"The Other Interests."

At the Liberty Cotivention of Washienaw County, the following resolution was introduced by T. Foster. Resolved, That the time has now fully come when ihe Liberty party ougbt to carry out the principie of Èo,caI. Rights in all its irgititnMe consequences oixJ npplication:, bv taking ihe riglu tside of al] qucaiiona, civi], fi nnnciiil or politica), thai affect Ihe welfare of communiiy.'1 Mr. Foster, ofAnn Arbor, remarked, thnt no important polilical reform can b effected in a community, when protracted through aseries of years, without an ocsional clmnge of mensures, "f he object tobe accfomplislied remains, indeed, the samej but the nature of the obstncles to be overcotne vaiies, and the menns for reinoving them must also vary. To illusfrnfe fhis. he referred to the Temperance ónuse. Thé friends of Temperance supposed thnt inornnce of the effects of Ardent Spirits wns the great rause of the evils of intemperance. They npplied themáelvés to remove this by formingsocietie5,and publishing millionsof traefs & papers. Tlris parlially answered the purpose; but it was foundthat wine drinking in high life was not aflected by the pledge agninst Ardent Spirits. Henee the tee-toial pledge was tiexl introduced,and substi'tuted for the other. But while Intempernncë as thus reduced omong the micfdling and higher classes, the reform had scarcely reached the lowest ranks. Then come Washingtonianism, and it ftent throtigh the dvVeliings of the drunknrds and fhe sots, bringing joy and peace tff thousands of families. All this hnd been eñected" by the Voluntnry Principie. But Intemperance still continued. W'hnt more was to b done? - Why the Grog Shops must be supfn'éssed and all at once tho whole Temperanee influence took a poliical channel. The movement in tnis direction hos beenmost unanimons, ftoí ortly in Michigan, but n the Northern StftteS generaly. - Yet tcrr years ngo, askingthe Legislature to act on the matter sil all, was opposed by almost the whoie vhass of Tempefance men. Their minds have altered, because they nave nowseen distinctly thatthe Legalized TrafTc is noto the chief suppofl of Intemperance - the graat opposing obstade--and muit be removed by Late. So it bambeen in the Antisla-very cause. I At firstiis friends getterall expecfed Slavery could be removed by Moral Suasion. tiönce nedy a thousand socjeties wexe ofganired, mlracinga hundred thousajidmembers, and pubücations were multipliod by millions. Dut the politieians and rjffice holders actei ïor Slavery os much as ever. Their uction was to be changed and henee the Questioning System was adopted, while the idea of fornung an independent Anti-Slavery party was not thought of. Bülafter threeor four years of trial - the plan of Questioning, was found wholly inefficiënt, and Antislavery men determined to cast their vote3 for persons of theirovvn party who werc sound on that question. At iis beginning, the' Liberty party was purely antilavery. No creed on t;the other great interests" was then adopted, because of the srnaliness of the number of its adherents, and because it was not then known that ït would nocossarily bé a permanent party. It was the opinión of tnany of its supporte rs :haï Slavery would ba shortly aboliihed by by one or the other of the political parties. To adopt a eourse of policy on Ta rifTs, Banks, &c, on whieh it wrs not exnected to act was justly deemed uunecessary and unwise. But the experience of fivo years has altered the aspect of things. The Liberty party has increased lo ten limes its original number, while the old pqrti.es, as such, are as proslavery as ever. Twö questionsare nov.' pressing upon us for an answer. 1. Will we take any action in our Conventions on any other question than Ab olitioni 2. If so, whal shall that action be? - VVeccnnot escnpe answering ihese inquiries in some wny. We are asked every day whelher we intend to enter at all intothe financia1 aíTairs of our State and Nation, or whether we will refuse to take nny action whatever respecting them themlill Slavery shall have beenabolished.Mr. F. ad verted to the fact thal a discussion of tliis maller had already commenced among our (Vjends. William Goodell, Gerrit Smith, Lewis Tappán, President Green, nridothcrsiti New York, had taken ground on it, and tho A'.bany Patriot, one of the principal Liberty papers of the State, was already comniitidd in favor of a particular course of poiicy to be pursued by tlie Liberty party. Mr. F. avowed Iiimself in favor of taking the rigkl side of all the político! questions now before the country. To determine which was the riglit side, it was necessary that Ihey shouli! be discussed in every local Liberty Conversión. Hy this means only could we arrive' atjust coneïusions, and unanimity of purgóse and actiori. To open the way in Michigan for tbvs discussion, xohich must axric, sooner later, he ofiered that resoiution for' their consideralion. DV. Hll, of Ann Arbor, was in fcvnr of the resolution. Liberty incn ucre'not only Abolitionists, but thcy wnre also cilizens, and hadan interest in all the f;n-ncial & reformaiory questions of the country. It was as important to a Liberty man to have Judicial reform, the State debt pdid, and Banks put on a sound basis, as to a ny Wlrigor Öemocrof in tnè State. Why, then, should we not place ourselves iñ ari attitude to have obr voice heard and our influencft f:h? ifuewere n permanent party, nnd shpuld ever at:ain to power, w.e hould be obliged to take ground and fo act on nll uiese questioïis. Were our cnndidales to the Legislatüre to be elected this year, iheir nnti.slavery duties wouldbe biu a smqíj p;rt of the whole. To e.xlend to the colorea peoplo the elective franchise, Vould be the principal tlïirig they cculd do,ar,dthis was not strictly an anliskivcry n;asire. W horcas if they had seats in the ITousc, they must of necessity vote on all the financia! iuterestsóf íhe Sfaíe. M'hy, then, shouldwe not here express our opinions ot the policy propeí ío be pursued? By such net ion on our part, oit AboÜíionísm would noí be wenkened in the least. - We were all Liberty men now, nnd yet we had our scveral opimons on theso matterö as well as our Whig and Democralic neighbors. We all exprrsscd these opinions, nnd the qnestions at issue wcre discussed, more ov less, in the Signal of Liberty. The only nnovation now proposed was to express (hem rhrough our Convontions. Dr. H'. was for tnking1 a side on all questions of public interest. S. W. Foster, of Sein, thotight ihat Abóírtioñ should corrlinue to be, as heretofore, the greai centra fdca, on which we all should unite, but tfiis did not ncessariíy d-ebar us froa) action on other topics. Becauso we went for the Irnly great idea of Abolition, it did not foüow that we shouíd not also use cur infiuence for every other good thir.g. By the present course of thiogs, the Liberty party, numbering 4,000 votsrs, left all their .ecuniary and political Stato jnicrests to the keeping of the oiher par f ia. Wo did not even express nn opinión ns to the manner in which thp.yought to bo rconaged. Should we hereafter oumber ten