Liberty Party, and voting
Jan 8, 1844
To the Liberator, “Morally speaking, I am more and more convinced, by inquiry and observation, that the Liberty Party, as such, in New England, is utterly unprincipled, and the most insidious, and therefore the most dangerous foe with which genuine anti-slavery has to contend. … its leaders are not trustworthy, and that a large majority of it supporters are making use of it as substitute for moral action, and as a foil to ward off the blows which are aimed at a pro-slavery church and priesthood… If they must vote, they can testify against all these parties by scattering their votes on those in whom they can confide. But I think duty requires them, as abolitionists, not to vote at all, but to ‘let the dead bury their dead’, to refuse to sustain the present Constitution of the United States, and to demand, in the name of God and humanity, a dissolution of our blood-cemented, atheistical Union. ” 1