blood of that system into every vein and artery of our body politic.  You shall not have the controlling power in all the departments of our government at home and abroad.  You shall not so negotiate with foreign powers, as to open markets for the products of slave labor alone.  You shall not so manage things at home, as every few years to bring bankruptcy upon our country.  You shall not, in the apportionment of public moneys, have what you call your ‘property’ represented, and thus get that which, by no right, belongs to you.  You shall not have the power to bring your slaves upon our free soil, and take them away at pleasure; nor to reclaim them, when they, panting for liberty, have been able to escape your grasp; for we would have it said of us, as the eloquent Curran said of Britain, the moment the slave touches our soil, ’The ground on which he stands is holy, and consecrated to the Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.’

“Thus, fellow-citizens, we come to the great object of the Liberty Party:  ABSOLUTE AND UNQUALIFIED DIVORCE OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT FROM ALL CONNECTION WITH SLAVERY.  We would employ every constitutional means to eradicate it from our entire country, because it would be for the highest welfare of our entire country.  We would have liberty established in the District, and in all the Territories. * * We would have liberty of speech and of the press, which the Constitution guarantees to us.  We would have the right of petition most sacredly regarded.  We would secure to every man what the Constitution secures, ‘The right of trial by jury.’  We would do what we can for the encouragement and improvement of the colored race, and restore to them that inestimable right of which they have been so meanly, as well as unjustly, deprived, the RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.  We would look to the best interests of the country, and the whole country, and not legislate for the good of an Oligarchy, the most arrogant that ever lorded it over an insulted people.  We would have our commercial treaties with foreign nations regard the interests of the Free states.  We would provide safe, adequate, and permanent markets for the produce of free labor.  And, when reproached with slavery, we would be able to say to the world, with an open front and a clear conscience, our General Government has nothing to do with it, either to promote, to sustain, to defend, to sanction, or to approve.

“Thus, fellow-citizens, you see our objects.  You may now ask, by what means we hope to attain them.  We answer, by POLITICAL ACTION.  What is political action?  It is acting in a manner appropriate to those objects which we wish to secure through the agency of the different departments of Government. * * The only way in which we can act constitutionally, is to go to the ballot-box, and there, silently and unostentatiously, deposit a vote for such men as will do what they can to carry out those principles which we have so much at heart.

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