The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-07
GOVERNOR GILMER.

GOVERNOR GILMER.
The proceedings of the Wings of Amherst
furnish the first public manifestation of the
popular disapprobation of the course Of this
gentleman, since his election to Congress
Many Of his warmest personal and political
friends have marked with regret and surprise,
his alterations from the course which thew
deemed his duty to himself, and to the Wing
cause. demanded at his hands Their personal
attachment has thus far suppressed their COM
plants to whispered murmurs but he has no
right to complain now of their open opposition
to him. Elected as every inch Wing, be has
given but one solitary Wing vote during the
Extra Session, for the repeal ofthe Sub Treas
ury,) and has at last subsequently endorsed the
sentiments of LOcOfoco meeting in Louisa.
He cannot, and We presume he does not, e1-
pect that his personal and late political friends
could sacrifice all their political principles, OF
vary them to suit bis shifting mood, in defer
ence to their feelings of personal kindness for
him. No, he can expect nothing of this sort
All he can ask of them Is that he has been
governed by pure motives in changing his po-
htical relations towards them. He cannot ask
| them to renounce their principles, because he
| chooses to aficIate with the Locos, and con-
ceives their principles moro congcnial to his
own.
The regret at the separation Is moderated
bv the fact, that the Governor has emerged
from the misty and befogged region he has
been in fer the last few months, since ne lost
his reckoning, and did not know what " mig
was. 1t is letter for his reputation as a man
of sense and practical statesman, to be upon
firm alt fha do Of
the fence, than to be upon the fence with his
head in the clouds.
Mr.. Irving. whom the Wings of Amherst
have nominated, is a sterling Wing, of bold, in
dependent thought, and brilliant promise
| mond Wing.
LARGE LIFE PREsERvER.-The U. S.
Ship Delaware has on board among other ar
ticles worthy of noteEt very long and large
life preserrers. each capable of sustaining in
the water more than fifty men, and the whole
made TO be dashed together in the form of a
raft, so that, should the ship founder, the crew
may all be rescued from drowning at the time
and should other circumstances be favorable
may all save their lives. This, we believe is
quite modern mproycment.-N. Y. En-.
Coop Mr.. Clay. whose good humor is
proyerbial, and who never omits an opportuni-
ty to crack good joke at the expense of his
political opponents, was particularly pleased
with the writings and contortions of Mr.. Cal
houn, in the Senate on Wednesday last, when
the Bankrupt Bill was under discussion. Mr..
Calhoun, in the course of debate on this bill,
said the party in power were new party, and
were taking every measure for self-destrucJion
and going down as fast as they could In the
end, these measures would DO unpopular and
blow the party in power to fragments and "sky
high! In reply, Mr.. Clay said-"Surely,
the Senator over the way Mr. Calhoun could
not object to this,or their being blown ky-high.
As he never expects to get TO the skies, | sup
pose we won't have The pleasure of his COM
pany. In regard to the Senator from Georgia,
who has been kind enough TO characterize me
as the devil, beg leave TO say that if | am
the devil, the Senator from Georgia belongs
to me, and certainly won't own him - (Great
laughter. Troy Wing,
THE LONGEST WAY RoUND.-The Hon.
Mark Kerr, a Lieutenant in the British Navy,
say the Boston Mercantile Journal, arrived in
the Sarah Parker, from Singapore, last week,
and took passage in the Acadia, for Liverpool.
lie wishes to be in England as soon as posi-
BILE, on leaving Calcutta, and though some
English ships were about TO sail for London
direct, he preferred taking passage for Boston,
as his quickest route. He will probably be in
England in l4O days after leaving Singapore.
En-.
ave would by no means undervalue the
franchise power of abolitionists. Let it be
welded with all fidelity. But we have no
strength to waste in fighting battles on fields
already won, and where the banner of liberty
floats in triumph over the freest of the Free"
Such is the language and testimony of the |
editor of the Voice of Freedom, two months |
ago. But change has come over his mind, |
or at least he is now in favor OF party orga- |
nization for anti-slavery purposes. And this, |
when the legislature and State officers have |
done all that was deemed pecessary within the |
last five wears to promote the cause of Adolf !
tionism. the trends of that cause set up in ad- |
vance their candidates for State and County |
offices, men of both political parties-thc eff
feet of which cannot fail to create very strong
priudice against the Abolition Society if not |
their cause, engender luminosity between the |
parties, and finally be utterly unproductive of
the end sought. Such conduct is uugrateful
and reprehensible, and cannot, we think, meet
with favor from Abolitionists generally; as one
of them-one who desires to see every Judi