Letter From Thomas Cotton

In the columns of the Signal of March . 20th, nppenred a Lotter from Rev. G. Beckley, '!dofininghis position"of which I highly approve, and although I have been and am stillopposed to the attempt to embrace in our creed other objectaof Nauonal interest; not but what others ovght to be regarded, bul bccause ï believed it next to impossible for the Liberty party vet to agree on oiher prominent mensures, and the re fo re mght becomo disaffected, I most heartily concur in taking the position Mr. Beckley has cefined, andl would propose an additionnl article, hnving for its object tho concentration of the wholc strbngth of the Liberty party in case both the other parties should nominato n candidate or candidales possessing the requisito qualificalions - ihat then, the Liberty party shouh by delegalion choosc bctween the lwo,aid approving the nominBtion of their preference, recomniend the candidate to the united supDort of the Liberty party. As preparatory to this course, I would si.'ggest that the subject be agitateil immediately, and suchground be taken, and tha organization so matured thaf, thn other parties may know, or expcct previously to making their nominations that tho Liberty parly will give a united support to cnndidates of ono for the other, whoshall come up o tho standord proposed. All of which is respectfully submitted.THOMAS COTTON. Editoii of the Signal: I happen to live in a place whcro mnny profcss to bo friends of the lavo nnd opposed to slnvery, but They are willing to hearlectures on the subject, f the lecturer will say nothing ofourduly as at the ballot box, nnd lest he should oilend some of the fistidious, ho must not enter our Church edifica without a Gag put half way through his mouth, " else he mig hl pol luto or deseernte tho Sanctuary of tho living God." vVhon I proposed that ihe Virginian, Mr. Croighion who, we learn is making n tour thro' our Stale lecturing on, or against slavory, be invited to call nnd give us lectures, iho reply was, "that he wns understood tobs denuncmtory of Churches or minis ters, especially of D. D's. as uDecil Dau bers." We know that if you shoot among birds, and fealhers are seen to fly, or tho ; fowls flutler, somo must have been woun ded. Tho informant respecting Mr.Creighlon's lecturing, lnJely prenched in this place, and the drift of his discours was to show, that God would execute, nnd hnd exccuted his threaiened judg. ments on the incorrigibl,b)th nationally ar.d individually, and this he weil proved bth from sacred and profano history in which he brought to view the present aw ful visilation or calamity of the Irish and others in foreign lands, as illustrative of the same general truth. And hemnde a good s?rmon and good appenlsto tho audience, buteither through forgotfulness or by design, we heard not a word of tho God-provoking, Hell-born system, of American oppression from which, it would seem, he feared the judgments of Heavett on that account, far less than did Thomas JefFerwn, when he said, in view of that atrocious sytem - "I Iremble for my country when I remember that God is just, nnd that his justice cannot always sleep." How far the epithet said to be used by Mr. Creighton is applicable to those preachers wlio shoot over thirteea or more Staies of legnlized and tho most aggravatedor barbarous system of oppres ion, known in any civilized (not to say Christianj nation, across the Atlantic Ocean, to hit the Governments and people of other lands, who can neither hear nor know anythingof the mcssagosthus delivered by them in the name of their Moster, and whose business (f they are the Lords messengersj is to wam thO wicked, and declare his judgments, I leave for n candid public to determine.