Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-07-10
The State Convention and the
Windham County Ratification
Meeting---The Campaign
Opened.

We had the pleasure to attend the Whn
State Convention, on Wednesday Of last week
and the Wndham County Ratification Meeting.
the day succeeding, both Of which assembled al
the picturesque and delightful settlement
known ms Bellows Falls After brief supple
mentary visit to Boston, we resume onr post with
renewed hope and confidence, to-day "a hope
and confidence which the united and harmoniou,
action Of boh the large and resolute bodies Of
Wings mentioned was so well calculated TO in-
spre. In neither was there the least variable
ness or shadow Of turnng--bo'h stood square 40
TO the time honored standard Of National Wing
Principles, which comprehend the most eulipbt-
ened devotion and loyalty TO the Constitution and
the Union, and the most enlightened freedom of
opinion and discussion.
We trust never TO see the day when Vermont.
the only infex.be Wing State in tins great Tn.
ion shall prove less true than she proved herself
On "Wednesday last, to the Union and to herself
She has been for quarter of century the faith
fullest defender OF the Wing Cause aud forever
may she entlue herself 10 the just praise which
ndehty TO Principle always merits, by adopting
that Just middle course between autagnn..tic
ianatcIsms Of opinion, North and South winch
IS equi-dlsant from tlmidltv, on one hand and
rashness on the other Conscious rectltude and
truth are always quiet aud serene amid the tn
mutt which error and ultralsm excite. Vermont
has been kong reulcd,-by the South, as being
IN the most offensive sense, an abolition Sttten
and by the tanatIcal abohtionsls of the Norhas
being " bound TO the Car of Slavery n The cal
liant Wings of Nem nj have TO answer 10 both
COMBINATIONS Tor Vermont, for a time whereof
the memory oil man runneih not to the contrary
has been Wing State Bur both accusations
are unjust. She Is neither. The Wings OF Yer
mont have always defeated the strange factions
combinations and coalitions remembered as Lib
ery-men' 'Free-Sohers,' Abuhuonsti.' and
free-democmts,' and please God they always
will They ask no stronger lncEement than To
be called on TO defeat open or covert enemies of
this Union. They always respond to the appeal
they gave the electoral vote of Vernon. u iIar-
rlsonto Clay and TO the er-to-be-lamentad Tav-
lor (" nomen ciGriu e penerab1e 81 with the
same zeal and eaneslness, the same corlalitv of
attachment to Wing Principles and the Union.
and the same singIeness of political purpose and
intention, with which they gave their confidence
and support 10 the elder and the Younger Adams.
men whom New England raised and nurtured-
ihey have never recognized geographical lines,
m measuring their attachment to the Constiiu-
ton ana the Union, or IN dlscharging their polit-
zeal duties. Mason * Dxons boundary has al
ways been to them worse than an imaginayy
boundary,-it has been an absurdity. They have
stood by the Union, one and ndiyislble, and they
stand by II now In the eloquent language OF
Daniel Webster, uttered IN former crisis of
the Republic, they have ever believed that " In
the dark and troubled night that is Tor may bel
upon US, there Is no Star above the horizon 10
give US CLEAN of Light, excepting the intell- /
gent and patriotic WIG PARTY of the Uni |
ted States" TO that Party,ln triumph or defeat,
the Wings of Vermont unhinchlngly adhere
They uphold It's Principles, advocate It's Meas
ugeS, and when the occasion demands, will again