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Show 240 long 1xmscs to elapse between their assnulta. Let them trust solely to tho moral power inherent in their cause. They may be assured they can go no further and no faster than that moral power pervades and controls tho conscience of the Nation. Let them not seck t-o gather up tha.t conscience into nuy one party. It cannot be done. The effort to do it wilt invoh•c an absolute throwing away, and an entire loss of power over, all that conscience which refuses to array itself in their separnto party ranks. Ten thousand reasons exist to keep men from deserting old connections and alliances, to form new ones. These reasons may seem very unsatisfactory to us, and may be very poor ; but they prevail still. To the conscience of the whole people, to tho sense of Right and J ustioo in every man's bosom, we must make our appeal. In doing that, we rely no longer upon man's strength and wisdom ; but our reliance is upon the Arm and the Omnipotence of GoD. W c approach our fellow men, too, under circumstances the most ,\ l!Oitt-; t:XCELLJ-:Xr W ,u ·. 241 favorable t o a candid hearing and We expose Out1:eh·es t construction. o no suspicion f motives in buildin ° sclfislL g up a. political part ~ aggrtmdizement and 1 ' 'Y or our owu gory. We hold u G law alone -what eye ry man, . p on's II\ his . a· . soul, knows to be God' l m mduul and we d . s aw, and Ids own duty; ' o, as It were, erect a tribunal in eYer man s soul, before which shall be L y moasure an 1 . . rought every 1· < every nommatwn, which ht' s party or liS sect may call upon him to more clear and unbiased support; and the tribunal an l l we can keep that moral ' c tIe more completely we can free it from. t.h o untoward and rna 1t' gn m. flucnccs of Jar ambthon and sectarian zeal tho I' ty b ' more sure may we o of tho correctness of its d .. weight of its influ . ectsions and the once, m whn.tm·cr affects tbc agwre akt cause of Human L"b I erty. But we shall not a en OYery sou1 ; wo shall find indeed tl ~-~r·IYm g conscience small ·r .w judge by numbers B . . , I we shll d . . ut, Judgmg as GoD judges an nctmfl' as He ' o 21 commands, we shall find that. |