Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-08-03

WAsuINeToN. D. C., july ~ ls4s.

GENTLEMEN :--Yours of the 10th instant
inviting me, in behalf of the Wings of Yer.
mont, to attend our State Convention, to be
holden at Woodstock OH the 18th of this
month, was received yesterday. 1t would
give me great pleasure, assure you, to ac-
cept your kind invitation if my duties here
did not forbid it. Many questions of great
Importance to the country are now pending
before the Senate, and do not feel at lib
erty to leave my post until they are disposed
of. | shall look to your proceedings with
great interest, and with full confidence that
uninimity will prevail in your councils
We are approaching most important pc
riod in our history. Another Presidential
election is at hand. The two great political
parties have selected their standard bearers,
and are training their forces for the contest.
We have thrown our banner to the breeze
with the names of Taylor and Fillmore in
scribed upon it, and does Vermont contain
Wing who would see it trail in the dust if
his efforts could sustain it? No, | answer
no, not one. The Wing cause is dear to
our hearts. We love it because it secures
to the people the blessings Of free and libe-
raj institutions. We cling to il because it
night that is upon US. There is no saliva
ton for the country but in change of adj
mins;ration. five would save Rome we must
drive the Tarquins from the capitol Four
years Of misrule and extravagant expendi-
lures have brought dishonor upon the coun-
try, and loaded the people with a public
debt of more than one hundred millions of
dollars Gen. Taylor, | am well aware,
was not the choice of the Wings of YER
mont, but he was the choice of the Phila-
delpha Convention in which the Wings of
Vermont were fully and ably represented
We are bound, then, by the usages of the
party, and by every principle of justice and
fair dealing to sustain him. The Conven-
ton was composed Of hgh-mnded and pat
rotic Wings from every section Of the I'M
ion, and full confidence should be reposed
in their proceedings. If Gen Taylor were
not an honest, capable, and unfinching
Wing, he would not have been selected by
the Convention as the standard bearer of
our party. He is known TO be honest, ca
pable, and faithful to the constitutions and
what more can we desire He is South
ern man, it is true, but, if elected, he stands
pledged to administer the government for
the benefit of the country and the whole
country. The powers of Congress under
his administration, when constitutonally ex-
ercised, would not be paralysed by the ex-
ecutive peto. Wars of conquest for the ac-
QUESTION of territory would not be waged.
In word, peace with all nations would be
cultivated and harmony restored to the coun-
try. In my judgment, the Wings of Yer
mont have but one course TO pursue, and
that is to support the nominees of the Con-
vention.
With union in our ranks we can secure
the election of our candidates, and give re-
pose to the country. The power is in our
own hands, and if we fail to use it, we shall
incur responsibility of fearful magnitude.
Vermont has never faltered when called to
the rescue, and trust in God she will not
falter now, in this hour of our greatest peril.
Now, more than ever, we need the support
of every Wing in the Union to save the con-
stitulon from utter humiliation. Its most
sacred provisions have been trampled in the
dust in the annexation of Texas and in the
war with Mexico. All the barriers erected
by the founders of our glorious republic for
the protection of popular lixarty have been
Frustrated. and the DEGREES of an irrespon-