The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-07-26
JOHN MATTOCKS.
JOHN MATTOCKS-WHIG CANDI.
DATE For GOVERNOR.

"Whig impudence and effrontery have at
last reached at their zenith. The fruits of
cliques and party drill, in the hands of their
cunning leaders, have arrived at their eli.
macteric. The scattered streams of polit.
lcal intrigue and corruption havc found a
happy issue and corgenial receptacle in the
person of John Mattocks. Their leaders
congratulate themselves upon his nominal
tion--and well they NAV. In him they
will find no such chasm of opposing ele-
ments as will when their polluted streams
are emptied into it, belch them forth again,
casting up mire and dirt. No. Such a
man this John Mattocks IS not. He will be
the greedy devourer of all such streams
They may flow into him, and over him, with
a miraculous impunity, without danger 10
his soul of contamination,a land as the streams
of purity and corruption present themselves
10 his taste, all are alike 10 him ; each has
an equally pure odor and each equally gra-
titles his taste. Ills nomination is an insult
to the moral sense of the people, blotch
on the leaders (if such thing can beg who
nominated him, and sorry evidence OF the
degenerating taste of Vermonters, and the
only guarantee even his nominators have
Of constancy their purposes is his instinc-
tive love of easy virtue. '--Irue Democrat.
The above paragraph is copied from the
true Democrat" of Wednesday last. IF
we have been rightly informed this paper
is edited by beardless youth, foreigner,
who has but Just received his certificate Of
naturalization, and who never yet has been
permitted TO exercise the right of suffrage
in this country. 1t is peculiarly fitting that
such scurrilous attack upon the grey hair
ed patriarch of Peachan should come from
such a source. General Mattocks is man
over sixty years of age. lie has spent his
life among the people of Vermont. He has
repeatedly received the most unequivocal
testimonials of the confidence and respect
of his fellow citizens. He has served them
in the State Legislature. On the bench of the
Supreme Court, and in the Congress Of the
United States. And he has acquired hold
upon the popular affection which is posses
sed by very few men in Vermont The
character, the reputation, the good name
he has built up have been The work of his
life. And perhaps the young man who ed
its the Democrat has yet TO learn that the
people of this State will not suffer the char
acter of her most cherished and honored
citizens to be so scurrilously assailed with
IMMUNITY. Their verdict will be pronoun-
ced upon General Mattocks next Septem.
Der. And the result, especially among his
old constituents and neighbors whom he has
served so faithfully in congress will teach
his revilers lesson from which it is to be
hoped they may profit.
The following notice Of General NJ. is
copied from the North Star, one of the most
influential Loco Foco papers in the State.
and which is published in the old Generals
neighborhood. 1t speaks different Ian.
guage from that of the "True Democrat
Bur. Free Press.
"The several candidates for State officers
are now all in the field. At the head of
the federal. wing ticket stands the name of
Gen. Mattocks, who is almost next door
neighbor to us, and who, did be not
espouse principles which we deem to be
wrong, we should have no objection to per
sonally. His political sentiments conflict
with those of our friends. and this consider
alton constitutes the chief ground of oppo-
sition. He represents party. with whose
principles and measures the democrats can
never concide. NORTH Star.