Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-07-31


Tariff Were it not for California gold, the coun-
try would now be in condition Of financial
difficulty hardly less onerous than that OF le3I
Shall we 90 on in the road to ruin. or retrace our
steps, British Free Trade Wing Protec-
tive Tariff: that is to be the question one OF these
days. Perhaps the Accommodation leaders will
then learn whether The Uhigs have any princi-
pies, and themselves any party.
" Now. friends. we are all right again The
regular democracy have a complete ticket, and
there is now nothing to do but TO give It warm
and vigorous support.
The {" Old Guard" must not allow the comp-
ment of having one of their number selected as
= a candidate for Governor, to pass unnouced J.
Vcmom Patriot
: Thus speaks the Patriot Of the result Of the
late sus- Pcek-ted Convention. Most truly has the
q" OLD GUARD" of Locofocoism been compliment
ted, and Just as truly have the old Libery men
been nsultcd. From the FIRST hour Of The coali-
ton to the llat, no genuine old Liberty man could
ever receive the first locooco vote for any sub
stuntal honor, Necdham,-Peck, Redheld,-
locofocos all,-thcse have been their candidates
for Governor and in the only Congressional dis
trct the fourth whore the purity could succeed,
its honors were conferred upon the most Jealous
defender Of " Polk and Texas
But there is another compliment to the GOLD
GUARD" which is none the less genuine because
indirect Mark, If you please the two resolu-
tons cendenuatory of the Wing party of Yer
mont; and then observe that there Is not even
one trord condcmnltory of the National Slavo-
cratic Democratic Party. Yea the Wings Of
Vermont have Just re-ailirmed, most uuequvo-
cally, all their old principles upon the subject Of
Strengthening 1t "a moral aud political evil
for which they are IN no man or accountable -
and their opposition to It's "ericnsion or continue
dnce under the authority of the Federal Govern
ment' They also expressly and positively repu
dated all responsibility for " the annexation of
/ Texas, the war with Mexico, and the angry and
exciting questions, debates, schemes and meas
ures q. @. the compromise measures, notification,
secession, &c. Sci which have resulted there
from" Finally, they went still farther and re-
pudiated entirely the dogma upon which the 500
called Union party" is founded, and express
ly declared that they regard the fugitive slave
> act as "a measure to be freely discussed, modified
or repealed, snd insisted upon the right 90 use
" all lawful means to secure such notifications
Of 1t as time and experience may demonstrate To
be proper. And these too are the principles of
b President Fillmore himself. Thus was Gebsiu-
ism most unequiyocally coudemned--that IS to
5 say, the priaciples Of the Annapolis speech and
of the Union party" for the which, by the by,
We apprehend Mr.. Webster himself Is as much
ashamed AS anybody else about these dlys GER
tam 1t is, lac has never repeated them, to our
knowledge, since the Annapolis dinner. Now,
Notwithstanding the straightforward, unwayer-
ing and consistent course of the Wing party the
Vermont Patriot chooses to charge the Wings
with Websterisn,' and the last convention Of
the ex-frec soil party disgnces itself by I'M
di gniied and false resolutions condeunatory of
the Wings And what does it say of the old
line Democratic party what OF It's straight out
declarations, ia favor of the Compromise what
OF its most decided depreciation of " agitation?7
and its eontumeous bearing against everything
; touching the subject of slavery and its dearly
beloved slavocratc allies, the originators at this
moment of new schemes for the annexation of
Cuba ana the admission Of slavery into Southern
California; Not word dear rcader--not one
word The old (Slayocratc) guard" are 'com-
plimen;ed' and encouraged by thus very express
siye silence and more-the way IS cunn.ugly
{ prepared for most cordially extending the right
hand of fellowship to the old liners in 1852. ia
the first place, the fugitive saye-law, which fig
ured so boldly in May last is buried beneath a
mass of distractions which in one year more will
themselves be dismissed In the next place, the
denial of the constiuijonaliy Of that law,
which was made in May, is now specific aban-
doned In the third place, the explicit dccara-
ton upon the habers corpus act has received a
n like dismissal, giving place to convenient alb
+ stractions; and in the last the ray Of reconcile
u alton rih The Oh Liners is thirty opeuei, Mas
. " Resolred That eternal fealty to those prin-
cipes which deny these rights TO citizens j. e.
the right of e" free citizens of a sovereign state"
to trial by jury, &c cannot recognize, as
Others do, as the test Of Democracy:
e - which means just dis:
e Resoired, Tint If the Old Liners will Just
3 drop their test we won't impose ours $50 we viii
be hail fellows, well met"
j. On the whole, we think the Patriot Is right in
i calling upon the :" old guard" to remember the
b, compliments of this convention But the Liber-
4. ~ mcn-the Uhigs, who were wheeded into the
. coalition; there are no compliments for them.
= cold Plates IN Dentistry. We have witnessed
perfect contrvance recently effected by DR. w.
Il. G, Morton Of this city, by which gold plates
are adapted to the roof Of the mouth so that an
upper set of teeth is retained in its place without