Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-08-24
Truth well told.

The Providence Transcript thus exhibits
the hypocrisy of the pretended locofoco
friends of Free Soil, and the work ofthe To-
cofoco party in general. 1.-THE annexation
OF Texas was undoubtedly the greatest sla-
very measure that has been carried since
the adoption Of the federal constitutions
This it was that produced the great contro-
versy upon free territory which now ranges
throughout the land This measure receiy-
ed the almost universal support of the loco
foco party, Barnburners as well as Hunkers.
Every man who voted for Polk knew-f he
knew enough to entitle him to vote
that he was voting for slavery and as for
these men who protested against the meas
ure at the very time when they were giving
their support to the man who was pledged
to consummate it, they only showed the
weakness of their virtue and the strength of
their party discipline. They showed that
they knew what was wrong, and that they
lacked the courage to resist it, The loco
focos in Congress voted for the annexation
in body. Every Wing member in the
House but one, voted against it, Southern
Wings, men with all the prediudices of the
slave-holdng sections of the country, voted
against the annexation, and Northern Dem
ocrais, men coming from free states and
protesting to represent free constituencies,
voted for it. Archer, Barrow, Berrien,
Clayton, Crittenden, Foster, Jarngan, Man
gum, Morehead, Pearce, Rives, all Wing
Senators from Slave States, voted against
annexation while every locoloco Senator
from the free States as well as the slave
States voted for t--Barnburners and all -
And now these men having been beaten in
their own party and at their own game of
intrigue and corruption, came forward and
set themselves up as the champions of free
dom They who without even the excuse
of being Southern men, voted for annexa-
ton and slavery, come forward and say TO
Mangum, Berrien, Crittenden, and to the
entire Wing party South "we are the
friends of freedom, you are the friends of
slavery We dare not trust the interest of
freedom in your hands. We must take
charge them ourselves % Now, we have
seen great many cool things in politics,
but we have seen nothing cootr than this.
The devil quoting scripture has always been
held to be a respectable performance in the
way of impudence, but for man who voted
for the annexation of Texas to turn around
anu ollHHldblEG a lildh WIZ NOlGu against IL
as foe to freedom, this indeed surpasses
anything on record. Van Buren, himself
who is entitled to more praise than his asso-
clates, for his course on the subject, was
exceedingly moderate in his opposition to
the annexation. His objections were to the
mode and to the time, rather than.to the act
itself and he distinctly says at the close Of
his letter, that in case the two Houses of
Congress should agree to the measure ofan-
nexation he should give to it the Executive
This is the man who has been selected
as the standard-bearer of freedom, and such
are the counselors by whom he is surroun-
ded. These are the men who plant them
selves upon the high ground of freedom,
and say to the original and consistent oppo-
nents of annexation, :" am holier than
thou! Out upon such shallow hypocrisy
Out upon such baseless pretensons