Elihu Burritt

The last Christian Citiz tti brings us ths following response from Elihu Burritt to bis nomination by tlie Macedón Convention. The article is perfectly characteristic of the man. From Burriti's Chriatian Ciiizen. PERSONAL. By the last Steamer from America, I received a copy of the Albany Patriot, and of several other Liberty Party papers, in which I learned, vvith deep regret, that another unfortunate división was likely to ensue in the ranks of the abolitionists in the United States-, and upon minor points of .nalional policy. - ' But, indeed, it was with exceéding surprise that I found my name in the second place on the Presidenlial ticket of the new party. Owingto an unusual press of engagements, I havo not yet been able to read the long and elabórate exposition of the reasons which have induced our brethren of New York to assume !in independent organizaüon; which must agnin sub-divido llie fiieiids of the Slave in America, and consequenlly still farther impair that irresistible front of moral power, which, ifunited and unanimous, they might push steadily forvvard against the institution of Slavery, until it were swept from the last acre of American soil. As the American mail is on the eve of depaiture, I cannot now adverl to all the groundsofmy convictiou, thatsunh a movement must be unfortcnate for the ! causo, of human liberty in the United Stntes. For one, I have all along indulged the hope, that instead af any new divisions being crealed among the earnest friends of tlie slavp, ihe old ones might be healed; until the "Old" and "New Organization" might merge into a band of br'thers on the platform, even if the_y did not meet at the polls. Suh a unión, I ara su re, would carry new hope to the Slave, and new fear to the Slaveholder, nnd joy and rejoicing to the friends of freedom in other lands, who cannot understand the nature and necessity of ihe antagonisms thnt have distracted or wenkened the ranks of their American brethren. And. I will confess il here and novv, I had thought that this happy consummation so devoutly to be wishedj might be fnciliated by the softening and socialising influence which the operations of tlie League of Universal Brotherhnod might exert upon the community. I had hoped that the leading men of the Old and New Organizadons, would be frequenily attracted together upon the platform of the League, inits monthly meetings, andthere feel the fraternal affinitïes of true philanthropy qnickened withih thern, until, at least, their present división had lost its bitterness. Feelingthus, I cannot but deprécate any movement which must result in a new división of the friends of the Slave in the United States ; especially in a división upon points extraneous to the grent and mighty idea, that al[ men are bornfree, and equal in a legal sense. I tlerefore must beg that my name be withdrawn from the connection in which it has been placed by the new Liberty Party in New York. London, July 19, 1847.