Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-08-08
VERMONT wATcHMAN 4 STATE JOURNAL.

q him vii pessnacieu i1esojipa Ior 6vs days.
lIthough 4 ~ Is sioos eknt - couI1-spos be
elected. and although it vas Known that B. H.
French. 4 sound democrat, could have been eIecs
led At any period during the struggle The Free
Soil men indicated their willingness to vote tor
him, as di6 several liberal Wings. -
The Freeman comments thus:
Upou the last parsgrath q Tie article from the|
Sentinel we have only to remark, that If the pre-
diclion thers prove tsue, the foul vortex Of slaves
nv will number more than 5000 voters from Ver-e
mont, who, although like Forney are willing to
become the supple tools Of slavehclders,yet they
are, and viii be, cast of and despised as "bdse
co;nr by the slavehoiders themselves, and ioath-
ed and sbhorred by every lover Of Freedom.
The Burlington Courier, commenting upon the
eIest,on Of Speaker and Clerk, and the consis-
tencyn Of the National Democracy" deals some
Is kard bio,os. and puusmeis" the head Of this
reant sycophant Forney, in the following man
ner: ss's
TIE BuRLINaT0N CouRIER ExPouNDs THUS:
"Bu, oh. Democracy, do look at the picture
You now behold. We mean Hunker, doughface
iemocracy--,he kind that flares up at the first
movement in earnest against the impudent. Sleep
less, boundless wickedness Of slavery. Forney
was q regular specimen He wrote the most alb
ject crawling, craven, pitiful, sneaking conglon-
er,tion Of ioadyisn, to slavery tina, the whole
Ncr1h could turn out Everything that slavery
demanded was assumed to begin with. Manly
opposition to the curse and its extension was to
him oulv fanaticala provocutiou" of @our South
ern treihren," only an attack upon "our glori-
Gus Union" If slaveholding bsaggarts mounted
their s.ilts znd swofe they would walk rough
shod over the aforesaid Union it every body did
not permit and help them to do as they pleased,
Forney, instead of hu:ling back their insolence,
was ready to swear that they were In nest,and
10 denounce every man as foe 10 the Union
Who did not Immediately yield in order 10 paci-
+, them All this Fosney did and said, and he
fam hoped it would please his sovereign masters
in their great condescension. 10 reach down their
gracious hands and bestow on their very humble
and obsequious bootlick, the rich plum Of the
Clerkship. But no; 1t was no 90"
Afer lick at Speaker Winthrop, the Cour-
Ter concludes thus:
"Savery has at length determined to teach
northern hunkies that il will have no halfway
business that if they want any help from the
South, they must just turn their backs on the
North. and put on the collar marked "Slave-
ry's dog" Then they will be rewarded-or not,
as it shall please their masters.
Nov, under all these circumstances, the only
thing we have to say TO either TayIorites. or pro-
slavery Democrats or apologists, If you like such
partnership, why, goahead.'
The FREEMAN CONCLUDES THE MATTER:
If Mr. PECK and these other Free Democrats
can satisfy themselves for their course, SO be it.
We are confident THAT NO FREE SOIL MAN
COULD CONSISTENTLY coNDEscKSD so Low, AS
TO SUPPORT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FOR ANY
OFFICE. SUCH MISERABLE D0uGaFACE as
FORNEY. m s.a
We close these remarksIn the language of the
Era:
We have spoken plainly, though we know
plain speech will wound moi few for whom we
entertain the kildest feelings.
But a crisis has come when we feel constrain-
ed to expsse fully to tie people the conduct of
their representatives,. If the conduct OF the lat
ter please them, lei them say sos if not let them
express heir dlsspprobalion- One thing is GER
tam, the non-slayehollers OF the country will be
troddcn under foot 20 long as they suffer Their
to submit u the despotism OF
caucuss.s controlled absolutely by the Slave
Power" lis-t11i
We have to remark, that these coalition or
gans, which thus spoke of Lucius d. Peck in
JAM 1850, are now grinding an entirely different
sort Of music. If the party chooses to dance to
such pipers, certainly they will not complain if
other folks laugh at the ridiculous figures they
cut.
Just listen TO these jolly pipers: in January
last, their song was-'no free soiier sciu be guilty
Of" doing tehut LucIus D. PkcK has done "no
free soier Gun consistently condescend 50 io,o'
LucIUs B. PECK has dune.! "Hunker, dough
faced Democracy" y a.yorihrn Jaunky"n! Nor
was their nusic all Of this explosive sort: the
Freeman chanled the resolution Of the truck
s. decker convention of May, 49, reafiirmed in
October last, in the most solemn sly le, declaring
hat to be the prime article in the free soil creed
Mr.. PECK could no, be ." free Democrat" unless
he subscribed to that. We mean, of course, the
quoted above BY the Freeman, requir-
ing all free sellers to support srHE PRINCIPLES"
Of the 49 platform, and " role for no man who is
not at all times ready to own and maintain those
principles" That was the January music
WHIT is the tune in July? "Hurra for LucIus
B. PEck." To be sure he has violated the Test
he has voted for doush-faces-he has descend
I'd too low" for free soil support. But. hurra for
Peck. Such is The Consistency of the free
democratic organs: nay, Of The pnfy-for the
party has abandoned ITS TEST. Look al the res
buttons Of the State Convention of July 2: you
will find that the TEST, agreed to in May 49
md reafirmed in October, is--ENrIRELr
The party is no longer bound by
hat resolu,ion-and SO, in effect, is dissolved
On this ground, of a radical change in The creed
Ind on this only can Mr. PKcx's nomination be
justified. Will the old Liberty men ratify this
;bange Of the creed-this knocking out the bot
oin Of the platform, for free-soilis,n to slip
voting for him? We do not see
now they can do ii and preserve decent regard
or their principles; nor do we see how the old
liners can well fellowship him. Tie truth is
vi. PECK has really acted Nth neither, but
against both. and sometimes bst,ceen
10th. HIS position has been q bad one.i He
vas elected to Congress by the old locofoco
'arty, against the Wings aud Liberty men, aud
was expected that lie would act with the old
ocofoco party. After his election. the coaIiton
os formal col ~. Nate v,~cfoSsod ~~d,c.y