Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-11-02
MONTPELIER, VERMONT,


spirit OF the Massachusetts delegates ebuked by
Messrs. Ashmun and Ihnt / was told by delegate
from that State thatthese men had got into the con-
vention under pledge that they not caled"Liber
ty Conscience Wings" and if their true character
had been known, they never could have been chosen
Yet am glad they have come; their conduct has af-
forded us an occasion of ample evidence that our
friends In the free states hold in the utmost contempt
lhose who would directly or indirectly assail our in
stitutions, or us on account Of them.
Subsequently to this, resolution was offered by
delegate from Ohio, affirming the principles of the
Wilmot Proviso, Mr. Brown, of Penn, denounced
as analica and Indignantly moved to lay it on the
table. The cry made ID make this a test voe.-
Agreed was shouted on all sides; and it was laid
there, not ten UoIes being IN its G1UOr.
Never did feel so proud of my Wing brethren of
the nonslaveholding states as this day! They are
all we could ask Of thenr shoulder to shoulder, suS-
tanning as iropposing the schemes Of fanatics and tac
ti0niSLS.
But you may ask if we had no difficulties in the
way of the nomination of General Taylor? Yes and
those at one tme which seemed threatening. For
several months past movement las been going in
the nOnslaveholding States with both pares to force
upon their respective Conventions candidates from the
free states in other words to make the nomination
turn upon the sectional question of slavery as con-
ceSSiOn to the scrupeS Of fanatics. The Democratic
Convention has yielded to such demands; for the sake
vi HWWOIy III party, concession mas Deen mace
which the wlsest policy should have forbdfor when
slavery becomes test of parties, it will soon extend
to the government, and then away with constitutional
compromises. You no doubt remember the letter of
Senator Benton last year, urging the party to keep
Slavery out of the canvass, by conceding to antsla
very feeling.
The success which this demand met with from the
Democratic party, emboldened the same feeling to
make the same demand from our convention. It was
hnurnvnr nrnnntlv and oh
resisted Southern wings at once declared that they
would not submit to such concessons-they intended
to stand unetered by local and sectional questions;
and while they raised such issue, they resov
ed to retreat from none such Mann of our friends
from The nOn-SIGUehoding states urged that The southern
friends of Genera Taylor should not yield an inch
that the masses demanded mn snch conCesSion- and that
this catering 10 the ,OhimS Of the fanatics the tOork of
q feW politCiGnS-dlm the ultra our position, the
more 1t acouId purify and purge the party Of set Of
Cho Wre only an incubus at all times and that de-
feat lChOlt them aOGs preeldbic 10 success 10Th em
The result is before the world in the nomination Of
Gen. TAYLOR; triumph not Of the South over the
North but of constitutional rights over that spirit Of
fanaticism which would destroy them 10 Is a bold
experiment IN the free states; but oOU succeed and our
opponents will find iii their course condemnation by
the free states themselves. They have raked too low
even to gather the Abotionsts themselves"
Extracts from the Debates in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Mr. COBB Of Georgia IA democrat -"Would the
gentleman from Alabama, before the people of that
state-before the Union, say that that THE rejection
of the Wimot Proviso) was the honest sentiment ex-
pressed by that convention
Mr.. HILLIARD, "a meIubVr of that CUnvoutUn) re-
Piled that the northern gentlemen of that body as
sured them that the resolution should be put down. if
offered; and by the motion Of a northern man, men,
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forward, it laid on the table by an overwhelming
vote He asked, if there could be stronger express
sion of the sentiment of that body and of respect of
southern rights than was shown on that VOTE
Mr.. COBB.-"E1e again asked, that there might be
no equivocation did the gentleman from Alabama be.
leve that the majority of the Philadelphia Convention
were opposed to the principles of the Wilmot Pro-
viso?"
Mr. HILLIARD.-"He desired to say, that when the
Convention IN The open face Of day. thousands looking
on, did vote to put down the Willnot Provso, II gaze
him the strongest dSSlrdncehe could ask That they tCOud
stand by the South against It,"
After such acts of the Taylor party, can the great
Free Soil question be safely trusted to the keeping of
that pary?-and especially when they support a
Louisiana stakeholder who has given no pledge to the
North, and when the whole Taylor press and party,
at the South believe he will veto that proviso should it
be enacted by Congress?
Heretofore the wing members of Congress of the
North have voted in favor of that provlso but is it not
part of all political history, that minorities becoming
maiortes, change their principles and their votes?-
What well founded expectations have we that the
northern supporters of Taylor they and their friends
holding or expecting Office under him. will not sue
cumb to his views? Will it require half the aban-
donment of their former professions and principles
that has preceded their support of Gen. Taylor?
consider the very support Of Gen. Taylor as the
strongest evidence that they will, as party, abandon
the support of the Wilmot Provso.
General Taylor if elected, will on vetoing that
proviso have right to say to his northern supporters
81 gave you no pedge-L refused Is Feb. 184S]
to give any said that if elected would not be the
exponent of your princ ples-in the Philadelphia Con-
vention you repudated the Wilnot Proviso-and
thereby virtually pledged yourselves not to insist on
it; you then have RICH to complain, that l. south.
ern mana SYSTEMATICALLY position and interest, op-
posed to that provsoand pledged by all my southern
friends by the entire press devoted to my sup
port to sustain southern rights-what reason have
you to complain of my veto?"
1t was the firm and unshaken belief that the Free
Soil question utterly unsafe IN the hands of the Tay
lor party, any where, that led to the call and results
of the Buffalo Convention. That convention was
composed not of wings or democrats-but of men who
preferred principle to party.
In the organization of the Free Soil party, old par
ties and their partizans we're forgotten In the seec
ton of candidates-no enquiry was made as to wha
party they had ever belonged. The only enquire:
were, is he honest-is he capable is he a Free Sol
man-wil he be the exponent Of the principles of the
Free Soil party. 5eau
The convention of some $4,000 from 90 states o
the Union, selected as candidates-for President
Martin Van Buren, and for Vice President, Charles
: F. Adams.
y The question is asked, how can whig vote 70
u Martin Van Buren,? | answer | do not expect an,
Whg, and more especially Taylor wing, (ifsucI
there can beg to vote for hm;-none but Free Sol
men--who have abured all former parties --"who hav
left father and mother" for the sake Of the free sol
! cause, are expected to vote for him.
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