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Show 230 THE L18EltTY n.t:LL. Its cause was excellent ; ycur of our Lor(ll852. to tho last extremes of ita opponents bad gone . subserviency and profligacy ; Its own pro-slavery . us and among the d ators were numcro ' leaders nn or , rtcd discussion with . tho laud. rhey cou ablest m . pponents who tlarcd . \Vh' and Democrn.tiC o ' then· •g N olitical party in the . k the encounter. o p not ns f . ntegrity and ability to can show men o 1 country • I' Giddings, Horace Mann, 'th Joshua '· compare wt 1 S mner Gcrrit Smith, p Hale Char os u ' John · ' P Chase and many John G. Palfrey, Sahnon . '. . d t . nst-cad of incrcasmg m goo- tbers An yo ' t . o . . . the rcdictcd, they have dwm· metrical ratto, as y p d to less than tl c hundred thousan dled from trc With every d d nd fifty thousand votes. one hun re a t f ccess . . rowth, with every clomcn o su condtlton of g . lilical point in their favor, they have- m a po of view-met with a most signal and complete overthrow. . d d oxplana· have been asstgne ' an Many causes b' h arc tions given, for this decline ; some of w lC A liORE .BXCfo!:LLENT WAY, 231 probable enough. Into these it is not now nccc& sary to inquire. It is with the fact that we have to do, and with its moral bearings and inevitable lessons. And with respect to thisjact-cxtrnonlinary in many !JOints of view as it is-we do not believe that it is attributable to any remissness on the part of our Free Soil brethren, or to any want of merit in their cause. Their cause, everyone knows, was good ; and their labors, for at lemt six weeks !Jefore election, were unremitting. Their defeat is not nscribable to them, but is, we believe, au inevitable consequence of their position, the result of laws more powerful than any men. And, in saying this, we do not mean to allude to tho false and inconsistent position of tho Free Democratic party, as sworn supporters of a Constitution, whose foundatz'ons rest on the right of property z'n Man, and of a Union which is cemented together hy lite blood of three millions of slaves. For we know thnt, with subtle (and to us sopbis- |
