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Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

ly took q seat OF the end Of the room, to await an OPP
portunty. Whilst inpaticntly waiting, | observed
one after another iearing the table which contained
only luxuries and seating themselves at the one which
contained the substantials to finish their repast. This
excited go much my curiosity that | concluded to wait
a little and see the event. Most of the company soon
left the first table where they had been seated, and
finished their meals quite satisfied with the abundant
plain substantials with which the second was spread /;
and the few tina, remained soon sickenod by the dele
cacies, and left the room in disgust. This settled the
point, and as my friend and / were about sitting down
quite contented TO par;ake Of the abundant plain sub
stantals the table afforded, my breakfast bel. rang and
awoke me from my slumbeis to make the following
moral:
Al the abundant plain substantial food is best calcu-
lated for the health and nourishmcnt OF the body so are
the sound talents and sterling integrity Of General
TAYLOR best calculated for the Presidency, to promote
the happiness and prosperity OF our country.
SLEEPER.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
JOHN MITCHELL

u The following extract from one of n. p.
Willis's deliberately "smart'' letters from PHI
ladelplia, to the lIome Journal, is going the
rounds as a " %fanciful thought!
O for the days when we eau spread the morning
paper on the stomach us we lie in bed, and digest the
news before rising, or put a new book under the check
WIN our lids CLOSED tor II nap, and rake riN IL all
ch"ptcIed, IN tie brain. Ten years ago this and
Morse's Telegraph would have been equal iunproba-
bilities."
This comes Of getting a reputation for I" orig
inality !'--ihe very excess of Stiffness passes
for wit! Willis is the very Prince Royal of
literary empirics--having drawn his "license''
tor a most devasting" practice on the reading
public from a few lucky hits, that are, in the
blank eNpanse of twaddle he uiters, like jack
olanterns in a swamp.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

o. HasceH's bennington Gazette, we are sory
to be obliged to say, has succeeded in bumbug.
ging us! We hoped better things of it ; but it
swallows Cass and Butler without a protest =
1t is but a few days since that paper used the
following language, in connection with certain
commentators of the progress of Freedom in
the Old World -
In such a glorious moment as this-while such
news OF gladness to every true friend OF freedom s-
lntes our eaIs-are we TO rivet slavery ON every foot
OF soil which we have acquired!-We NEEDLE not notc
with any mere abstract question in the case, but we
speak TO the grea; practical issue in regard to existing
facts. While, as we said in our last editorial "A pro-
found sensation OF fear pervades the thrones OF the old
world Tor their own ~saiety-when royalty feels itself
surrounded by perils greater than any that ever men
aced lt'--shall we initiate their sys, EN- OF enslaving
men, OF claiming them TO the soil and keeping from
them the proper rewards OF their labors Forbid il,
that lnerclful God, who looks down upon men from
the throne OF his holiness %
And now, the author of these honorable sem
timents, sets himself at work to place the Gov
eminent of this Republic in the hands of a man
who has PLEDGED himself to VETO any Act
of Congress excluding Slavery from the Free
Territories of the Union All Mr.. HAswELL !
"ARE we to rivet Slavery Oh every foot of soil
which we have acquired ?"-that is your ques.
ton.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
The Sentinel is i'm an auOny lest the Wings

The Sentinel is in an agony lestthe Wings
Of the Country should not ~rcpudiatc the
nomination of TAYLOR and FILLMORE, as
New York g and several other gentlemen
have done that Of Cass and Butler. 1t Can
find but one paper thus far, however, that
shows any signs of being willing that
Leris Cass should step into the Presidency
through dissensions among the Wings.
The Sentinel says:-
If the Wings of Vermont submit TO this nolnina-
ton, they submit 10 what is plainly an imposition.
They have noble examples before them"
This allusion 10 the "noblc example" Of
the Barnbumers, in refusing to submit to
the nomination of IA Northern dourhflcc
who declares that he will inicrpose his veto
against the preservation of FREEDOM in the
National Territories, is rather remarkable
in the Sentinel, which is a bunker paper.
But it is wholly unnecessary, as .tIe
Wings Of Vermont" are precisely on the
Barnburner ground, ON this question, and
intend to defeat Lewis Cass, and " nothing
shorier!"
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The account proceeds =
Alas, alas
For gineral Cas-,

T. Our readers will find, on our first page a
very charming little poem by Gen. BUTLER, the
bunker Candidate for Vice President, entitled
"The Boat Horn" The gallant General is,
undeniably, a very popular man, wherever he is
known. on account Of his attractive personal
qualities. There is a great deal of beauty and
sweetness in the poem we have quoted, and it
evinces the possession Of those rare personal en-
cellencies that always make a man a formida.
BILE political competitor. The General gave the
Wings a " hard fight of it." two years ago, even
in old Kentucky-Mr. Owsley leading him by
but a slim majority Such a man and such a
poet deserves a better fate than to be sent adrift
in the crazy craft of Lemis Cass. lie has, en-.
phatically, got into the wrong Boat this time!
Now if the Sentinel don't admit that the above
is a ''first'rate notice" of its candidate for Vice
President, we will swear, like Paul pry, "not to
do another good-natured thing in a fortnight ~
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
The Daily Sentinel is getting quite I

The Daily Sentinel is getting quite un.
necessarily frantic over Massachusetts.
The Wings of the Old Bay State will sup.
port the nomination of TAYLOR and FILL
MORE by one of their noblest majorities,
The hand writing is on the wall against the
administration Of James X. Polk, and the
man through whom it is proposed to per.
petuate its suicidal measures and policy,
and Lewis Cass will retire to Michigan,
next November, in n minority hat will cor
respond, with remarkable felicity of Hale.
ness, with his Chicago letter on Internal
Improvements!
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free prcss,
BURLINGTON, W.

nrTbe Boston Duly Advertiser, one of the
very ablest and soundcst Wing papers in the
Union, thus speaks of the nomination OF Gen.
TAYLOR -
awhile therefore we are prepared TO declare
mr. entire acouiesccnce in this nomination, and
our determination to support 1t, as lar as we are
able, unless we shall find other reasons than we
ore now aware of for a contrary course, we do
not deem it necessary, for laying claim to entire
sincerity in this declaration, to pretend, that we
would not with much more readiness and salts
faction have given our feeble aid ,o the support
of another nomination, and one winch we know
would have been far more acceptable to the
greatest portion of our readers. But II has bcen
Tor some time past fully apparent. TO those who
had an opportunity of observing the state of
feeling of the Wing party, throughout any great
norton of the country, that there was a most la
inevitable feeling of dependency, as to the sue
cess OF any efforts to elect either OF the dl>tiil-
ruished, and prominent embers OF the party,
who have heretofore been regarded AS candi-
dates Tor the Presidency"
ITO all politicians of the one idea school.
il would be useless to urge that the question now
placed before the electors of the Union is sim
ply. which of the two candidates, now before the
public, shall be the next President of the United
States Shall it be General Taylor, who is Il
Wing, and who has seen real service or Zen.
Cass, who is no Wing, and who has gained no
s%pecial distinction in any service. military or
civil. The choice is between a candidate. on
one hand, of high personal character, and emf
nent professional rcputation,-one who has rem
dered distinguished military services to the
country, an unostentatious and consistent wing,
while serving for a long period of years under a
tn,,Drrntir ,lr pinIstrDfipn- man pn1DkInO the
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
Mr.. Upham's Speech on the War.

The BraHteJorO PhTnir, abiding to the able
and convincing speech of Senator UruAM, on
the Mexican War, uses the following language,
in which we most cordially concur. MIR. Ur-
HAM did himself great credit by this effort, which
is one of the clearcst, most elaborate and mos,
conclusive, of the eXpositions of the Texas and
Mexico iniquity, that have been presented in
Congress:
Although the immediate question upon which it
was made, has passed away, il will be found interest
ing and instructive. 1t shows up the contemplate
trickery by which the Wings are sought to be made
responsible TOR the war, and exhibits the facility with
which the Northern Democracy are marched and
CONFERENCE.-THE at the orders of Southern slavc-dri-
Sers. Mr.: Upham sustains u deservcdly high charac.
ter IN the u. >. Senate, and is n faithful and talented
representative OF the Green Mountain State"
The following is the eloquent conclusion q
Senator UrHAM's Speech
Mr.. President, | have already trespassed TOO Iona
upon the patience OF the Senate and will bring mn
remarks to a close. The career Of conquest upof
which we have entered, is full OF danger aud peril t.
the country. 1t may bring under our dominion for.
eign states and PROVINCES. but it viii bring with them
an ignorant, degraded population, wholly ulpreparrd
for the enjoyment OF our free aud liberal Institutions
With the extensi' n Of our territorial limits, will come
an increase OF armies and navies, and the bulld,np m,
OF a great military power never contemplated by rM.
trainers Of the Constitution. An increase of Ex,cu.
tive patronage VIII follow, and an ambitious President
selected from the successful commanders Of The amy
may tranple the Constitution under foot, and sr,hjec,
the people TO the ~despotisni OF military rule. If they
appeal TO the Constitution and TO the laws Tor protec.
ton, they will be answered in the language OF Casa,
10 Metellus, " that arms and laws never flourish n,
the same time" Mr.. President, | call on the student
OF history aud we have many in this chamber, 10 POI:
me to a nation, either ancient or modern, that has b,
its wars OF conquest, acquired any enduring glory, o
conferred any lasting benefits upon Its people.
Did Greece gain any enduring fame by the wars o
conquest in which she was engaged! No, sir, Gre.
clan liberties persisted at Ch1ronea, more than iwo
thousand years ago. Rome carried her vicioriou,
arms into neighboring provinces, and subjected then
to her dominion, but she could not save her republic
Roman liberties were eleven down by Roman armies
on the battle field Of Philippi, more than thirty years
before the Christian era.
What has France gained by the wars of Invasion
and conquest in which she has been engaged She
dethToned kings and established her power in the
spuStries around her. She drnched the comment OF
Europe in blood, in her wars Of conquest, And what
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
BiackwOOd and the English Quarterlies.

Messrs. LEONARD ScoTT & Cos handsom,
reprints of these standard periodicals are in the
hands OF their Agents, the Booksellers through
out the country, promptly as usual-the Month
ly Blackwood holding up its head and swapping
Its fingers alongside the staid aud sober and
oracular Quarterlies, (the London, Edinburgh
and Westminster sc } like a dapper little Ole
gentleman among relentless Judges, apparently
boiling the ominous
"Juder damnatur cum nocens absolriiur''
of the bowel-less Edinburgh" as the kind.
hearted Mr.. Toots did his unrequited love" fol
Florence Dombey, as being mot of the least
consequence
The political articles in these very able Pc.
r~iodicals, Just at this %luncture of affairs in our
shaken world, are unusually interesting rep
resenting as they do, the conflicting views, opin.
ions and reasoning of some of the profoundest
as well as most brilliant of English political
writers on the existing struggle between De-
mocracy and Aristocracy.
MIR. EDWARDS is Agent for subscribers here.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

The Sentinel places in large staring
capitals, the declaration of Mr.. VIII
son, of Massachusetts, in the Philadelphia
Convention, that she would do all he could
10 defeat the nominee" This is probably
one OF the most singing typographical feats
mat our young friend has ever performed.
lfhc had put four or five exclamation points
after the capitals, the, effect would have
been decidedly finer.
BY the way, can the Sentinel give us the
latest news of the aspect Of matters in New
YORK;
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

The Sentinel of yesterday contains the name
of its magnificent Slavery,
anti-internal improvement Candidate for the
Presidency, Lewis Cass, but in one single place,
and that is in IA call for a meeting at Worcester,
Mass, otaH people Vho are opposed to his nomi-
nation "Call you this backing your friends?'
If the friends of Gen. Cass in Burlington want
a half column or so, daily, for the purpose Of
presenting his claims" @ we don't know but
they may make a bargain with us. We hope,
however, the Sentinel won't give it up so.-
6 Never say die !" was the motto of Barnaby
Ridge, and he wasn't any crazier than the Cass
party.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
For the Daily Free Press.
A Dream.

A short time since, as ! was travelling in company
with several OF my friends, as the hour for breakfast
arrived, We stopped at an Inn and ordered breakfast,
which was soon announced as ready, and We hasten
ed to the dining room. On arriving, We found two
tables, one of which was spread with all the %superiiu-
tiles and Injuries that heart could wish or ingenuity
could devise, and so excessively crowded that | could
by no means obtain a seat at it while the other was
furnished with al. the plain substantials and comforts
which the country afforded; and although there was
room, | declined taking a seat, choosing rather 10 wa"
for a sea, with one OF my friends at the table Of iuA-
urics, when an opportunity presented and ACCORDING
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

u Some modern John Bunyan of a Dream
er has seen strange visions, and sends us his ac-
count of the matter. lie hits us, with his
"moral," as well as others, but we can stand it.
The good Wing Substantial" at the "RoUGH
g. READY" table will certainly offer a cheerful
contrast to the French ragouts, pot pourris and
bon-bons which Cass would set before us.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

Besides the above votes, New York on the first
call, gave 4 for MIR. Evans, 4 for Mr.. Sargent,
and each one for Messrs. King, Lunt, Young,
Fish and Foote. Maine gave one vote for Mr..
Evans; Pennsylvania four for Mr.. Sargent
North Carolina 2Tor Mr.. Sargent, and one for
Mr.. Fish; Kentucky one for Mr.. Ewing and
Wisconsin one for Mr.. Choate.
On the second ballot, Kentucky and Ohio
gave one vote each for Mr.. Evans North Car
DINA one for Mr.. Sargent; and Arkansas three
for Mr.. Clayton.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
Strange bed.iellOWs.

GA true Whig' has taken up lodgings in the
Sentinel Office and has gone to work asking
all manner of questions. The first question
that suggests itself to his brethren Of the Wing
faith is how the d. he got there :" or, as
the French hath it:
One didble alldit il tairc,
Dams &c gaiere ;"
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81 A.. NJ.
q N M
SENTENCE or MITCHELL.
Continental Ne

continental Ne1CS.
John Mitchell sentenced to ii years transpor.
tation, and the same day was sent to Cofk and
shipped as a convict to prison hulk at Bermuda.
No outbreak has yet occurred, but an ominous
silence prevails. John O'Connel is severe ON
the Government. He denounces it most fierce
ly. Mitchel's parting from his family was deep
ly affecting. His property is confscated. The
United lrishman is suppressed. Mitchell's am
lily was adopted by the repeal association and
the people. Trifling disturbances at London
Bradford Manchester, &C.. principally by char
lists and Irish sympathisers. Some rino.!ead-
ers were arrested by the Police. The working
class are in great distress. 1t is supposed the
Government will adopt extensive emigration as
a relief.
Paris generally tranquil-small riots but gen.
orally put down. The National Assembly is
still strongly guarded by troops. They are be-
ginning to legislate in earnest. They have de-
termined to break up the Louis Blanc system of
organization Of labor which made some disturb
ances among the State workmen. The Police
have arrested Blanqui and Flotte. Louis Blanc
Is 10 oe trieu with others Tor the conspiracy of
the 10Th May. The Constitution Committee
decided to have but one chamber, and to make
the present one ineligible for the next. New
disturbances at Lyons. The Ministers to the
United States are said to be appointed. Prince
Louis Napoleon visited Paris in disguise, but
was ordered to leave. Rothchilds' cottag was
burned by the conspirators.
A violent riot occurred at Berlin on the night
of the Goth. Many people were hurt by the
National Guard. The Austrians defeated the
Italians at Lake Ladro. The Danes attacked
the Germans at Lundcbilt in Schleswig, and de-
feated them. The Germans lost a thousand
men and six cannon. The combined Russian,
Danish, and Swedish fleet was off Copenhagen.
Prince Constantine was on board. No news
from China or India.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

l3'The Sentinel's first demonstrations agains.
old Rough and Ready are rather feeble
too much wadling for the powder. We
will loan it file of the Free Press. We
have opposed the gallant General better than
the Senttnel does. Our young friend must use
"a little more grape,"o or we shall withdraw from
the contest on the ground of magnanimity.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

Ut From the unknown author of the follow.
ing beautiful lines, we shall be glad to hear, as
often as he Tor she) may elect. If any hody de-
sires to render poetic inspiration irresistible to
us, let him weave into such verses that most DO.
etical of words, and most touching Of thoughts,
:" nerermore" 1t constitutes, with US, almost
lie whole charm Of poE's Raven = and when
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

The following table exhibits the vote of the
Wing National Convention, for Vice President,
as cast by States. We are glad to see that Yer.
mont was unanimous for WILLARD FILLMORE
casting five votes for him OH the I'd ballot
But where was the sirth vote of Vermont ? We
believe all her delegation were present. Can
any one tell us 7
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

A Full CONvFRT.-When the Mort Star pub.
lished Gen. Cass' letter repudiating the Wilmot
Proviso, calling it an important State paper
worthy of grave consideration, we v%entured the
hint that the Star was undcr conviction and to
predict that it would probably become a convert
to Gen. Cass' views.
Our n~einhhor WINGED a little at the time, but
the leaven was working, and since the nomina-
ton of the General Ia the Presidential chair, all
doubts have vanished.
The anti Wilmot-Proviso views of Gen. Cas-
form no objection to the ticket" We supper,
the ticket because we believe it to be a goot
one-asg good perhaps as could hare been selected,'
so says the Star, and so we ventured to predict
although it excited Il little of its ire at the time
But times alter. Alas for the poor slaves !-Cat
elORian.
This North Star should change places ant
names with " The DiPper."
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16

AZ We are soon to have a new edition of Cass's
eulogy upon the " King and Cour: OF France" His
letter TO the Chicago Convention will constitute the
preface. and his letter on Slavery the Appendix. The
iTontisplece is TO be composed Of a Dough Face a.
surrounded by a border Of snags, sand bars, and dilap-
idated haIbors. Az. Ere. Jour.
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Gen. Cass in New York.

The Common Council of New York got hand.
somely taken in by interfering with the cleo.
tioneering tour of Gen. Cass and " suite'' home.
wards. Alderman Franklin (Whig) knocked
Cass into a cooked hat by saying to him,
when he welcomed him to the city, that the
Common Council did not receive him as a Par
ty leader" but as a resigned Senator ion his way
home" This style of address embarrassed
the Nashville-letter gentleman, as he had proba.
bly, calculated on a partisan reception, by the
" manifest destiny IIunkers by whom he hat
been nominated at Baltimore. lie therefore
made poor work at a speech, being at a loss fol
anything but party topics to talk about. Allen
of Ohio, Houston, Foot, and others of his %'suite,'
however, were troubled by no d~elicacy on the
occasion. Allen said:
at could hardly be expected on an OCCASION like
this, and so u~prepared as he was, that he could make
a speech fitted to the feelings of the Democracy, ,rho
had thus come fortcard to honor their candidate tor
the Presidency"
Nice words on receiving a public reception
by a Wing Common Council! But the " mass.
es' who surrounded the General in an unofficial
capacity, were l~ocofocos and nothing else, as
Allen probably knew well enough; and there.
fore he had no scruples about his manner Of adj
dressing them.
Of the procession, which made a great dis
play on paper, the n. Y. ErpreSs says =
"ThisO order Of arrangement OF the procession looks
very well on paper but there was, in point OF fact no
such procession. There was no cavalcade there
were no Senators and Representatives, except those
in the suite OF Gen. Cas-, and Of those but n few the
Governor OF the State, various societies and public
bodies, citizens on foot and on horseback all these
were merely IN the programme and not in the pro-
ccSsion. The whole consisted Ger. Cas-, and suite
and Office holders, and oiice-hopers, and all told, mot
forgetting the band of not over two hundred persons;
allowing the number OF carriages to be, as they were
counted, something less than forty, conta ming four
persons ench-(and some of them were cabs, holding
but two.) The procession was Just four minutes pas.
sing a given point, down Broadway. There was
some applause at the point of starting and arriving
but 1--WE can answer Tor the space between Grand
street aud Barclay street, the silence that attended
the cOrtcge down Broadway was positively tunereal,
We have funeral professions frequently in New York
very much larger than this " triumphal' one Of the
would be President OF the United States.
The truth is, the g%allan. anti Wilmat Pro,iso
gentleman is disappearing into ''grim night"
with all practicable despatch! Ills defeat by
old RoUGH AND READY will be a thing for him
to remember, if he should happen to get votes
enough to remind him that he was a candidate