Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-06-07

lew Northern men went with them and the south
(Cass having declared vety broadly for Annexation,)
centred upon him still Van Buren, had a majority Of
the whole number of Delegates who dared moi openly
oppose him, and his nomination seemed certain. But
there was another undercurrent. Pennsylvania had
instructed her Delegates for Van Buren,, but many Of
them were at heart averse, and cherished n secret hope
OF securing the nomination for Buchanan, who had
taken ground for Annexation. Accordingly, though
they voted for Van Buren, on the first, and some Of
them on two or three other ballots, they took care 10
vote beforehand for the rule requiring ttco- thirds of all
the votes TO make u mountaineering blocking the
door agains, him. The moment this rule was adopted
his late was sealed, and he ought to have been with
dawn after the second ballot, or never. But he was
pushed on TO utter discontinue his nominal friends
but secret opponents dropped off by platoons TO Cls';
and it seemed obvious that Cass would be nominated
when nm ad journment was carried on Tuesday eve
ming, Probably another ballot then would have car.
rled hi'n, ms Kentucky, Louisiana, and some other
states were prepared to go over 10 him. But the Con-
ventlon adjourned for the night, and caucnslng began.
The Van Buren, men, themselves defeated, were sill
one hundred strong, and able to defeat any nomina.
ton, though not to make one. They were fully re.
solved that Cass Tor rather the hackers of Cass)
should not triumph. Their hest man to pitch on was
Sllas Wright but he would not consent, and the
Annexntionists would not take him. Next in order
obviously stood Mr.. Buchanan, who might have made
a good run, perhaps restoring their battle in Pennsyl.
vanla but the donble-dealing Of his friends had rem
dercd him deeply obnoxious. The south had no feel.
ing for Cass, and had only used him as the best wea-
pun. 'O Deat IAN Duren; Iney were now TeauV 10 u.s.
card him for any more devoted partisan. Johnson
would have run well, but he lie mentally and phvsi-
cally a wreck, and no filter for Pres dent than a child.
calhoun they could not touch md at last Polk was
hit on. He was one of the earliest and most deter.
mined Texas men, and so acceptable to the south;
the delegation from his state had supported Cass
throughout, but they had never protested to be for
Van Buren,, and so had not cheated him. The Cal
houn interest could not claim him as their man the
Van Buren, men could swallow him, though with
some choking. and they would not take Cass: so
Polk was, nj the last moment, most ungracionsly ac-
copied by the New York men. though not ill ihey
hadEexhaused every effort for Van Buien. and ns''od
leave 10 withdraw from the Convention, which was
denied them. And so James X. Poik-certnlnly not
more than n third rate politician who never devised
a measure nor said n thing worth rememberlng--a
~iolerable stump speaker, with n liberal flow Of words,
but rather too much of n huffoon-who got in Gov
ernor of Tennessee in '39 because the Wings ran a
candidate who could not speak and would not drink
but was beaten on The stump, and turned out in n
fair face-to-face contest in 184l, by James G. Jones,
then a young man untried and unknown. and beaten
again by a larger majority in Ais to be the candi-
date Of a once powerful party for President! Ger
tainly the man beaten twice in succession by n strip
ling Of his own state. would seem hardly the man to
p, against Henry CLAW! But be this ms they choose.
The nomination Of Mr.. Dallas for Vice President is
Of a piece with that Of Col. Polk. He is a Philnhel-
phia lawyer of fair talents, who was once in the u ;.
senate, and thence was sent on the Russian Mission,
pocketlng SIS 900 for a very brief excursion TO S.. Pc.
%tersburgh since he has no, been afflicted with the
cares Of Office, and would not now have been thought
of for Vice President but for the fact that he was con-
spicuous at an annexation meeting in Philadelphia a
few weeks ago. This, although he got but l3 out OF
260 votes on the first ballot, AMI Gov. Fairfield, of
Maine, had 81, gave him The nomination the moment
il was stated in convention.
Such is the Texas ticket, and such the labyrinth nj
chances through which it has emerged into being
Can it be difficult to predict its fate p Tribune.