Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-08-18
The Meeting Thursday Night.

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The meeting Thursday night, at Strong's
Hall, to hear Mr.. RAYMOND, was well attended.
The audience listened to his remarks with the
most earnest attention; and their attention was
well repaid by candid, yet most searching en-
position Of the statements and logic which Mr..
EVERETT has put forth in his pamphlet address
to the good Wings of Vermont The thing was
admirably done by Mr.. RAYMOND. The candor,
the sound logic, the Documents which, he uscd
in considering Mr.. Els statements and conel l.
sions, were the very things 'to finish the pam
phlet. There can be nothing left of the PAIN
phlet except deep "sense of gonencss."
Sound reasoning and ' the documents " are
dreadful things to those who like Mr.. f., are
wild in their statements, and more wild in their
logic. When they are well and ably applied
as they were by Mr.. r., they are, with all can.
did minds, sovereign remedy, and usually tell
the story. Every candid mind who heard Mr..
r. must be convinced, that Mr.. E. has not only
ben hasty in his statements, in correct in logic,
and absurd 10 his conclusions, but also wofully
beside himself in his estimation Of Wig ntelli-
gence.
It would be unjust to Mr.. r. to attempt to
give from memory alone, synopsis Of his speech.
The documents and the reasoning with which
they were connected, ought to be fully present.
cd to the public In view Of the important 20.
sition which Mr.. L. has held in the Wing ranks,
we trust, the substance of Mr.. II. S remarks will
Ia, horo ror cd in fulI upto
supervision. If this can be done, it can, with
dues not correspond with his intentions"
We can TO day only allude to Mr.. RS re-
marks, without attempting to present his lam
guage or the course of his arguments. Mr.. X.
remarked that every citizen ought to exercise
the same sound common sense, the same calcu
lating reason, in political matters, that he EN-.
ploys in the ordinary affairs Of life. No man
has right TO throw away the trust reposed in
him, and act merely from prejudice and impulse.
In view of the great importance of the questions
now before the country. and in view of the fact
that they must nop be settled forever, Mr.. r. re.
marked that every man ought to act understand
ingy, weigh every consideration, and give his
vote where it will tell upon the final result.
After alludng to the strenuous effort which is
made to disorganze old parties and to draw from
the Wings support for the Free Soil movement
he went into a searching examination of Mr.
Everett's statements. lie showed that Mr.. f.
had based conclusions on merely rerbal and ir-
responsible assertions;-from an er parte view.
had made presumptions where there was direct
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contradicted Mr. E. on another page.
Mr.. Els conclusion that between Cass and
Taylor, the former was to be preferred by the
Wings Of Vermont. as more moderate in the &C
qnstion Of territory, and equally safe on the
slavery question, was ably considered and in
manner that did not leave in the minds of the
audience very high opinion of Mr.. Evcrett's
abilities to Judge for the Wings of Vermont
lie showed from Cass's own declarations, that
he WAS ready TO "swallow" al! Mexico in ia.
vor of almost "unlimited expansion as a safety
valve to our ''over-crowded" o population. 1t
was as certain, as the thing could be certain,
that Mr.. Cass would veto the Wilmot Proviso
With the language and spirit of Mr.. Cass's de-
claration he contrasted the opinions Of General
Taylor, who declares for peace who is oppos-
ed to the acquis ii IN of territory by conquest who
avows in the language of the great Washington
we ought not TO leave our own to stand on for
eign ground. 1t is highly probable that Gen
Taylor would not veto the Wilmot Proyiso be.
cause it would be Inconsistent with the decara.
tons in his Allison letter. LIST, because he de.
c'ares therein he will not attempt to control the
Legislation Of the country by his personal opin.
ions, and will exercise the veto power only in
cases OF clearly unconstitutional or has,y legis
lation: 3d. because he will be guided in his
views of what is constitutional by the proper Ju.
dicial authority and by precedents in the leos.
la,on Of the country-long acquiesced in BY
the people Hasty legislation upon the subiec,
cannot be constitutional it is by the decision.
Of the courts ;-acquiesced in it has been from
the very foundation of the government. Mr.. r
read a case in point, lately decided in the Su
preme Court of Louisiana, where the constilu
tionaliiy Of the question is fully recognised; al
luded to other cases to the same point.-II
spoke Of Gen. Taylor's letter to the editor of tn
Signal, and read statement, authorised by MI
Doolttle, denying any knowledge OF what i
known to the public as the Doolittle letter. MI
r. then further strengthened the probability tina
Gen T. would not veto the Wilmot Proviso, b
the declarations of several well known South
ern men, and by the language of the Souther
press in which Gen. +. is denounced becaus
he will not veto what they term at the Soui
the "intamous principle of the Wlmot Prov
so i,all thu Sc considerations, the purity, tn