Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1836-11-04
VOL. X--No. 4S0.

citizens, are now called on to settle by your
verdct--a verdict which, we trust, will be
controlled by an enlightened regard to the
rights and interests of Vermont the integ-
rity of the constitution, and the Purity and
pcrmanency Of our Republican institutions.
Fellow citizens want a REFoRM--t
real. honest reform. Not reform which
shall glut the vengeance of party, or make
abuses the pretext for still greater oues.-
But reform which shall lay open to tho
most rigid scrutiny, and probe to the bot
tom, every Department Of the Executive
Governments reform which shall restore
correct principles to its administration
which shall arrest the tide of party pro-
scripton-allay the bitterness of party
strfe-respect virtue, intelligence, indus
try, fidelity and conscientious PATRIOTISM
spurn the host of fawning sycophants and
greedy naterers-kno,o no candidate for
The succesSion--and exhibit president less
| solicitors to build up an executive party,
TO applaud his admins ration, right or
wrong, than to commend himself and all
his measures to the calm and rational judg-
ment of all his countrymeD.
Such reform we think that Gen. Har-
rison is peculiarly fitted to accomplish. To
give him the power to do it, we shall give
him our cheerful and decided support. We
ask, you fellow citizens, to cooperate with
US in this good work. We do not aim to
inspire your energy and zeal in this effort,
by shouts of anticipated triumph. There
is inspiration enough in the principles we
advocate Those principles we commend
to the sober consideration which You owe 1t
1t TO your country to give them. They de-
serve success. and it shall not be on our
part, as we trust it will not be on yours,
that they shall not be successful, and even
slgnaly triumphant.
Thus far, we have dwelt exclusively on
the question of the Presidency. The cleo
ton of the Second Officer in the govern
ment is one Of great Importance, and de-
serves great consideration. The contin-
gency may happen which shall place him
IN the chair Of State, while in his ordinary
functions as President of the Senate, he
possesses the power Of exercising an i'm
portant influence over the proceedings OF
that body. The casting vote Of Mr. Van
Buren,, TO which we have referred, admon-
lshes Us that the power of giving such
vote should be entrusted to no one, IN the
soundness of whose principles we have not
the fullest confidence.
In considering the claims OF RICHARD
NJ. JOHNSON to that Office, we cannot for
get the declaration made by him lmmed'.
a'cy after the election of Mr. Adams, that
- his administration must be put do,cn,
" Mough II shoud be pure as The angels at
. The right hand of The throne Of Coda
declaration which, aside from the Drofliga>
cy of the principle involved it, carries on
its face, sufficient evidence that he is unfit
to preside over the deliberations of the
| vro hnI,y IF al Garth
His support of "the most obnoxious meas
ures of the present administration" and
among them. the systematic attempt 10
Senate Of The United States, the very body
over whose deliberations, he is, if elected,
to preside, crowns and renders insuperable
the objections we have against him.
Nor can we fee Indifferent to has ,ceN
hno,cn domestic history, evincing, as il
does, strange disregard of every thing
which gives interest and endearment to the
most sacred of human relations. We can
not overlook such consideration in select
ing an incumbent for the second office in The
| gift OfMe nation.
In FRANCIS GRANGER we have n
candidate Of distinguished talents amiablc
department, sound principles, and pure life
devoted during his whole public career to
the advancement of the genuine republican
principles of ancient days--heartily and
honestly opposed to the msrule of the
present administration, and pledged TO sus-
tain all the great interests which are dear
to the people Of Vermont.
Fellow citizens, you are aware that there
has been diversity OF views among those
who compose the convention which now
addresses you. II consists of men who
have belonged to two distinct parties, and
who have at some periods. been found ar.
rayed in political hostility against each 9th.
er. We are brought together, not as
formal coalition OF dlscordant political prin-
cipes, TO effect a specific obi 'ct-but by
force Of principles, which whatever may
have been our diversity of views on one
sui ject, have long been held in common by
us all. The present crisis gives 10 those
principles an unwonled importance. We
| rally To support them in he persons of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, and
| FRANCIS GRANGER. Whlle their OPP
position to the anll,republican doctrines
aud practice of the present administration
renders them acceptable to us all, their OPP
| position to Freemasonry renders them PEE
cu'iary SO, TO those Of this convention who
| have been organized to oppose that nstitu-
ton. The great principles on which that
| opposition has rested, are fundamental ia
| our republican institutions. They yet live,
and will continue to live, long after Free
Masonry shall have been forgotten. The
| AntlInasons Of This convention while apply
ing those principles to Masonry, have also
applied them TO the msrule of The present
| administration. and must continue thus 10
apply them. They cannot be gully of the
inconsistency of publicly declariug as the
entire Antimasonlc party of this state did
lwo years ago, that The principles of the
party necessarily lead it To oppose The mis-
role of the administration, and now when
he country is called on to pronounce a
definite Judgment upon that m>rule, md
20 say whether It's AUTHOR shall have n