Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-08-25

u The Sentinel of this morning copies the
following paragraph from the Boston Post
with evident satisfaction:
al. McMErLEv SKATER, wing secretary OF State
for Vermont who has recently returned from the west,
is disguised with the slaughter house nomination,
and thinks with Parson Brownlow, OF Tennessee,
that Gen Taylor IS " perfectly ridiculous candl-
date" Whether the general sweats not, Mr.
MacShafter very round language to express his
intention not to vote for him"
This RoprJa h was started, we believe, by the
Vcrmom Patriot, 4 has gone about far enough.
We have particular pleasure in laying before
our readers, and in commencing to the attention
of the Bostan Post, and other locofoco papers
who are building " Cha,eaus en- Espagne" on
hopes of disalection in Yer mont having SINH
lar foundation. The suboned admirable letter
from Mr.. SKATER, we apprehcnd, pretty
clearly defines the position" of that gentle
man in the approaching contest, as well as pays
a series OF deserved compliments 10 the two
forms of progressive democracy which are
d" embodied" in Lewis CasS and Martin Van
Buren,, The locofoco papers who have abused
Mr.. SnArrER by attempting to impeach his fl
deity to the Wing Party and its Principles,
(Which embrace that Of opposition to the extern
sion of Slavery. and hostility to its continuance
in the District of Columbia), will, ot course, re-
fuse to publish the explicit and excellent letter
which their misrepresentation have called forth
We hope, however, we may expect the Sentthet
TO prove itself an exception to the rule. We
shall see.
! Mr.. SHAFTER, in common with majority Of
the Wings of Vermont, [and assuredly no more
sincerely and earnestly than ourseD, deprecat-
ed the nomination of Gen. TAYLOR. lie finds,
however, in his objection to Gen. TAYLOR no
ground whatever for aiding in the election of
Gen. Cas-, either By Withholding his vote from
the nominee of the Wing National Convention,
or by the still more irreconcilably inconsistent
course, of supporting an unrepenting builder-up
Of the outworks and the strong towers of Slav.
cry, like Martin Van Buren-the man who ex.
hbs warm sympathy for freedom in The Terri.
. tories, where no Slavery exists, but whose heart
is cold and "hard as the neither milestone" when
you seek to arouse it to the accused enormty
Of eristing Siarery in the Nations Capital!
We are Obliged to the organs of Cass Locofo
, coism who have forced Mr.. SKATER thus tC
nail their base coin to the counter. They have
made themselves the unwilling instruments 0
promoting the cause they are aiming to defca
the cause of sound Wing Principles and GOO
Government. When they attempt TO promote
disaiftction in the WING ranks, they must Us
some instrument to effect their purpose beside
! .Hrtin Van Buen! The Wings Of VERMoy.
remember Martin Van Buren, as the bitter OPP
ponent of the principles and persons of Jon,
Quincy ADAMS, WILLIAM Henry HARRISON
f lIrXRY CLAY, DAsIEL WEBSTER, and they al
so remember that in his recent letters to the 10
cuf1cos who have nominated him for the Pre>
dency, he sets up no prctcnsion Of having chang
ed, modified or abandoned single principle oil
opinion that he ever entertained
Yankee Wings will require stronger I" leav-
en-" to convert them TO Van Burenism, than is
, furnished by Charles Francis Adams, who bind.
himself to the car of the most uncompromisine
, enemy of Wing Principles, and pEsPIsEs THF
coUysEIs OF HIS FATHER" in order TO distract
f and dsunie the Party who vcnerate the wisdom
and the character Of joys QUIycY ADAMS.
We again commend Mr.. SKATERS letter tc
, progressive democracy" in general, and par
ticularly to that form Of it which rejoce< in tina
good and true Whig,' Martin Van Buren,.