etect to the Chief Magistracy of this nation, that artful, haughty slaveholder, wlio has done more than any fifty men it,' to externa and perpetúate he dominion of slavery, isrëason enough vhy no lover of freedom ean consistently oin it. Shall we join fhe Liberty party? Why not? Because, say some, that pary is nqt committed to our views on such ubjects as a Bank, an Independent Treasury, a TariíF. True, it is hot'. But, neither is it commifted to the opposite, nor o any views on those subjects. The jiberty party goes at the present for but one thing; and that is for a tr'iumph over slavery. It aoks all, however great the diversity of their views in relation to noney qüestions, to assist theniin achievng this triumph. This . achieved, the Liberty party men will be as ready asourselves to turn their attention to these minor questions. Were our own children in Slavery, we should ihen be glad to have the qucstion of human rights- of human liberty- disposed of, before any time was consumed with mere móiiey questions. But other men'schildren are in slavery; and their children are as dear to their hearts as ours are. to our iiearts. We see no good reason then, why we should not join the Liheriy party - a party destined, in our judgment, to a speedy triumph, and to the honor of accomplishing immense and unmingled good to mankind. Have any of you come to the conclusión, that it is your duty to join this party? We aflectionaiely invite all of you who are at all inclined to it, to meet with us in a COUNTY CONVENTION, To be held at Morrisville, the 2lst day of September nexty at 11 o' dock, A. M. Let us meet there to mingle our sympathies, and to rningle our counsels, and to agree upon measures whichshall tend to bring this county and this Congressional district to declare themselves at the approaching elcction, on the side of the slave, of righteousness, and of Liberty. We trust that some of the able and eloquent men in our sister counties, who have recently quit the Democratie party for the same reason that we have quit it, wil] meet with us on this occasion. , Come, brother Democrats of the county of Madison- come to this Convention -come by thousands. We shall most heartily welcome all that comej but we shall denounce none that stay away. If any of you rcfuse to help us in the holy cause of Freedom, we shall not thereby be moved to anger, but to sorrow. We shall not despair of your conversión: bu we shall patiently wait to see you by ou side.