Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-07-23
The .ArtGul Dodger.
NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR
OF VERMONT.

We inconsderatcy promised our readers, last
week, that we would in the present number tell
them mhy we are obliged to the Locofocos for
placing Pam Dillingham;, dr., in nomination as
their candidate for Governor We say ucon-
sderateiy, because we are at this present wr-
ting, absent from home, and have not ready
access to the RECORDS from which to draw the
facts and the procts in reference to the course
of that distinguished practiscr on the Slippery
elm system of politics. Rather than disappoint
our say with the imperfect documentary helps
at our command.
We are glad that Mr.. Dillingham; is in NOM
nation, because we honestly think him the best
" embodiment Of the principles of the LEADERS
of the Locotoco party, by long odds that there
is in Ncrmont-and those principles may be ex-
pressed in one word-non-comn,uiaiism Mr..
Dillingham;, we sincerely believe is a better
practical specimen Of possiblc) Of a non-com-
INITIAL politician than Mr.. Van Buren,. lie has
not a 1.-THE of Van Burens ability, cunning, or
shrewdnes<, but we rather think he is immensely
superior TO that adroit and plausible gentleman.
in Multiplying the chances Of escape from the
effects cfa douJyHi rate.
We venture to affirm (and if we are wrong
we shall take pleasure in saying SOY that Mr.
| PAU Dillingham;, Junior, by the excessive acute
moss of his management while representing his
/ District in Congress, is able to present himself
| in THREE different and distinct aspects in re-
/ ference to every GREAT measure that was passed
upon during his Congressional life! First (ior
example,: In favor of the mcasurc-Second
opposei TO it--and Third: neutral in relation TO
it, So rare felicity Of circumstances, enabling
a candidate for Office 10 compete with ,IlnuS and
give him one" it is not often the lot of poll
tician TO secure to himself. There are but few
politicians, (evcn among these the laNity o.
whose political morality would permit them to
do it, who in reference to Il questionable bill
can say to MIR. A.: My dear sir, agree with
you as to the importance of that measure, and /
ro'e3 far IL" and to Mr. b.. My dear sir,
think, as you do, that that measure should have
been defeated and voted to lag il on the tablc :
and to Mr.. G.: - Ny dear sir, it is MY opinion
as it is yours, that it was best not TO have any
thing to do with that measure, and so didH'
cate at aH" Stranger and rarcr still is it that q
Yaj,tee, a New Englander, a representative of
portion Of that particular race Of men whose
ancestors consented to endure all manner o
suffering and deprivation for Consistency's sake
and who are, themselves, rather remarkable 70
the ghtforwardness and pertnacity witt
which they declare and maintain their opinions
should be found 10 have distinguished hmsel
by versatility of conduct on given subec
that would do credit TO the proyerbial INSTABILITY
, Of a Frenchman But 50 it is Mr.. Paul Dill
lingham. Jr., like the tabled Ccrberus, guard
the approaches to the Citadel of I.ocolocoism wit
a triple sagacity, and triple direction oc vision
Let rs illustrate by an example In regard t
the WrrMor PRoylso, the principle of whic
provides eflectually against the FURTHER crtenSio
If Siale Territory in this Union, Mr., billing
4 ham occupies the triunc attitude of having vote
= for it, against it, and of having lodged il! LIZ
us see.
On the 18th of February, lSi7, the famou
I "TnREr MILLION BILL" making "addiIion'
appropriations for bringing the war with MeXic
d to a SPEEDY O and amicable termination
! was passed in the House, and sent TO the Senat
for concurrence. This bill embraced the :" Wi
> mot Proyiso," and Mr.. Dillingham; voted for
: as did Mcssrs. Collamer, Foote, and Marsh.
y On the lst of March following, the Senat
IS without having acted on the House BIZ, passC
Three Million Bill of their own, dilleriu
Is in no particular from tina, previously passed |