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Free Soil

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

This is a subject tliat is tuking deep root in the niiiids of tlie people throughout the entire Northern section of these United Slatos. In this thero uppears to centre nll the hopea and wishes of the people. They havo laid asido the questions that liiii'fc heretofor ngitated thetwo grenf political partios, nna the reason i? obvious : those were merely tn.nVuory (,uesi;ons, called np by circumstances, to meet present exigentes, oí' to cany out msasures best suitod to the general nt&rcsf. Those questions which liave nctuated the people .ave ei ven place to a system of policy snch as the times uPmand. Wliei-e aro the old party ties ? They are severed oever to be United again. Is thero any striking difference in principie Ijetween the adbereDta of Cass and those of Taylor ? What points of policy aio in volved that should cal) up the siuiultniicuus action of this mitiun to decide ? If thoro aro those so well versed in the policy of the day, as to bring out and elucídate the grent question now in dispute lirlweon tiloso pnrties, wr hould like to hrar it. For'ourself, we are unable o comprehend tlu difference. The presses favorng exich are entirely Bitent as to tho great National qneatinti liehvcciï tuim, "'"' content themselves vith deacooting upou the chnracter ami stanuing óf he Dominees. Not so with the roformers ; theirs s a proiiiinpiit question, one that is incorporated nto ovir institutions as o príiDBry principie, and nusl bo BUStained, or uur democratie form of GovsrnmeDt will be at an oud, With Free Soil comes ho rest of tho motto, Freé Labor, Freo Speech, uid Freo Men. These are inseparable in tho grent ■eforrn inovementof tho day. Although some muy vish to restrict tho movement to tho opposition to he extensión of ülnvc torrilory alone, it cannot bo dono. The people, in their feeliogs and actions, ire demanding overy const'.tutioind ïilit, and they will obtain them. Tliis rnovement must necessarily Driginato, or athcr incrciist', a great Northern party. Tho principies of this partj will demand evory right that elongs to freemen. Then what are tho Liberty nen to do, but to give their strength to urge the movf,ment whose results will be the same they liavo so lung, and so Dobly, contended for. It matten ïot what name is ipplied, whether Liberty, or Free Soil, so long ns the object iseffectcd. The Liberty party havo always acted froni principie, leaving policv out of the question ; mul we would remind those who corapoie that party of their duty to tnaintain their high and honorable posilion with unswerving integrity, and n few yeara will crown our brightest hopes with completo success.