Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-06-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

MISUNDERSTANDING
In our last we had the pleasure OF announcing
te uxcislon of the 2ls, rule Excluding abolition
petilions,) by handsome ,najorty. Now, wo have
TO point to the brief record OF Monday the l4ll
for proof that this House Inns permitted itself
TO sink TO as low depth of inian'y as it's
immediate predecessor under the direction Of u
Iocofoco majority. Never have we been more
mortified nt any proceedings Of the $50 callcd)
"congrcgatcd wisdom" of the land than at these
but we are abundanlly thankful to find, that from
the deep disgrace Of this transaction, the main bO
dy of the Wings are exempt. The mnd-cnp
Wise, with few impracticable Wings from the
South, must divide the responsibility OF this trans
action with the locolocos-aye, with The tocc(6coS
Of The North. In word: the resembling of tic
rules hy majority Of two votes-ile undoing OF
the labor of the whole fifteen days, and the stop
ping Of the weighty business which called Con-
gross tegether-was the result Of conspiracy
To this conspiracy, all the loco(oco members pres
ont, with the exception Of MIR. Ma,hot of Ohio,
and Mr. Parmcnter Of Massachusetts, were par
ties, and by their votes the work effected. The
gume was in fact begun by tho Tory leader IN
gerSUu who first moved TO reconsider the vote
scndng the 2st rule; and rs if TO prove beyond
oil doubt that his designs were to waste the time
of the House, SOW discord among the members,
and delay the business Of tho session, lie spoke n
whole day the question, ard at last uoied a
gainSthiS own motion! This game was continued
by another locotoco viz. Torrance of Pennsylva-
MIA and finally it was backed up by the locolocos
en- massc as party measure. The result, wcorc
La. ,lo ~, IA
co rrumph--over order and deccncy, undo the
sacred Right ofPetition. We write with the yeas
and nays before us, (sec the nulnes III CGngtes-
sional proceedings and TO prove our ground we
point not only to the names OF the !ocofocos, III
the affirmative, but to the further fact that every
iocofoco (save Mathiot of Oho,l who voted on the
9th to rescind the Dist rule, completely changed
his ground on this question and on the 18th yo-
ted to undo What he had helped 10 do just one
week before The following locoiocos from Tic
free states voted on the l4lI ia favor Of Fornan-
ces motion 10 rescid the by which The rules
OF tho last session. with the exception Of the 2lsi,
were adopted for the time being.
Maine. Lilt!eiicd Lowell, A. Marshall, CHf.
fort.
.Nev Hampshire. .Nherion, Burke, Edstman,
Reding, Shaw :
.Af,c York Brown, brewster, Clinton, x. d.
Davis, Doig, Egberl, Ferris, Gordon, NJ Lellan,
M'Keon Partridge, Roosevelt, Sanford, Van Bu-
rem.
Penrsytpania. Benson, Brown, Dnock, For
nance, Cuisine, ingersolI, Marchand, fluuicr,
Snyder.
Of these 30, &c (aI but the six italic,1 shnme-
fully sacrificed all the regard for tho right ofpc-
,i'ion which tHey protested to entertain only one
week before
TO show IN sill stronger light The iniamy of
,he Northern locos, we have to add, lI'at2i (near-
Iy hal0 of the Wings from tho slave holding
states voted against Fornance's melton. The
wings Of the free states present, every man of
them, voted also in the negative. Hence we
come TO this conclusion: the honor Of this
transaction peculiarly belongs TO the &c Iocoioco
dough- faces from the free states. Wise is entitled
to Il share, but he could have donc absolutely no
thing without the rccreant twenty six.
We are happy to add that this triumph of gen
uine locofocolsm short lived. On The 18Th,
matters were set right again, and the House putt
oider to 60 ahead. We trust it will do so. After
this example of locofoco management, il becomes
every true Wing 10 he on his gunrd--io give the
dsorganzers(wc include Wise g. Coy no cou,l-
tcnnnce-and in every other such affair ms this,
no quarter.