Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-09
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
ORLEANS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC WING
MEETING.

bureh ON the 26th OF Feb 1910 at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
The meeting was organized by the appointment q
Of Hon. David M. Camp, President and Lemue' '
Richmond Secretary pro TEN.
10 make u nomination of Vice Presidents and Sec ,
retaries. Messrs Strong, Young, Moore, Slim
son and Knbal we're appointed said committee. l.
Ordered That committee Of five he appointed
10 report resolutions to the meeting. Messrs. AL
len OF Irasburgh Story, Sumner, Hill, and J. II.
Kinball were appointed said committee.
On motion, adjourned to meet at the Congrega
tionul Meeting House. II
One o'clock, P. M. The convention assembled
MT the meeting house. The committee appointed
to make q nomination of Vice Presidents ana sec
retnries, made the following report: II
For Vice Presidents Hon. Timothy Human oil
Derby; Thomas Guild Esq. Coventry; Ezra john
son, Esq. Troy Col. Ellis Cobb, Barton; Col A.
Simson, Craitsbury; Thomas jameson, Esq lras-
burph. Rev. N. S. Downes, Wesifell; Calvin Snrt-
well. Esq. Lowell E. G. Strong, Esq. Browning
ton Col Noyes liopkinson, Esq. Salem Peter
Wheeock, Newport J. Boardnnn, Esq. Glover;
Ira Lcavns, Esq Morgan; and Ebenezer Cole,
Esq Charleston.
For Secretaries, S. S. Clark, ii. f. Prentiss and
J. w. Baxter.
The convention appointed the following gentle
men as county committee J. II. Prentiss, Thorn.
as Mcknight, VIM. J. Hastings, Chester Carpen-
ter. J. II. Kimball, J. M. Robinson and Thomas
i. Stewart. :.
Briggs in reply to an invitation to attend the mee-
ting was read, and ordered to he puhlished
Richmond, February 20, 1910.
DIAN Sir: have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your faterng letter, inviting me in
behalf of the Wings of Orleans County to attend
a meeting of the friends Of General Harrison at
Irasburgh, on the 26th instant.
Having received similar invitation from the
Wings Of Addison County for the same day, re-
gret exceedingly that circumstances Will prevent
me from accepting either.
think need hardly assure you that my best
wishes attend this, and every other patriotic ef-
fort TO awaken The people to the momentous inter-
ests involved in the coming contest, and that were
il in my power, | should he highly gratiied TO meet
nv Wing friends of Orleans, in convention.
The present is a crisis, fraught with important
consequences to the people of this country, aud
demands at the hands of every friend to Amer
lean institutions, patient and honest investigation
of tho merits and bearings OF the issue about TO be
tried between the people and their present nation
al rulers.
In this contest il is to be decided by the solemn
verdict of the people, whether the interests Of the
North are to be surrendered TO the arrogance and
cupidity of the Soath, by the prostitution of Nor
thern manufactures, TO secure Southern ascenden-
cy in commerce? Whether the public lands are
TO he made use of by the Executive bait to
catch votes ut the West, with which to secure his
own election and that ofhis successor duly appoin-
ted-by surrendering TO the States in which it lies,
that vast patrimony which is the common proper
~ of the whole Union: Whether the custody Of
the public money is TO be confded to The hands
of the President and his creatures, to be by them
squandered in eiectioneerng, or suddenly 'Swar
wouted into distant lands, beyond the reach of
our laws? Whether the national flag is TO be
tran,pled on and the national soil invaded by that
very power, of whom, the memory of two event
full struggles should make US, of all others, mos,
jealous?
All these questions are to be tried at the com
ing Presidential election, and leT every citizen, who
cares for the honor Of The nation and the welfare
of the people, to it that they be rightly decided
The unjust and partui conduct of the nd,ns-
tration relative to he two struggles which have
been recently enacted on our Northern and South
eru frontiers cannot but have been observed with
disgust by every one VINO mas narrowly watched
the signs of the times.
A, the South we behold rebellion in rich and
powerfu province of the neighboring aud friend-
" republic of Mexico not only not impeded or dis
couraged, hut on the contrary counienunced and
upheld by the administration, with the view doubt
less of the ultimate annexation of Texas to the
Union and the consequent contamination of the
system of policy TO which the "Norlhern man with
Sothern principles and his new ally the Nulier
of South Carolina, have SO long directed their eff
forts namely, the complete prepcnderance of the
slave holding power in the confederacy, and the
final subjugatl0n oil the North at the feet OF their
Southern masters.
At the North we behold in the vigorous and OPP
pressye measures pursued towards those of the
people who felt an honorable sympathy for their
oppres sed neigtbors in the Canadian provinces
only another branch of the same policy, which,
while it seeks add influence and territory to the
Southern domination, is warily guarding, with all
the engines Of prOcainations and Neutrality laws
against that misguided sympathy which would
ultimately add to the Northern influence two OF
more large and important States, and thus equal il
et,ua nty IN frnt.
the annexation Of Texas.
Ifthis he not So why is it that presented
with the spectacle of expeditions fitted out aut
equipped within the United States, forthe express
purpose of assisting the revolutionists of Texas
unmolested by the Government, and unpunishef
by the laws so ierociously enforced against he in
dIviduas on The Northern frontier, who heard tn,
cry Vi their neghbors grooming under real ,ppres
sion, within few Leagues from their own homes
and noby, though perhaps not wisely, went to h'
rescue
These things all go TO prove that from The pres
ent Executive particularly since his coalition will
the selfish and INSCRIPTIONS Nuliifer, the peopl
of the North and especially the friends of Canadian
independence, have nothing 10 expect but rope
tton OF the Proclaination-oflh The imprisonment O
mackenzie and Johnson and of Executive de
nuncialions directed against themselves as "nefa
rious' and unprincipled men, unworthy the coun
Ienance ofany good citizen.
II is all part aud parcel of the scheme 10 whcl
Martin Van Buren, has sold himself, body and sou
land it remains Tor the people to say whether TN
system is one which they can approve, and arr
ready to sanction
But have trespassed too long upon your pa
thence. Permit me TO offer through you, To TN
Wings who may assemble at your convention, tn
hope that they will do their duty al the polls mex
fall, and swell the triumph of The Farmer Of III
North Bend, whose nomination is every wher
received with aecamation, and whose election wi
be- this country, the of returning prosperit,
am Sir. with much respect,