Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-09-27
From the Boston Atlas.
The New York CapituIation.

4 Many Of our citizens recoect, that on one fine
aitcrnoun lost tall, great crowd Of excited
young men were collected IN front of the Adams
House, in Washington street, throwing up their
caps and hnzzaing with all their might at the re-
marks of young gentleman, who was address
sing them on the sublime question of Free Soil
The speaker was John Van Buren,, and the mass
below were the iubllant members OF his fathers
pa:ty for the Presidency. John was the bright
particular star which those wise young men of
The East worshipped. They drank in his words
as though they flowed from an orace-lhey
pressed forward 10 take hun by the hand. as
though he were god. He had use for them,
aud therefore, with all the Discrimination learned
IN the school Of klnderhook, he urged them to
90 forward in the goJd work, and vote his fa,her
into the Presidential chair. The old parties, he
declared, were too rotten and corrupt for the pure
longer to- continue with
the day OF election came, General TAYLOR
was elected, Mr. Van Buren, received no, one
electoral vote. The Van ]uIens aud their New
York friends still pretended TO adhere to the prin-
ciple OF Free Soil; but all the while they were
sh ping their action So as to coalescc with their
old pfo-slayery friends and were only holding off
in order To dive the best bargain they could
The Old llunkers, against whom they had war
red apparently in earnest, and upon principle.
knew their men. They knew thar at heart, nei-
Their the Van Burens nor their supporters in New
York, cared the value Of sixpence for freedom
to the slave. Their whole public life was given
on the other side. They had gone off from their
former friends on question OF spos, and they
would come back to them again whenever the
bait they loved was thrown 10 them. They were
MOTTO be caught like mackerel, with bare hook !;
but at one well DATED, they would spring with
the voracity of a ten pound pike. Accordingly
they held off until the Hunkers threw them a
line, balicd with four good Offices and they seiz-
ed 1t Immediately, and are now fully in their
power, wllllng TO obey The beck and command of
the men whom, for two years, they have daily de-
nounCel as the agents Of the slave power and
the willing tools to extend the area of slavery
to wherever the South desire to have it.
We defy the Free Democracy" TO point ont
in the whole history Of English or American pol
itcs, one instance Of political immortality which
viii compare IN black deceit and bold treacherv
with the recent coalition of the Van Burens and
llunkers in New York. No gloss cnn be loid
on it so thick that the treachery5wi not shine
through it. The thing itself admits and is cana
bic OF no excuse or explanation, but it rises al
most 10 subllnlty when we consider who are the
men that have been chiefly instrumental in bring
ing il about--Martln Van Buren, and his son
joan, the leaders, from their position, of the
I" Free Democracy" Martin was their candidate
for the Presidency, Many thousand honest, sim
cere, lrue-hearled free soil men, in nearly all the
free States, broke from their old political friends
to vote for Van Buren,, believing from mis- pro-
tesslons that he was the safest Of the three can.
didates for tho Presidency upon that great ques-
ton. What then must be their feelings upon
reading that no was the first to desert them and
their principles, aud to ally himself with their
deadliest enemy, and this too, for purposes as
base as any that can influence honorable men.
The Wings who went of last fall to The standard
oil he Van Burens, have been by them deserted
and betrayed.
Al the convention of the llunkers n State tick
ell was formed, candidates we're nominated for
Judge OF the Court Of Appeals, for Comptroller,
Tor Secretary Of state Tor Attorney General for
State Treasurer, for State Engineer, for Canal
Commissioner, and for State Prison Inspector -
They however passed resolution that if the
Barnburners in their convention to be held at
Utica, should take four OF these men, namely,
the Comptroller, Attorney General, Canal Com.
missioner, and Prison Inspector, the offices which
have the State patronage, they might nominate
candidates of their own for the other places, and
the ticket thus formed should be adopted as the
union ticket, aud SUI ported by both factions, but
with this express condition:
"Provlded the Utica convention ratiy those
names, and complete the ticket BY nominating
well known and acknowledged Democrats as
candidates for Judge Of the Court OF Appeals,
81 cIeiary Of Stale, Treasurer, and State Eng-
neer, and shalt impose no principle or test upon