Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-01-13
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR BOSTON CORRESPONDENT
Boston. Jan. 3D.. 1913.

Boston, Jan. Sd, I849.
Mr.. EDITOR The weather for the past week has
rushed from one extreme TO the other. Sunday. Mon
day and Tuesday were the coolest DAVIS of the season
-slelghing quite good-since that we have had rain
and fog IN abundance, with mud, slosh, posh, etc.
The poor beetle-headed wings, here sometimes call
ed section wings" are in call sorts OF a quicker" he
bause Mr.. Palrey did not vote for the Hon. Mr.
" However bounded" speaker Winthrop. MANY om-
nous hints have been thrown out of future punish
ment for his %treachery to the party. The truth is, there
Is not room enough in the noodles of these coitonosi-
ties to conceive of the idea of straightforward honest
manllness in political character. They may in their
private characters be as honest as most men, but POI
%lrhcaIy they are rather "twistical." Indeed, duplici4
ty, double %facedness and Garland f%orgeryism have so
long been the principal traits in the political manage
ment, that they have become incorporated into their
very natures; so much so, that they do not appear to
see IN the least, the infatuation of their policy. or its
Inevitable tendency to sink their party i'll infamy with
Its milestone weight.
In this instance they have made n great mistake in
sending Mr.. Palfrey to Congress, and are mortified and
confounded at the discovery of the fact. What a
prodlg1OuS bIunder. "We thought him like ourselves.
10 be sure we knew he protested to entertain aboli-
ton sentiments-so do we. But we thought his aboli-
tonlsm was like our own-only for the northern mar
ket' We thought him available on that account to
gull the simple hearted abolitionists, and catch their
votes. But we had no idea that when once elected. he
would lose sight of his party obligations, party bonds
aud party interests, and merge them all in that foolish
IDEA nF ppCipfOro, I.,.s. .1 .-..
ter, which seems by some unaccountable process to
have taken possession of his half-crazed brain. We
thought our examples in party tactics shone out with
such brightness, that he could not fail to see the liobf.
and walk in our footsteps. We feel that his vote is a
most direct and cutting rcbuke upon ourselves, for our
humbuggIng policy, and te are determined not to take
1J'om him.. We call upon the wings to come out and
express their Indignation at bis treacherous conduct
and %rePudl0te him henceforward and forever"
If such is not their direct language it seems to be
the sum and substance of it, as reduced to plain En-.
glIsh, They display in this their usual blind short
sightedness. Next year they will be p%arading all the
antrslaVery p~censionS which can be raked together
IN the 'rty as SO many proofs that it is anti-slavery.-
They will call loudly upon abolitionists to vote with
the "only true liberty party" .Now they "show their
hands" u%nwarily. Their indignation gets the better of
their judgment. The true nature of their hollow pre-
tensions to abolitionisn, "sticks out"-they show the
c'ors"-foot. Any one with half an eye could see their
inconsistency and emptiness unless their eyes are stuff
fed with Cotton" Tariff" or some other of thc chou
sand and one paltry party issues which are got up sole
y for party purposes, without the most remote wish to
benefit the country by them. We hope, however, that
those who really look to the good or honor of the
country, will have their eyes opened, SO that they
shall no longer see as those who see not, but discard,
dlso"n, and detach themselves from such a party, and
come up like men, with warm hearts to the work of
their country's redemption and salvation.
A, II, B.,