State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-05-17
THE STATE JOURNAL.
CHAUNCEY l.. KNAPP, EDITOR.
MONTPELIER, MAY IL, 1886.
ANTIMASONIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
XVW. HENRY HARRISON


II appointed by Mr. JEFFERSON, Governor of the
Territory of Indiana, in 1901;
NJ By Mr. MADIsoS, COMMANDMENT. { hief of the
North Western Army in 1872;
7 ? BY his FELLOW CITIZENS in Ohio a Member
of Congress in 1876;
NJ BY the LEGISLATURE OF OHo a Senator of
the United States in 1928 land
NJ BY JonN QUiNcY ADAMS, Minister Plcnipo-
tentinry to the Republic Of Colombia in 1898
1 7 Nominated by Conventions of the PEOPLE in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Indl-
ana, Illinois Delaware End Vermont, and by the
Legislature OF Kentucky.
Sentiments If Gen. Harrison.
"I cannot but consider the existence Of Ma
sorry as an evil, both moal and POLITICAL"
In the exercise of tle elective franchise the
people possess the meansof correcting all the evils
which may arise in our government, and that it
ought to be used for tina purpose. Latter TO The
Pennsylvania AntimGsOEc State Committee.
" IT the exercise OF the removing and appointing
power to suppress ireemsonry could not fail to
be the parent Of mischies infinitely greater than
those it is the design to Gre. ~ Correct dis
orders that may arise of that character by the
power Of the people themselves, or by the authority
of the state governments and let the appointments
by the President be made upon the good old rules
of Jefterson-hOnesty, capacity and fidelity to the
Constitution and a further requirement which
kn'iw lie always madc-that Of their being accep-
table to the people for whom they were mmedi-
ately to act.'-Leiter o ThaddeB Stevens. Esq
1t is the most difficult thing IN the world for
me to believe that people in the possession of
their rights as fEeemen, would ever be willing to
surrender them and submit themselves to the will
Of master"
contend that the strongest of all governments
is that which is most tree"
Man does not learn under oppression those
noble qualities and feelings which fit him for the
enjoyment Of liberty
"To be esteemed eminently great, it is neces-
sary to be eminently good. letter TO Bolirdr.
Neither Masonry, nor Van Burenism, nor both
can succeed with the Green Mountain Boys. Po-
titicdl Juggling will run short among the
descendants of Ethan Allen. T. ID. Barber.
Our opposition to fieemasonry and Executive
usurpation springs from the same principles. We
cannot, as consistent Antimasons do any less than
resist what we deem unwarranted assumptions Of
power on the part Of the President. - We act
IN our opposition to the measures Of the Executive
u strictly as Antin,aSOns. We are only applying
doctrines our party have ever advocated to a new
case and carrying them out into practice in relation
TO new evil. T.. D. Barber.
content myself, on this occasion with saying
that consider myself the honored instrument Sc
lected by the friends of the present Administration
to carry out lis principles and policy; and that
well from inclination from duty, shall, if hon
ored with the choice of the American people en-
deavor to tread generally in the footsteps of Presi
dent Jackson--happy if shall be able to perfect
QJ'the work which he has So gloriously begun N
Martin Van B,ren's Letter to the Bait. Cor.