The Liberty Party

Totho Liberty organization we shall give our support, regarding it as one means in the series designed by Providence to nocompljsh the final extinction of slavory, lts power consists in single eyed devotion to the one idea. It is nol ti universal veform party. The principes it advocates re nl} oompr&hensiveia their soope, and must exert nn expansive influence on the rninds of its inembers, dispo.sing them to regard with favor a}l niovemenis designed to advance the interests of the many, ond abate the pre tensions of the few ; but its great duty is to apply these pr nciples to the one evil, which has preverted the religious organiza ons, aödovermatched the politioal par, ties of the country, thwarting to a great extent, their efforts for its good. It stimulans discussion ; and, by direoting anti slavery sentiment to the ballot-bos, oon, sults the genius of the American people and their Inslitutions, and gives to.ih.ii dij cussion a conservative and practical power, at the same time that itbrings the great doctrines of human rights to bea.r upan the other parties in thO way in which they can he most efiectually reached.- . Uow it Yt' ultimatel acoomj)lish ita wurk, wheiher by forcing one or both of these parties to adopt its peculiar principies, or by brenlving them up qnd causing new polifioal arganizations, cannot ha foreseen ; but, it is sufficient for us to know tha.t under the pressure of itsinflu enoe, conjjined with other agencies, there has been a steady advancement of pub)ÍQ sentiment towards hcalihful Ction o,n the qupstion of slavery. In pojitics, wo belong to the State rights sohool. FarnYore danger ip, oy;if. opinión, it is to bc apprehended from, usurpniion on the pnrt of tbe Fe-5AÍ Government, thnn fuctiou o the part of the States. The no,ver of the former, its immense patronage the extent of its ad-, ministrativefuniriojis, the magnitude o.fthe interestscrn.irutted to its oape, maka. it a formidable centre of attracion, copstantly tending to infincp. a.n.d, consequen,c frojn the Stas. 80 rmpressed are we with this danger, that, in questions af pawer etween the States and the Oo-ntral Qovernment, our sympMhie incline lo the former, as, in all doubtful queslions between tbo States ancj ihe