Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-07-12

had been Loudly crying ioT thlee yours o"u w
fer themselves, not to one of their own number
pledged to abide Southern dctation, but to saveo-
crat indeed, whose interests prejudces and political
hopes consped to place his fidelity beyond the reach
of those "damning doubts which had whilom OBJ
tanned concerning the orthodoxy Of the Sage OF Lin
denwald.
The 9th of May came on. Every body looked TO
Baltimore with the undoubting expectation that the
"Northern man with Southern principles was again
TO be trusted with the black and red banner of Slavery
and Locofocoism But it seemed if for once his far
sighted cunning had deserted him. Suddenly called on
to come out upon this new question, so ingenious
ly sprung upon him ly his enemies and his masters
he had no time to deliberate upona plan OF noncom-
INITIAL and he had reluctantly taken ground which he
deemed indispensable 10 enable him to make any
show of fight in his own State and his own section.
He knew not the amount of Texas scrip affoat at the
South and for once IN his life he failed to estimate
sufficiently high the facility of Locoocoism in fasy
ing its professions for party ends. He had dared to
doubt the expediency of immediate annexation, and
vanly hoped the "on-hearted democracy of the
North would bolt at an attempt on the part OF the
South to crowd that issue upon the party. Poor
man! With all his political recklessness, he had
not caught up with his pupils in utter destltutIon
Of principle. He was doomed 10 be remorselessly
pitched overheard by his Southern tyrants to a
contemplate tool of theirs elevated the chieftain
ship-and, most Notifying of all, to behold his own
subjects, his faithful supporters, transferred " body
and breeches" to this new Texas candidate.
With an undoubted majority ready packed for the
Convention, he was treacherousy smothered under
the two thds-rule, and cooy elbowed off the course
by the same Vaccinations which he had so often and
successfully brought 10 bear upon his own rivals.
The Texas cudgel had splintered the Magician s
wand, and his vassals had the pleasant choice pre-
scented TO them OF acquiescence humiliation. They
chose the former, and giving up all their old preeren-
ces and ;pocketlng the insult 10 their ancient chief
walked into the traces of the Tennessee founding,
with ne much pretended enthusiasm if the Kinder
hooker him self held the lines.
With the candidate they of course accepted the in.
famous issue which brought him TO the surlace-Tex-
,s, with It's ieons and iugltlves from lustice-Texas
w'h its its iaseparabe war with unofiending Mexico
Texas, with its infinite public debt and its untold
scrip now pouring out IN reams. without money
and wthout price to buy up the dtsintereSted po-
ci,ns of the and-and above ALL Texas with all the
damning concomtants of its perpetual slavery, is now
the sine qua of Locofocosm. 1t determined their
candidate, il is the prime article in their creed and
among the faction now triumphant in that party is
the great OBJECT OF all party effort and the sole end
OF political action. Not SOLELY indeed for itself but
chiefly for the coveted consequences which to fol-
low the eternal preponderance of the slave power,
and the final destruction of the great protective sys
TEN, vital To the very existence of the Nnrth,-or
the failure of these results, dissolution of the I'm
ion and the establishment of Southern and Texan
Confederacy, where the reckless Folks Cahouns
McDuffics, and their white slaves, can have every
thing their own way.
In the face OF lis hollow preensions of friendship
for protectonoflt its tender usage of the ahotlonsls
in some quarters with the hope of concllatng Them
and of its duty to the cause of freedom and of truth
Northern Locofocoism has entered into this unhoy
league for the destruction of every thing which we as
thorp nd f,ns tf,s n hold II hoe
displayed the long conceded coven foot and stands
now openly avowing itself what it has long and tru-
ly been called the natural ally of the South"
To this inGutous confederation, thus suddenly
formed and thus fatally determined, the whole Wing
party, North and South, stands unedly and reso-
lutely opposed -unmuved by sectional prejudice at
the South AMI unyleding in defence of the right at
the North they present alone the opposition to which
any rational man can look with the slightest hope of
resisting the assault of the ministers of destruction.
Enbodying in their ranks nearly the entire number
Of those who agree with us in the deestaon of sla-
very and its dcta,ion, they furnish the only political
organization which can hope to cope successfully with
the motley throng who are rushing on to the battle
with the cry of Texas or tlsunon" on their lips.
With leader who is himself STAKEHOLDER, but
who has the bold magnanlmlty to scorn the artihce
BY which his fellow Shareholders would now fastcn
that forever upon the country the Wings, espe-
clay Of the South, present noble and sublime spec
tacIe Without the possibility of preconcert, they at
once and with one accord leaped upon the ramparts
of freedom, when the alarm Of this Texas invasion
Wing press spoke ont its adherence Of the Infamous
plot, and sounded the ocsin Of resistance from one
end oflhe Unon,o the other. In this cry, Locofoco-
ISM not dreaming of the fate in store for it, Temporal
rilv Joined, but only to make lis lseOuent de-
lection and alsehood the more open and abonnabe.
In the face of the assault, the Wing candidate took
ground against the assallans, and in the face Of his
avowal, he was nominated i'ihom a dissenting
roice!
Could mortal ingenuity devise plan more certain
and unerrng, in fastening and committing any party
to any course, than was tins nomination in commit
ting the Wings to war OF eNermlnaon against the
Texas fraui?
Could any party make such nomination at such
time and then claim not to have taken ground on
the Texas question? The snpposirion is ridiculous.
The Wing party, then, are committed without any
power Tor wsh) of lodging to an untrlng resistance
OF the Texas conspirators. Whatever relative impor-
lance other issues might previously have claimed, this
single one, with its corelative protection, is made by
them the main question TO be tried in November. Or
it, dreading too shameless an avowa of their aban-
donment of principle, they seek 10 throw II partially
into the shade, by raising clamor on points OF com
paratve insgnlfcance such mns be admitted by all
candid men to be the issue now on trial before the
grand inquest of the nation.
Now fellow citizens, and fellow aboonis,s, does
it need much argument after this survey Of he ground
before u.s. TO decide where we are u 90 ?"
Admit for arguments sake that heretofore when
no such vital question to the cause was depending,
it your duty to abstain from voting for any slave
holder, or for any man not agreeing with yourselves
in sentiment. Does the same rule hole good now ?
Look at the facts. No denies that va t major
,,y of those who vote the Liberty Ticket are Wing in
political sentiment What then is the result Of their
casting their votes for Mr.. BIrney7 Under present
circumstances, no sane man, not an aholitonist on
earth INDUCES the fantes hope that that excellent
man can be elected, nor can even get one electoral
vote What effect then do votes, drawn from the
the Wing party and cast for Mr.. b., have upon the
elections for electors in all those States where the
Wings have the least idea Of s'emming the Texan
fraud
Not an inch do they progress toward their appa-
rent end the election Of Mr. BIrney, but the visible
tangible result Of every such TO lessen the hope
of Wing plurality, and increase in corresponding
amount the hopes of the Polkltes.
Now if this was not the inevitable end of all third
party action, al the approaching Presidential Election
If the vital question upon which all hope of the extnc
ton of slavery is absolutely turning, ! should no
claim from you any thing that ever looked like sur
render of your ground. But it happens without in
deed, our instrumentaty, that the Wing party are
battling tooth and nail for the prevention of the
ure, which above all others fatal to the which
YOU have al heart and they very preSumpluous in
asking you, you love your country, and value YOU
principles to up to their sides, and help them Dc