Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-07-19

sed for revenue alone, and ASKS FOR NO
Projection.
Again, what reason is there to believe
that the cause of human freedom would be
advanced by the triumph Of Martin Van
Buren,, and Jacob BrinckerhoG, and Preston
King, not to mention their brother pro-sa-
very democrats ofVermont and other North
ern States? Remember that King, and
Brinckerhof and other leading Barnburners,
sustained the gag rule ms late as February
1874 that they and Van Buren,, with one
voice, advocated the election of James K.
Polk, KNOWING that his success would Sc
cure the extension of slavery by the annex
alton of Texas; that the electoral vote of
every Democratic state in the Union was
cast for Polk and Texas in the canvass of
1874; that on the final vote for the annex
alton of Texas, EVERY DEMOCRATIC VOTE in
both Houses of Congress, SAVE TWO, was
cast in favor of that nefarious pro-slavery
measure, Dix, Hamlin, Norris, Brincker.
hof, and King, sustaining il; that Martin
Van Buren,, in August lS4S, in his letter
accepting the nomination of the Buffalo
convention, expressed his adherence to his
former opinion, THAT CONGRESS OUGHT NOT
TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA. Remember too, that in the cleo
ton of 1874, every wing state in the union,
south as well as north with the exception
of Georgia and Louisiana, whose votes were
faiSifed by Democratic fraud, cast its suf-
frage against Polk and annexation, and that
upon the final vote on that great question:
EVERY WING REPRESENTATIVE SAVE ONE,
AND EVERY WING SENATOR SAVE TWO, voted
in the negative; and then ask yourselves as
honest and intelligent men, upon which you
can most safely rely, Democratic PLEDGES
or Wing ACTS whether you can trust
the professions of men who are secretly in
trigung for the election of the STAKEHOLDER
Thomas II Benton, who rdicules the Wilmot
Provlso as a humbug, and at the same time
are denouncing the wings for sustaining the
anti-Texas STAKEHOLDER Zachary Taylor, who
is pledged to approve any bill of Congress
adopting that Proviso!
But let us look at the practical aspects
of this great question. The question of the
extension of slavery is applicable only to
the territory wrung from Mexico by the De-
mocracy, for none fear the introduction of
slavery into any other portion of our nationl
domain. There is probability, amounting
almost to entire certainty, that California
will be prepared to offer herself for admis-
sion as state, at the next session of Con-
gress, and there is also the strongest reason
to believe that New Mexico, on both sides
Of the Rio Grande, including the Santa Fe
country, of course, will take the same step
quite or very nearly as soon. There is no
slavery in either territory. Public opinion
in both is unanimously against its introduce
ton, and it is therefore certain, that the
constitutions of those future states will pro-
hibit it. With full knowledge of all this,
the present administration is promoting, by
! all lawful means, the formation of state
governments in these territories, and is pre-
| pared with hearty good will to welcome them
AS FREE STATES, whenever they shall ask
admission to our sisterhood,
III ali human probability then, the pro-
posed action of Congress in restricting the
spread of slavery will be anticipated by the
action of the PEOPLE of the new territory
but if otherwise, then Gen. Taylor is openly
and irrevocably PLEDGED to approve an
act of Congress, which shall apply to it the
principles of the immortal ordinance OF
1857.
The first year of the administration OF
Gen. Taylor, therefore, will be rendered
forever memorable, forever glorious, by the
final settlement of this greatest of Amer
can questions, upon precisely the terms
most acceptable to the people of the north
and we trust it will also be signalzed by {
return to that wise protective policy, from
which Democratic counsels have so unhap
: PLY turned us away. Such are the sure
fruits of the Wing victory of 1913. Liberty
men, compare these results with the conse
quences of the election of lS44, and tht
certain evils which would have ensued hat
your new allies succeeded in eecting tn,
author of the Nicholson letter in 1913, ant
say whether you will return to your friends
or make common Cause with their enemie
and yours
, Vermont has long been renowned for tn
, consistency and stability of her political &C
ton. In the victory of 1913 she exerte
an influence vastly beyond her numerica
strength in the electoral College She
E universally acknowledged as the most trus
worthy standard bearer of all wing egions
as the only political luminary whose lustr
has never been dimmed. This renown sh
cannot now afford to lose.
; Tho srEpFAsr srAR,
, In Oceans that never yet wet,
Bur FIRM is rIrED, AND oivEIH LIGHT FAR
To all that in the wide dOep wandering
a Is destined to suffer no baleful eclipse
: The wings of Vermont will not voluntaril
O strike their colors after victory, and the
n are too well fortified in position, and to
strong in the justice of their cause, to allo
h them to be wrested from their grasp by
shameful defeat
e HARRY BRADLEY, !
is PORTUS BAXTER, uhin SIN
O E. p. WALTON, JR., Tmg :,.a
q A. p. LYMAN, |0"'"''e'
q HAMPDEN QUITS.
o o Montpelier, July A, ls49.
G The Coalition Convention Des-
cribed by Locofoco who
was in it.
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