Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-05-10
POSITION OF PARTIES.
A Portrait of the Locofoco Lead
ers in Vermont.
DRAWN BY ONE OF THEM.

rlously argues lor tne cooli'ioh, t'"o u'""' ="
charcoal sketch Il. G. in black Of the locofoco
managers in Vermont:
"The political conventions of tho South as
sumed the strange and ultra ground that "under
no political necessity" would they support any
candidate for President or Vice President who
sanctioned the doctrines of the Wilmot provso.
Not only The conventions Of the Crireme South
assumed this attitude, but even Virginia, the
smother of Presdents"-the defender Of the
old republican lallh-Virginia, rich in the fame
of her great apostles Of democracy and liberty
and having in her bosom the grave Of Jefferson
the immortal author Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Ordinance Of 1857, on both of
which Freedom bazed in lines of living light
even Virginia. stood in the van of this crusade
against liberty and demanded of the free dem
ocrats of the North that they should support no
man for President who did not distinctly repudi-
ate the wel-esablshed doctrine that Congress
had the power to exclude slavery from the new
territories, and that Congress ought Immediately
to exercise that power. The South having as
sumed this attitude, those in the democratic
ranks who aspired to the Presidency, saw at once
that they must worship or die" that the Presi-
dency was to be reached only by passing tile or.
deal which slavery had erected in the Presden-
tial pah. To an ambitious man this was pre-.
sentirg fearful alternative. 1t was asking of
the democracy Of the North and its leading men,
what the democracy of the South had no right
TO ask. IL was sort of robber demand Of
your integrity or yoW lVc-the making OF which
ought to have placed them without the pale Of
determination and alliance with freetncn. But
the demand was unblushnsly and imperiously
made and perIinacously insisted on, and the
champions Of the democracy Of the North yield
cd to ii
After STATING that the same demand WINS made
"po" "'e " "'s' " VIC 'Sou1" uiu /u'Se'y "uoi''@
that IL was "successiul," (Gen. Taylor, be II re-
nienibered, was taken on the pledge mol TO bring
the Executive rover IN benr on this suh,oc, tho
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a1 o,,,,
ter in or{cr n confor,n b;c o;;ons ,'n5j;cj', %
far 10 the requirements of The siareholdmg d,n.o
Gratis, as 10 meet The test Of qualification they had
S ss ~" s 80 tgnI ~ ~ vs. M inaa nc Gn so ana
accepted of his nomination after that declaration
o. sentiments, and faithfully supported him under
Tue most encouraging CIRCUMSTANCES only rem
Nv 1ha Son,hnrn J "'e u"u u,sr,''on
all he did to satsfy their unwarrantable demands
on the slave question, and Notwithstanding all
!he' Pfolessions OF attachment TO The democrat
n he defeated md those nensyros - he hoyardoI
by voiing for the Shareholders candidate. in suf
fc:ent numbers 10 turn the scale in his favor
slavery was ,ne paramount interest with Them
mnde M Account of tho s5ocr;ticos Of 60, Cass
md the Northern Democracy, and gave them up
TO ingiorious de:eat. They practically said to
.aea u,u =. " we Mo'tl you ac' WIN
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,bat nv hn p.o.;Ie ~ ue 'ooNeu u..Ir
dar 10, io,,nr, ,,,,,a, E ,. t
:, avs,s md oors i h ~
-, 800, ...S. o '.i eHtoi'ueu wherever we 10"
'.' )" shoi' '.e uoi'ooiauo p '' u.
',u'. pTnoy ".oiiy ~ T ~ "
"0 wants a"u e'"''''o Vi s'a'ey
AND knowing all This IN Ie4o as well as lo49,
these ocoloco leaders cut Van Buren, and sup.
ported Cass and SLAVERY. Thew mn, orn sattino
,bo,,.ol,,os 49,, nc ,l;l.,oa r. .,Ili :.
W 10 oo''''''"'e' III 'P'''''"'P III
Me--Free-S o1l-parU!
We'll, good people, what think We of these
fe!lowsp Our opinion is lust this; if these fell
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lows couId III iust ycur les's' 'he ieuliui u''er-
native" of Snrtry or no offices, they won't resist
the same bait ON the next occasion. They NAV
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N'' -''' ~" ~ wv w. Wv '"o'
once cried fTotecuon; nut inc moment lheir
Southern brethren call for their aid they will be
ms. as ready tn oo for more annexation md roore
e,,-.
slavery Us lucy are III" " e'io 'iie o'a'ooiu''
hoslon Oh f'ee 1'"ae
MS 10 "o' 'e"'"'n a. 'aHuo"'' o"' !" 10 e,''i-
tea anu "a'f'''o" " 'ne a'''o' correspondents
thus
MS conu9ct anu 'nese ae .h vi .ne pr.
the free states from all Utilization to make anv
more concessions to their former brethren OF tue
South, and have forced them TO look for and seek
.ne sup en!aoy anu oaNasion VI .r1 gu .liio
democracy among the freemen, of the pon.slaye.
holding states They have made sacrifices to the
wishes and claims OF Their sleveholdlng brethren
cerdorcv Of ,heir fovor;te and cherisLed meas
ures Of national policy, IN vain. Those sacri.
fees have not soved them and their cause from
defeat because Sldrehoid'ng democrats preferred
The Success ~ tbt;r o,"., .or no. ~ "." pm "
from the free states They have deliberately
sundered the band which bound the democracy
~ sao t,o''" ~ a ah ou," uge'"er' ana now lh'
fieemen of he North and West, to carrv f for
ward true democratic measures on the basis o
aaAFn - oil lluf h ln..