The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-07-28
For The taledonian.
VAN BUREN CONVENTION

my duty to apprse you that the Loo ofocos held
County Convention at lrasburg on the 18th inst.
What the particular object of the meeting was, ex
cept to get on an pross OF steam, and thus
vive their dropping hopes, am unable TO learn
Their pr0posed object was to nominate II candidate
for Senator, but be il known that they nominated
Mr. Hemmonway in their Convention held last
winter, for that office However, that convention
was so small that they may have supposed the
public wero not aware that any nomination had
been mnde. Yet there were some circumstances
connected with that meeting which l presume
those present, at least, have not forgotten. First;
the fact that there WAS great deal of pickering
and contention therea, and secondly tho fact that
tho Same Mr. Henmen.gny who there nomina.
ted, and whose nomination was endorsed on the
5lI inst, there offered resolution which was
passed, declaring the Locofoco party to be opposed
to disly Hutton IF the surplus reDenues arising
rom the saies Of The public tunds among the seoer0t
States. Whatever may have been their object
they met on the 18th Unprecedented efforts had
been made for general raLLy.-When the two
thousand Wings met on the 9TH, notice was given
that Mr. Van Ness, the great preacher of Locofoco
ism on the Vermont circuit, would be present on
The 18th and that report was industriously crcua-
ted through the County up to the day of the con-
venlion met. But including Boys, Locofocos and
Wings about four hundred assembled Many wa
vering Van Buren, men, and about hundred
Wings, went for the purpose of hearing Mr. Van
Ness and serious their disappointment when
they arrived and were told that he, the great Mo
manned OF the party, was, and for great number
Of days had been, in the city Of Washington. What
he had gone there for, they didn't choose captain
Gen. Cushman too, who il said would be pres.
ent did not appear. suppose he thought that to
deliver locofoco speech in Orleans County would
be hike scattering seed on fallow ground But az
ter all they did find one to speak for them in the
person of Mr. Bartlett from Lyndon. His great oh
iect seemed to be to contradict tho Report of his
Locoioco friend MIR Nourse, the Register of the
Treasury. This ankind to be sure since Mr..
Nourse stands so high in the confidence Of Mr. Van
Buren,, but something must be done 10 convince
the people that the administration had not spent so
much money as they shy they have Accordingly
MIR Bartlett said the HkigS say that the aiministra
ton have spent 80 millions, in a year. Now
said Mr. Bartlett, let see, Congress appropriated
ten millions for the Easter Boundary controversy,
and five millions for the Post Office, bu; these sums
were not expended. la this way che reduces the
expenditures he said, to twenty three millions
Now the Register Of the Treasury says his Re.
port, which is made under oath, that tho admins
tration has ezpended paid out, thirty eight millions,
and nc says nothing about which were APP
ProprtGted, and not paid out. Neither does he say
they have paid ten millions the Eastern Boun-
Diary, and we know they have not, But do not
know what they have paid it for Mr.. Bartlett
or the Register Of the Treasury must try egain,-
they don't agree at ALL But said Mr. b. admitting
the administration has been eYtravaeant,t the Wings
voT ED for all the expenditures. Now did they?
Had the Wings majority in Congress? Could
they do anything without the consent of the major
ity' Did the Wings vote to let Swartwout, Price,
and Boyd and the hosts Of deauIters under this ad.
ministraton steal the millions millions that
they did steal Of the public money? Again said he
Congress appropriated $780, 900 to build the Post
Office and the Treasury Buildings. Yes, but
didn't tho Locoiocos SO I fire 10, and burn down
the buildings previously occupied by those depart
meDts to conceal their own fraud, and thus create
necessity for such expenditures? Mr. Bartlett
next attempted defence of the Sub-treasury. He
disposed Of that in summary way by snying that
all the difference between the former mode, and
the one now proposed for keeping the public mon.
ey was, that formerly il was deposited in Banks
and is to be kept in the hands of individuals
most entirely changed, and tell us about the specie
clause Did he forget that, nink you' Next he
adverted tho of the times, and said the rea
son why they, the times, hard was, that
the Banks not o declined discounting, but actu-
ally called in their issues. But he did not under
take 10 show ,ohy the Banks did lie did not
the fact that the specie circular the Sub
| treasury system, Van Buren's war Of discrimination
upon the Banks, and the general policy the ad-
ADMINISTRATION compelled The Banks for their safe
ty, and the good of the public, to lay idle. He
eaped from that matter to the subject of reducing
wuges, and said the Vhfgs said the Sub treasury
would reduce the wages of labor, and the prices of
the products of industry The Whigs, eh!
| Is Calhoun, is buchanan, IS Waller, IS Benton
is Wright, is TaPpam, WHIe7 NO.
But have stretched this report TO a considerable
I length, and am ised to close, l will add that
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