Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-30
The Progress of Dissent.
The following we find in the last n. Y. Yr

buHe -
THE DtSsENTERs.
The following is corrected list of the Wing Jour
nails that have hestatcd fatty refused to commit
themselves to the support Of Gen. Taylor. They al
ready amount to forty:
MASSACHUSETTS.
Wing Boston; Spy Worcester;
Courier, do. Telegraph, do.
Gazette, RoXbury Transcript do.
Courier, Northampton; Eagle, Pitsfield;
News Letter, Westtield.
NEw HNlPsARE. VERMONT.
Telegraph, Nashua Voice of Freedom. Brandon;
Gazette, Belknap, Waterman, Montpelier
American, Manchester; Journal, Windsor
Caledonan, St Iohnsbury
Messenger St Adams.
NEw-YoRK
Tribune, City; Wing, Pcn-Yan;
c G@% fs$96s'F s s M5ISr
Chronicle, Sing Sing; COrrector, sag lIarbor.
PENNsYLvANIA.-Gazettc, Newcastle.
Ono.
True Democrat Cleveland; Gazette, Mnssillon;
Courier, Elyria Wing, Medina Co;
Sentinel, Ashobula Co.; Times, Noun, Vernon;
lnteligencer, Hamilton; Western Star, Lebanon
Telegraph, gainesville Times, Megs Co.,
Wing, Mercer Co; Star, Eavennn
Western Reserve Chronicle, Warren.
INDANA.-Jounal, Lafayette, Tippecanoc Co.
This is not a very formidable list of dissent
ers" out of some trelre hundred Wing papers in
the Country, and is but little calculated to ava
ken apprehension, however much it may cause
regret. But even uncomfortable as it is, as
Burke said of the small revenue of the WEIGH
principally, it is liable to be "greatly diminish
ed!' We are sorry to see in the Tribune list
in which me hno'c there are so many capital err
rors for we do not believe the Tribune would
willingly misrepresent public sentiment to the
detriment of the Wing Cause.
lnregard to the above Schedule of dissent
ers" it is proper to remark that the first named
paper, the "Boston Wing, is wholly controlled
by a clique of unquiet spirits, in and about Bos-
ton, whose principal distinction arises from their
having zealously opposed the election of RoB1
c. WINTHROP, and as zealously vifed him ant
the Wing party on the occasion of, and on &C
count of, his election to the Speakershp of the
House; and who opposed the nomination o
DANIEL WEBSTER at the Springfield Convention
last fall and who, (nojoiy tnogS better Hiaa III
edior Of the Tribuae) would have opposed Mr.
CLAY precisely as they oppose Gen. TAYLOR
had the former eminent Statesman been nomi
mated by the National Convention. Such pa
per may WELL perhaps heada list of "dissenters'
for it does'm do any tking but dissent!
Again: The Boston CG1trier has come ont il
full support of the nominations of Taylor an,
! Fillmore-though s'nre the above list was pre-
pared. It will give those nominations able an,
sufficient support.
Again The Worcester Telegraph, as cor
respondent informs the Tribune sis not now
never was, and never pretended to be, a VIII!
paper; while the .Sry and transcript "are on,
and the same thing-the latter hc,ng the dali,
and the former tt weekly" ;s5uc of the same pa
per! Thisgre2,'y diminisbes the small reyenu,
of dissent, in the ,!assachusetts part of the tore
going list.
Next as to We. ont: The Vermont .JotrHa
I and the Calodon N pcrer either hesitated Of
fatty refused to commit themselves to the sup
| port of Gen, Taylor " that are know of. The
,Jou1la!, certainly, raised the flag of TAYLOR &
FILLMORE on the 10th .nst, Just one week afte,
the nomination, fnd in the same number of its
paper which contained the protest Of Mr.. Ever
EFT Further; The Brandon Voice, and the St
Adams Messenger both come to us fully sus
tanning the nominees of the Wing National Con,
vcnticn. So that the Montpelier IVafclmaa, q
Wing paper, in The oaly Locefoco district in III,
State, is the only mal-content in Vermont. Be.
fore the Tribune has time to cor. ect It's list. ha
paper will De in the line of safe precedents =
There will lie no tlinching among the Green
Mountains, when the choice is between Cas,
the free-holder who PLEDGES himself to VETO all
acts of Congress having for their object the ex.
clusion of Slavery from our Free Territories -
and the honest old Hero and Patriot. TAYLOR.
who, though Silre-holder like Mr.. CLAY. is
equally PLEDGED not to veto such acts. but 10
leave the determination of this, and all 9th.
or "questons of domestic policy, where it ap-
propriately belongs, with the American Con
gress.
1t will be seen that we have been able TO d.
mlnIsh the Massachusetts and Vermont con,ri.
button OF thirteen papers to the above list of
"dssenters", to fire. If the remaining twenty
SIX are, as we have right to presume, liable TO
the same exhausting process, dissent " pro-
ceeds upon no very monstrous capital in the
Wing ranks.
cGP The Burlington Sentinel gives + prominent,