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Show 226 TilE l ,liU;HTV DELL. " ~ more excellent lllnn." IIY SAMUEL )tAl', JU, WE have just W.l lncssc d another President.i.a l . d th result is known. Franklm clcctton, an ° . · t p·c rcc the cand.i date of the DemocratiC llar y, I ' . the votes of twenty-seven States,- bas recm vcd . en their votes all but four; which four have glv . w· field Scott, the candidate of the Wb'g party. to m c supposed to have any Neither of these men wcr b ond the fact that qualification for tho office, cy . tl c Blareboth had been generals of the army m I , upon Mexico. holders war brethren of the Into this presidential contest our for ~ . . -earnest Anti-Slavery men Free SOJl party 'th as mucll the most part- cntered ' not only WI A llOJtJ.; KXCJ~LLEN'l' WAy, 227 zeal and activity as the other parties, but with far more. They lcnew that they alone had a good cause. ~.Chey knew that both the other parties had pledged and bound t~cmsclvcs to ma.intain a.nd enforce tho li'ugitire Sla\•e Law, a.od tho other compromises which bad lJcen entered into with the SlavcJwldcrs; compromises which gave Freedom nothing, and Slavery everything. In the presidential election of 1848, the Free Soil party, with Martin Van Buren for its nominee, polled about three hunched thousand votes. A section of the Domocra.tic party, dissatisfied with the nomination of Lewis Cas.'i, contributed largely to that result. \Ve had it mathematically and morally dcmonstrntccl to us that, in 1852, the vote of tho Free Soil Pa~ty would be triplod or quae]. rupled; and, in 1856, would be so large and formidable ns j>robably to control and decide tho election of tbat year. The elections of 1852 nrc over, and the Free Soil strength, instond of being largely augmented, is now less than a lwlf of what |