The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-08-16
BARNBURNER STATE CONVENTION.

BARNBURNER STATE CONVENTION.
The Middlebury Galaxy gives a piquant
sketch Of this affair, from which the OCCASION
al extracts given below, will be found anus
ing and instructive.
MIR. Kasson, of Burlington, was called for
by the audience. Mr.. X. took the stand, and
proceeded to remark, that this occasion was
one of no ordinary interest. They were met
for common purpose. There was, he said,
a throb and impulse pervading this assembly,
that rushed them on to one issue, and to
success, too. He gloried in the name of
saBarnburner. There was great significance
10 the name. 1t suggested both light and
neat. He passed high enconium on " YER
mont, the stronghold of the Green Noun
aims" The man doesn't live Tin Yer
nonD" said Mr.. X, "whu doesn't feel us
y YOU feel, and feel, and everybody fecls."-
lie spoke of the disaffection among the De-
bnocrats of Maryland and Missouri, as,well as
lat the North. Even the old "mint drop" he
kaid was supposed secretly to favor the Free
Soil movement. (Cheers.) +. 7. Blair, late
editor Of the Globe, was out for Free Soil
(Rencwed applausc.) There was disaffecton,
too, among the Wings. Mclean was oppos-
ed to Taylor. He had letter in his pocket,
stating as much, and that if nominated by
the Buffalo Convention, he would accept the
nomination. (The letter was called for-but
after considerable fumblng, before and be-
hind, "didnt appear to be there.'0
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. X several
times demolished the New Compromise,
which had already been very sufficiently de-
lnoished, by Wing votes in the House of
Representatives--in spite Of 2l Northern
Locoiocos.
Mr.. Shafter being loudly called for, al in
experienced looking youth, in blue coat with
brass buttons, and an extraordinary amount
of watch chain and ornamental appendages
dangling in front, stepped forward, and at
tempted to speak He confessed that this
unexpected occurrence had startled him
from his usual propriety.' He didn't know
what to say but lie would accept the nomin-
ation.-Mr. Barber here remarked to the
audience that their candidate was young, but
he never voted for a STAKEHOLDER !
(Great sensation among the Polkites) Here
upon Mr. B. christened the nominees of the
new party by the refined and euphonious
name of the Steer Team at which an
nouncement, some chcercd, and more (the
candidates especially smiled ghasdy
smile
Mcssrs. Poland and Stansbury were in like
manner exhibited, much to the CONSERVATION
Of the former; but the latter, putting as good
face on the matter as possible, remarked
that, although 'unaccustomed to draw in any
kind of team of any kind he wouldn't kick
out Of the traces. He did not come here
expecting such nomination-hc certainly
did not-hc DID not, upon his honor
Mr.. Sladc. He said he stood up here
(among the friends of Van Buren, y "a sort Of
seceder from the Wing party. His conscience
compelled him to-This was about the first
time, since he entered public life, that he
could stand up and breathe freely! He now
felt himself among congenial spirits p
AS to the Wings, we arc persuaded that,
aside from the three who committed them
selves by public speeches, there was scarcely
one who did not go away entirely satisfied to
let this movement alone, and stand by the
Intelligent, patriotic, united Wing party of
the Union" The men who elected James
X, Polk, who annexed Texas and who now
support Martin Van Buren,, "thc Northern
man with Southern Principles" will never
appear like "congcnial spirits to the honest,
intelligent, and consistent Wing ycomanry of
Vermont