The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-10-31
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vote can effect the result, (and every State
and every individual, is bound to act n, s,.,
an occasion, as if that action were to de,s,.
mine the whole matter) Whether orr nov.
President shall be Lewis Cas-, pledged %
carry out the principle of the Baltimore Plat.
form-making as perfect Free Trade. spl
Treasury, War and Conquest Administratio7
rs the utmost stretch of the Veto Power and
a full use of the immense Executive Patro-
age can secure-ot Zachary TAYLOR, with +.
avowed opinions that 'the will of tho rEorIr
as expressed by their Representatives in C5,.
gress. ought to be respected and carried OIL
by the Elective and that no constitutional
objections are to be interpssed by the Pres.
dent, where questions Of domestic policy ha7a
been settled by the various departments Of IL.
government, and acquiesccI in by the people
We hear also, to be sure. oc Martin Yam
Buren, and the Buffalo Platform. Yet NAV
we not be permitted to say, in all candor, that
the idea Of accomplishing any good purpose
by this diversion is altogether too transeen-
dental to be nationally entertained by a prar-
teal man, niping at practical end? tt.
utter impossibiity of clecting Mr.. Van Bure1.
every body concedes--and what citizen OIL.
Vermont is there, not :,,rea',y thoroughly r.-
bued with Free Trade and s Treasury p-i;..
ciples who wosld desire to secure his circ.,o,
if he could ?-But, raw some, (and We DO ~.
,question their entire sincerity it is only rr.-
ciples for which we contend. the man IS roe.
paratively unimportant-wo vote for Mr.. San
Buren, because he stands on the BuEa'o pr.
form, and is the candidate of the Ball:ia Can
vention.-NOw, what is that platform? 81
FAR as relates TO the extcEsicn Of slavery. It IS
sufficiently expl;oit-any and every Wig
Convention at the North either has declared
its opinions or has ever been rta,ly TO dcciare
them in a manner equally satisfactory, and ON
erery other point-what himsy affair =.
believe, with all respect says Mr. Webster.
that the Buffalo Platform was constructed o.
such slight materials, that, while il would Dr.,
bear a very heavy tread, it would sustain tie
iox-like footsteps of Mr.. Van Buren,. rut f.
upon so frail-so apparently non-commiiiai "a
platform rs this, the Fox of kinGcrhook coud
possibly be got in,--whie lie might (,ud vcie
likely would) keep his word in the natter
Slavery Extension, 50 far as he is pic'lacdsr
all, he would not by am means target his a.
vorite measurable would not make the c1-
tension of-Slavery from New Mexico and Gal
iforhia the sole business of his whole PRESIDE
tial term His Sub-Trca-ury scheme, hi, 81.
vowed preference for Free Trade and Dire;
Taxation and Heaven only knows what uov
tangled, unheard- of measure sec bssides.-wouhl
busy his brain and occupy his hands, to th'
embarrassment of all practical enter Irisesard
to the deep injury of the prosperity OF Cur
he can never again be elected.
The verdict pronounced against him in lSiS
(when he got but f,oeire electoral votes from
the Free States) will not, by any possibility,
be reversed. Why then throw away a single
vote upon him pit seems hardly possible
that any intelligent man in Vermont, who has
any choice between Gen. TAYLOR and Wing
Administration, and Lewis Cass and a Locofo-
co Administration, will not manifest that pre-
erence directly, by voting for the one or The
other.
But something too nluch Of his
We take this occasion TO urge, most earnest
y upon every Wing these words may reach
o weigh well the effect of staying away from
he polls, or of suffering the election TO pass
ndifferently by, without every suitable exeT-
ion to secure a full Wing vote for the sue
Presidential nominee of the party.