Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-14
For the freeman.
A Voice From Orleans County.

A Voice From Orleans County.
Mr.. EDITOR II noticed in late number of
the Gazette IA little sheet printed at Irasburgh
under the direction of one of the Watclman's
pupIls,) " little article" referring to our noml-
nee for Governor, which has attracted no notice
except for its scurrilous falsty, and receives no
comment, in this neighborhood, except that of
contempt But as the WdtchmlGn, and doubtless
other Wing prints have copied it, desire to
notice it.
The Gazette represents that Mr.. Redfeld
took different grounds before the two conven-
tons that nominated him for senator of Orleans
County in 1913, "played slyly," and much 9th.
er such stuff Now the truth is simply thus
Mr.. Redfeld was the Democratic nominee in
1847, was renominated by them in 1848, and
very distinctly and atlength defined his position
=" the right and duty of Congress to interdct
slavery in the Territories" &c. This, he bold
ly put forth as cardinal principle, and distinct
ly told the convention that nominated him, that
unless they could take him with that faith,
they must look up another man." After the
breach in the democracy" at Montpelier, in
the summer Of 1849, there was Freesol con-
vention at Irasburgh which was very numerous
ly attended, and Mr.. Redfed was called upon
for his views, when he re-affirmed the same doc
trine which he had before uttered in the previ-
GUS convention, and his sentiments met with
such favor that the old Freesoil candidate with
drew his name, and Mr.. R. received the nomi-
nation of this convention. The whig wire
workers fabricated 1.-TWO sets of lies" for that
campaign-one that he was terrible bunker,
and the other, that he was an exclusive "Liber-
ty man." These were actively peddled accord
ing to the market in various localities. 1t is
true the people of the county were aroused
They left their workshops and their fields, and
met together in masses with countenances ex-
pressive of firm resolve. Mr.. Redfeld address
sed the people boldly and frankly. The peo-
pie responded, and wing lies we're powerless.-
The peopLe elected him: and wing operators
looked with long and distorted visage upon the
wre of whig party, ever before in the as
c.ndant, then in minority of more than three
hundred.
If the Wings are so infatuated as to continue
as they have begun, they but invite the canvass
of 1913. The truth is known herc-let 1t be
known elsewhere.
see the Watchman is publishing this thing
from the Gazette, and fzzling and sizzling IT. P.
Redfeld in fix"that piece by the way, is all
lie(-" who is T. P. Redfeld ?"-" no politics
to brag Of" &C. Has that Watchmne no char
acter-no manliness-no self-respect-no talent
no decency? If he has, his paper bellies him.
Before he accuses others of duplicity, l would
advise him to little self examination If l
, recollect the Wdtchman stated that Old lacks
, Allison Letter could never induce him to sup
port that nominee. Afterwards he turned about
and declared those letters " old wing doctrine
, every plank" And more recently, his paper
has been filled with long, windy articles, vndi-
eating the "Habeas Corpus act" as true wing
faith yet he goes into council and abandons it.
-" AN"AoISu TIC L uSlllNe OIuV6 ACL as an OUT
rage upon the rights of the people--yet by one
switch, at Bellows Falls, he curled his little tail
and at once conceded that to make such amend
ments as experience may hereafter suggest, is
all that should be asked. Glorious wing doct.
rine-every plank. 1t sees the whig party at
the last national council repudiate {" the Oridin-
ance of 49," and yet asserts that to be cardi-
nal principle in the faith of the Wing party
He affects to be provoked at the assertion that
the Whig party, as resolved in our convention,
"profess no principles" yet he sees the last Ma
tional Convention of the Wing party, after re-
iecting the Wilmot Proviso, dissolve neither as
serting nor protesting any principles, and con-
fessedly unable to agree on any. He sees the
exponent Of the Wing party in this State advo-
Gated as the friend of the Habeas Corpus act,
and this act, discarded by the whig press and
the Wing Convention-sees him upheld as OPP
posed to the Fugitive Law, and yet this law and
the administration that effected its passage
that approved and executes it, fully endorsed
Hale, of the ". Journal, said, last winter, he
would make Walton turn about and eat his own
words. Verify, friend Hale, thou art prophet
Craftsbury, Aug. 1851. VERITAs.