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Show 228 nm t.tnE1l1"i m:LI .. it was when the prediction wasmndo. 'fhc highest estimate of tho Free Soil vote of the present year, which we ha\e seen, aoes not mal<e it higher than one lnmdrccl and forty thousand. This is certainly the more remarkable, as it might reasonably have been expected that the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law, two years since, and the prosecutions and trials, the slavehunts and kidnappings, with other barbarities and villninios which followed in its train, would baso stimulated and goaded Northern voters to make an overwhelming demonstration against it. The odiousness of that law is beyond controversy i in tho face of their own case and present interests, individuals, nncl towns, and whole communities, ho.vo sot themselves against it, defeated its operation, and defied the men who would enforce it. Tho people of the Northern States -leaving out of view the office-seekers, the corrupt party-backs, and tho sleek preachers of a religion which hns no higher idea than worldly case and profit-halo A MOIU; Jo;XCJ:U.J:NT WAY. the Fugitive SJ 229 . ave Law, :tnd mo ti as the conccntrat' st cordially despi. • JOn of all so ·who could ltavo , meanness and cruelty supposed that th . . of these same NOI·th c votmg portiou ern people nearly or quito t . . would have cast wo nulhons of men who had pled 1 votes in favor of gee themselves b make this detestable L cforoha.nd to a.w tlJO ll'JN.A L a I ABJ,~ Law of tb nc Hnmt•.~<:A ,,- . c Land ! 1'hc Whi mocrahc parties d. d 1 . g and De- I t us very thin . . . each other in so T g' VJomg with . rvt tty to Slaveboldin . . and thctr candidat h g dJctatJOn . ' cs avo together . ' or quito two millions f . recctvcd nearly o votes m tho so- States, whilo the c d"d called Free an J ntcs of the F Free Democratic t reo Soil or pnr .y, as tho called, llave reo . d y would now be etve less than fifty thousand. ono hundred and If ever a distinct Anti Sl could oxist in th" - avery political party lB country with ood demonstrate w'tl g reason, could I 1 overwhclmin for its cxist<l g proof a necessity nco, and could confide the support f ntly count 011 o 2e0v ery honest voter, it was in the |