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Show 232 TilE LIBI-:RTY DELL· tical) reasoning, many of them have persuaded themselves that they arc not bound, by their oath t.o tho Constitution, to any pro-slavery measure. We refer rather to an inherent impossibility of carrying any groat moral issue to a triumphant result by means of an organized party and its machinery. Wo bolioYo that every party no matter how good its cause, which makes an experiment of this kind, will find itself defeated. Wo think tho Free Democratic party has committed tho groat error of relying upon human arrangements and party machinery to nceomplish whnt can be accomplished only by tho most implicit reliance upon the moral strength of their cause, and by a concurrent, steady, and never-ceasing course of action. 'fho Free Soil party ha.s sought, and labored for numbers ; for in such a contest as theirs, numbers nrc essential to success. Therefore they desired numbers as tho grcatost good, and they worked to gain them with nll tho weapons which tho times put so abundantly into their hands. We A MOlt~: l:XCELLRNT WAY. 233 are sorry to add' moreover' that th very questionable 0Y resorted to means, - mcanii h. their most sagacious and . : w 1Ch tnany of upr,ght men d' -to obtain these b !Sap proved, num era. For tl desired party succc . JC sake of the ss, Jn some St t themselves with tL k a es they allied o nown enemies f l . highest principles. TL o t Jetr own ey refused to b r u Satan cannot cast out 8 t. " e ICvc that had grown wiser and had a ;.n. -thought they make Satan Jscovcred a way to out-general himself. It infatuation to suppose that a was strange the adh . pro-slavery man, or ormg members of a pro-slaver . work for tho d . y party, Will . estructton of their mtcrcsta and schemes I own party party went into h . However, the Free Soil sue an allia time they find that "t nee, and after a be I was themselves who have e~ out-generaled ; and tbey retire from th nectJOn, neither with re . o conso olea putatwn so fair, nor JJands n, ns they went into it. 8 to 1848 Tb 0 . ey have since discovered in regard that their three hundred thousand 20• votes were not honest, |