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

The Sentinel gricves because we take special
delight in quoting from democratic papers
that renonnce, %cast-up, repudiate and despise
Lewis Cass. Sorry but the fact is, these pa.
pers do furnish us with about the most cheering
and encouraging reading we can find, just now.
we are obliged to mourn over the dismal fact
that, with the pleasant exception Of Haswell's
Bennington Gazette, no L.oc61oco paper in Ver-
mont has dared to lift its voice in favor of FREE
Soil and FREE LABOR. two great and vital is
sues connected with the coming Presidential
contest. We are heartily in favor Of both. The
great Wing Party is in favor of both. But if
the wide world of modern "democracy'' were
united against both, in support Of Lewis Cass,
we admit We should feel gloomy apprehensions
Of the result. We should be compelled to re.
gard it as doubypl. whether the decision of the
American people would be found, next fall, in
favor of Freedom and Right. The inappeasa-
bic dissension in the ranks otthe "Democracy,"
however, removes every such appreheusion.-
Whoever may be our next President, Lecis
Cass cannot be! We do not say that the Wing
'uiIluttt VIII ID tltCitu NluOuRu we tlittI ldllI
no manner of doubt Of it, nor do we say that
anybody will be elected. Our special delight is
that the new Northern man with Southern prin.
ciPles, tie prominent citizen Of the free North
Siaa9}eIFlyy S uf Ri'Gjiia Ills " e'a%rii6f, and has sold himself
for office, will assuredly be dcfea'ed.
The Sentinel must, therefore, bear with US
! ,,lil, uo ,n,t,o orcrc:op,1 oytrnc,r frnpn such
papers as the n. Y. Erening Posi-, and especial.
ly while we commend to our readers, this eve
ming, the following from that very ably edited
paper. In an article on the nomination Of" Snug
the Joiner the Post says
Of the object of the Convention was to secure the
greatest number of votes Tor General Cass, his friends
did not act wisely in refusing the declaration which
4 Mr.. Nanccy offered as the condition of obtaining
Southern votes. lie loses Maine and New Hnrnp.
shire at all events he will not get the vote of Ohio,
even in Michigan and Illinois his success is doubtful,
and he has Il very slender chance, if any, OF obtaining
the vote OF Pennsylvania. The probability OF his OBJ
tanning the support OF these States would hardly have
been lessened by the adoption OF any test in the Con-
vention, which the Southern planters might think
proper 10 require. We wonder, therefore, that the
friends OF Nr. Cass in the Convention, did not grasp
at the opportunity of securing the votes OF the tour
States which lie in the Southeastern corners of the
Union, They are now lost 10 him beyond recovery,
unless he comes ont with another exposition OF his
opinions calculated for the latitude of Charleston and
the neighboring cities oi savannah, Mobile, and st.
Augustine
Yes: bat then, Mr.. Post, he wiH " come out"
with any "eXposition Of his principles that
those Southern Planters you speak of may re-
quirc; and he will get their votes. But then
the North, the North We have no Southern
Planters here, and there is a prevalent notion
among us that the American People " in Com
gress assembled hare Il right TO stop the eX-
tension Of Slavery, which Mr.. Cass says they
have NOT.