Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-06-07
WHO CONVENTION.

Whgs of Orange County! The usual time for
annually assembling ourselves, for the transaction
of political business-county nomnatons-and
holding communion together, is at hand. The
suspicious circumstances in which behold
party, in all parts of the country, united, cord
al and courageous, upon all questions men and
measures and when we take peep at the camp
of our opponents, and find their officers dsputing
whether to fight each Oh his "own hook" or
whether they can, ought, or will egain enrol them
selves under the vanquished flag of the great FUSED
up" sage of Lindenwad and in their last agony of
sweat deciding to retreat under new standard
bearers, to fresh position, with the hope of saving
their fragmentary recruits from utter dispersion all
affords us ample motive to come forth as strong in
numbers as we are in hope-frm in rank as we are
in principle.
If we would prevent the restoration to place and
power of that desperate swarm of oflice-hoders,
who insist they were unfairly smoked out of their
honey cells in lS40--now grown hungry from
four years fast-let us give a hearty response to
the sentiment, "Our cause is just-our Union per-
feet"
From the division of parties in Congress on the
British Tariff Bill proposed to have been substitute
ed for the Wing Tariff of 1S42, it is evident that
American labor will be doomed TO compete with
the serf and pauper labor of Europe, unless Whig
measures can be triumphantly sustained.
The fact is no less decisively evident if we
would prevent the foul annexation of IeraS-the
FL Dorado of saveholding renegades and Bowie
| INTERPRETATIONS must secure a preponder-
ance of Wing men in our National councils.
| The Locofoco party, (which has so persevering
ly strove to afiix Democratic alias to its name,
defeated on all the radical, ridiculous and ruinous
doctrines it has from time to time advanced is now
busy framing new issue. The cry is, " Ho! fol
Texas candidate! Who speaks first?" Forth
with all their chieftains, WOodbluV CdSs BIZ
chandn, SteiOart, Polk or I'OCson,
/ "Athirst for fame and burning to be great"
throw up their caps saying, lam for Ieras
take me-" The sine qua non among Locofoco Pres
dential qualifications is I'erGS, hi or miss Alas
these anxious sons of Free States have soet
themselves for nothing. The glory even of bein!
run dopn has been ultimately snatched away
Other great men are born in day.
The election of Henry Clay and Frelinghuysei
will bak these forward patriots. The value of
Locofoco President is visibly overated in the cal
cuation that the people will seek one at an expens
of WAR with MEXICO and her ALLIES, al
assunpti0n of millions of Texas debt, and last, an,
not least, loss to the free States of the balance
power in the Union. The terms are extravagant
The "packed Van Buren, Convention" hay
packed off Van Buren, himself, and presented J. X
Polk of Tennessee, (Texas annexationist and al
enemy of Protection,) TO receive that Justice claim
ed for and in store for another. Col. Johnson
"supernuous lags the veteran on the stage"
though once before thrown overheard, seeing hi
comrades ON leeshore, again presents his services
and is again pushed off, to make room for free
trade gentleman of higher ton.
All friends to the perpetuty of our Republican
Institutions, and the prosperity of the American
people, who desire to have the tariff question set
tled-settied as ii is; who think one term for thu
Presidency would remove some of the crosses
Executive abuses; who hold to the justice of thu