Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE PEOPLE OF THESTATE.* Friends and Fellow Citizens. T a Convention of Delegates of theLiberty Party of the Eastern sectionof Pennsylvania, held in Philadel-phia, Feb. 22, 1844, the under-signed was made the chairman of a com-mittee appointed to address you upon the greatcause which we are laboring to promote. Wenow, therefore, proceed to set before you ourviews, our principles, and our aims ; to state themeans by which we believe those aims will be ac-. * I may now (1867) here state these facts, that th
Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE PEOPLE OF THESTATE.* Friends and Fellow Citizens. T a Convention of Delegates of theLiberty Party of the Eastern sectionof Pennsylvania, held in Philadel-phia, Feb. 22, 1844, the under-signed was made the chairman of a com-mittee appointed to address you upon the greatcause which we are laboring to promote. Wenow, therefore, proceed to set before you ourviews, our principles, and our aims ; to state themeans by which we believe those aims will be ac-. * I may now (1867) here state these facts, that the LibertyCommittee ordered, at first, twenty thousand copies of thisaddress to be printed, and the types to be kept standing, as itwas not stereotyped; and that two editions more, of twentythousand each, were subsequently printed. 12 PENNS YL VA NIA complished ; and to invite your cordial and earnestco-operation with us, to secure such results as, weare sure, will be for the best good both of ourState and of our country. PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY. In the first place, then, we would state, that theLiberty Party, though new in its organization, is notnew in its principles. It is, in the great elements ofits character, only an old party revived. It is, inits principles, the same party as that which, in 1776,rallied around the Declaration of Independence,and pledged their lives, their fortunes, and theirsacred honor, to maintain the noble sentimentsavowed in that instrument, that all men arecreated equal, and are endowed by their Creatorwith
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