Show experience AS A TEACHER in 1853 the question of elavery was being discussed and the sere s ere mating an independent relentless fight tor the freedom ot three million human beings the aggressive policy of that party bad been promulgated by garri son many prior but as the year vent by be was reinforced by the brightest minds of the dagand conspicuous among bia defenders was wendell phillipe the abolitionists ere charged with every crime in the calendar and one of their most heinous ot gensee was independent political action the attacks directed at them are go analogous to the gold bag screeds and the abort of pretended friends who see grave errors in independent political action that we quote from a speech of keudell We udell 1 the members of the whig and democratic parties devoted themselves to the tariff to internal improvement and questions to elavery back entrance here and abea there came up a little printer boy who whipped them into the traces j and made tarm talk like hotspurs Hot spurs starling nothing but slavery t and slavery like alie colossal head in wal poles romance came up and filled the whole political horizon 1 yet you must remember he is not a statesman he Is a fanatic every thoughtful and unprejudiced mind must see that each an evil as slavery will only to the most radical treatment A money power of two billion of dollars held by a email body ot able and desperate men that body raised into a political aristocracy by special caneti tul lonal provisions provi siona cotton forming the basis of our whole foreign commerce and the commercial claer thus isussi bought up the pulpit reduced to vassalage the heart of the people chilled our leading men bribed by ambition either to silence our open hostility in such a land on what shall an abolitionist rely on a few cold prayers on a church resolution on political mortica with their superficial indu ence at best and seeking ordinarily only to use existing to alie best advantage the old jest of one who tried to lift himself ia his own basket is but a tame picture of the man who imagines that by solely through the existing parties be can destroy slavery experience is a sate licht to walk by and he is not a rash man who expects success in future from the same beaus which have secured it in times past the abolitionists lived to force one of the treat parties to adopt their declaration of rights but if aney had not per aued an independent course the whigs and democrats would have mutually alreed to drop the question webster bad said 1 I have never introduced this subject and uever will but he died brokenhearted broken hearted because he had not been able to talk enough about it and the change in his attitude came when the independent movement forc edIEe lebue and a neutral position was untenable like the silver men of today the abolitionists were right and were fighting for an inspiring cause when the great parties shows signs of faltering they took on an independent political front and forced the issue their prin ples did not go down in history as the victory of the abolition arty but its fruits were just as sweet under the name of republicanism so with the silver men they do not care if the party be democratic republican or silver if the triumph which it attains is for the financial emancipation of the american people but antii there ia a pronounced i inclination in one of the present domi nant carlies to adopt alie principles of bimetallism the true friends of allver will propagate their doctrines through an |