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Day
29
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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If we mny judge of the incrcoae of the libcrty party by tlie number that fittend, and the interés nanifesiBcl at our coithiy conventions, n will ot tnerely doubie its votentihe next elec:ion, butb three or íbur times ns large is t wa„ ast year Those yet to bc held wüi undou!)tedly b) reporT ed n a few weeks. The nomination, 80 far" seem to be liighly satisfactory to all. Theifh ' lullen on the riglit sort of men exactlv -.„.„-.i,11 men, who ure willing to bear i)e burden and hut of re dny.-men who reBarrdefe i„ tlle C8U8e ofhbenyand equ.ility a thüuSin(í tn,es mor Honorable than success with either of tho proalav ry parties. We nre often told that jf we do not vote whh one of the great parties weshall throw away 0Ur vote. Butitisnotso. Our vote i. „everto hoii orable or more vnluable than where it is CB tof truth and iustice by a small minority fD ,h8 fuce ofpowerful opposition. Were the votca of th.' Biitishabolmonists lost whn l.ey wero onlv small minori.y? Were the votes of 319 ín t}1ÍB 3tate who stond up Üke Shadrech, Meehech nrf Abedneco in Í840, and refused to do homage , log cabine nnd hard eider deilies, lost? As well may the farmer eny (hat his seed ia lost whictf brings forth sixty or a hundred fold. Even now;. the 319 nre alluded 10 wiih deep respect, and ev ery man who can say, "1 wo8 one of th num-'ber?" feels proud of it. Thn thousands who w}' stand firm and vote for God and humnnity nex full in spite of all the falsehoodo, the flatterics nd fhreatsofproslavery men, will look upon their conduct with ihe same feeling and be viewd' n the same light by others four years hen tka

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