Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-05-10
COALITION IN WISCONSIN,.

Docofoco leaders oi the Free Soil party hare tried
10 sell out The Wing portion of the same party TO
Locojocoism, as will be seen by the following
creed of the coalition:
!. No more Slave Territory, nor Slave States.
2. The repeal Of the U. S. laws recognizing
or unfolding Slavery at Washington.
3. positive prohibition of Slavery in the
New Territories, New Mexico and California.
4. LAND LIMITATION man hereafter to
acquire land beyond fixed maximum.
5. The Public Lands to be granted in Limit
ed tracts TO Actual Settlers, for the cost of Sur
vey, &c.
6. Liberal appropriations by Congress for Riv.
or and Iarbor improvements.
z. Equal Suffrage for Men of all Colors.
8. No TdriFdt all; The Federal Government
10 be supported by Direct Idrdtion.
o. No National Bank; 10 Opposite of Gov
eminent Furds in any Bank; The Sub Treasury.
TO- Liberal Exemptions Of both Real and Per-
sonal Property from Sale on Execution.
Wisconsin be it remembered is locoloco by
mere plurality of few hundreds, having voted
for Lewis Cass and Slavery at the late election.
The Free Sellers held the balance of power be-
tween the Wing and locofoco parties, and by
uniting with the one Or the other could make, as
they chose, either Free Soil Wing State or
Free Soil Locofoco State. What have they done
They have gained absolutely nothing for Free
Soil, for they have required the ocos to do only
what the Wing Larry in Wisconsin lhas done
from the beginning and which could be carried
out efleclually and tliumphantly IN the election
of Senators and Representatives by a union of
the Free SoIers with the Wings. These dec
laralions, against Slavery extension and Slavery
existence in the District of Columbia, are old
Wing doctrines by the Wings Of the
Norh-nourshed by the Wings of the North,
IN opposition to all tue locofoco administrations
from Jackson TO Poik-sustained by the Wings
Of the North, until now even the Why's of the
South have been constrained to yield us a Pres
ident who Is bound not to interpose the power of
the Executive to prevent the success of these
noble principles IN Congress. The game of new
born ocofoco free soilers-mcn who arc steep
cd in the guilt of abelting Slavery in all their
party management for twenty years past, finch
ing neither al vetoes, nor mobs, nor fire, nor the
sword, to extend the area of Slavcry,-we say
the game of these men is no,O to hold up the
Wing party as the Slave party, and the Wing
President as a Slave President. They purpose
~ forget that the noblest achievement yet won
for Freedom has been won by the Wings. They
purposeiy forget that the Veio potoer held by
their Presidents, might forever prevent the sue
cess of free soil principles. They purposely
forget that The surrender of this power has been
achieved by the Wing party, and that at the
next Congress, by the act of the Wing party,
the settlement of this question is placed entirely
in the hands of the Representatives of the North.
They purposely forget that this question is safe,
therefore. unless defeated BY The treachery Of The
Northern LocofocoS. who !oT twenty years have
sold themselves to the Slayocracy for The loaves
aud fishes, and will be very likely again TO
yield to the same temptations. But what is the
real purpose of these babes IN free soillsm Let
the Wisconsin platform answer. 1t is not simply
for that could be done by uniting with the Wings.
1t is rahsr, - nd mainly, to secure more the
triumph Of LocofocoiSm; ana hence it is that the
fatal doctrines Of the Sub Treasury, Free Trade
and Direct Turation are prominent articles in
this new tangled creed The locolocos of Wis
consin barely carried the state for Cass they
were afraid they coul not carry it again; 50
their gume was to convert the Free Soil party
to ocofocosrn, Ly absorbing ii SO their game
was TO hide the most fatal doctrines Of sluvocrat-
ic locofocoism beneath a thin coating of fire. e
soil.
Fatal doctrines, we say; and speedily fatal
no party in free state can survive one single
years experience of complete free trade and di-
rect taxation. With the contemplated reduc.
ton in the public lands, liberal appropriations
for river aud harbor improvements, and new ex-
penditures for the new territory, the utmost
economy cannot reduce the expenses Of the gov
ernment below thirty millions Of dollars per
yeur. Pu. the sum at thirty millions. Direct
taxes by the Constitution are not 10 be appor-
toned On property, but on population, as count
ed for representation, excluding two titihs of the
slaves. The taxable population is twenty mil
lons--the annual tax s so to each person.
equal to $450000 per annum for the State OF
Vermont With such tax, we are to have the
Sub-Treasury, and of course to pay in specie
Can Vermont pay even one years tax of that a
mount? Not without draining every dollar OF
specie from the State, and spreading ruin over
every part OF 1t.
This doctrine of free trade and direct taxes is
the savocralic doctrine-popular only in South
Carolina, where Slavery is esteemed as the
handmade of igion and the strongest supper,
ter of civil liberty and social order! 1t will dc
for state which has sparse population ant
great wealth; or for South Carolina, which Ia:
but 100000 whites owning over 100000 slaves
and which is TO pay taxes only on three ffths o.
these slaves. These slaves are valued, say a
500 eacli--abd the tax (being S 80 TO a white
many is 90 cents each. Average her whole pop
ulatiOn and her Tux will be Sl,l0 each man.
She is willing to pay Si,l0 per man if she cal
by the means screw $3.50 out of every fire.,
white man, secure free trade in cotton and Brit
ish goods and destroy the means by whish tn,
free states live aud thrve-we mean, their agri
culture and manufactures. This will never d,
though for free stale. But this is new fnnget
Free Solism in Wisconsin. We repeat, tina