Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-07-09
Adjourned Telegraph Meeting, tomorro
I Saturday. evening at StrOng's Hall.
Mr.. Polk in Vermont.

We find the following paragraph in the Mont
Yelie- Watchman:-
On Tuesday evening meeting wa. holden here
and committee appointed to invite President Polk to
visit Montpelier. We hope he will come Vermont
and Vcrmonters are worth showing or rather, it i.
worth the trouble for the President to take little
aims TO see them.
We notice, with regret, the names Of more
than one WING, good and true, on tine "Com.
mittee" alluded to. 1t may be said to be mat.
ter Of taste, perhaps, but it is not so with US
II Mr.. Polk chooses to come to Vermont there
10 no fear but that he will receive respectful
attention and consideration But the matter Of
inviting him hther, by Wings, is quite another
affair There is not State in the Union where
he is in worse odor with his own INSCRIPTIONS
par,isans, and where his whole course, both of
policy and action, is more thoroughly and deeply
detested. We look upon him as the usurping
author Of war for the support and extension
Of slavery, a war as odious as it is unnecessary,
and as hostile to the highest interests of this
republic as it is injurious TO the true glory Of the
American name. We regard him as one of the
most ilberal and narrow-mndcd partisan Presi-
dents that the Country has ever inflicted upon
itself-a thorough hater of the North and Of
Northern and Free-S;atc interests, and wholly
committed to the worst purposes of the worst
portion of his own divided party. He has not
hesitated, even while giving to Mexico the only
generals, Santa Anna and Almonte,) who could
impart energy to her resistance Of our arms, to
charge the Wing party with treason, and giving
aid and comfort to the enemy" because they
had thought proper to speak as becomes free.
men Of him and his schemes. He has attempted
to dishonor those noble Wings, TAYLOR and
scorr, by superseding them in the command Of
the army and he has dishonorcd the army by
the partisan character Of his appointments
comforting the highest rank on incapable favor
ties like Pillow, or rcnegades like Gushing, and
passing by with contemptuous indifference the
meritorous services of the most gallant Of our
regular officers. Scarcely a week ago, while
the honored guest of the Wing Common Coun
ell of New York, he accepted the invitation of
such Custom House DULLES as the notorious
Renders, leader of the infamous Empire Club
and, on Saturday night visited the Democratic
Head Quarters at Tammany Hall, ION which
OCCASION" says Mike Walsh, "a scene tool
place that was utterly dsgraceful to all con
eerned" He has, still more recently, visitet
New Hampshire, on the enc Of an important cleo
.ion, and. in our opinion, for no other purpose
but to throw what influence such a proceeding
might have, into the scale Of the ultra pro
slavery Locofocoism Of that State.
For such man we have no sort of respec,
though he may, by accident or otherwise, b
President of the United States; and, we sa
again, that we are sorry that any VERNON
VINO could BIO induced to iuri,e him into on
State. The Presidency contributes not viii
TO make him respectable, and his name will b
connected with it hereafter only to be execrate
as that of mere Partisan. IL Wings ar
~ rolunteer to do honor to such men, it ar
pears to us that PRINCIPLES are little worth cor
tending for.