The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-08-03

vote for Col. Paine. His talents and acquire
ments as a scholar, his habits of industry and
promptitude in business, are confessedly ade-
quate to the duties of the office to which he
has been designated. He cannot, it is true,
boast of official rank and professional distinc-
ton. But what constitutes a far better rec
o~mmendation for popular favor, he has through
life been engaged in business operations among
the agricultural and manufacturing classes OF
community, and his practical knowledge OF
the interests, wants and wishes OF the great
BODY of the people is exceeded by very few IN
the state. As a politi cian,u unlike too many tide
waiting, office-seeking men, he has never TRIM
med or varied from a straight forward course.
For years he has been among the foremost to
sustain those fundamental wing principles and
measures, which will ever form the basis OF our
national prosperity, and in UNMARRIED opposition
TO the arbitrary federal course of the last adj
ministration, whose mercenary party policy
has come very near running all the great inter-
ests of the country. But while locofocoism
has done its worst TO blast the hopes OF the lar
mers and laboring classes, Col. Paine has
distributed his thousands, in purchasing the
preat staple which forms the basis OF our agri-
cultural wealth, and in the manufacture OF 1t,
in the worst of times he has afforded the means
of subsistence 10 .multitudes, who would other
wise have been destitute of employment.
Although Col. Paine has before been twice
before the people as a candidate for the Chic
Magistracy, not a solitary stigma has been al
fixed to his character. Party malice, itself
can say no more against him, than that he Is
the son of a revolutionary father who fought
under Washington, and imbibed those noble
principles of government which distinguished
that spoil ess patriot. A charge of a sort OF
federalism which confessedly advanced the
country to the highest pitch ofnaiional great
ness and prosperity, coming from IA party
whose contempt for popular rights, hal nearly
reduced the government 10 an elective monar-
civ, can have but little influence among the
intelligent people Of Vermont who have long
since learned to detect the imposture, and to
despise the cheater and the cheat.
Doct. Ranney, the candidate for Lieut.. Gov
crnor, is a man ola strong cultivated mind, and
of enlarged and liberal views, a true republi-
can, and above all an honest man. For sew
eral years he has served in the senate of the
State, with q high reputation for talent and
usefulness, and especially for his able advoca-
cy of that true democracy which opens the
heart, and extends the hand of protection G.
qually to the highest and humblest of his fell
low Citizens, Of whatever complexion.
RUTLAND CoUNTY.-Except the Rutland
Herald, every whig paper in the state has a
doptcd the ticket of the state convention. But
a correspondent of this paper, speaking of the
apathy manifested by editors towards this nom-
~ination, tells Mr.. White, that after much in
quiry, he had not heard the expression of a
single favorable opinion in relation to the can
didates brought forward, denies that the wing
party were fairly represented, and declares he
will not submit to the dictation of the few
there assembled; and forthwith submits to the
people his own nomination of Charles X. VIII
liams for Governor and Carlos Coolidge fer
his Lieutenant. As might have been expect
ed, the passive editor of the Herald at once
concludes, that the will of the people which he
feels bound to obey, is clearly indicated, hum
bly, acquiesccs in the nomination of some of
the people," and modestIv exhorts the whole
state of Vermont to initiate his example. In
all this there is such 4 compound of impudence
and arrogance on one side, and passive SUBJ
mission and non-resistance on the other, as
excites both Indignation and contempt. Had
the highly respectable county of Rutland, in
her collective capacity done this, it would have
been a deviation from propriety, which would
hardly admit of palliation. But for a few in
dividuals to undertake the supervision of the
state convention, is a degree of effrontery
which is wholly objectionable. If regular
nominations are thus to be sighted, conven-
tons might as well at once be abandoned, the
party dissolved into its individual elements, and
each county, town and district fight on its own
hook, all sure of defeat from the concentrated
force OF our opponents. What madness has
seized upon these gentlemen to resist tho
state nominations, at the Threshold. and re.
Peatedly TO press Judge Williams, after his
pretensions had been passed upon and rejected
by the state convention on grounds wholly in
superable to sterling wings, it is difficult for
us TO conceive. Would not a moderate share