Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-08-31
THE DUTIES OF TUESDAY NEXT /!

wings oil NefmOnt,-alOW US 10 repeat, That
on Tuesday next is the real contest for wing
principles. II the people elect any thing but
Wing Congressman and Wing Legislature,
then Wing principles and measures are defeat
cd the ustre Of :" the star that never sets" will
be dlmmed; Vermont will be misrepresented and
dshonored. Let il not be so.
We address Uhigs-not Taylor men oil who
have proudly borne the Wing name and loved
Wing principles. We believe you are attached
10 them still. If you are intelligent honest aud
well grounded in the faith you have 50 long pro-
fessed, you are now against Slavery every where,
and ready TO aid in prostrating it you are a.
ganst it's extension in the territory recently &C
quired; you are against the Slave Trade in the
District Of Columbia you are against Slavocra,-
ic Free Trade principles, and in favor of the
good old doctrine Of Protection ; you are against
all novel experiments upon the great interests of
the country, such as have in times past suddenly
stimulated the most extravagant specula,ions for
brief period, and then as suddenly left tie
country burdened with debt aud disgraced with
bankruptcy you are against the gross abuse of
Executive patronage which has corrupted public
officers and made them the tools of party instead
of the servants Of the people; you are against
Executive usurpation, which has dared to over
step the limits Of the Constitution and involved
the nation in War and burdenel it with an enor-
nous Debt; you are against the monstrous tyr
amy Of the Veto, which has made the President
more than King, and the representatives of the
people less than an office holders cabal; in Short
against the principles and the policy of that
falsely named democracy which has within twen-
ty years overturned the very theory upon which
the government was established, and uprooted
the measures which its patriotic founders devised
for the purpose of promoting the general well
fare and securing the blessings of liberty to their
postor,y" 1t is such Wings that we address
and such we believe are the Wings of Vermont.
We take it you are deslrous Of sustaining all
these noble and long cherished principles or
Tuesday thus acting fully up TO your duty as
freemen-in honest fidelity to your oath. How
can it be done?
We think it is mol to be done by supporting
ocofocos. They entertain principles radically
different. We think it is not to be done by
countenancing the newly formed Free Soil party.
They adopt but part of the principles which
you have long held as Wings, and supported by
eectng Free Soil Wings to represent you in the
national government; and for that small part of
our principles, which you can still efiectually
sustain as Wings, they require you TO sacrifice all
The rest. This new party is partnership of old
ones-of the dscordant materials, of all parties,
II L.. :. al
which will embrace the principles of all. The
fact is, that with the single exception of the Free
Soil doctrine it is the iocofoco party in disguise:
consisting mainly of that party, and perfectly
controlled by it. Witness the nomination of
Martin Vun Buren, for President; witness two
original loco. out of the three persons compris-
ing the State ticket; witness the three Free Soil
candidates for Congress oil old locos, and two
abolition wings displaced to make room for them
Aye-if common rumor does not mistake in
this fourth district also, the Liberty candidate is
to be superseded by the fourth locofoco- giving
the locos every district! AS Uhigs, can one Of
you countenance this wholesale reputation of
wing principles? AS tohigs can you consistently,
honestly, Justly repudiate Wing Free Sellers, who
have stood by you as able and faithful Free Soil
men from the beginning-and support the very
men who have aided in fastening Texas, and this
devils CURSE of Mexican territory, upon us !?
Is it just to old faithful servants, who have stood
by your Free Soil principles, and all your Vhig
principles into the bargain? Why should you
submit to the sacrifice OF any Of your principles
for the sake Of eevating newborn converts to
Free Soil from the locofoco ranks 1t was their
folly, their wrong, that forced this question upon
us-not yours. Let them repent in sackcloth
and ashes; let them purge themselves from the
original faint of locofocoism, which is the root
of all their slavocratic sins, before you choose
them for your leaders or servants. You want
wel-tred and faithful servants take those whom
you haze tried, and who, as you know right well,
will never deceive you.
No, no-olI friends; we cannot conceive it to
be your duty to aid either Of these parties in any
way whatever we cannot conceive it to be con-
sistent or right for you, unless you are convnc =
ed that your Wing principles are urong.
Well, then,-if we are right-your duty on
Tuesday will be to support the Wing candidates
port them with your votes and your influence
to triumph with them if you fairly can. Why
not' They are all Free Soil men-!hey are all
Whigs. Whether they are all Taylor men or
not, we do not know nor do we care. If they
are, they are none the worse. Gen. Taylor's po-
sition forbds the idea that they TO Serpe him
he is pledged to serpe them, rather: and if he is
elected, and is false, we dare promise that his
treachery will find no sympathy from any repre-
sentative of the Wings of Vermont. We re-
member TYLER The traitor do not you and do
you not also remember that in all Vermont there
was not one Wig so poor in spirit, in charac-
ter, as to do him reverence? So mote it be with
any other traitor. If your candidates are mol
Taylor well, if so be they are Whigs il
they are mol Van Buren, men; if they are to be
relied upon faithfully to sustain Wing principles
support them with all your heart. Let this
contest be for our principies-a noble contest
worthy of the best wishes and the best services
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