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6
Month
October
Year
1845
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We hope our Whig frienda will not tako iffence at the caption of thia arlicle. Wc nean no disrespect, but a--e obligod to make t phrase to desígnale the better portion of the jarty. Both of the old parlies ere composed f Radicáis and Conservatives- oneclass strug rünrr to make some kind of Progress and Reform for the better, while the other is completely bigoted to ancient usnges, nnd oppoaed (o uil important changes. The Young Whiga, like the Youn? Democrats, begin to speak out, and the Old Conservatives must qniet the fledgelines in some way, or they will take the p.litical load. One Herman H. Hcath, who claims to be a trueblue Whig, is out in the Jnckson Gazette in a lecture to his Whig brethren of several columns. We wish we hitd room for il all: for h is well wrillen, and contains many tnportant trnths to vvhich thev will do well to take hced. We will cite a few passages "or our Whig readers who do not pee the Gazette. The object of the writer is to persuade 'he Whig to come out at once for the Abolition of Sluvery. But let hini speak for hiinse!f."I ask the Whig par'y simimanoousiy, 10 i ncorporute into its party creed, ns I do now ( ndividually, u Hrrn deterniination to put down . luvery, and have it no tnore toleroted in the and as the Locofoco psuty did last year. ' when they pnblishecl tlicir alliance with ] ry at their Bultimore convention, by , lating into tbtrir erend a declaration in favor of ihe unnexation of Texas. This is all I ask - simply asking the Whig party to do as ' much tor the overihrow of slavery as the Locofoco party did for the perpetuation of thal institution. Is this asking too ínucii! Was thereever a time when my party could so fearle.ssly and inconsistently enter upon this great and ennobling work of establishing universal Pberty throughotit the land, 'han noto! There never was! There CERTA IN L Y never wat. 'Times have been when ns a pnrty, the Whigs of the North have been nnder some obligations to the Southern portion of the party, - when our success in nalionnl poitics depended in a yreat measure upon That time has jroiie by - quite !oFt itself in the disinnce. Wben we most needed their aid, ïliey forsook m. Two of the slronrest Whig States of the South - North Carolina and Tennessee, last Ml gave us but bare skelet'n majorities, and Georgia enlirely abandoned us, and this suinmer the Iwo formor have (jone q'iite over to Locofocoism and Texns, which two thiners hnve the eame significación - slavery and its greatest extensión!"ThÍ8 Whig really secins to be in earnest : br he gives the sure&t evidence by proposing ' o do something.' He makes out a poütical ;ourse for his brethren, thus: "And, politicaily, let our courge be this. - Liet us nomínate such men for Governors, ' Congresmon, Senators and Legislatore, who iv:U pledge themselves to t.he people, led. to use every pospible exertion to bring ( slavery to a speedy end. Let our county, ' Senatorial, and Slate conventions, pass rtrong und unanimous reeolulions 'oeninst the systcm 1 of shiveholdingr und the institution of slnvery, pledfí'mg oursclves, as the people, to snnccion the efforts of our public Eervnnts in their official efforte, for extertninating bondage, and . tnokinjí the bond froe. This ia the true cuurse for the Whig party to tnke and purs!ie,from this day forth. Did the rountrv ever find itsclf in r. strair, when the Whig party was not fonnd equal to the tnak of righting thnt wliich was wrong? I hope it will not prove less potent now! Never did a time req-iire more energetic oction, and never was t lie Whig party so londly called upon to act up to the trne land mark ol Democratie, Republican principies." We can truly say that "pen=ona!ly we luive no objection" to the course thns boldly mtirk ed out, but on the comrory "we should be glad to see it" ftilly executed. Many of the Whigs uow eee that they artlosing every thing at the Souili, hile theylinve hard work to hold their own at Mie [North. ín Virginia, out of 16 Members of Congreso they have but one, vvhile, as this writer says, Norlh Carolina and Tennessee have really gone over to the enemy. Kentucky and Maryland are all the States they cnn hope to carry in 1848, as a proslavery Whig parly. and Maryland is a very djubtful cnse, having given last year only about S,000 mnjority for Clay, while a change of three .votes in each lown in Kentucky would lose them thnt Staie also. In this state of things, the Wbigs would do well lo hiter: to Mr. Heath, wh tells them, - "As we are now organized, indirectly in league with the slaveocracy of the Southi bowed down as we are by the hoavy borden of slavery, with n chance or prospect of ris;ng, we have nothing now tolose, but on the contra ry, we have eterything to gain. By striking for liberty, and independence, now, vvhile there is lime, we rnny come ofF victorious; by hesitating, and letting elip the golden opportunity, we shall not only fail of gaining anything, but'inherit for onrselves' and our children, eternal imfamy and shvery. Freemen, ihink of this, and act, immediately." What will Messrs. VVoodbridge, Howard, fcc. soy to the adopiion of this new article into the Whig creed? The great qiiestion of AB0LIT10N is coming up, and these leaders must shortly take ground for it or agninst it. A non-committal attitude will be irnposBible. Let them be thinking of it; for the time is tt hand!ff? The State Journal, (Whig) says in reference to the Young Men's Liberty Sonvention at Jackson: "It is appropriate that this matter should be taken up by the young men; for it involves questions of grave import, which oíd men, who have not n strong and living faith in the ever watchful care of n Divine Providence, may wcll be excused n shrinking f rom. But the young men of tnis state and nation are not afraid to meet these questions. It is desirable, f the association contcmplated be formed, that it should be composed of friends of treedom in all parties, whose aimshnll be to bring all parties up to the right ground. Whichever of the two great parties enters heartily into this cause, will carry all before it; but it would probably be better for the country that both parties should move together." 05a The U. S. Journal saya that the Democratie Convention of Mossachusetts, "kicked the Abolitionists overboard in a lump." This actiohof thaConrention picases the said paper vcrymuch. ■

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