Communications

[We have recoived the iollowing from a geniJenvin of the W'liig party, who has been Ion and extensively known in this S'ato-, as an active and nfluential mpiDber of the parij. We cheerfullv give place to liN coinmunication, and believe ts suggpsiions will be weighed willi alteiition byallcandid Whigs. - Ed. Sic] To the Editor of the Signal of Liberty: As an observer of passing evento, believing in some good in all political parties, nin! dceply interested in the grent Idea of ihe Liberty party, I wish tfl submit for your and your readers' r.onsiderntion some tliouglits on the presfnl coudition and future prospects of the cause of freedom and justice. The leading idea - sometímes cnlted the one idea of tlie Liberty party, I un derstand to be the sacrennrss ol' Man as Man. It implies a perception of the image of the Living God in the Reaaon and conscience of every human being, and of the deep insult to the rnajesty of Henven conlained in every serious wrong done to the weakest and ihe hurablesi of human kind- a perception', in some degree, of the force of the"Divine declaration, "For(ismucli as ye have done it unto one of the least or these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me." This Idea, though deplorably weak and , obscure in most men, is by no meíins confined to the Lilierty party. It is fundamental in all sound morality and in all true religión ; and in whatever society or associaii'Jii of men it is losl, or becomes prac'ically inoperative, such society or ossociation becomes at once a lie and a sham. It is preposterous for any society to claim to be a church with vvhom the sacrednes of man, as man, is not n living and active principie, "[f a man love not his brother whom Iib hnth seen, how can he love God whom heiiath not seen ?" - 'Lovo worketh no ill to the neighbor" - it will not rob or hurt hiin ; least ol all will it rob hiin of himself, and rïHtke a chattel of him. But the tiulh I wish to arrive at and enforce is this: - thol all, with whom (he great idea uf the righls of man for; rather, the rights of his Crealor in him) s a leading idea, should not nllow themselvrs to feil out a bout minor'diffïrences. United by a comme n end and a common feeling, and agrecing in the grand truth of chritian moráis and true fiolitics,should the cnmpnralii'cltj insignificant questkn of wnys and me.uis make them enemies among theine!ves? Would nnt iliis imply a deplorable u-ant of fuilh in the holv cause commitled to their care? Would it not imply an infaluated esliinaie, in the different divisions and secls, of their own superior wisdom, and an uncalled for depreciation of the common sense of otheis ■? There is na n"ed of ih'. The Good Providen p thal worlcth al! in all, worketh by an innuïiy of menns; even ï; Frotn pp'iiin!; f ' si i!l m d .1, An ' bet'cr :iLrn:n. ,ni,l etter si I, T'l in'illi IP pt'-L'l ■! S III." Poth Ho work loss surplv, ia Ho 'ess constantiy prèspnt in tlie Tr:ith and (loon ever proi-eeding Prono Himseif? Away tl.nn with idle foars and distrust nf nur breihrèn ! The same light which shines in our minds shines also in thelrs. In every case it suffers some refraction and Fome coloring from the medium it passes through. - Let us not despise our neighbor's light because it is not precisely of the same color as ours. [t is Ileaven's light still, if he regnrds the great end of Right - if he hath the leading idea as in active principie in his heart and mind. Mutual toleration is the one needful lesson ; with this there will beliHle chanco of' hurtful divisions. There are many good anti-slavery men in all parties, and they are not living in vain. Toour apprehension it serms, indeed, that it would be well for them now to tinite in one political association, and make known their determinaron to vote, on all ocensions, against the nsi i tut on of slavery. Rut this isaquestion th it every one mus detertnine for himself. Each one must judge i'or himself in what plape be can be mosïuspful. In the mean time, and in tlie niesent rickety and unsafecondition of the old parlies, all friendsof freedom, humanity, and progress, cannot but look with unusual interest on the movements of the Liberty party - with fear for its appamit dissentions - with hope on every manifestaron of confiJence and niu-, tual re-pect. Let all who acknowledge the Supreruaoy of Tiuth and Right over mere pecuniary considcrations, havcfailh in Trmh and Righi - they are not man's, butGod's, and they have a virtue in them that will lead men to think aright on a!l minor questions - that is, if they do not forsel the grand idea, and go quarrelling about subordínate malters, and thus betrny the cause committed to their keeping. As an evidence of this, may we not refer to the general concurrence of views among anti-slavery men respecting the various political reforms ngilate I among !he peoph' 1 So trup is it that n jutt appreciation of the great fundamental rights of hunvinitv leads to an intnitive perepp thlri of all su bord nate nterests in theii proper lace. I propospi] lo say somsfhing alwut !he conditiou mil pruépeds of tha different politica! pnivies, bnt have only room to reiTiatk l hal neither of the great partios affords any well grounded ho.o of such refurtnution as wiil cnaMe ihem to retain thcir lio1,!) Opon a large numbor of tlieir more consejen! i"us membern. The VV hig ni-ijurilv In the House of Rppresentatives will got rid of the Wilinot Proviso tiy the adoptióTi of asubslitutc against taking any lerritöry from Mpxi'co. Thiswiil enable the party to go inio the noxt Presfdential ennvass without a división betueon the Norlh aiu! tlie S.mtl). Thóugh the inasses ofbotli pnrtiesare l;epoming more anlislnvcry - more imbued with the spirit of progress and refoim, yétas the pnrties are ït prêsetit organized and led, this spirit wi:l liardlv be permílted tq flow forth into act - néstwich as the (neasures it contcrnplates would be fatal to the interest of the craft. The leaders would rather pee their re-pective parlies broken into a thousand fragments thnn become the instrumenls of thorough an 1 salutary Reforms. Does it not tlien behoove all hopeful men, all true refonners, all who value the rights of humanity above dollars ond cents and the paltry aims of a selfish partyism, to learn toundorstand one another's views, to prepare to co-operate in carrying them out?