Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-09-30
UmB PRBSS
MARYLAND.

State next Monday. The contest will UNI
doubleday be a very close one. The Locos !
carried the State last year by three or four
thousand majority, and we shall not be dis
appointed if they carry one or both branches
of the Legislature next Monday. The par
~ was never better organized, or under more
thorough drill, and they go into the contest
with all the fury of despair. If they arc
routed now, they are ruined forever. Not so,
however, with the Wings. If they are de-
feaicd at this election they will rally with the
greater spirit and resolution next ycar--for
j, is conceded on all hands tina, this State is
certnin for HENRY CLAY. The Delegates
from this State TO the Harrisburgh Convcn-
venlion in 1889, as an explanation or apol-
oey for the nomination of John Tyler, for
tho Office of Vice President have issusd an
address TO the people Of which the following
arc the points.
ADDRESS
OF The delegates from Maryl4nd in the Harris
bVrg Convention 10 their Constituents.
Who it was that first suggested the name OF
this man as Wing cand date, or put it into the
heads Of others TO name him, or whether the
man who did this may not have great deal to
answer for hereafter, they d, not sop to inquire.
When they reflect, however, that the Convcn-
ton could. with equal ease, have presented to
the Wing Party the name Of JoUN SERGEANT,
~ Tn,,
TEL SOUTHLAND, or WILLIE p. MANGuM or
hundreds OF others, good and true mon in the
Wig ranks, they cannot but regard the accl.
den! which turned up the name of John Tyler
as cminen'y unlucky. 1t was probably one of
those malignant pranks of the Evil One, with
which, since the invasion Of Eden, lie has been
continually torment ny Mankind, and for which
no human being cam before human tribunal,
be held responsible.
The undersigned commence this review,
therefore, by declaring, that so far as the heart
Of Man can be judged by outward signs and
Appearances, both the Convention and the
World had good reason to look upon John Ty-
Ter as every inch Wing, committed and pledg-
ed by word and deed to all the cardinal dc
trines Of that Party.
On the Subject of the Public Lands he had,
a. member of the Virginia Legislature in
1889, declared himself, in both Report and
Speech, as an advocate Of the measure of DIS.
tributlon. Declaring in his Speech, in sub
stance, that he Compromise ACT m1S ia no tray
dependant upon any disposition IF The Public
Lands, and making in the same Speech fling
at President Jackson for putting the Ds'ribu.
ton Act in his pocket. Again. his Speech in
the United States Senate,in which he condemn
ed in no measured terms the abuse of the Veto
power, declaring that in his opinion the Execu-
tive had evinced determination to absorb the
whole power, and to destroy the equilibrium of
the Government, was still fresh III the rerolec-
ton of the Country And without enlarging up
on these topics, the undersigned merely remark
in this place. that so far, the Public were in nos
session Of Mr.. TyIcr's declared opinions upon
the Veto and the policy Of Distribution.
Now when the Convention met at Harrisburg
and Gov. BARBOUR was called to the Chair, e
declared the objects which had called that body
together, in a Speech Of some length, in which
we find aud invite particular attention to- the
following passages:
"The forms of the Constitution are retained, but
its spiIit is goncIour President is monarch al
most absolute II would In, II waste of time to pre-
sent 10 this assembly the facts which would make
manifest the lustness of this assertion. To the
most incrcduous beyond these walls let it be sal t.
who troubles himself now to inquire what Congress:
will do but all are alive 10 the will or wls! OF the
PresdenthIs sic roio sic juJeV, has been the law OF
the land fol- years past"
Again:
Hang ont your blnncr-lct it be inscribed with
your principles. One term for the Presidency. Pat
down the horrible prescription hr opinions sake,
which makes slaves of the thousands in Ollie, and
and the tens of thousands aspiring 10 Office who
hope by their greater aIasemcnt 10 exprl the incun-
bens-tit instruments TO make slaves of us all. Dis
tribute equally the ayals Of the public domain among
the old as well as the new Suites"
Gov. BARBOUR, as the organ Of The Convcn-
ton spoke its sentiments, and if any Of lis
members had come there with views and opin-
ions differing from those expressed by him, then
was the time for him to speak gu, and declare
that difference, whatever it might be- Now
John Tyler was there-kept his seat during the
delivery Of this Address, and never uttered a
syllable Of dissent TO any ore Of the principles
therein announced. On the contrary, in the
cheering and clappng of hands by which the
venerable Speaker was often interrupted, and
in the long. continued and deatcning plaudlts
with which the Speech was welcomed at the
close, John Tyler Joined as heartily as an,
other man, VIII it be said that in giving ar
outward appreciation to these principles, h, still
entertained sentiments at war with them all
which he hose to keep to himself! If SO, the
undersigned have only to say, that in consent
ing to become candidate Of men, in whose pro
claimed sentiments he had thus pnbllcIy united
he committed a fraud, of which the veries
backlog might well be ashamed.
In connection with this particular topic, tn
undersigned here avert to the fact that Mr.. Ty
Ter went TO Harrisburg, as he has himself de
clared, " in favor of Henry Clay"--that Will
there he was the strenuous and unceasing advo
cate of his nomiuation-thai he roted for him il
his own delegation mp 10 the sere,ah anil last Ja
l0t-and, if his own words are to be believed
.,aC afnctad sr,U IN te0rS whom Z l,o ia