THE ABOLITIONISTS IN THE FIELD.—Amidst the greater noise and swaggering of the two adult parties, the liberty party has been overlooked, its movements lost sight of, and its influence made of no account; but if “their names are not enrolled in the records of the capitol,” they are determined that their glories shall not be extenuated,” and although omitted in the war of words, they have still pluck enough to take their share in those great political events which are at hand.

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The liberty manifesto calls loudly upon all good men and true to prevent the admission of Texas into the Union—to bequeath the battle against slavery to their children’s children—to distribute twenty tracts a week until November next, and then to attend and vote the liberty ticket; and it adds, “No matter if mountains bestride our path, we will perforate where we cannot go over or around. We have eternal justice as our ally, the world for our endorser, and the Almighty God as the Captain of our salvation; and long before we have wandered half of forty years in the wilderness of conflict, the emancipated of Georgia, Virginia and Florida, shall shout and sing the freeman’s song, in which Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas shall join in chorus.”

To accomplish all this, a course of energetic action is recommended, and a vigorous determination to hold to the union in all its purified integrity resolved upon. Moreover, as useful auxiliaries they propose to cut each State into sections, and send a wagon load of tracts into each State; to encourage all who can sing to do so in the persuasion that “our Liberty song, well sung, will do more to prepare the heart for the reception of their divine principles, than the most spirited oration, or the most compact argument.”

As friends to harmony, and having some music in our souls, we wish them success, and hereby bespeak a couple of copies of the song book—but no tracts needed.

If the Liberty men go on as they talk of, Joe Smith had need to look sharp. The next contest will be a “whapper.”