The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-07-10

r. w. Peake.
Mr.. Woodbridge on taking the chair, adj
dressed the Convention in some very happy
and forciLle remarks which were responded TO
with three hearty cheers.
On motion the Convention adjourned until
half past one z. NJ.
At half past one the assembly was again
called together by the ringing of the bell and
| by music from the Band.
MIR. Hawley from the Committee on Res
olutions reported the following, which were
unanimously adopted with three cheers.
Resolrei, That the Wings assembled on
this spot, are met for the same objects and
purposes which induced the gathering Of the
mass meeting four years since at Nergennes;
that now, as then, we haIl this the great po-
litical sabbath of the nation, as the day above
all others most suitable for the expression Of
our political preferences andaims; that we
regard the advocacy and establishment of our
principles as the only sure guarantee for the
moral and pecunlary prosperity OF our COM
mon country; that all the causes which oper-
ated 10 bring forth the energies OF the patriots
| &c for securing free and equal rights, now do,
| and should inspire us to work Tor the accom-
pIishment of the same designs, and that
we solemnly believe that in no way can this
object be effected but by the elevation to the
chief Office in the gift Of the nation the in
dividuals selected by the late Wing Conven-
ton at Baltimore.
ResoLucd, That we bail Henry Clay and
! THEODORE Frelinghuysen as the nations sons.
men whose political policy is national in all
its Influences policy which ensures prosper
ity and happiness not to mere district and
Territory hut which rather clasps in its am
pie folds the interests of the entire union :;
which can be acted upon advantageuusly TO
the North, without detriment to the South;
policy which is American in its designs and
construction, and embraces, and smothers in
the amplitude of It's proportions, all those To-
cal and sectional differences, which under
Loco Foco management, have distracted the
country.
RcsoLred, That when the late Loco Foco
Convention at Baltimore, forced upon the
party the names of James X. Polk and George
NJ. Dallas, it was done through the suprema-
cy of Southern Loco Focoism,a supremacy
which is antagonistic in all its effects 10 North
ern interest that the Northern man who for
| the sake of party, will support such princi-
pies, is false to that section of the union which
extends over him the protection of his civil
and political right that James X. Polk has
never avowed really rational opinion in the
expression of any political sentiment; that all
his prejudices and preferences are Southern,
and only Southern, warped and operated up
on by the incubus of slavery, and that in the
language of Benz. F. Butler at Baltimore,
Il
election of Mr.. Van Buren,. we say, that if
the Loco Foco party will persist in going for
such men and such measures, black flag
will be raised over them, the pail of defeat
shroud their hopes, and their funeral
dirge will be sung.
ReSolaed, That the existence of the Wing
Tariff of 1912 depends upon the election of
Henry Clay; that we see under its benign in
fluences the country rapidly recovering from
the blight and mildew which Loco Focoism
had enstampted upOnit; that we recognize in
the increase value of our great staple the eff
feet of Mr.. Clays protective policy, and that
the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant and
professional man, are bound TO resist the eff
forts Of our opponents to repeal this benefi-
cent measure; that James X. Polk has ALWAYS
and often expressed his hostility to Northern
interests, and has told the wool growers that
they were IN error, in supposing duty upon
wool necessary, and that in his opinion wool
should be duty free, to all of which we here
resolve to reply, at the ballot boxes next No
vember.
Resotred, That we agree with the Charles
ton Mercury, THAT Mr.. Folks views upon
the Tariff and the all absorbing question If
Texas, are Southern to the back bone. ), ,ba,
we look upon the Annexation of Texas as
fastening beyond all hope of release. the
curse of Slavery upon the Union, that thereby
Southern influence and Southern policy will
be advanced to the sacrifice of Northern in
dustry and enterprise; that James X Polk
and George NJ. Dallas have avowed this as
their darling measure, that Northern Loco