Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-11-08
County Appointments.

The distressing cries of the Patriot seem
have alarmed nobody-in the Legislature or on
OF it. Indeed, from the Wing press ofVermon
there is but one response on the matter; re
Spouse full of rdcue for the insane rawlings o
the Patriot-full of Justification for the coufs,
of the majority in Joint Assembly.
The burlington Free Press and the Woodsioc
Mercury concur in opinion that the coalition lea
ders played their game for Office, and for moth
ing ese failing in it. they ought to be mani,
enough 10 give up the "spoilsr. without eroan
OF course these presses have no sort of sympa
thy for our lachrymose and wrothy neighbor ovcI
the way
The Vrgenmes Vermonicr has pi,hy article
upon the subject, and SO brief that We find space
for it;
"The Long Team"
The locoloco newspapers in this State
are, Just now, making most terrific outcry
over the fact that the Wings of the Legisla.
ture have decided TO bestow few of the
County offices on men who have long SIG
nalized themselves as valiant defenders OF
Wing principles, but who, by reason of their
being residents of locofoco Counties. have
hitherto been excluded from any participa-
ton in the "small honors" Of The State
government Those modest journals argue
that because the veterans of their party
have held the Offices in those Counties time
out of mind, they should, therefore, be sul-
fered to continue to hold them during all
time to come, and that to deprive them OF
those Offices, and bestow them upon Whirs
who have been struggling against them, in
the minority, for twenty years, is lItile else
than sacrilege.
We apprehend, however, that a few mo-
ments' elaboration might render them lit
tie less noisy In our opinion the men
who have manlully breasted the tide of tri-
umphant locofocoism for quarter of CEN
fury, sustained by the strength and purity Of
their political principles, and without one
shadow of other encouragement, are Geser-
wing of much more favor at the hands of
their party, than the men who, during all
that time, have merely sailed smoothly upon
Wing current If such men have failed
to triumph over their enemies, they have
done what is more, they have DESERVED to
conquer; and certainly have right t. be
remembered as among the faithful, the tried
and the true.
We have felt no apprehensions that loco
focosm would succeed in getting up howl
sufficiently hideous to deter Wing Lcgis-
lature from pursuing a course in relation to
County appointments, thus every way just
and honorable.
The Brcsaboro' Rienir also has an article
which is both short and good thus:
The Vermont Patriot is lashing itself
into agreat passion, because the wings in the
Legislature have seen fit to exert their polit-
ical power, and appoint Wings to Office
The tolerance of the Wings in admitting
their opponents 10 share of power, has
been continued so long that it is now claim
ed as a right. The only wonder ought to
be, that with the examples of bitter aud
mercless prescription all around them, the
wings of this State have not before abolish
ed rule which meets with no favor from
their adyersaries. The power of appoint
ment is given to the Legislature, and al
though the wings have always held a large
majority there, they have, with iberaliy
unmerited and unappreciated, generally al
lowed the representatives, of the various
counties and districts to designate the APP
polntnents. So that when there has been
a majority Of locofoco members in Il county
locoiocos have been appointed to Offices
There is neither justice or proprity tn this,
because the responsibility Of the appoint
next rests upon the majority of the Legisla-
ture, and because it very often happens that
majority of the representatives. Of coun-
ty are elected by minority Of tie electors.
We are no advocates for prescription,
but it is right and just to apply the same
rule to our opponents that they apply to US.
We hope this whole system of appointments
will be swept away by the amended Consii-
tuition, and all county as well as town Off
GERS receive their appointment directly from
the people.
But what we desired particularly to notice
in the extract from the Patriot, is the severe
thrust he gives to his political friends in
New Hampshire. They ought to know
that the Vermont Patriot stigmatizes their
Legislature as mere political body which
ought no longer to be digni6ed with the
name of Legislature body. There the ma
jority has been locofoco, and it was never
known to respect the wishes of wing conn
ty majority, or to bestow upon wing the
lowest offices in their gift. On the contra
ny, legislation in that State has shameessly
been directed to ruthless prescription of
the wings, and has even descended to the
meanness of shutting out advertisements
from the wing papers,
1t is little singular that the Major has
never before xerceived the degradation of
the New Hampshire Legislature, and repro
bated its partizan character. In his denun-
citation of the Wing Legislature OF Vermont,
the Patriot must remember that he paonoun-
ces upon the character and conduct of his
own friends.