Propositions

As our position on the expression 01 opinión by the Liberty party on Financial Qiiestions is liable to bo misundorstood, we have thought best to present our views in a connected form, as follows, that they may bo seon and considered at once. We leave them to the consideration ofoúr readers: I. SÍavery will beabolished before the present moral and political movement against it shall cease. II. It will beabolished by somc national political party, that shall have the poiccr and inclination to do it. III. The Democratie party will not abolish it: it has the power, but not tlio inclinaron. On the contrary, it has labored, and will continue tö labor for. its aggrandizement and supremacy. IV. The Whig party, as now organized,will not abolisli Slavery: for it has not the power nor the will to do it. It never has taken any grounH, as a party, ngainst Slavery : prominent Slaveholders are its leaders: it mustera threc or four hundred thousand voters in the Slave States, of whom a hundred thousand, probablv, are pcrsonally Slaveholders. While these nre members of the party, it cannot become an antislavery party; and should:hese be withdrawn from its ranks, the t 5uít would be a radical disrupüon of the x party, and ts final extinction, or its reorgnnization on nnother basis. V. The Liberly party hare the w UI to abolish Slavory, but they have not the power. Can they attain the requisite power to abolish it by their own legislation ? We answer. that thü.y cannot, whiJe they refuse lo take groxrnd on any subject except the abolition of Slavery. - The reasons for believing this are these: 1. Ifthere be three national parlies, the Liberty party must have a million of votes : ifthere be but two, it must have a million and a half of votes to abolish Slavery. This great number cannot be obtained by appealing to the antislavery principie o'nly. No political party ever attained such numbers by aflvocating one principie, and refusing all expression oí opinión on other subjects. 2; Those who act with the Liberty party must forsnke all connection with the determinalion of all other political questions until Slavery shall be abolished, even if that be not accomplished in six, twelve, or twenty years. This will 710 bedone byone-thirdor one-half the voters of the United Staies:3. The nppeals to the anüsJavery principie hú's (ar have not secured the votes of the 1nasse& irr any part of the country. In 500 counties in the Frce States, Uie Liberty party, in six years, have not carried n single ono, but their votes have been almost entirely f rom the class of Philanthropists and of Religious men. 4. The past success of the party does not warrant the expectation that it can becóme a permanent, national, triiunphaht party, on its present basis; The Vote last year, affer six years existehce, was about 70,000. To abólish Slavcry, ƒƒ- teen or twenty times that núvíher are indespensahte: VI. The Liberty parly can attain the requisito power to abolish Slavery, b taking such ground as will bring to its standard suffiiient humbers. This caí be dónè by tak ing right ground on alt po litical questions; by making it a party o progress;' oí naticnal reform; of justice cconomy and peace; in a word, Just such a party as our country needs- such ai one as every Patriot and Christian can suttaih, and ask the God of Heaven to bless. To mnke it s-Jch, it should take i such groánd on every subject as' will hes! promote the good of the whole country. - This" should be done without anycnce whatever to oíd pnrty distinctions. Without presumingon any superior tfisrfom, we will state whnt we conceivc that ground should be; on some of the most important topics' that now present thenrisél'ves: 1. Thb Abomtion or Si.avèrt,- by conKtitntionnl ineans, should conlinuc to be the paramonnt object of thé party. 2. E(dal PoLiTiCAt a Civil Rigiitp, should bó seóürcd to cvcry citizen wilhöat refnrence to nntivity, color or descent. Tin principie would do awny with all monopolice nnd special privilege?, granted to corporatiom or individual, and alöo'witlï all unequal taxation; S. A THonocoii Revorm or thb JvmóaAi Srsi'Êrf- bolh State and National, o thot the Laws ehallbe made more inielliible, de cisions more confórirteJ tó justice, judgmen more speedily rendered, the numbef óf tcchmcalilies diminished, and thu coat ofadmmislering jüstice greatly rcduced. 4. Toe ExEtTior. of au National anp State OrncHns.-so far ns the nature of the circumstances wil! permit. Especmlly should this reform be applied to the office of PoBtmasters, vo ehould be elcctcd by ibe dtircne.of the townor city in vvliich lliey are locatcd. b. TllE RkDUCTION OF SaLARIRS- of al persons ii public efftploy to as lnw a rale n? wil! secure incumbents óf tlio requisite qnaïifications and nbilitie?. 0. The Gradual Redcctio.v op the An.MY and Navy - with n view to tlieir ultímate aboütion na soon as tho ei reu mstnncos of the country, nnd of other nations, shall render it advisnble. Evary President recominends nn increase of the preparntions for Wnr, nnd thcy now swallöw u) two-thiidá of the National Revenuo. During the fifty-six yenrs that our Government ):ns been in operation, therehas been War with civilized DOtlons only three yenrs. Yet nccordingto u recent report of tho Secretary of the Treasury, Congress has appropriated during that period - For Military Service, 8286,998,357 For Naval do 179,933,124 ïMalcini a total of 8465,931,431The Pensions and Interest on the Pubie Debt, consequent on these prepnraions, amount to aboul One Hundred Millions more. A similar expendituro for the next half century, proporlionate with our increaio as a nation, as recommended by Presidents Polk and Tyler, would reqnire more tban One Thousand Millions tobe expended in preparntiöna for Wnrs, of which there is now not any probnbility. Sucli onormous and grievous taxation for War, in the present oge of the world,er thirty years ol prolounu peoce, is neihcr necessary qr wiso, and should be opjosed by the Liberty pnrty. 7. A Takiff fou Revenue- so long , as the expenses of the National ' ment aro as great as they now are. But should they be reduced- as tliey might be by the measures before enumerated - to one-third Ör one-half the present amount, the cumbrous machinery of the Cuslom Houses wouldbe no longer necessnry, but the public Treasury could then be supplied botter and more cheaply by a small direct tax upon the many and increasing millions of industrious citizons. In this case, the Tnriff should be abolished, but so gradually, ns lö snvo èiery interest vested under its provisions. 8. The Rkductio'n of thé Post Offif.c Tax.- In this Republicon country, the people ought to be served as cheap as the subjects of ancient monnrchies; and the Franking Privilege should be entirely nbolis'hèd. ' Thus, while Slavery will be abolished by the legislaüon of a nationol party having the power and tho wiil to do it, we affirm that the Libehtv pnrty may bccome that party by using the means we have stated: hui,VII. lf thoy re fus e to do tl) is. tlipy vill be n mere Temporary parly, shortived in existence, few in mimbcrs and ccorhplishing no otlicr good ihan to prenrc the way Ibr the coming of nnother haf shall succeed it, that will nol only ie antislavery, bul will take ground on all he subjccts in which American citizens are intcrested. Weask, then, would it not be bctter fof thé great cause in which wo nre engngcd, lor the Liberty party to improve the opportunity which now prCscnts itself for obtaining tho power dircctly to abolish Slavery, (and which opportunity is fast passing' awoy,) than to commil our noble ènferprisc into the hands of another set of men to come a fier üs, whose devotion to' ihè Ö'no ídea of Abolitiou will bc more rècenl ín its date, less unmixed in its diameter, less predominanf over olhei interesls, and more liable to the opposi tion of old party prejudices, and the seriuciions of selfish interests.