The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-05-21
0be AlioSIcburp Register.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1851.
The Vermont Democracy"

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Tomorrow, according to programme, the
Regular Democracy" of this State hold
their nominating Convention at Montpelier.
The call, signed by D. A Smalley, P. c..
Tucker, and others, State Committee, in
viies " all who would honestly act with, and
cordially sustain the National Democratic
Party, upon the Platform drawn by the
hand Of SILAs WRIGHT, and adopted by
the Baltimore Convention in 1886, and re-
affirmed by every National Democratic
Convention since that time" Whatever
may be said of the principles here referred
to, land they are certainly far enough from
those we profess,) We cannot;but allow some
credit for consistency and frmness to the
few who have remained mistaken through
the Free Democracy excitement; and
we believe the determination TO bring the
Barberand Eastman "wanderers"back 10 the
old Democratic" ground, or. else to re.
main separate, is sincere and earnest. Were
there no other reason for this belief, the fact
Of the near approach of another Presiden.
tial campaign would remove fall doubts on
this subject. Men who have so lorg held
out,in opposition to fanaticism, will not yield
to it at last against manifest policy and in.
te-esi.
We do not think it likely the FREQ Sol.
wing will come directly to the terms pro
posed by the Nationals quite yet. They
have some precedent for so doing. however
in the conduct Of their friends in Masss-
chusetts and Connecticut-and We can hard
ly predict the future course Of that party in
this State with much confidence.
How this set of men are regarded by the
Regulars, will sufficiently appear from the
extracts below, taken from the Burlington
Sentinel. Their proclivity for new names i,
shown up in no flatterins light and hi, Ger
tainly has a very different look from the bill
ling and cooling that preceded the " thirty.
first Of May " compromise:
alt will be remembered that the coalition
lists of the 3lst Of May prefScd the wore
free" 10 their democracy" in order tC
make tho name palatable to the wings WHOM
they designed to delude with it. Finding
by two years. experiment, that the term hat
less Of magic in it than they had hoped, ant
indeed, was impo'ent to ~conjure with, the,
now drop the word from their party cosco
men, and have called a convention 10 NEE
at Burlington,i which they entitle, 81
State Convention Of the democr attic party o
Vermont." II they had called themselve
'the Wing party OF the State of Vermont
tho designation wonld not have been u NOR
palpab,e misnomer, nor the dishonesty Q
the act more thoroughly apparent. Tn
object plainly is to cheat democrats at lom
and abroad into the belief that hey are.th
real democratic party Of the state, affiliate
with the democracy Of other State.
Whereas the regular democratic party {
Vermont whose Organization we supper
and whose name these abolitionisls woul
steal, is well known to them as acknow
edged and supported by the democrati
organizations in every State in the Unior
If this trick of adopting an 'alias' is wh'
the Courier meant by making a new party
We can only say that it is n very cheap ont
and like most other cheap things, yer
worthless. False names may aid The purpt
ses of a rogue for a lille rhie. bat lie mu
hpiicity of his aliases is usually a stron
circumstance to bring him 10 justice at las
We do not believe the free soil .committe
will obtain anything by this most piliful
false pretences, except the Indignation
democrats, the contempt of wings, and til
disirust oil many of their own party. Th
very desperation evinced in the conduct
the free sellers, is an omen Of good TO th
democracy Of the State"
ON the other hand, the Patriot insis
that the Free Soil party is after all the re
Democracy" and, with manifest conceri
propounds the following serious questions {:
.sTo what state of affairs are we dcmocra
approaching? Where are He? VIVA
ARE WE, and where is all this to end r
If these questions are not sufficiently al
swcred in the foregoing remarks of the Sc
tinel, the editor of the Patriot may get ne
light on the subject, ION or before" the thi
Of September next. Now that Messrs. Barb
and Eastman have taken off the ina SIX, al
openly claim that their party is the true al
genuine Democracy" we tiiat certain {
rant Wings will see whittier they have be-
all along tending. and where they a
destined ultimately to and, under such Ct
dance. We commend to such persons. c
pecially, the searching " questions we ha
quoted from the Patriot.