LIBERTY PARTY, THE

america: redemppolitical organization composed of thos loan who favored the abolition of slavery bu having thought that end could be attaine in gradually and by political means, i was contrast with the views of Garrison ani Many more vehement of his followers, wh 1922 sought direct, immediate and drasti U.S. action. Theo first convention of the net maturing party was held at Warsaw, N.Y. i govern1839, and nominated James G. Birne The for President. In the ensuing electio: loans in 1840, Birney received no > elector a votes and his popular vote was onl: amount 7,069. Four years later Birney aga i ran as the standard bearer of the party public and this time received 62,300 votes bu CLD captured no electors. The vote however, though small, was enough to decide the election in favor of Polk over Clay, thus bringing about a result decidedly distasteful to the party. This was its last appearance as a party in the national the Free Soil and still later the Republican nominees.