Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-06-16
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE IA, 1913.
THE GREAT RATIFICATION CONyEN.
TON AT PHILADELPHIA.

a stirring account of the proceedings of the Rat
i~fcation Convention, held in that CITY on Friday
evening last, after the nomination of TAYLOR
and FILLMORE. 1t was the largest assemblaec
ever known in Philadelphia, and was character.
lied BY harmony, union entlusiasm,-" every
thing for the cause" The following noble Res
%olutions were unanimously, and with acclama.
tons, adopted
I. Resolved, That the Wings of the United S,otes.
here assembled by their Representatives. heartily rat
iy the nominations OF Gen. ZACHARY TAYLOR
as President, and WILLARD FILLMORE as Vice
PRESIDENT OF the United States, and pledge themselves
to their support.
2. Resolved, That in the choice of General T,v.
LoR as the Wing candidate for President, we are clad
to discover sympathy with n great popular sentiment
throughout the nation-a sentiment which, having its
its origin in admiration of great military success.
has been strengthened by the development, in every
action aud every word, of sound conservative opin.
ions, and true fidelity to the great examples of former
days and to the principles of the Constitution as ad-
ministered by its founders.
3. Resolved, That General TAYLOR, in saving that.
had he voted in 1914, he would have voted the Wing
ticket, gives us the assurance-tand no better is need
ed from n consistent and truth speaking man)-that
ms heart was with us at the crisis of our political des-
tiny, when HENRY CLAY was our candidate, and when
not only Wing principles were well defined and clear
Y asserted, but Wing measures depended on success.
u hVult tiIt Nus WIFI u tUeu Is WIFI us now, ana
we have a soldiers word of honor, and a lite OF public
and private virtue, as the security.
4. Resolved, That we look to Gen. Taylors admin
lstratlon OF the Government as one conducive ofPeace,
Prosperity, and Union. of Peace-because no one
peter KNOWS, or has greater reason to deplore what
he mas seen sadly OH the field of victory, the horrors
OF war, and especially OF n foreign and aggressive
war. " Frosperity-now more than ever needed to
relieve the nation from a burthen of debt, and to re-
store llldustry-agrcultural, manufacturing and COM
mesrcial--to its accustomed and'peaceful functions and
Influences. Of Union-because we have a candi-
date whose very position as n Southwestern man, rear
ed on the banks OF that great stream whose tributaries,
natural and artificial, embrace the whole Union, rem
ders the protection Of the interests of the whole coun-
Try his flrst trust, and whose varied duties in past life
have been rendered, no, OH the soil, or under the flag
Oh any State or section, but over the wide frontier, and
under the broad banner of the Nation.
s.. Resolved, that standing as the Wing party does
on the broad and firm platform Of the Constitution.
braced up by all its inviolable and sacred guarantees
and compromises, and cherished in the affections be-
cause protective OF the interests OF the people, we are
proud to have as the exponent OF our opinions, the one
who is pledged to construe it by the wise and generou.
rules which Washington applied to it, and who has
said-tand no Wing desires any other assurance)-tha
he will make Washington's administration the mode
Of his own.
6. Resolved, That as Wings and Americans, We
are proud to acknowledge our gratitude for the great
military services which, beginning at Palo Alto, ant
ending at Beuna Vista, first awakened the American
people to a Just estimate of him who is now our Whil
candidate. In the discharge of a painful %duty-fol
his march into the enemy's country was a reluctan
one in the command Of regulars at one time, and o
volunteers at another, and Of both combined in the
decisive though punctual discipline of his camp where
all respected and beloved him in the negotiation o
terms for a detected and desperate enemy in the
%exigency Of actual conflict when the balance was per
ilously doubtiul,-we have found him the same, brave
distinguished and considerable, no heartless spectator
Of bloodshed, no trifer with human life or human hap.
piness and we do not know which to admire most
, his heroism in withstandiug the assaults Of the enem,
in the almost homeless field Of RuPna Nigtn-mnurn,
ing in generous sorrow over the graves OF Ringgold
OF Clay or OF harding,-or in giving in the heat o
battle terms OF mercifuI capitulation to a vanquishec
foe ut Monterey, and not being ashamed to avow tha
he did it to spare women and children, helpless inian.
cy, and more helpless age, against whom no Ameri
can soldier ever wars. Such a military man whose
triunphs are neither remote nor doubtful, whose vr
tues these trials have tested, We are proud TO make
our candidate.
Z. Resolved, That in support ofsuch a nomination
We ask our Wing friends throughout the nation tc
earnestness in behalf of our candidate whom calumny
cannot reach, and with respectful demeanor to oul
adversanes, whose candidates have yet to prove theii
claims on the gratitude OF the nation.
Many eloquent speeches were made by dele
gates from the various parts of the Union, al
breathing one spirit of attachment for the Wing
Cause and the Country, and of determined
opposition to the further Extension Of Poll
; Measures and Policy by means of Lewis Cass
A. p. LYMAN Esq, of Bennington, the Delegate
to the Nominating Convention, from the FRS
District, addressed the immense concourse, an,
amid hearty cheers for the indomitable Wing
OF the Green Mountains, whose 'star has neve
SET" pledged Vermont for TAYLOR and FILL
MORE by an ld-fashioned majority. Vernon
sent no firmer or more devoted friend of Henry
CLAY to that Convention than Mr.. LYMAN, an,
we venture to say that the Convention containe,
no man who would have been willing to worl
harder or sacrifice more, to secure his nomina
ton and election. He we'll knew the affection
ate regard and profound attachment of tn,
Wings of Vermont for the character, services
principles, Of HENRY CLAY. lie knows, too
that in 10 way could he better initiate the nobl'
example more than once set by Mr.. CLAY him
self, and signify the earnestness of his desire TO
the defeat OF Old bunker I.ocofocoism and it
monstrous measures and policy, and the triumph
of the b~enignant PEACE PRIScIrLEs of the Wing
. Party, than by a cordial and hearty acquiesenct
in the nomination of the Wing National Con
v%ention. 1t Is the course Mr.. CLAY has himsel
marked out for those whose single aim it is tc
rescue the Government of the Country from thu
misrule Of those who have madly plunged it in
to War of Conquest and Subjugation, ant
whose insane policy Gas most distinctly shadow
ed forth by the Candidate for the Presidency
Lewie Cass,) would inevitably lead to othe
Wars Of the same fatal character.
We believe the Wings of Vermont will justi
fly the pledge made in their behalfby Mr.. LYMAN
at the coming election, and thus place her stamI
of condemnation upon the anti-republican Ad
ministration of James X. Polk, and the effort t.
perpef uate such an Administration in the person
} of Lepis Cass.
u Some modern John Bunyan of a Dream