The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-06-12
THE COALITION.


found the particulars of the grand coalition at
tempted at Montpelier, on the S1st ult. 1t
will be seen that the leading men in this move
mert-a movement unequalled for cool and
deliberate contradiction of former professions
were men whose reputation for political
honesty always rated low, and who had, In this
respect, little character to lose. They are
men, for the most part, who had no scruples
about the perpetuation of Slavery in Texas,
where the people strenuously demanded 1t, but
all at once, they profess unbounded horror at
tbe idea of its admission into California and
New aIexico, where the people of those terri
tories. Ito whom in two or three years, at most,
the question must be submittedD have express
" and boldly declared that it shall never ex-
ist We undertake 10 say that bargain con-
summated by such men, at the expense oil
consistency, integrity, principle, and every
thing but desperate laundering after office,
and bitter envy Of Wing success, will fail OF
a very perfect ratification by the masses who
are thus attempted to be Sold
That INSCRIPTIONS demagogues should en-
fer into a combination was to be expected,and
that such a result was about to be realized, we
have all along predicted. We have been C.
oually confident, likewise, that such coalition
in Vermont. until our citizens have departed
far away from their former integrity, can new
err succeed. The truth is, these jugglers who
haze taken in hand the defeat of the Wings
by means so repugnant TO the moral sense oil
every honest man, have reckoned without their
host. 1t is possible they have yet to learn that
the great body of the people of Vermont have
not lust the same anxiety to crafty inordinate
pronensities for Office, that Observation-Disclosures
ers have to secure it.
The ticket put in nomination, we need
hardly say, is anything but a strong one, or
popular one. Where the candidates are known,
we predict that their vote will be measre-
and that meagre and scattering vote reluctant
ly given. We do not hesitate to say that to
nlace such men at the head of our State al
fairs. would confer no new glory-intellectual
or moraI-on this commonwealth. With phys
zeal proportions abundantly sufficient to I'LL
the Governors chair brimful, we are satisfied
that in spite of all that this new aspirant for
the Chief Magistracy would be likely to effect,
a year of such governorship could be little
better than an interregnum- 'cOuid In all
human probability, be considerably 'rorse.
The resolutions adopted by the singularly
constituted convention which put Horatlo
Needham in nomination are only series OF
hats to catch gulls. 1t seems that the test
question, on the adoption or rejection OF any
ayowal of principle was, " Shall we gam votes
bv this, or lose them ?-On the Tariff, Tor In
stance one member offers a resolution IN IA
vor of a sort of Kane-letter Protechon-where-
rnon another makes an estimate Of how many
votes ,cere lost by passing such resolution last
veorr No principLe in the matter-ot course
not-nor in anv other resolution passed on
that occasion. The first two are intended to
exnress confidence, respectively, IN the prin-
c;nlcs Of the Declaration of independence,
and in the Constitution of the United States.
It was well. undoubtedly to remove all suspl-
ciops in that direction. if possible. We are
constrained to say, however, that this extreme
sensitiveness to such suspicion, indicates ratn-
err consciousness of guilt than Of innocence
Then comes 1--WE toleraJly strong Anti-Siave-
nv resolutions-not so good, however, as the
Whiqs of this State have adopted, and dcte0
nm 10. for years. Then come the bats more es-
pecial-three resolutions respectively approx
ing Cheap Postage; Sale of the Public Land'
at cost of Survey and transfer C"vote your
self farm y; and Education ~!
Tho 1,tb resolution afTirms determination
not to g countenance the revival OF the ques-
t;ons Of u. S. Bank, of the Sub-Treasury'
and Of the Distribution of the Proceeds oil inc
Public Lands. Should these issues be "revlV-
ed by the people, however, we have no ilgh'
as to the course our opponents intend 10 Pur-
sue. The 18th resolution declares that tne
party can support no man as a candidate iOr
Soto or National Offices, who does not sane
ton the principles embodied in the foregoing
resolutions" Mr.. Needham, however, was I'M
derstood to say. before the Convention broke
I'D, that he might, under some circumstances
vote for Slaveholder.-The two remaining
resolutions ale condemnatory Of the Admins
,ration. as it respects d" the cause OF freedom
We shall not waste orr time, at present, IN
exposing the injustice and absurdity OF such a
wholesale condemnation. founded on mere sus-
picion, and a stubborn adherence to the false
assertions and groundless assumptions put
forth during the campaign, as to General lay
lor's views on this great question. Beng un-
true from the beginning, re-assertion, no mat