Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-09-02
The Vermont Patriot and the Vote
of Censure.


the Electors to remember that Mr. Dillingham;
voted last session for a resolution Of censure up
on Gen. Taylor Upon this paragraph the Pat
riot made the following comment
Then they will remember what nerer took
place. A he Is very poor argument, MIR rhG-
nix"
To this coarse and discourleous charge, the
Phoenix replied by a reference to the proceed
ings of the las. Congress, where the vote of cen
sure was recorded, and proceed by it the allegn-
ton made by the Phenix. After two or three
weeks labor, the Patriot has made up an answer
which. as il shows how small hole Locoioco
f" Patriot" can squeeze through when hard push
ed, we publish entire. Along with It, We publish
the official proceedings of Congress upon the res
olution of thanks, which were doubtless before
the Patriot when his article was written. Let
them be read in connection, and the reader will
have a fair specimen of the candor and truth
which the Patriot brings to the discussion of po-
liiical subjects. We shall not initiate his ride
ness, and call him liar" but il will be no
breach Of good manners to prove the fact
The Patriot charges in express terms, that
MIR Cooke made a proposition in Congress to
ccnsurc Gen. Taylor; that III Democrats voted
against It and Wing for it, the great body
Of the Wings dodghg and refusing 10 ryte.-
Now the Patriot, when he penncd this para
graph, had before him the official proceedings.
Those proceedings show that Mr. Cooke was the
mocer of the vote of thanks--thai he regarded
the proyiso as itself a ceHsTe upon Gen. Taylor
and for that reason voted against the resolution,
with that amendment, although he was the or
ginal mover of the vote Of thanks. The pro-
ceedings also show that although the Wings pro-
posed the vote Of thanks, yet they voted in n
body against it, after the lying amendment and
proyiso were appended, and upon the ground
that the resolution il stood was in effect d.
rect rote o. censvre. Mr. Cooke moved to amend
the title 10 the resolutions as passed, so that 4,
should purport to be what it really was--a vote
of censurc.
Yet the Patrio, asserts that Mr. Cooke made
"a proposition to ceHsure Gen. Taylor directly
and in 50 many cords r "Prol J,iuior -
i"' "ih'hiheh'f " VIII D. rteils uttinIca tfiat
Merico commenced the war by iarasion Of one
Of The States Of his Union This the Patriot
calls rofing Jor&e rw' The amendment had
no sort Of relation 10 the vote Of thanks. II was
entirely impertinent and irreleyani--but il was
specimen Of the low cunning by which the Lo-
oofocos, conscious of the infamous origin and OBJ
ject Of the war, sought TO en,rap the Wings into
vote in its favor. Knowing the enthusiasm in
favor of old Trough and Ready" among the
Wings, and having majority in the House, they
added the amendment and proviso, thus compel
ling the Whigs either to vote against their own
resolution Of thanks, or by voting for it, to vote
also for the amendment-which in effect turned
the vote of thanks into vote Of censure, and
justified the course of the Administration in con-
ducting the war. The Wings saw through the
stale device, and voted against the resolution.
The Patriot though it has not the manliness
to retract the unjust imputa,ion makes a cow
@s'iiy fetrs-s i,-s- =. w si.is -.Asaisung the
charge that Mr. Dillingham; voted to censurc
Gen. Taylor-and excusing his vote, because
otherwise " he must rote against he country and
ne vdr.' How much foundation there Is for
this pretence, any one can see by reading the
amendment
Should the Democrats Of Montpelier ever
compliment the Patriot by a vote of thanks for
the veracity and candor displayed by him in the
conduct Of the paper, some conscientious repub-
liean may move as an amendment: "Prorided.
That nothing herein contained shall be construed
into an appreciation of the veracity and candor
of the conductor of that journal" If resolu-
ton so amended should pass--and we see no
reason to doubt that il niight--would the Patriot
consider himself complimented or ecnsurcd? and
whom would he regard as his friends, those who
voted for, Or those who voted against the resoIu-
ton?
We are disposed to make every good naturcd
allowance for our contemporary. His Gubcrna-
torial Pony is such a ricketty, ring-boned, and
spawned animal-so balky and tricky, and with
al so apt to shy, and to 60 backward and side
ways when he ought to 60 forwari-that he is
really difficult animal to trade off, or sell. And
us the Patriot has taken the job to trade him off
TO the Electors of this State, of course he must
be allowed little vanishing and poetical IL
eense; but he should have some regard to an
Pcaranecs, and smooth over rather than deny
his defects.