The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1849-06-16

UGcC moro WINS BrmurruJit uurty ~ Yer
mont respectable IN number aud who pur-
sued their political cuds with ste0duoss
and perseverance, worlhy'of rny pHrty or set
ofmcu, Once there was un abolition party
which grew out of holll the olf phtiics, but
principally iho Wing party. II grew lnrecr
aud larger hy Hcccssiuns ugyHlly from The
Democrats, In iwinLling this Third Party
disappeared out of -ighf md Hs quickly re-.
appeared under The form Of Free sou PW'
~. Que year has pAssrd nwoyaud lo, Ia mn
ullirr political earthquake the Free coil ma
Democratic parties are swallowed up Ar'
agniu Numtrd out M a harmonious Fec De-
mocracy with 10 discrimination. What does
all llhs mean WY this rapid shifting aud
,iolrut.rrndiug Gpd.uuluu OF opposing pnr.
ties; Does iNmcau thU, these mru"Hrc hon
csily looking az the removal Of some great
political evil, aud are willing the Sacrifice al
party interests and pary consistency 30 gain
us o., does q show that their profession
of political principle is a mere pretruce; thHt
the end they pretend to have IN view las al
ready becu gained 10y tie Wing party, aud
that they are ready at any moment To Hhan-
don any old position and To assume nny new
one, provided it viii place ucm in the na-
jotliyS ANY party, whose cud IL Office, " Ill
never gam the credit Of sri,d norhiy among
there was rcuson Tor the separation St the
Free Soil aud Democratic parties ouebSear
ago, the snue reason exists now, II the real
object of this coalition IA tOHlolish American
slavery, or to prevent il, extension. We k7oic
am, 80 does every man in Vermont '.oic taat
the Wig pBTty Ir ihis S'nte lave 90 oil times
been thoroughly mud practically d5oiiiioH.-
Years before The Free Soil parry was dream
Ell OF, when there was such lung as oppa-
s,ion To Free Soil aud abolition principles,
and that too from the Democrats of VI, the
wings of this state in the Legislature and ~
convention took strong unli.slHroty ground
which they have always maintained, and
which, AT the eleventh hour, the coaHfioHiSfS
have the efron,ery to claim as their own pub.
lie ground. 1.-THE late Montpelier conveu-
lions had adopted uerLdiim tho resolutions Of
the VI. Legislature Us fdr back MS 1896 they
Would Tiave -S iessed All Ire HteiiyitEfi 'ET'i
more good sense, than IN those they have a.
dopted.
Tho resolutions which have been put forth
10y the cuationsts all eau see, nro mere non
coHmittdl todddie, protesting belief IN uolh-
ing of Importance which any one dcuies,-
oil 'sIuings to catch wvodrecks,N rs Puloul-
us would say. We should us soon have cN-
pected them io express their faith in the Bti-'
APPLICATION liable or the rohmdity Of The earth, as
to deem it necessary to resoire inter the man
ner of the first eight OF the list. The remnn-
der of the resolutions neither do nor cnu, AT
present, contain anything ut issue. We re-
joice that Pilote and Herod hare struck hands
we can now see our man, we know whit he
is, or, rather what he is not. But how poor
~ did the action orihosc conventions express
the sentiments of the Frcemcn Of Vermont
The cntIre Wing party have to syWpulty
with them, and not a fec Of the old fashioned
democrats are FIT from voting for the gen
lleman from Bristol"