The Prospect

A gentleman jyhó has travelled íhrough ffre countics of Monroe, Lcnawee, and ílillsdalc, nndon whose nccuracy , o{ jud'g-' ment we place much reliance, writcs us, Sepí. 21: "Iiï regard to our cause, Ï can say thát so far as my inlbrrnation and observation go, the car of FrecJom is onVvafd. I arn airare thaf it is the cry o; Jnterestéd perrons that the Liberty rnen, or a great mnjoriíy of them, are going for Clr-y, butthisl thiuk, "iá a rmstake. I háve tnken especial pains to nforrni myself how great inroads thia Whig oppoition to Annexation is making among Liberty mcn,and í find that eveZj Wort made by them o get the Abolilion rote rcmlUt in their 01011 injuri. For how can it be otherwise, when every intdligení man can see the falsehood of their o;vn professions? Tell me noí thaí tr.en who have foi.nded Their faith uoix the eterna! principies of rmtural juslicc are tobe defrauded by a party ivÉósè very ' existenc-e is dependent upon that whicíx his soul most abhors, I admit ihat it i3nut uncommon ío flnd men making loud boast of their love of freedom and attrtcbment to íiberty principies, and calling loudly upon their Hróther aboiitiontstt" to go with tliem in the support oC Hènry Clny. But who are these rneíi who are called, nnd cali themselves, abolitionistsí They are men who have never known thé' time v.hen they ncted in con.cert witb. Íiberty men, or who have jiever ceased to rally under the Bloody Banner of Freedom's enemy."