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Show right-principled, Anti-Slavery 'Totes ; but given, more than half of them, by Democrats who wished to avenge tho party slight and treachery practised upon a favorite political lender, and to defeat the ends of his rival. 'rhis object accomplished, that entire body of Democrats wallwd straight back into the ranks of their old party, and with now-born zeal became tho loudest and busiest in the service of those men who bad publicly declared their de· termination to resist all Anti-Sla:vcry agitation, and to make tho Fugitive Slave Law a "finality,"more sacred nnd unchangeable than the Constitution itself, or any of the safeguards of popular liberty. Alas ! for those who allow themselves to become blind followers in tbe ranks of a political party. Conscience, humanity, moral independence, and freedom of action are trampled under foot. In this struggle, and inevitable compromise of principle, to obtain numbers, there is involved, as we view it, a practical dis~rust of Goo, and of tho omnipotent power of His truth, in it.s direct A MOU.t:: J-~XCELI,ENT WAy . . 235 act ton upon tho i nd .I V"t d ual mind d h Thoro is a forgcttinrr f an cart of man. o o tho great t weapons of tho I I ruth that the nora contest arc not " not those in which tho . carnal,'' pndo of man d 1' 1 yet nrc tho only 0 . 0 1g 1ts, and nos wluch can pr "I ones which are ., 1 • h ova.I ' tho only . mg ty through Gon t mg down of strong holds ' ' '['L o tho }>ltll- . · ue faithful l mat10n and pre b. proc a.- a.c mg of the truth, as the one groat and aU-sufficient instrument of . victory · d Antt-Slavcry ' IS corned as " foolish " proachin" of tl now, as the o lO cross was deemed . days. Men doubt th. m apostolic IS morn! power d" wnnt to sec the s - 1Sown it- ' y ay, practical and dcfi "t want to elect a Governor no d 111 c results; like thing . tho w an then, or do some ' y want to have lar make use of many doubtful go numbers, and th expedients to gain em, and do not gain them h after all. Even by suo palpable failures the aro as d . ' y grow no wiser; but rca y agam to cxp d t" money, and to exha en tmc, strength, and ust themselves and their |