Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-11-29

of the common cause, Withdrew the candi-
date already nominated by them
Recently, the Democratic seceders in
New York who had joined the Free Soil
party, have returned into the bosom of the
old National pro-slavery Democratic party
and while protesting indiciduai hostility to
slavery, declare that such hostility will not
be made by them party test. They have
accordingly consented to support candidates
brought forward by men who utterly repu-
date the Free Soil creed Hence these
New York Democratic Free Sellers are
now bound by all the ties which their own
professions can forge, TO support Coss or
Calhoun at the next Presidential election,
should either be the regular Democratic
candidate. The avowed object of the late
union is, not to rescue our territories from
the curse of slavery, but to 'ohip tic Wigs
to get office by revving the very issues
sacrificed at Buffalo on the altar of Free
DOM
In this reunion, and its motive, | think
l see, not only Il surrender of principle, but
a betraying of those members of the Wing
and Liberty parties who acted with the Sc
ceding Democrats in voting for Mr. Van
Buren,. Hence l feel under no obligation
whatever to support the present mongrel
Democratic ticket. So far as profession
goes, regard the Wing party in NewYo rk,
Judging from their late address, as a far
more reliable Free Soil party than the New
York Democratic Coalition and where the
candidates are in other respects equally
qualified, prefer the Wing nominees as
apparently the most true to the Anti Slave
ny cause; at least the Wings have not A.
bandoned, cheated and betrayed their friends
and fellow laborers for a mOjcfy of the
spoils.
1t is under these circumstances, that in
your letter (received last evening" you
ask my opinion of the expediency of mme-
diately calling convention Of the old Lib
erty party. The expediency of such call
must of course depend in great degree up-
on the disposition Of the party to respond to
1t. am too much retired aud have too lit.
tie intercourse with the gentlemen of the
party to know their views in the present
unexpected emergency. If such call
should be cordially welcomed by the party
and the Liberty ticket should receive fifteen
or twenty thousand votes, wholesome re-
Duke would be administered to our recreant
Democrats, and the result would tend to
prevent similar treachery elsewhere But
should the ticket receive angud support,
its failure would be regarded by the public
as indicative of the decline of the Anti sla-
very feeling in our State. 1t is also some.
what questionable whether there is sufficient
| time before the election, for an efficient
party organization.
You tell me the Liberty party men are
generally more inclined to support the
Wing than the Democratic nominees
Such feeling is, think, under existing
circumstances, but natural aud honorable.
How far this feeling would disncline our
friends to "A Liberty party nomination, l
have no means of Judging On the whole,
feel that | am not in possession of the in
formation requisite to justify me in giving
decided opinion on question so important
as the one you propose.
Your visit to Bedford affords us agreea-
bic recollections, and you will confer ia
vor upon us by repeating it when convcn-
lent to yourself.
lremain, my dear Sir yours, truly,
WILLIAM JAY.
]. w. TAYLOR.