Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-06-14
Locofocoism and Free Soil.


We commend the following Just aud forcibe
remarks on Free Denucracy,h from the Daily
Free Press, to the careful attention Of every one
OF our readers. The time has come when the
sincere opponents Of Slavery Extension must dc.
eide to whom his great interest may be most
safely rusted--und to which of the two treat
parties, as judged by their past acts, they can
most consist emily and honestly adhere. in this
view, the following considerations cannot be too
carefully weighed:
Had Northern Democrats men born in an
atmosphere OF Fleedon an nururcd where hos.
tihty to human Slavery is blrlhright,-5ad thru
proved as true 10 Freedom and Humanity as
SOUTHERN WHIGs did IN that great controversy
| III 1913, which resulted in Annexation aud War,
Annexation and War had been avoided. Again
we say, let this never be forgotten; and when
the Leaders OF Northern Democracy, the men
who NON shout aud yell with newborn opposition
to the extension Of Slavery, and who can see no
political evil SD dreadful! as the spread of Slave
ry over the unInhabited wllds OF New Mexico
and California but whose consciences (D were
easily reconclled to the propriely OF spreading it
over the fertile and comparatively populous Terri
tory of Texas, your VAN BrRENs and Buffers,
OF the g it mGjorum geniiHm," and your Bar
6ers, and Fields, and Smiths, aud EastmanS and
DiIhnghams, Of the smaller ry,--when these ex
cHed AMI heart token antl-sla,ery patriots talk
to us of the sin and wlckedness of extending
Slavery, let Us be ready to ask them where THEY
were, and where The SOUTHBRN Wires were,
IN 1915, when the great question OF Annexnr
Iexs as .Snue Territory, was openly and avow-
edy before the American People for their decis-
lon
EVERY WING MEMBER OF CONGRESS- FROM
SLAvEHoLDING STATES, BUT ONE, VOTED A.
GAlNST THAT ANNEXATION. while your North.
u Jo ,b,, 81,
were in Congress, were dodglng and twisting
and turning, to duoid the great issue, or openly
voting FOR Slavery and your Van Burens and
Buffers and BARRIERS and Eastmans, were advo
eating aud voting for the election of James X
POk, who was nominated solely on account of his
pro.savery, and pronunciation opinions. Nice
young men, these new tangled I.ocofoco 4" Free
Sellers" are. They have scarcely vet begun TO
"peep' III the cause of anti slavery extension,
aud already set themselves up as leaders" in
the cause! Their mothers have scarcely yet got
word that they "are out Of their pro-slavery
collars, and they already staggering about
setiing the Lake on fire with their exclusive zeal
for Freedom They hunbug and crjoe into
their councils a few lmpractculble and visionary
Wings, like our friend the editor of the Burllug
ton Courier, (who strain at Gen. Taylor aud
swallow Van Buren,) and slraghtway Imagine
they are batierlng down the wing walls, in old
Vermont. with artillery stolen from wing armo.
rles With not enough of WHIG PRlNcIpLE
(Which, for 300 years has been synonymous with
resistance to oppression AMI love of Freedom)
among them to be detected by the infnitcsimal
calculations Of hon Gopathy. they arrogan,ly call
OH WING VERMONT 10 confer political power on
them as the best means OF carrying out Whig
Prlnclples Fresh from the work Of elecing
James X. Polk, and annexlng an immense and
boundiess sidre territory 10 the republic, they
claim 10 he The embodiment" in Vermont Of
hostility to further extension, and to receive the
confidence of men who were concndng for Free
dom while they were contending tor Slavery