Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-11-05


Wing party would be the emancipation OF the
slave as far as the Constitution permits, and 'hen
their vocation would be gone. s.
Their conduct reminds us Of story we have
heard There are in New York mulhtnaes Oh
little ragged children, who make II their puslneS.
10 beg. They are sent out for that purpose, ana
trained to relate some pi,iable tale, to enlist tue
sympathy of the passers by. On The occasion
referred to, gentleman was a-saiied oy one OF
these infant beggars, who related melting tale
Of wo and misey--how his mother was dying oil
starvation, with large family Of small children
who had not even a crust of bread-how she
suffered in miserable garrett, from hunger ana
cold, without clothing or fire. While IN the
midst Of the story, another ragged urchin com
ing up, and hearing what was said, attacked the
FIRST, knocked him down, and fell to boating INN
with all his might. The astonishcd stranger has
toned to separate the infant pugisis, and, see
ing no cause for the attack, was proceeding to
punish the assaiant asking him what harm the
other had done him. "Pleasc, SIT" said he, with
an air Of injured innocence, and shaking his fist
at his PROSTATE antagonist, Please, sir, Ne stole
my story"
SO with some Of the presses of the Liberty
party-thcy arc piteful at any party that es.
pouscs the cause of the slave. 1t is stealing
their story" They claim a monopoly Of the ar
ticlc, as It Is their only stock in trade. We do
not suppose the Freeman has any special hos
tility to the Wing party as such, other than his
IL, "a
he was himself not long since, as we learn, ram
pant Wing. II the two principal parties should
change position in that respect, and the Wings
oppose while the Democrats supported the VIII
mot Proviso we should expect the Freeman to
make the interesting discovery, that in some fu-
ture Convention of the parties, Messrs Dilling-
ham and Brown made "spceches for home con-
SUMPTION" and that the Locofoco Convention
passed milk-nnd-waier resolutions in favor Of
No More Territory while at the Wing Con-
vention, "the young Wings "came manfully to
the rescue" Of the Wilmot Proyiso, and the Hon
Jacob Collamer " is said to have made mastery
speech in its favor
II is the friendship, not the enmity of the Other
parties TO the cause of freedom, that allicts Ia,
Freeman and his kindred presses. They woulC
not have a single slave unlettcrcd unless b,
themselves. Hence, in the Presidential elec
ton of 1874, when the question turned upon thu
great absorbing issue Of the annexation Of Texa
with slavery, and when the parties were marshal
led openly and broadly upon that issue - Nj
Van Buren, having been discarded because oP
I IN hat t..o. hnr, mn
evident to all, and proclaimed and confessed b,
the South, that the struggle for Texas was
death struggle Of slavery, and when il was pal
pablo, self-evident, and admitted on all hands
that the annexation would be certainly defedte'
if the Liberty men voted with the Wings, Will
Il they voted otherwise, they could no, possiot
elect their own candidate, but would rende
probable the election of Mr. Polk-wiih all thes
certain results before them, the Abolition presse
poured all their virulence and bitterness upo,
the Wing party, and arrayed the Liberty mel
against it.
What is the CONSEQUENCE The addition O
netc slave territory, equal in extent to one-hal
of all the old slave States This consequence wa
, , g; -. ~; 80. ., -
\ pcppit VINO Notcu yeo Liberty hckct Ncfc u
doubt honest and conscientious, and voted az
cording to their convictions of duty, under tn
advice of their newspaper organs. But did the
desire this result {? and il the choice were agai
left to them, and they knew that by voting wit
the Wings, Texas with its curse of perpetui
slavery would be excluded, is there one of then
who would hesitate? We will not insult tn
integrity Of their motives by such suppositioI
We consider the presses Of the Liberty party 4
directly responsible for that annexation, as NJ
Dillingham; who voted for it in Congress.
Another Presidential election is approaching
and the shareholders, emboldened by their sue
cess, are bent upon the annexation of still mon
slave territory. This is to be again the issue
and the Locofoco party arc summoned by tn
leaders at Washington to array themselves againi
the Wilmot Proyiso principle. In New Yorl
Massachusetts and Connecticut, the LocoEoc
party have answered the summons, and rejecte
the Proviso; while in this State, in Difference
the prevailing sentiment, they adopt it as ma
ter of expediency, but arc careful to connec
with it. an unqualified resolution TO support III
candidate who shall be nominated by Demo
cratic National Convention whoever or wha
ever he may be.
The Freeman and its affiliated presses are PFC
pairing again to insure the triumph of the slave
holders, by persuading the Liberty men to with
hold their votes from the Wings. VIII the
succeed? WIN the Liberty men, knowing III
impossibility of electing their own candidate
contribute by their votes to the annexation Q
new slave territory to the Union? We trus
and believe they will not
ear On the Brattleboro and Fitchburg Rail
road, contracts for grading the track have bee
let to within mile of this village, to be compile
ted by the LIST of August next; and the contrac
for bridging the Connecticut at Mortified ha