The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-11-25
PROGRESS.
KEENE, CosHocToN Co, OHIO,
November 5, 1852.

kEENE, COsHoCToN Co., ONO,
November 5, 1852.
To the Editor of the National Era:
DEAR SIR: Five years ago, when the old
Liberty party was about going to seed, and |,
almost a solitary waif from that stock, drifted
in and took root here, my copy Of the Era was
ton to inform you now, that fifteen copies o.
your paper are taken at this Office and that
instead of three or four Free Soil votes of th
township in lS4S, we have now polled t,centy
one land one absent) Free Democratic votes
out of a whole number of two hundred and
two. Nor is this all 1t is something more
and better, we think, that the foundation il
laid for certain and moro rapid increase
hereafter. We have secured the respect of all
parties. Locally, our onc-n-ten votes are not
the same subject for merry making and deri-
sion that the One-in-a-hundred were because
they show steady, onward progress; and
generally our platform and our candidates are
such as command the respect and appreciation,
and admiration of all candid and thinking
men. Many still in the ranks of the old par
ties in this region, hesitate not to confess that
our platform is infinitely sOunder and safer than
both those of Baltimore, and that our candi-
dates are the best in the field. They have voted
{" once more" with their parties, not through
any affection for them, 30 much as through
hatred to their old enemies, between whom and
themselves they imagine there are still at issue
some of the old questions which were fought
out and settled, or abandoned or "comprO-
missed" "long time ago" 4" They Wouid vOte
for Hale, # by so doing they could elect him,
but he cannot be elected &c. | am not sure
but there were, on Tuesday last, enough of
such to have done the very thing they all de-
sired, had they only but truy and consistently
voted their own principles and preferences
Under mistaken idea of saving" their votes,
they persisted in throwing them away on
Scott or Pierce, the first of whom could not be
benefited by them, and the latter did not need
them
This is precisely the position of hundreds in
this region, and doubt not the same is true
elsewhere, and may say thousands instead of
hundreds; and these are the materials of the
future Free Democratic party. Gradually, as
the truth beomes more and more apparent that
there are but two parties in this country, Of
which the opponents of a pr0-slavery national
policy are one, and the supporters of that
policy are the other" all these will take their
places in the ranks Of Freedom. Bring the
actual contest at the polls, as it is already in
the Halls of Congress, to these two parties let
the now existing partisan organizations be dis
robed OF the prestige Of the names to which
their only title is the right Of possession let
Slavery stand out clearly as it is really, the
only, or at least the controlling question, in the
Federal Politics Of the day, and the contest
cannot be doubtful even this "dark corner
will "roll up" such majorites for Freedom rs
no party ever yet could boast Of
The campaign just closed has done much TO
hasten on the "good time coming" by re-
moving the scales from blind eyes, and the fet-
ters from party bound limbs and letting in
spark of Freedoms holy fire to many heart
which has given it a Judgement, and will foster
it into an inextinguishable flame. Let us
" thank God, and take courage" believe in
a saying attributed to our noble standard
bearer long may he live to enjoy the victory
that whoever is defeated in this con test, it is
not the Free Democracy