State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-07-26

sppoint committee of three to appoint
nominating committee Of two from each
County represented. This was done, and
nominating committee was announced
who retired by themselves, and after an
absence of some time returned into the
House with their report--that they had
agreed to present the names of William A.
Palmer aud John Beckwith. The Chair
then put the question whether the Conven-
ton would accept the report, and Il majority
voting in the negative, the chair declared
the motion to be lost.
A member, understood to have been a
recent deserter from the Wing ranks, arose
and proposed to have the report accepted,
and then afterwards to act upon the noIn-
nations. 1t was accepted, though not
without opposition; and the question then
came up, will the meeting confirm the
nomination of both together? and it was
carried, only about half dozen voting in
the affirmative. When this vote was taken
several of the old Jackson men had left the
house, and others, MS they have since in
formed me, were too much disguised with
the management of the leading wire
workers, in imposing upon them an
obnoxious individual, to take any further
could have been taken in full meeting,
without influences from those who had no
right to interfere, | have not the least
doubt that both would have been rejected
10y large majority.
The above is a correct account oil the
transactions as witnessed them.
notice in a communication copied into
the North Star of the 18th July, from the
nj To Do "a
Convention, the following statement: Sin
Convention the nominations were contlrtn-
ed by nearly an unanimous vote" The
public can Judge of thc accuracy OF the
impression intended to be conveyed by the
above from the facts as ! have given them
| will add that while not more than half a
dozen voted in the affirmative, several
voted in the negative. One of the candi-
dates was present, and by no means the
least active in producing so unlocked Tor
result The whole was deeply concerted
plot to cheat the old and true friends of
jackson out of their honest preference Of
their own men, into the support of man
in whose political integrity they have no
confidence who has veered about from
one party and one set of principles, to an
other, SO often as to have disguised and
uSlDHISlcu illl iIltl VI toilSlotNiSs1 W Ni'S't
ever party they may belong.
And now in conclusion, think II but
right and reasonable that our friends every
where should understand our present po-
slion. profess to be as well informed as
TO the feelings and intentions of the old
Jackson men in this town as any one can
be, and unhesitatingly declare that with
the exception of q very small number, say
two or three, they are decidedly opposed to
the nomination, and can neither he drawn
nor coaxed TO give it their support. There
is and can be no mistake about this, and 1t
is no matter how soon those concerned
know it, We who have hitherto pretended
to feel some attachment to our own men
and our own principles, have no alternative
left but to meet it with uncompromising
opposition.
How indeed can any one expect us or
ask us to abandon our own ground, and
give our votes to ore who has always ,ex-
erted his whole influence to oppose and
crush us? For one | will never do it. l
prefer friend to an enemy, and If must
choose between opponents, will prefer
consistent honorable men, who have never
betrayed their friends nor prosecuted their
enemies.
AN ORIGINAL JACKSONMAN.
Danville, July, 1886.