State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-06-07
From the Peoples Press.
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at Montpelier last winter, was a full and ialr
representation of the antimasonic party
1t was composed of the original democratic
antmasons. and more patriotic, lntclll-
gent and independent body of men never
assembled in the Capital As might have
been expected, they were found sternly
attached to the fundamental principle winch
they have so often avowed, OF maintaining
the supremacy of the laws against masonry
and its kindred evils, among which they
have ever enumerated the mlsrule OF Gen.
Jackson, and as necessary consequence,
opposed to Mr. Van Buren,, who declares
his intention of treading in his footsteps.
Indeed, no affinity could exist between a
party whose motto is the supremacy of the
laws, and an administration whose progress
has been marked Ivy a series of assumptions
of power which have rendered he-solemn
provisions of the Constitution dead letter.
In this Convention only twenty seven,
out of one hundred and sixty five votes,
were cast against MIR Van Buren,. 1t was
hoped that so decided an expression against
him, would have induced an instant and
cordial acqulescence on the part of the
the minority, in favor of General Harrison.
The most ordinary rules Of party discipline
would have induced those who had any
regard to the preservation of the party, to
have adopted a course, which alone could
preserve its power unbroken. But reckless
of consequences, and with an eilrontery
never surpassed, the feeble minority de-
nounced the convention upon the spot,
made nomination of their favolite candid
ate for president, formed II separate state
ticket and now claim to he the only true
antimasonic party in the state Thus has
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fearful responsibility rests somewhere.
The people will Judge who have abandon
ed their principles and surrendered their
cause.
The seceders are already being made
sensible of the folly of committing them
selves to the tender mcrcies of the Jackson
party. Whether the claims upon it for the
support OF their state ticket will he allowed,
is daily rendered more doubtful by the
total neglect and Indifference in senatorial
and other nominations which they have
recently displayed towards the Democratic
Platform. Indeed, the seceders from anti
masonry can never be received into full
communion by the party which they court
Whatever hopes may have been created by
their leaders, the rank and file Jacksonmen
will never seal the proffered alliance with
their votes. The party which Martin Flint
has repeatedly declared to be the only real
masonic party i'll the state, will not admit
a participation of power with those who
profess that their only object in enlisting
in 1t, is to drive masonry out of it. Relying
upon their own strength and flushed with
success in other portions of the Union, they
will not follow the lead of the eleventh
hour recruits from uniricndIy ranks, to
the exclusion of the veteran followers of
the Hero.
viii not our wandering friends, many
Of whom we have delighted to honor, open
their eyes TO the dangers which surround
lhem-retllrn in season to the antimasonic
fold-marcl shoulder to shoulder in the
great political battle which is to be fought,
and 60 up with us to the feast of victory:
In supporting VIM. ii. Harrison we sustain
the great distinctive principles of antma-
sonry; the supremacy of the laws against
masonry and the evils of Executive Tyr
amy and encroachment. Gen. Harrison
is an antimason, patriot, u statesman
"hOnest, capable, and faithful to the consti-
tuition" In supporting Van Buren, we
surrender the principles of national policy
10 which we have heretofore invariably
adhered, and sustain the most inyetcratc
foe of antmasonry in the nation.
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Of these individuals, we, in other respects
would ask whether we would prefer as
President n man whose life has been a
life of political prostitution, whose first act
was an union with the Hartford Conven-
tionsts, in sustaining De Witt Clinton a.
gainst Madison, who at one time flatters the
Pope, and at another the stakeholder;
who is tariff man at the North, and an
anti-tariff man at the South; who would
become the President of party, rather
than the President Of the nation, and make
the interests of the country subservient to
his personal ggrandizement; we say, can
we prefer such man TO a republican of
the " old school' distinguished for public
services, commencing his public life under
the father of his county; sustained by
Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, and
whether in the cabinet or in the field, dis
playing those commanding talents which
eminently fit him for the Chief Magistracy
ofthe Union. The people of Vermont have
not been fully enlightened as to the merits
Of Gen. Harrison.
The outrages of the Van Buren, press.
against truth and deccncy, have never been
more completely eXenpliiied than ia their
systematic attacks upon this truly distin-
guished patriot. His talents have been
most shamefully moderated. lie has been
denounced as u fGderalist, an advocate of
the gag law, and a coward. These charges
are as false MS the allioran, and have been
nailed to the counter, by the most unim-
peachable testimony. The nation can no
longer be blinded to the merits Of the lu-
minary of the west. The people with
whom General Harrison has spent his life,
and who are enjoying the fruits Of his pat
riotic Iabors in the cabinet and in the fl Id,
are fast ranging themselves under hls ban.
ner. The East with as proud son as the
country can boast, is yet looking 10 the
western candidate as the only candidate