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Birney's Liberty Party, Formed in 1840,
Was Twice Defeated but It Raised an
Issue That Triumphed Twenty Years Later
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
' (Released by Western Newspaper Union.I
ONE hundred years ago
the United States was
engaged in its most
uproarious Presidential con
test. It has come down in his
tory as the “Log Cabin-Hard
Cider” campaign of 1840, in
which emotion almost com
pletely replaced reason, is
sues were totally ignored and
a tired old man, who was lit
tle fitted for the office of
President, was swept into the
White House on a tide of
slogans and songs. When it
ended, the country learned
that the “singing Whigs”
roaring out to the tune of
“The Little Pig’s Tail,” this
; song:
What has caused this great com
motion-motion-motion
Our country through?
It is the ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.
And with them we’ll beat little
Van.
Van, Van, is a used-up man.
were true prophets. For
President Martin Van Buren,
seeking re-election as the
Democratic candidate, was
indeed a “used-up man.” He
had captured only 60 elector
al votes to 234 for Gen. Wil
liam Henry Harrison, “Old
Tippecanoe.”
Almost forgotten in the midst
of all this hurly-burly, because he
had failed to win a single elec
toral vote and had mustered only
7,059 popular votes (compared to
Harrison’s 1,275,017 and Van Bur
en’s 1,128,702), was another can
didate for President. Yet he was
a significant figure in American
history because he stood for a
principle which would provide the
most important issue in Ameri
can politics during the next two
decades, result eventually in the
greatest civil war in history and
be one of the cornerstones in the
foundation of c new political par
ty which would rule this country
for 56 of the next 72 years. His
name was James Gillespie Bir
ney and he was the candidate of
the Libertv party, organized on
April 1, 1810.
Birney was born at Danville,
Ky., on February 4, 1792, the
son of one of the richest men in
the Bluegrass state. At the age
of 11 he was sent to Transylvania
college at Lexington and after fin
ishing there studied at the Col
lege of New Jersey, now Prince
ton university, where he was
graduated in 1810. After studying
: law for three years under Alex
ander J. Dallas, he was admitted
to the bar and returned to his
; home in Kentucky to practice. In
1814 he became a member of the
town council and two years later,
although he was barely the con
stitutional age for membership,
was elected to the lower house of
the Kentucky assembly.
Birney’s people were slavehold
ers but disapproved of the insti
tution of slav
ery and were
willing to
e m a n c ipate
their Negroes
if Kentucky
could be made
a free state.
Therefore it
was only nat
ural that the
young legisla
tor, early in
his term in of
fice should
Martin lead t^ie move‘
Van Buren 'nent to pre
vent the gover
nor of Kentucky from entering
i into correspondence with the gov
ernors of neighboring states to
make an arrangement for the cap
ture and return of runaway slaves.
Moves to Alabama.
Evidently Birney’s action made
him unpopular with the voters in
his district for he did not run for
; the legislature again but moved
to Huntsville, Ala., in 1818 and
had a prominent part in shaping
the constitution ander which Ala
I bama came into the Union. He
was a member of the state’s first
legislature but wrecked his po
litical career in 1819 by opposing
the legislature’s indorsement of
Andrew Jackson for President.
Having run into debt, Birney
was forced to return to the prac
tice of law and was soon elected
by the legislature as solicitor of
the Fifth Alabama district. Ha
next disposed of his plantation
and slaves to a friend who, he
was confident, would treat them
kindly. By devoting all of his
' time and energy to his law prac
| tice he was soon prosperous
again.
While serving as attorney for
the Cherokee Indians who occu
pied the northeastern part of Ala
: bama, he began the first of the
i humanitarian enterprises which
j were to characterize his whole
career. He helped the Chero
kees adopt a more civilized way
of life and paid the expenses of
many of the Indian girls who en
tered the Huntsville Female sem
jf'Lry to get an education. To
aid the movement to colonize
emancipated slaves in Africa Bir
ney raised funds for the Ameri
can Colonization society and he
also used his influence to secure
the passage of an act by the Ala
bama legislature forbidding the
importation of slaves into that
state.
In 1830 Birney organized a col
onization society in Huntsville and
acted as its treasurer for several
years. Meanwhile he was busy
with plans for uniting in one par
ty all men, both Northern and
Southern, who were in favor of
preventing the extension of slav
ery. Finding that there was lit
tle support for such an idea in
the South, he decided to move to
a free state but his appointment
as agent of the
American
Colonization so
ciety kept him
in Huntsville
for nearly two
years longer.
Then he re
signed and
bought a farm
adjoining his
father’s near
Danville, Ky.,
declaring that
that state was . , „ .
the best in the John P ,,ale
Union for taking a stand against
slavery. *
In December, 1832, he helped
promote a convention in Lexing
ton to form a society for the
gradual emancipation of the
slaves. But he learned to his sor
row that his old Kentucky friends
were turning against him and
only nine persons attended • his
convention. Undiscouraged by
this fact, Birney next organized a
society to attempt the emancipa
tion of the children of slaves
when they reached the age of 21.
11c Becomes an Abolitionist.
Birney’s efforts to extend the
membership of this society re
sulted in his making a thorough
study of the whole problem of
slavery and he reached the con
clusion that its immediate aboli
tion would be less harmful to the
slave states than the gradual
emancipation which he had for
merly favored. To set an exam
ple, he gave free papers to his
six former slaves who had re
mained with him and worked for
wages. He also resigned his con
nection with the colonization soci
ety and became an out-and-out
abolitionist.
During the next few years Bir
ney devoted his time to the anti
slavery cause and traveled about
the country making speeches for
it. In 1835 he made the principal
address at the meeting of the
American Anti-Slavery society
and laid down the rules for the
abolitionists to observe in carry
ing on their work. Next he an
nounced his intention of returning
to Danville and establishing an
abolitionist newspaper, the Phi
lanthropist. But when he arrived
in his native state, he found him
self regarded as a renegade and
the persecutions of his neighbors
and officials forced him to move
to Cincinnati where he promised
to keep up his agitation against
slavery until it was destroyed.
The mayor of Cincinnati
warned him that the city authori
ties could not promise to protect
him if he persisted in his inten
tion of publishing an anti-slavery
paper in a city just across the
river from the slave state of Ken
tucky. Despite this warning, Bir
ney issued the first number of the
Philanthropist and immediately
discovered that the mayor’s
warning had not been an idle
one. For the pro-slavery men
started a campaign of persecu
tion against him until finally a
mob formed to destroy his prop
erty and tar and feather him. In
stead of fleeing, Birney boldly
faced the mob and made such a
stirring plea for the principle of
freedom of the press and free
dom of speech that the mob
was dissuaded from its purpose.
In 1837 Birney moved to New
York to become secretary of the
National Anti-Slavery society and
as such was its guiding genius.
Within two years he had organ
ized 644 auxiliary societies in ad
dition to the 1,009 which had been
in existence when he became sec
retary of the national society. In
one year he issued more than j
725,000 copies of the society’s
publications, all spreading the
gospel of abolition.
As a part of his work Birney
visited every state legislature in j
the North to secure the passage
of resolutions against the exten- j
sion of slavery or to gain the right !
of trial by jury for those charged
| with breaking the slavery laws.
In 1839 ex-President John Quincy
Adams, who was then serving in
congress, declared in favor of the
abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia and Birney,
seeing in this measure an enter
ing wedge for a national aboli
tion law actively campaigned for
the election of congressmen
pledged to vote for the Adams
proposal.
A New Party Is Formed.
As the presidential campaign of
1840 approached and it became
evident that neither the Whigs
nor the Democrats would take
any decisive stand on the slavery
question, Birney decided that the
time had come to put an anti
slavery presidential candidate in
the field. Accordingly he called
for a convention to be held in
Albany, N. Y., in April, 1840.
Delegates from six states met
there and their unanimous choice
for the nominee of the new Lib
erty party was Birney. As men
tioned earlier in this article, he
ran a poor third in the race with
Harrison and Van Buren, polling
only 7,059 popular votes and fail
ing to get a single one in the elec
toral college.
Despite the poor showing made
by this party in the “Log Cabin
Hard Cider” campaign which
sent Harrison to the White House,
Birney was not discouraged. He
kept the party alive and four
years later he was again its nom
inee for President. This time he
polled 62,300 popular votes (near
ly nine times the number he had
received in 1840)- but again failed
to get a single electoral vote.
As a matter of fact he would
probably have received more
than 100,000 votes had it not been
for the “Garland Forgery,” a
faked document purporting to be
Birney’s formal withdrawal from
the race and his advice to the
anti-slavery voters to support
Henry Clay. After this campaign,
which resulted in the election of
James K. Polk, Birney withdrew
from further national political ac
tivity. But the seed which he
had sown had fallen on fertile
ground.
In the campaign of 1848 the
banner which Birney had first
lifted was carried on by the Free
Soil party with ex-President Mar- j
tin Van Buren as the candidate
for President and Charles Fran
cis Adams, son of ex-President
John Quincy Adams, for vice
president. Campaigning on a
platform which called for “Free
Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor |
and Free Men” this ticket, even
though it received only 291,000
votes, was sufficient to defeat
Lewis Cass, the Democratic can
didate, and elect Gen. Zachary
Taylor, the
Whig, thereby
stimulating the i
anti - slavery I
forces through- |
out the country I
to renewed ac- "
tivity.
In 1852 the »
Free Soil party 1
was again in the |
race with Sen. ~
John P. Hale of
New H a m p- |£> ——
shire as its can- John C.
didate. He had Fremont
quit the party
over the slavery issue. Although
the Free Soilers’ vote dropped
from 291,000 to 157,000 the issue
which they had kept alive would
not down. The “irrepressible con
flict” with slavery was on. Four
years later, by welding together
all of the anti-slavery men—Free
Soilers, Old Line Whigs and
Know Nothings—into a new party,
the Republican, the victory which
Birney had foreseen was nearly
in sight. For Gen. John C. Fre
mont, the Republican candidate,
polled more than 1,000,000 votes
and began sounding the death
knell of slavery.
Birney did not live to see the
final note sounded. He died near
Perth Amboy, N. J., on Novem
ber 25, 1857. Three years and
three weeks later the Republi
can party triumphed over the di
vided Democratic party and sent
its candidate, Abraham Lincoln,
to Washington. In a little more
than a month after he took the
oath of office the guns in Charles
ton harbor heralded the opening
of a conflict in whose fires slav
ery in the United States was de
stroyed forever.
Style-Right Outfits to Suit
Fashion Wise Little Folks
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
MOST amusing, this
thought of modern chil
dren growing to be regular
fashion sophisticates, but
nevertheless, it is literally
true. They know and mother
knows that they know more
about style than their elders
dared dream of in their child
hood days. In this generation
it is not so easy as it was in
the past to satisfy little daugh
ter or junior with made-overs
and hand-me-downs. Anyway, what s
the use of trying with ready-mades
available that are amazingly prac
tical and inexpensive and so alto
gether attractive little folks delight
in them.
With play clothes for youngsters
and pretty frocks for little daughter
being sold “for a song” these days,
the idea of making over loses much
of its zest. However, what is being
done in this modernized world of
ours is that mothers of good judg
ment are entrusting the matter of
outfitting their children to skilled
designers who make a study of
juvenile apparel needs not only
from a style standpoint, but from
a view to real economy and prac
ticality.
In line with the thought that chil
dren’s fashions be given as sincere
and careful consideration as those
of grownups, it is becoming a cus
tom in leading style centers to hold
fashion shows devoted exclusively
to the little folks. The cunning
spring styles here pictured were
shown recently at a style clinic pre
sented in the Merchandise .Mart ot
Chicago, before an appreciative
gathering of visiting merchants.
The handsome coat worn by the
girl to the right in the picture is
tailored of a Kenwood tweed in a
charming berry-red tone. It is the
smart new princess type that is an
outstanding favorite this season.
The white silk pique collar tells you
that white accents on dark is a most
important trend for spring. Here
you see the ensemble idea carried
out in a matching beret that comes
with the coat, thus happily solving
mother’s problem of hatting little
daughter fashionably and becoming
ly. Her wee companion is in navy
blue, with a bonnet matched to her
cunning coat.
There’s something about a soldier
and about military - influenced
clothes that lends smartness and
proves alluring to young misses as
well as to sentimental big sister.
The little lady to the left in the
group wears one of the new mili
tary-type cape suits such as prom
ise widespread vogue this season.
The suit is of alert blue wool with
fitted jacket in bright red. The long
cape theme is highly important.
This ensemble is so completely
matched up it includes a military
looking hat with a red feather with
a handbag worked out in the red
and the blue.
And now for cunning fashions for
junior and his buddy, for little boys
take delight in smart attire every
whit as much as does little sister.
Whistle while you walk, if it’s in
coats like these, think these two
young men whom you see pictured
in the group. The whistler in the
foreground wears a camel’s hair
man-tailored, double-breasted coat
and his pal wears a green tweed
double-breasted coat with slit pock
ets. Caps to match their wear. Too
cunning for words!
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Lucky Charms
It’s smart, in your choice of cos
tume jewelry, to wear a lucky
charm or two. Circle your wrist
with a chain from which dangles a
framed fourleaf clover, saying in
attractive lettering "I bring you
good luck”; as shown in the picture
at the left. On her lapel this lady
fair flaunts a Monocraft clip of two
scarlet-tipped dancer’s hands posed
down, for luck. With an identifica
tion bracelet that reads, "The key
to my heart," as worn by the other
young woman, you will set other
hearts fluttering. Note also the
lapel gadget she wears. It's a Mo
net circus horse complete with col
orful bridle and flowing mane, such
as fashion sophisticates dote on.
Frothy Black Lace
J
For Evening Wear
Frothy black lace combined with
contrasting colors and fabrics is an
outstanding feature of Heim’s new
evening collection. A dinner gown
cut in shirtwaist style is effectively
trimmed with white linen collar and
cuffs. Magenta ribbon, at the hem
and for the belt, is the sophisticated
accent for a very formal sleeveless
black lace gown.
Lingerie Blouses
Simply Entrancing
Simply entrancing are the new
lingerie blouses that we will all be
wearing with our spring suits. In
fact a wardrobe of blouses is about
the most important theme we know
of on the style program for the
coming months. You will be need
ing a whole wardrobe of blouses
to carry you through triumphantly
from a “style” standpoint.
While the biggest play is made on
the dainty lace-trimmed sheer
frothy white blouse with its fluttery
jabots, its finely tucked detail and
its lacy loveliness, swank blouses of
pique eyelet embroidered or plain
tailored are just as essential. Add
to the collection a cunning sweater
blouse or so, also several washable
crepes in pastel colors. As to a
blouse in sprightly and now so very
"fashionable polka dot, you really
must have at least one.
Jewelry Designed
To Suit Costumes
For Bruyere’s new shepherd plaid
suit, a firm of Paris jewelers creat
ed a pair of huge, golden leaf coat
clips veined in brilliants, with dupli
cate clips of much smaller leaves
for the earlobes.
For a beige tweed costume, they
designed a realistic leaf of slender,
baguette-cut emeralds with the
gems set solid, stone to stone, and
the veining of the leaf in diamonds.
This same ivy-like leaf also comes
in red, paved with rubies in the new
| way, each stone cut to exac ’v fit
its neighbor.
Riding Coat J&ckc'.s
Jackets of striped satin or lame
cut like riding coats are designed
by Schiaparelli to turn simple din
ner dresses into smart evening cce
i tumes.
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Or Street Wear
TPHIS charming little frock has
such a beguilingly flattering
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tailored, that you can appropriate
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Detailed sew chart included.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1909
B is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16,
18, 20, and 40. Corresponding
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