Address Of The State Central Committee

Tho followinjf excellent aridress io the friends of liberty in this Slate should roceive the careful perusal of everV reader. In carrying forvvard the anti-sTavery enteróme, it has been true, from the beginning that as we have sovvn, 6o we have niped. Snccess has been in proportion to cxerlioti. We have nothing to fear except from upathy, supineness, and indifference. The proposalof tho Central Comuiittee to hold a series of Conventions, in difirent parts of tlie State, ehould be responded to iminediately with interest. In New York, a series of Senatorial Conventions ot'two days euch, hnve be(jn annuunced, to be aUeuded by the bestepeukers in the State. The public aro now not only willing but dtsirous to get all possible infbrinution on the subject ofslavery, and the reinoJy for t, and if people will be ut the troubie uf comng togetherto hear, Bhall notthose bu found who will supply the cravmga of the public tnind for knowledge? We hopo our frienda in the different seclions vill iminediately communicate with Er. Treadwell and make aU vhe necessary arrangenients for action. Remetnber that NOW is the right une. Por the Sijnal of Liberty. To the friends of liberty in Michigan: -Having recently received a number of mterestiug Communications suggesting the great importance that a series of State Conventions should soon be commenced and lield in different eections of the State for the purpose of giving a new and vigorous impulse lo our cause by a free ioterchange ot views among its frierids, fee, I gldly embrace tlus opportunity to bay to our friendo, one and all, who are desirous that sucl conventions should be appointed by the Slate Cen tral Comimttee, (and wiio wil! also plodgc themselves to spare nu reasoiiable efforts on tlieir part to preparo the svay, by yiving extensive noticea in thëir vicmity of the appointinents, urginfj a f uil attendance, &c. &c.) to assemble immedialely in their respective eections of the Statr, iix upon the place ofhoiding them, and commuuicate the same to the Chairarían of' the State Central Curamittee. Large meetings fur ttie cali of sucli Conventions are not necess;iry. Should buta few friends, of the right stamp, eignify their desirea to this ell'eci and their iull determinalion, nobly to sustain sucli calis, it will, in most cases, be decmed öuificient to warrant the appointment. Concert of action, activity and petaevurence in tlioroughly getting up a series of State Conventions at this time, would doubtk'ss hiepiro mucli confidence ainon the truo frienüa of liborty, throughoutevery part of our Slate, and thus accomplish greut good to our cnuse. Confidence and concert ut' action among all our friends, with coaipara'.ively litlie sacrifico of cime and mcans wotiid very boom produce so great an interest n the cause of liberty that the heart of tlie poor elave, and the heart of every true friend of iiumiinity and his counlry, would be made to rejoice. Among the most effectual means of getting up large, intereeting, and useful Con- ventiona, will be fuund efficiënt Iecturer6 to address the people in the more immediate vicinity where thcy are to be held, and the tree circulatiun of Anti-Slavery papersj in the towna and neighbo hoods adjacent. The only organ for our cause in the State, the Signal of Liberty, should be well sustained. and wideiy circulated. Without such an orgun within our owo State, our friends could not act with concert and efficiency, however many able and useful fur eign papers they might read. The late national address of the Jiberty convention in New York- the ascendency of the slave power - the inequality of the free and slave representation - Goodell's and Leavitt's political and financial power of alavery over the nation, with othei important documents, ehowiug thst the elave power has 6ubvertnd our nation's liberties, ehould, without delay, be scattered ''broad cast" among the people - the yeomanry of the land- to whom our cause must be carried, and by whom, under tneblessing ofheaven, if the slave and our country are ever to be redeemed, it must be done. A very few independent, intelligent and active liberty men in a county, a town, or a neighborhood may, tf they will, be instrumental in eftectmg wonders. The people will surely hear, and pt; act ngl.t, as soon as the whole subjectis properly brought beforo them. Darkness, delusion and interest, is what we have to fenï. In a number of towns and neighborhoods heard from, the liberty vote has already more than qnadrupled since the last Presidential electioa. By the fall election t m?y and will, in a number of places, be increased twenty fold, by tirnely, united, and vigor, us effurtef. Whoevershall now sumnions reolutinn and eelf-denial enough to stand up iu despite of all opposition and abuse from pro slavery paniee, and manfully puta broad shoulder to the wheel of the independet liberty car, which is destined, as we trust, soon to rol iheglad tidings of universal freedom over the land, will doubtless ever buk back to this period as one of the most happy and eventful one of his life. Let not one frie'nd of liberty wait for anotlier to move, while the poor tlave is groaning in his cruel bon bage, and our cuunlry mourning over the loss of its constitutional liberties, which cost the best blood oí" our fathers. Lot us all, (iear friei.ds, imüvidu-ly and collect.vjly move fonvard in the full confidence af a Messing from ll.m who obhurretU all oppreásion, and who has said "break every yoke and let the oppressed go freo," and ver üy we shall soon have our rcward. S. B. TREADWELL, Chairman. Jackson, August lOth, lö-ll. P. S.- Let not our friends in different sections of the State, delay in communicating their wishes, their views, and their determinations relotive to the cause, to the Chairrnan of the St;te Central Committee. Should a series of State Conventions be appointtd, 6peakcts from various parts of the State and from nbroad will in all cases be procured whenever practicable. But let not the truc frienda of liberty residing at the places and in the vicinities where such con vention may be Bppointed, place so much dependence upon foreign aid us io leave a stone unturned which they can themselves turn over wilh their ovvu hands. Should this in all casus be timely observed, great go'od would unifortnly be the result of eucb conventions. Correspondenco of the Painesville Tele-, graph. Washington City, July 8, 1841. l Dkah Sir: - Youobtaui from the papers a knowlcdge ofUie business dons here, butthereaie many particulars inleresling to your readers, tbat nevor appear in print. During the discussion upo the bill for distributing the proceeds of the public tanda among the Siates, Mr. Rhett,ofS. C, spoke wilh much earnesiness and fceling. He argued very currectly, llmt if Coogress distribute among the States the monics received for the public lands. they must of necessily increase the Ta riff so much as to furnish the current expenses of government. He tfien boldly dcclared fhat his Statu would not submit to such increase that he should advise his continuents not to submit to it. That nullificatiun was thcir only reinedy and they would appl it. He further declared that "sucli policy would encoiirago Tree labor, and was dir-. rectly opposed to the slaveholding interesi of the South. Now, sir, Í wish your readers to understund the facts in relation to this subject. For thiit purpose I send you a statement compiled with much labor, aud although it may not be correct to a cent; it is believeJ io bc a near approxirnation to the precise facts. let. That the public lands wjthïn the slave Siates, havo cost us $42,000,000 more than we have received fur sales ihcreof. 2d. That the public lands within the free Siates, have cost us $3f,000,000 less t!mn we have received for those sold. Y. u will see this statement shows a redult different from that published in the papers here, in this respect to wit: The utuuunt paid for Louisiana and Florida, is includcd in the above ötatcment, but is omitlcd in those referred to. It is thus plain that the profiis of the public lands within the free Siates, is $80,000,000 over that of the slave States. This fac, no one will doubt, arises from the pecuniary advantage of freedom overslavery. - And it ia pcrfectly plain that the $38,000,000 profït ought, in all justicc, to be divided among the free States - and the loss of $12,000,000 ought, in justice, to be charged over to the slave States. This can not bé done under our present constitulion, and thecitizens of the free States must continue to divide the profits of freedom with the slaveholJersofthe South, while those same slaveholders are constantly threatening to yvithdmw from the Union and leave the North lo the enjoymeat of their own wealth.07The last accounts frorn Washington state thut on Saturday the "Itevenue Bill" was passed. The object of this raeasure is to increase the revenue of the country by a tax of twenty per cent. on 'Luxuries.' Undcr thia head are included "tea and coffee." "StatuaryicngravingSï gems and antiquities," are excepied. Many seem at a loss to understand why Congress should give away its revenue by distributing the public lands to the Stalee, and then supply the vaccuum by taxinr the peoplo through their'Mea and cofiee."