Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-09

definitely n few days hence. IL seems to be settled
that some one of the shareholders who figure so cX-
tcnsively i'm the Wing list of candidates, will be the
choice. By the instrumcntality of the Wings slave
holder occupied the presidential chair nearly the
whole four years after Mr.. VAN buren, retired. For
the next four, they endeavorcd to elect another dealer
in slavery and now again, as if the South had not
yet enough, they will probably nominate still another
for the same Office. All this might be well enough
the desires OF many Vermont Whigs-much less with
the anti-slavery thunder which the Free Press and
Waterman have stolen lately from the Liberty Par
We anticipate some extraordinary exhibitions in
lofty tumbling after the news OF the Philadelphia nom
nation has gone forth. Some choice expressions OF
sentiment have found uttcrance in the whig papers
which they will probably not altogether relish after
the transfer of affections, enthusiasm and other utcn-
sis OF political warfare which is soon TO take place.
We shall allude to these things again after the nomi-
nation; Perhaps we shall be Obliged to remind the
Free Press OF some of its careless declarations OH po-
lltical men and their fitness Tor the favor OF the pco-
plc.-Ddiiy Sentinel.
We implore the Sentinel not to lose a mo-
ment's necessary sleep on our account. 1t will
need it all before it succeeds in examining
LemiS CasS down the Threats of TcrmonicrS !
If Gen. TAYLOR (who is not by any means our
choice for the Presidency should receive the
fair nomination of the Wing National Conven.
tou, We sudIi give MN OuI u'iIllDIc support.
The Sentinel will fail to find its hopes of the
election of Lemis Cass, the man who has
PLEDGED himself to VETO any act for the pre-
servation of Freedom in the National Terrific
ries, augmented by any discussions in the Wing
ranks fomented by this paper. Between CasS
and Gen. TAYLOR, the difference is as wide as
between Washington and Benedict Arnold.
Gen. TAYLOR has made no scrvilc pledges to
aid in the extension of slavery over territory
now free so far from it, he has distinctly
avowed himself opposed TO the acquisition OF
Mexican territory, and with the knowledge that
the National Legislature has heretofore exclu.
ded slavery from the Territories of the Union
without a question of its constitutional poper to
do so, has declared that he should NOT inter-
pose the executive veto to defeat the will of
Congress. This is the mighty and worldwide
Inference between the men!
The Sentinefs perpetualtwaddle about "slavc.
holders is altogether unworthy a reply, in it.
self: and, coming from a paper that has had
nothing but Shareholders for candidates for the
Presidency, with one exception, for the last
twenty years, it is too small for contempt. That
paper will be good enough to observe that we
have never proposed to disfranchise the citizens
of the slaveholding States, by taking the absurd
ground that shareholders are not eligible to Of
flee. We have never aimed to be wiser than
the Constitution, or to establish tests which that
instrument repudiates. 1t is not whether a can
didate is a stakeholder or not, but what his opin-
ions and principles are in relation to Slavery,
and especially its FURTHER extension, that governs
our opposition to him. Henry CLAY, who is
our ~favorite candidate for the presidency, not
only regards slavery itself as g%riovous evil
and wrong, but is opposed TO its extension over
Territory now free. Gen. TAYLOR has avowed
his preference for Mr.. CLAY, and declared that
he should have voted for him at the last cleo
ton if he had voted at all, and thus aided to pre-
vent the annexation of Texas and the pro-Sla-
very war with Mexico. Between such a man,
and a miserable Northern doughface, like Lew
is Cass. who has sold himself to the propaga-
ton of Slavery, and nothing else, and who de-
| clares it to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL to attempt to
exclude that SO inS,iiution'' from our Free Terri
tory, we have no more hesitation in choosing
than we should have between christianity and
paganism. There is not a Liberty Parry man
in the whole North, who, if the alternative were
presented to him, would not far sooner vote for
.John G. Calhoun than LewiS Casa man who
is at once a traitor to his instincts, his educa-
ton, his constituents, and the spirit of the age
in which he lives. The Sentinel is at liberty
to 90 into all manner of spasms over our in
consistency, when it finds us supporting for the
Presidency a man who is pledged to use the Ne-
to Power to nullify any Legislation by Congress
to prevent the increase of Slave Territory, and
who declares he can find no authority in the
Constitution of this Republic for such legisla-
ton. l, does not correspond with the desire
of any Vermont Wing to support such a man as
this though if they are ever brought TO the ne
ccssity of choosing between tw0 such men, we
trust they may not find their choice among the
FREEMEN of the NoRTI-and in a nan whose
servility and toadyism, for office, must render
him contemplate in the eyes Of the very " slave
dealers" who bought him.
Before the Sentinel makes an erfra fool of it.
self, therefore, in rejoicing over Wing i%nconsis-
tency, it will be wise, AT least, to show that Gen,
TAYLOR, (should he receive the nomination of
the Wing National Convention-which we re.
gard as by no means SO certain as that paper
seems To imagine) is something a great deal
lcorSe than a Stakeholder, as It's own candidate,
LewiS Cass, most certainly is.