Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-23
TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 90, 1913.

tFor the Vermont Journal.

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tFor the Vermont Journal
TO TIE WINGS OF VERMONT.
AS one OF your Delegates at large to the wing
National Convention, did not give in my Tor your
adhesion to the nomination Of Gen. TAYLOR for the
Presidency and should have voted 1gains, It's con-
rna,!on had not the customary resolution (o con-
hrnlatlor) been Tithdrdpn.
On my retun or sooner II prnticable, shn ADDRESS
to you the reasons for my your Delegate,
ana tor ny uncompromissing hostility to the election
request the Wing papers of Vernon, publish this
card: HORACE EVERETT.
Washington, June IL, 1913.
We comply with Mr.. Everetts request, and
the first comment we desire to make may be
found in the following judcious and sensible
editorial remarks on the nomination Of General
TAYLOR, in the same number OF tire Windsor
Journal which contains the above pronuncion,enio
as Mr.. Everett -
minaton OF the national Wing Convention for the
Presidency. BY many good Wings OF the North,
this nomination has been received with and bitter
disappointment. Gen Taylor was not our choice.
We would have preferred any other one OF the many
Wings, whose claims were discussed before the
s.embing OF the Convention
The Convention that nominated General Taylor,
was one OF the largest OF the kind assembled. 1t
composed OF the ablcst and best wings from every
part Of the Union. The North had tull representa-
ton, while quite number OF Southern districts were
unrepresented.
Thus We have placed before us the alternative f
General TAYLOR or General CAss. This alternative
may possibly be changed but while it remains as it
nomination OF General Taylor. We cannot conceive
of greater calamity than the perpctuation OF the pre-
sent national administrative policy Of James H. Polk
General Taylor is no, a demagoguc He has exhi-
bted no anxiety about the presidency or the nomina
ton lie has supply told the people that he was a
Wing, and that if elected, he should do the best he
coudat he should endeaOvor to respect the will of
the people, expressed through their representatives.
in Congress lie has expressed himself as hostile to
the spirit of conquest, and though an old soldier. he
rebuke he gave the policy af the administration i'll
creating the Mexican war, as contained in his con-
fdcntia letter toan old intimate friend Gen. GAINES,
drew down upon him vote OF ccnsure by a I,ocofoco
House Of Representatives in the last Congress Per-
sonally, Cen Taylor is popular, and so long as the
main issue lies between him and Gen. Cass we shall
give him support, and 80, confidently believe
will great majority OF the American people.
MIR. Everett resides in Windsor, and this re
Spouse of the very journal which he has chosen
to be the first TO announce his forthcoming
reasons,' might, perhaps, be deemed sufficient.
| But we do not choose SO to regard it. Mr.. Ev-
erett has been Il prominent member Of the Wing
Party in Vermont, and been repeatedly honored
with their confidence and support His term of
Congressional service was an unusually long
one, though it has never been pretended, that
we know of, that his claims to such distinc-
ton on the score of ability or usefulness, were
in any respect superior to those of other promi-
nent Wings in the District that conferred that
distinction upon him. That he performed the
duties that devolved upon him in Congress, &C
ceptably to his District and to the State, we dc
not wish to deny. Wing principles, in Vermont
are so well defined and understood, that heI
representatives in Congress need have but little
difficulty on that score, and questions not in
volvng party principles may always be safely
entrusted to any of our well.inlormed and sd
gacious citizens. But Mr.. Everett's previou:
position and reputation, unusually honoret
representative of Vermont in the National Leg
islature, give his opinions and views, abroad, al
importance that entities them TO the stnctes
scrutiny al home. II lie assumes TO repfesen
the Wigs of Vermont, out Of Congress, ant
BY virtue of commission, the authority an'
responsibility of which he shares with fire o'he
prominent and trusted Wigs Of The STATE, WI
shall take the liberty to enquire into the ground:
of an assumption that the most cogem Of = rca
sons" will scarcely redeem from the imputatiol
Of arrogance, among people who are quite il
the custom of drinking for themselves. The
Wing Party of Vermont shall not be placed il
l.. 4 ~, -: L.. Al. al
States of the Union, if we can help it, Tn
} honorable renown they have secured for tn
. State by their unwaverng, and we may add
unsr,Sh, opposition to the 'chole array OF Prin
cpes and Meaanres renresented in the plan
person of Lepis Cas-, il not, in or Judgment
to be lightly priced or petulantly thrown away
"Good name. in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel OF their souls
5 And the good name" of VERMONT, politically
is dear TO her Wings, as it is entitled to thei
protection.
f Since his retirement from Congress, Mr.. Ev
-; erett has committed fro capital blunders, -,h
D last of which, we humby conceive, is the N,
e n0m uHdcr consideration. The first, however
was Du'ic -'o'S tii'"SIi III tuc cetlIIIulDH [
T the most iudicious Wings in the State, to de
stroy his title TO the Pnbiic confluence, and to jus
2 tily the fears that were entertained Of the pre-
r prlety of his appointment Openly sought b
+ himseli) as a Delegate to the Wing Nationi
y Convention. We allade to his well-known, an
r universally condemned, resignation Of his Sc;
= as the Representative in the Legislature of ii
o town of Windsor, in 1915, on account of wi;
# he chose to consider dscourteous treatment {
y himself and of his constituents, by IN mbc
II lroceedlhg, Considering that he was elec,ed f
e his supposed qualification to take care both ,
il himself and Of the interests of his immeda
l. constituents in the lrgislature) that was as ir
C defrnsible in principle, as it was puerile an
v ridiculous in the instance and indicative of
|. condition of mind not only incapable of wis
y counsel, but wholly forgetful of the true rela
} ton which a legislator sustains to the Hous
;, of which he may be a member. The House
NJ Representatives Of Vermont possesses the full
est power, and the disposition, adequately to pre-
y tect the rights and dignity of its members; an
If the absurd step taken by Mr.. Everett in this il
/ stance, was both a contempt of that Body an
4" an unjusiiabe abandonment Of the rights m
IS Interests Of his constituents and was so regal