Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-04-22
Letter to the Editor.

- the first of January, winter has been upon ms
and has passed away, and spring follows close
= at its heels And how unlike the winters IN
Vermont has been even this winter,--the most
severe one ever known in Wisconsin. From
d the flrst OF January to the first of March we
# had fine sleighing-snow falling occasion ally 70
The depth OF few inches, Just sufficient for us
at no time, however, accumulatlng to the dept
OF more than one foot. During most of thi
time the weather was considerded by the inhub
tants exceedingly cold as they said, even rival
= ling old Ncw-Engand, and vet | must saw
never passed SO agreeable winter in my life
The weather has been fine, the air pure and Sc
rene, and on our coolest days the sun has looked
down upon us as bright and as cheering as if it
were not dreary winter Indeed one of the first
things observable to inc on coming here fron,
the East is the remarkable purity of the at.nos-
phere, and the great number Of clear, bright and
beautiful days that occur even in the most in
clement season. According to Meteorological
table kept in the town of Summit about thirty
miles west of Milwaukee, there were ir. the last
year 260 fair days. The coolest day in the wear
was in November last, when the mercur stood
IN the thermometer at degrees above Zero
There was not snow enough that year for sleigh
ing nor had there been for the three pr cedinp
years. The weather is now fine, the da VS. warm
and the nights just cold enough to fre'iz suffi
cient TO make what we should call in v ermont
" good sugar weather. AS luck would have it,
here the sugar maple does not abound, and we
are obliged to be content to eat the g ar from
the cane, and think on the sugary days of the
past when there was no sport like that afforded
at sugar party around the "boing place" in
the "sugar BUSH"
Last Friday we had rain common cling in
The evening and continuing until the next morn
ing, when Beloit was literally all afloat. The |
snow on the prairies had melted and through a
countless number of ravines was pouring I'M o |
the rivers already swollen above their oanks.--
considerable part of the village was overflow
ed, and considerable damage done TO property
in stores, Easements, cellars, &c. Part of the ,
dam across Rock river was carried away and /
large number Of mill logs in it swept off Nearly ,
every Bridge across the Turtle river that emptie
in here was swept off, and other damage done o
dams, mill races, &c. At Rockton, four milt IS
below here, good deal of damage was don e.,
and at Rockford eighteen miles below, Gle. an
sweep of mills, dams, bridges, &C., was MAJ lie,
causing damage of several thousand dollars
Politics have run mad here in Wscon lin,
and the rabies is fast getting hold the pol iii.
clans. The Constitution is still the theme the
great bone Of contention, about which every bio
dog and yelping cur in the territory is growl ing
snarlirg and biting most alarmingly. The 9th
of April is the day on which the thing is to be
passed upon by the suf1rages Of the people, and
most assuredly it will receive its quetus. AS
Iie time draws IBU. lHt anu SOIliu3 ION re-
spectng it, if possible. grow ten times more Violent
As I wrote you before, the battle is berg waged
almost exclusively by the two divisions of The
democratic party, for with the Wings there is
but one voice, and that rolls up from e very cor
ner of the land in one long, loud and deafeninq
roar of apprehension. Nineteen out of everv
| twenty Wings in the territory will ote against
it. The majority of the democratic: party will
90 for it, and yet in that party there is respec-
table, decided and determined OPT ,ositon. An
opposition too, that canrIot be whipped into the
| traces. Here, as every where else, the great
| democratic party" is niahe up of locofocos and
democrats, two divsiers between which there is
but little union except for the spoils. | need
not specify what Constitutes locofoco, and
what democrat, &c + they are both well known.
and | presume no. you have one of each kind
| in your eye. Stuff ice it then to say that the
locofocos to man are for the Constitution and
the democrats agi inst it. There is a mighty
breach here in the party, which every day but
serves TO make w der and WIDER and can see
nothing short of a a interpositon of Divine Prov
dence (if it were not sacrilege TO think that Di.
vine Providence las any thing to do with locofo.
coism) that can .ver bring them together again
Constitutional al I'd Anti Constitutional meetings
are held in every town and hamlet and in every
school district il the land. At Milwaukee, the
other day mas opposition meeting was held,
in answer to a all from over FIVE hundred oppo-
slllOu uelloCluIS VI tHdL Guy, ana so IN Otner
places in propt triton. Understand, all these
meetings are h ED by the two divisions of the
same party, AID the leaders and speakers, not
satisfied with discussing the merits and dement's
of the colsttu ion, enter largely into discussion
of the merits and dement's of each other, and
would to heaven you could hear the strings of
abuse, and the vile epithets in which they in.
duge. Do you not suppose it is fun for the
Wings to stand by, and see them tear open their
own political bowels, and expose their own wire
workings and corruptions? Indeed they can
:, see it with as much Indifference as did the far
mer behold the bunting ram bobbing away a,
: the suspended beetle, till there was nothing left
bot the end of his tail.
V From the bitter luminosity they manifest to-
j. wa rds each other, it does not seem possible that
they can ever act in concert again. and then
70 own leaders on both sides say that the party is
y broken up effectually, and as consequence the
Wings must triumph. Now the Wings are but
10 little in the minority and their leaders, good and
true, are not asleep | can assure you. So you
s. may set down in your books that Wisconsin
y comes into the Union Wing all over-not, how.
in ever, this spring The constitution is bound tc
be rejected. A new Convention will meet il
the fall, and with little labor so alter it as tina
vs. it will be accepted, by the people, and then {
lg Wing banner will be unfurled in Wisconsin
under which all her true Wings will Ially to tn,
n. rescue, boldly meet the enemy, and rout them
If horse, foot and Dragons
" Yours &c. H. II.