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

| the property of the State to pay for.
IL. Resolved, That we consider that the is
sues which formerly divided the Democratic
and Wing parties in relation to a United States
Bank, SubTreasury, and Distribution of the
Proceeds of the Public Lands, have been set
tied, and that We are not disposed, in the pres
ent position of the political affairs of the ma
ton, to countenance their revival, whatever
may have been our individual opinions hereto
! fore on those subjects.
IL. Resolved, That we can support no man
as candidate for State or national offices, who
does not sanction the principles embodied in
the foregoing resolutions.
IS. Resolved, That we discover in the acts
| of the present Administration no indications
of friendship to the cause of freedom.
IA. Resolved, That we will adhere firmly
to the principles here proclaimed, regardless
of the indignant frowns of slaveholding
executive, and unawed by the fear of being
disturbed in the defence of the fundamental
doctrines of Republican freedom.
Mr. Barber moved that this platform be ac
cepted as satisfactory, remarkins that the lOcos
had already agreed to it.
Milton Brotcn opposed the ninth resolution,
unless it could be amended. II proposed an
unequivocal surrender of all the rights of the
old States-was hostile to their interests, and
against every principle of right and justice.
ALr. Barber defended the whole platform, as
being the Buffalo platform, lcih a lille backing
out. The ninth resolution, TO which Mr..
Brown objected, Mr.. Barber thought was the
most democratic of the whole, because aiming
to secure the poor against the large landhold-
ers.
Both gentlemen are partly right, and so
good an opportunity to give a clear and cor
rect understanding of the matter ought to have
been improved. We were little surprised
that Brown, who usually wants the last word,
did not insist The existing land system in
theory is intended TO encourage and protect
actual settlers, as it ought to do; but it has
been outrageously abused by the spectators
and spols hunters who have at times swarmed
under locofoco reign and with the connivance
of locofoco officers at Washington, about as
thick as the frogs of olden time in Egypt.
That they have speculated upon the emgrants,
and that valuable sections have been locked
up in land companies, is true; this, however,
is only Il part of the abuses which have pre-
vailed The lapds have also been used as To-
cofoco capital to buy up States and corpora
tons by large grants-have been squandered
in some instances and while on the whole
considerable revenue las been acquired from
them, with a solitary exception under Wing
rule, the just proportion of the old States has
always been withheld from them and so applied
as to materially injure their interests in every
respect. These monstrous abuses grew up
rapidly under the long lease of locofocoism in
the twenty years between 1928 and lS4S
they are parts of the fruits of locofoco nisrule;
and if now the locofocos of Vermont are real
ly anxious to 90 for a salutary reform, we GER
tainly are glad of it, and trust that the present
administration will give chem a chance to test
their new professions. We agree that the
lands should be held for actual settlers only
not for thieves, nor for squa'ters, who are the
mere tools of spectators. We agree that the
lands should be disposed Of at so cheap rate
that every man can have homestead; we a
gree that every honest and industrious man
should also be protected in this homestead
but there are two things which the old states
have right to insist upon: first, that the lands
shall not be hrOocn Garay TO the encourage
ment of specializing, unsteady, hasty, and
unhealthy emigration, depopulating and I'M
poverishing the old states; and second, that
the revenue, whatever it may be, should not
90 into the federal treasury. in defiance of the
rights of the old states ard for the disturbance
OF the whole system Of revenue and protec
ton. But TO resume.
Judge Hutchinson WIS opposed to the form
Of putt ng the question, suggested by Mr.. Bar
Der. He wished to rea6rm the old Liberty
principles, and not to have it appear as if they
were doing some new and great thing. This
suggestion Was approved.
MIR. - inquired if the motion was TO d.
dopt the resolutions? The chair replied in
the negative it was to opprore them, or TeGt-
firm the Buffalo Platform with variations)
Mr.. Sdfordinquired whether the resolutions
went for immediate emancipation That was
an important plank in the old Liberty plat
form.
Mr.. Barber read the third resolution, and
thought that sufficient.
M Stafford was not satisfied that was not
sufficient for the old abolitionists.
Mr.. Barber then suggested the fourth reso-
luton but that was found TO be limited TO the
exclusion of slavery from territory now free
M. IhrdU here came to the rescue, and
said that immediate emancipation was mat
ter for the States only in which slavery exist
ed. All then the old Slavocratic song that
" the North has nothing to do with slavery
is admitted to this extent.
POPPING THE QUESTION.
The Buffalo Platform, as modified in the
resolutions was accepted or re-aflirmed unanl-
mousIy, and then the question was popped
Mr.. Lewis Cass Democracy, commonly known
as plant and servile subject of King Veto
the SIavocrlt, proposes to wed the late Miss
Liberty, alias Free Soil, taking her for better
or for worse, endowed with all the goods and
chattels she processes to own, to wit, the rem
nant of the Buffalo platform,-Sball the fel-
low come in ?
Judge Parker QOco) moved to let him in,
and the parents of the bride all shouted Amen.
Whereupon, doubtless in order that the bride |
and bridegroom might have time to wear off |
their bushes and compose themselves for the
trying scene, an intermission Of fifteen minutes |
was CONSIDERABLY voted.
THE MARRIAGE.
At the expiration of this time, the groom
was ushered in, and proved TO be little old
fellow, never very handsome at the best, who |
now bore evident marks of hard service and
bad habits the bride, however, graciously re-
ceived him, albeit little fustered, but evil
IDENTIFY happy.
c. B. Harrington then moved that the ques
ton be propounded to both parties on the mar
rage settement--to wit the platform ;-it
was put, and the platform agreed to, and with
cheers and swinging of hats " the twain were
made one."
Dir. Bradley Ooco) now moved permanent