The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-09
The Brandon Post and our County Res.
olntions.

Inc cultor OF The Brandon Post, after
broodng over the subject for two or three
weeks comes out with three columns Of
twaddle in his last paper, respecting the Res
outions of our County Convention. The
entire unanimity with which those rcsou-
tons were adopted, appears to have serious
ly disturbed his mind. lie va, never con-
suited about them. No particular difference
was shown to. his personal opinions. They
did not contain even a recognition of his ex-
istence, or Of the establishment of an "Ac,
commodaiion Line " by the Democracy The
author Of those resolutions had not the fear
of the Brandon Post before him.
The editor of the Brandon Post thinks
= the rank and file Of the party" did not
know what they were about, in passing those
resolutions. He thinks he discovers in them
" a most distinct endorsement nj Webster
ism" when critically examined" On the
Tariff, River and Harbor improvements, the
Sub. Treasury, the Public Lands, the Con.
s'itu;ion, and Economy in the Public Ell en-.
ditures, he thinks they "ethcr substantially
adopt the democratic doctrines, or resort TO
a most contemplate non-commitlalism."
The editor Of the Brandon Post cries out
with horror, in view Of the fnct that the
Wings Of Addison County are " considerable
anti-slavery ner f. lie seems to be perfect.
ly thunder. struck, that Wing Convention
in Addison County expressed CENTRE conf
dence " in Northern Wing Administration,
and REGARDED it as entitled to appreciation
and support" lie asserts (what everybody
who has read President Fillmorc's message,
however, knows to be wholly untrue) that
it's "policy, so far as measures not relating
to The great question Of Slavery are con.
cerncd, is kept just where the last Democrats
| ic Administration left it," While making
this assertion, he of course knows that ever,
well Informed person understands its falstv.
Every great Wing measure-the measures
Of public policy specially mentioned in the
resolutions Of our County Convention
President, on the only proper occasion that
has been presented for the expression OF his
views on these subjects, viz in his message
last December.
The editor of the Brandon Post wishes
the Wings Of Addison County to understand
that they have been "jesuitically y imposed
upon, by seven men whom they selected TO
draft resolutions that in passing those reso>
lutons, they endorsed the compromise
measures and that in endorsing the COM
promise measures, when he has said and
written so much against them, they did very
unhand.cmc thing, and that be don't think
so well of them for it In short, he evi,lent>
y wishes them to understand, that if they
will take their own course, they cannot cx-
pett the " appreciation and support of the
Brandon Post
Ii is idle TO spend much time on such
dishonest carping as that of the Post. Our
resolutions were perfectly understood 10y al
who heard them. They cover the same
ground always occupied by the Wings of thi.
county. They contain no endorsement of
the compromise measures Not ore OF
them is named. The Administration is in
no sense identified with those measures.
They are not party measures, though passed
by Congress in which the party TO which
the Post professedIy belongs had majority.
Whether they ever will be disturbed, or
whether it is wise to attempt to disturb them.
in the present stale Of afltirs, are questions
on which The Wings of Vermont may differ,
but Of which our County resolutions say
nothing. Neither do they express any opn.
ion of the course of Mr.. WEBSTER, or any
preference as 10 Presidential candidates.
They have no meaning that does not appear
on the face of them. If the editor of the
Post is bewildered by them, We regret, on
his account, that more pains could not have
been taken by the committee and more es-
pecially. MS his unnecessary and il-imed
comments appear to have filed his columns,
to the exclusion Of the admirable letter of
his gubernatorial candidate, Hon. LucIus
b. PECK, in which his own resolutions, on
another occasion, are critically examined"