Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-11-05
VERMONT PHOENIX.
Brattleboro, Friday, Nov. 5, IS47.
The Whig and Locofoeo Conventions.

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INC Hhis anu LOcOiVcO OVhNehttOhs'
."Tbe Wing Convention passed miIk-and.water
resolutions IN favor o No Morc Tertiary Sprerh.
es for home consumption were made by Hon. Jacob
Coamer and Senator lTpham. Horace Everett and
Solomon Foot were elected Delegates at large to
the National Convention
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treeman-the Abolition organ al Montpeiier-
summarily disposes of the proceedings Of the
W.. r,..,....,... ii, :. a., -. a.. a.,
wing SonNch'oh heiu AZ ''ia' piaoe on .ne -is'
ult The Freeman is published where the Con-
vention was held and IT the editor was not pres
ent, he had before him the resolutions adopted
by IT. No one, reading the above paragraph
would Tor moment suppose that the Wilmot
froyiso was adopted or recommended by the
Wings, or that any thing more was done than to
pass some "ratdnd-'caier resolutions IN fdeor Of
No More Territory" Such must be the con-
ciusion OF every person who should look into
that paper for truth and fact. Who, alter read
ing It, would suspect that among the resolutions
was one like the iollowingr
2 hess'e a., That we cordially approve the pm,
G inysrs IA nsoc,o,l ~, snd .,iind
to all future acquisitions Of territory
Is there not good reason to charge upon the
Freeman an intended Misrepresentation that
he designcdly falsifed the action of the Wing
Convention in relation 10 slavery, in order to
deceive his readers, and excite their hostility TO
the Wing partyf lie projsssed to give the gen.
eral character of the Wing resolutions, but en-
tirely concealed from his readers the fact Of the
adoption of the wilmot Proviso, and sticrnatized
the resolution in favor Of No More Territory
as milk-and-water" Those resolutions were
IS follows:
Il. Resolved, Tint ii is a fundamental principle
Of kepuolicanisn, that every people shall have a
koorisiTios or TKsH,rony NJ %oprs es ,s
the attempt to propagate Republcanism BY the
sword is gross violation OF this fundamental prn-
"a. Rc.oJ,s TIN, in the on;n,or os mi. conv,r.
uon, the existing war with Mexico was unjust and
with The design and for ,be nurDose Of ,Le Sisms,r
sesiasnt o. That Repphlie ssd he s 81, *. *.
same is equally unjust"
In the same article. the Locofoco Convention
was thus kindly and tenderly alluded TO by the
Freeman:
AT the Democratic Convention, a hard tug was
had upon the wilmot Proviso lis adoption was
an os JPP%Ss S " s'.s V IN S,n1' ,S
Brown, David p Noyes, and others hut the young
Democracy came manially to the rescne, and carried
ali ~ 5ava 'naJa ,ra.,.ri s,.arh r. i,s S,or
Would that he had done equal honor to himself on
the Texas question Aier the adjournment Of the
~ ~" iaedels If ,he nsocr"eS ~ &
passage of the Proviso resolution. They pronounc.
ed = eowardly Welding to Aboliiionlsn7a step
tonal Convention. We We SHAH see'S S"''''" - '
4 Tn ,he Iooo,ooo Convention tho Hv;,mo, Pro.
v;.,, ,yos c,,ou,,, ...a;,o, ana AT. n;,,;nah. -,
voc.,od :, so,o,,. o. ,La o.o,,nd &C o~aeI;ono,.
s,a,;na H., h. .,aro,,oa =. ;n,rr.,,,o,;on H.,
b,;.a i.,,oJrr5 !, III .,; ne ror,,' ~, ~
.dop,;, Ua s'r,har s,.,od ,h., ne Null no,
hos;,a,n :, oon.sa,,o,oa 90 !, 20 s,,n,,,. ,ho M,
,noo,,,;. nor,;nsa Cor pros;don, ,horch ho r,;o,,
he in favor of the EXTENSION Of slavery Yei
ri. con.;.,on, rrooraan tern. Mr D;l,;no,,m,.
sneecb !. ,nc.,erJ,,v ono i, f,ror og tho prov;.o