No platform was adopted for the first political campaign, that of 1840; but four years later there was an elaborate party platform of twenty-one resolutions.

Many things had happened in the eleven years intervening since the declaration of principles of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

In the earlier platform the freedom of the slave appears as the primary object.

That of the Liberty party assumes the broad principle of human brotherhood as the foundation for a democracy or a republic.

It denies that the party is organized merely to free the slave.