Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-09-06
DAILY FREE PRESS "WEDNESDAY
TIE ELECTION.
The dawning of better day.
Free Democracy erploded ~ith rerq lille noise

We said, last evening, that we leit no dlspo-
tion to poke fun at Free Democracy But
We must ask the indulgence of our readers,
after all, while we laugh a lille The disper-
sion of the " lost tribes of Israel " was joke T
with the Rcd-sea determination that 7
has befallen the Ghosts of Freedom" who have, r
Tor two years past, " done battle in Vermont, {
for the poor Slave = We never heard or !
read OF so utter defeat as that which has, so
far as our returns show, overtakcn that unior-
tunate class of persons who undertook TO make
capital as Free Democrats ~ The poor con-
Germ has hardly lived long enough to get out
of its swaddling clothes. 1t came into cxls-
tence in l94S, with "great swelling words OF
exclu ,ive adherence of Domestic Slavery
made the most imposing appeal to the Justice
and Humanity of the PEOPLE OF Vermont (who
have always been opposed both to the existence
and extension Of Slavery and began business
on a larger capital of humane and vlrtuous
PROFESSIONS than any faction that has en-
numbered the earth since the days OF Mahom-
ct! The "cakes and ale of true Freedom
could be found only at thei, groceries! The
Wings were roSlavery, they valiantly averr-
cd. and so were the Old-Line Democracy
There was no safety for Truth and the humane
virtues generally, outside of the Free Democ'
racy Party Many wel-meanng and honest
men were deluded by those professions. For
a few months lin lS4S and lS49) it seemed tia
the excessive sympathy of Free Democracy
with all that is worth laboring for in this sell
fish world would draw after it " the masses
But the experiment has miserably failed -
The WINGS of VERMONT understand the
BRINGING OF TIE TRUE MErAL" Be-
gus politics, or bogus dollars, don't catch them !
They appear to understand themselves very
thoroughly, and when they want to be instruc-
ted and enlightened by "ncw organizations y
they will call and enquire - Vermont Wings
have not stood firmly and uncompromisingly by
the Wing Party of the Union for so many years
Wilton, knowing precisely what they are about,
They sympathse as little with the Garrison
Giddnrse-, Smiths and Save Stealers general
". Of the North, as they do with the Toombses
Stcvenses, Foote's, and Slavemakers generally
ofthe South They are f,r THE USIoS. They
are for THE Constitution which holds ;ose,he
the Union, and are for observing and respec
9 tin its honest and honorable I" compromises.
They oaihe and detest such factions and trait
-, erous gatherings as the recent Cazenovia meet
ing. in New York, where the whole venom @
the odious fAna'icism Of the age and coun'r
appears TO have been brought to dIsma an
It b,lefu focus! They are as far from Gerr
y. S NTH as they are from TOombs, in sentimcn
If and feeling. And they UNDERSTAND THIN
l. SELVES thoroughly. They do not require Polk
ud-Texas men, or Cass-and- But er convert.
10 lecture them on morals or politics The
= think they know quite much OF what III
- the times demand as such men as L. d. Bu
O Der and his huckstering associates. Whe
n they want information in regard to their polt
cal duties, they will not 60 to awakened lc
L. cofocos, or seif-risIiteous Free Democrats !e
20 it
a But look moment a, the poor plight
$. which our vivacious and Jealous friend of th
N Burlington Courier and his associates hay
y. placed Free Democracy in the G 'un'y by the
r. endeavors to amalgamate with Cass-and- Butte
locolocos Last year, they carried sir town
Huntington and Underhil have cast them on
and elected good and true Wings, and Ricl
T. mond has preferred not to be represented rath
c. than to be miSrepresenteJ! And the Old l.
ners have gained nothing by the coalition
IL They had two representatives, last year-thC
ITO l.,
election, stood: Wings Q. Fee Democra
and Locos 8. To-lay, il slanIs; Wing H.
m, Free Democrats and l,ocos 4, no choice 2. W
" have nothing more to ask We are entire
no cortent with the result Free Democracy
proved to be little more harmless in soutic
with its biuerest enemy than it was dlonc :
ID In Huntington, where our lively friend of 4
y. Courier made speech, we have gained Re
$50 resen,ative. We attribute our failure in w
liston and Jericho to the fact that be did n
advocate amalgamated Free Democracy sui
70. ciently in those towns 4. A slight effort on
ew part Of Messr-. BcardSley ano S,ansbury 4
one remarkably sick, when 4" Free Sol
=, meeting was to be held, and the other remark
bly, well y would have completely destroyed
Id signs OF Free Democracy in This County Il
we did not have the benefit OF that effort, a
ne Free Democracy is therefore spared the MOI
m fc ton of utter defeat t!
We give, below, the vote for Governor in
mt towns in this County. Last year the agg
all gate vote of the opposition in the same tow
rio. was % greater than that for Gov. CooLIDG
this year CIIASK WILLIAMS has 80 maj
on, ity over all almost enough, in this cou
alone to ensure his election by the people
which we have scarcely doubt.
rts- The Legislature will probably snow stro
NV cr whig majority than it did last year-an
was then unnecessarily large.
wi Mr.. MEACHAM is reelected, by an {
platically increased majority, probably not
than 1900.
The Wing Senators are clected-thc w
II Ia. ,.o holinvn \ the WhiU Sta