Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-14

two conflicting political parties. They
agree on the question Of the importance Of
putting an end as early as possible, 10 the
present corrupt Administration; and they
agree also in the belief that if all the oppo-
stion to that Administration could be con-
soidated and preserved undivided, the pros
pect for Wing victory at the approaching
presidential contest is apparently certain, and
that without great unanimity OF sentiment
and action in the Wing party, its success is
worse than questionable We appeal, then,
to any ones candor TO say if there is not
more fear from disunion in the ranks of the
Wing party, than from any other cause
| And we ask, in all sincerity, can this dissen.
sion be diminished by putting at the head OF
hall OF the Wing papers the name OF Mr.
Clay, and the other halfthe name OF Gen.
| Harrison, while the nomination is by com.
mon consent, held in allegiance. for the de-
cision Of the National Convention DO the
numerous editors who have already pro-
claimed their own preference for one ofthese
candidates, and who are weekly trumpeting
the praises Of the one, and piling the pyra-
mid of calumny upon the other, expect that
they are strengthening and demonstrating the
opposition to the present administration p
DO they expect thattheir earnings and wrang-
lines about rival candidates will make the
nomination more unanimous DO they
suppose that Notwithstanding all the morbid
irritabili;y which this party wrangling is
calculated to excite, that the 2iiful quackery
Of National Convention will heal the
whole2 We must say that we pity the in
ehable conceit ofthpse editors who imagine
that they can embrace the popularity oftheir
favorite by placing his name in garng
capitals at the head Of their paper, before he
has been nominated by any proper authori-
ty or that they can fores,all the decision Of
National Convention, by singing hosanHas
to Henry Clay, or hazzas for Gen. Elorri-
SON Clothed in the little brief authority OF
welding a goosc.quil sceptre in such way
as 10 their opinion will be mos, likely TO
prove acceptable TO the present party caprice
oftheir few patrons. they play such fantastic
tricks as make their opponents smile at their
vanity and looIishness. and their judicious
friends regard them with mingled pity and
disgust. They only bring odum upon
themselves and the profession they ostensi-
bly, follow, while by heir inflated oiiiciousness
and oblrusive lemerity they weaken their
own party by fomenting discussions, and
give their enemies reason 10 saw aha ! aha
so would we have j, 10 be- All the papers
which have assumed the prcrogative OF nom
mating their candidate, have also pledged
10 ABIDE by the decision OF the National
Convention. Now, inasmuch as il is pain
fully evident that the Wing party throug hout
the Union is divided in its preference be-
tween Mr. Clay and Gen. Harrison, why
will not these ofiicious editors, instead Of
writing as though they were ex.offieio com
mittees denomination. be modest and pru
dent enough TO refrain from making the
breach OF disunion still broader and more
fatal, by constantly obtrudng upon the pub
lie their preferences for the one, or their
prejudices against the other2
For ourselves we will say that we deem
it neither Just, expedient nor polite to join
in the common editorial clamor againS, those
| OF our own party. whose wishes in reference
to the presidential candidate may disagree
with our own. And while we most iervenl.
ly wish that all the component portions OF
the Wing party could think and act in uni.
son on this subject, we certainly can see no
probability OF compelling each other TO do
so by incessant recrlmlnalon and abuse
But inasmuch as we all expect to support
the nominee Of the National Convention.
and as it is yet undetermined who be shall
be, we confess ourselves incapable of dis.
corning any political wisdom in the course
Of those editors, who, having perched them
selves upon the lofty pinnacle of their own
conceit, are shouting the claims of their IA
vorite candidates in genuine electioneering
twang, with all the pufand pedan,ry Of
moun!ebank and the unmeaning and bois-
ferrous loquacity Of an auctioneer. We
beg TO be excused from joining in this
chorus of discord,' and would wish 10 re.
main silent until the full voice of the Nation.
al Convention shall give us the true watch
word of the elec,oneering contest