Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-02-25

n Fraternal lore is not, Just now, the pre-
,ailnt feeling between the rival factions Of Loco
focoism in New York. One would think to be
sure that "Old lIunkcrs" and 8 Barnburners y
would be likely TO live in some sort Of polite
harmonv--,hc calling of the latter being to burn
the Barns after the former have grabbed the
" fodder"
But we are sorry to say that cordial sympathy
does not exist between the divisions Of the de-
mocracy" in our sister State. The Albany Ar
gus long the very Me,ternich Of political man
ayers, and the undisputcd leader Of democrat
ic public Sentiment is now but the organ of
uctiol--,he Old IIunkers-and is very rrever-
emily handled, and profanely snubbed, by "the
young democracy who practice politics under
the euphonious designation of Barnburners.-
AZ their champion, the muse of BRYANT is chain
ed to the earth of the Evening Past; and sad
it is that the Author of Is Thanatopsis should
live to be no better than a Barnburncr! The
Erening Post, however, is abou, the best craft
that sails under the black flag of Locofocoism
1t goes for Free Trade, Direct taxation, Cor
something worse, the recall of the Land Fund
already distributed among the States, and "alia
enormia," as they say in the classics; but it
goes for these measures manfuly and above
board, not sneakingy pretending that Free Trade
is adequate Projections" as some small papers
do, but contending that it is every mans right
to get what he wants to buy where 1t can be
got cheapest without reference to whom it helps
or whom it ruins. Besides, WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT is Poet of the "nasctur" sort. He
has "bowels" therefore, and hides from his
heart, we dare say the pestilent political hereses
of his head--a sort of homage tina. Vice is said
to pay to Virtue.
But this is neither here nor there. Mr. Than
atopss Bryant of the Post does mt particularly
cotton to Mr. Joseph Surface Croswell Of the
Argus. and these brethren in common gcner-
ic political faith have divers wide differences in
relation to certain specific articles in that faith.
The Evening Post, for example, is a non-com-
/ promising uphodcr of the justice and expedicn-
cy of practical carrying-out OF the principle OF
the Wmot Provso, while the Argus thinks
like the Locofocos in Vermont, (our friend Of
the Sentinel for instancc,) that no such issue
as this should be permitted TO disturb the harmo
MES of the great Locofoco Cat-concert which is
to "come off" in Baltimore next May. The
Erening Post rcsoutcly insists (and we admire
and honor it Therefore that Slavery ought TO b,
prohibited from al! territory of this Union; Will,
the polite Argus don't like to break Southern
democratic " friendship for nothing more sub
stantal than mere justice and humanity. AM
so these Leaders are at loggerheads--the Pos
having the advantage for hoo reasons: LIST be
cause it is right and I'd because it is in ear
nest, while the the Argus is merely mercenar
T and time-servng. The Argus, therefore, in tn
controversy has to make slratagems do the wor
of Truth, and trickery stand in the place of fai
play.
And the consequence is that it now and the
/ catches it from the Post, consumedly" Wit
ness the following, which is one Of the latest c
Mr.. Bryants compliments to MIR. Croswell -
"TnE ALBANY ARGUS copies passage from a con
munlcation in the Evening Post in which II is urge
that the democratic party of the north ought not und,
#, present circumstances To insist strongly on the prohib
= lion of slavery III the territories and calls II the ICON
:. esslon and the disclaimer o the Evening Post
!, We published that communication with an introdu
. ton strongly dissenting from its positions, and con
batting them ut some length with arguments viii,
seemed ununswerable. We have made no conitssic
ir and no disclaimer but adhere and mean always to a
= here rgidly the views we have always expressed
> the subject OF the territories The fdisehOod
t. The Argus ho,rcrcr occasi0ns no surprise 10 us
g old ha6t is easily broken ot and The haJit Of diSho
4 estU is the most INyEIERAIL OF ALL.
!. There, then! the Post says the Argus lie
and what is more, (and the Post knows that it
., !" in the habit of lying; and that being "the nc
al inycterate Of all habits" IL, shall never look
a word Of truth in that same Argus as long
wood runs and water grows!