Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-07-10
THE STATE TICKET.

Although Chttcndcn County 1--WE are sor-
ry to say was not represented in our recent
State Convention, at Woodstock, she will
wipe off that impeachment of her zeal in the
good cause Of Wing Principles, on the first
Tuesday of September. The nominations
ofthat Convention are received by thcWhigs
ofChittendcn with unanimous g. most hearty
satisfaction and approval.
Who in Vermont does not know HORACE
EATON, our present accomplished and pop
ular LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR and SupERIN-
TENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS! To such,
if there are any, we have a word or two to
say.
great many public men possess the dis
position, and the facuhy (Which ought more
than ii lawyer to be "nrcd") to prevent
their claims upon public favor from
remaining long excluded from public notice.
They make the most skllul and adroit use
OF oit-rccurrng opportunities to bring them
selves prominently be fore the people, and to
impress upon them proper appreciation of
their peculiar merits.
Now we have no quarrel to wage with
this mode of procedure. 1t is right that merit
should always be observed and rewarded,
and where the pretcnson to merit is with
out foundation the evil is quite apt to work
its own cure. But we alludc to this class of
public men for the special purpose ofsaying
that HORACE EATON is not of them. nor a.
mong them. The knowledge of his fitness
for any public station he has hitherto occu-
pied has not come from his obtrusion of him.
self upon popular notice, and it never will.
He belongs in another class of public men
whose deservings, ''like the gentle dew from
heaven, are fch in the good influences they
produce, and who absolutely shrink from
every appearance of ostentatious display o.
themselves, and from every suspicion of do
ing any thing for effect"
For the qualifications of DIR. EATON fo
the office of Governor, to which he received
ballotng, those who know him best ar,
best able, and most mihng, to vouch. Il,
the claims of a superior education, he add
the habit of diligent study and research,
thorough acquaintance with the wants an,
the interests of the State and above all, il
this connecticut an entire devotion to tn
cardinal principles of the Wing Party
which, being the result ofcducation and in
vestigation, admirably qualities him to b
: their advocate and expostor in the ." hg
places of this inhexible Wing State.
It lfthis be called high praise, we have onl
r to say that zee knom that it is just. And W
d hereby give notice that men like DR.. EATo,
who miH not, on any terms, " blow their ow
Il trumpet must calculate to submit to I'll
;. very explicit tones of ours.
n For LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, the Convel
ton nominated LEONARD SARGEANT, Esq.
e Bennington County. We are glad that O
:. Bennington has this nomination. and tn
al Mr.. SAgGEANT is the nominee. Tie is Gel
'e teman of excellent ability, practically f
~ miliar with the duties ola legislator, al
m his acquaintance with the forms of le
al slaiion, derived from an honorable seryi,
III in the House of Representatives, well qua
ne fics him for the discharge Of the duties of Il
Il digniicd position of President of the Scnat
/ Col. JEwETT, from his intelligence al
It business habits, will make an cycellc
a TREASURER and will be Il worthy success
10, of the present faithful and popular ncul
ny bent of that office, Hon. JOIN SrAULDlNG.
lrs Our State Ticket, then, is most unexce
he tionablc. 1t is composed of men by sele,
cb ing whom the Wing Party does credit To
rly sclf-to its principles and its policy. v
beHcrc it cannot fail To be trumphantlv
m lected, Notwithstanding the power of eve
No. adverse influence. that may be- brouu
Die against it,