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

The New Accommodation Creeu'
We give this interesting document for the es-
pecial benefit OF all free soilors. BY regular
sliding scale, ever sliding downwards, the Liber-
~ party has been reduced first to the free Dem
ocratic party" and now to the Democratic par
ty !. and its creed has been whitfield down from
hiph toned lbertyism to looofocoiSm-" unicdrer-
ing fidelity to Democratic principles -hardly
qualified BY very tame distractions upon the sub
iect Of slavery. Judge for yourself Here is the
document
MONTPELIER July 22d.-The (iate) Gree Demo
crazy" of Vermont agreeably to call OF the
State Committee, assembled in the Courthouse
in this town, to-day at o'clock, A. NJ, for the
purpose of nominating candidate for Governor,
IN place of Hon. Lucus ID. Peck, who had de-
clined being a candidate for that office
The Convention was called to order by I'd
ward d. Barber, Esq, Charman OF the Commit
tee, and on motion of Judge Thomas, OF Orange
county, Hon. Edmund W eston, OF Orange coun-
tv, was appointed President pro TEN, ana NJ. IL.
Sessions, Esq, of Washington county, was APP
pointed Secretary pro TEN On motion OF Mr.
Dickey, committee was appointed by the Chair
10 nominate officers for the permanent organiza-
ton of the Convention.
Mr.. Bradley, oil Franklin county, offered the
following resolution:
Resolved Tina, a committee, corresponding IN
number to the Senators IN each county, be APP
pointed BY the delegates from each county, to
nominate a candidate for Governor,
The resolution was discussed and adopted
Mr. Dickey, from the Committee to nominate
officers for the permanent organization Of the
Convention, reported as follows:
For President, Hon. Edmund Weston, Of O.
range county. For Vice Presidents, Lawrence
Barnard, Of Franklin county; d. {. Grant OF
Chittenden county; Joseph Sawyer, OF Wash
ington county; Harvey Stewart, Of Rutland
county, aud A. l.. Judevne, OF alcdoniu coun-
ty. For Secretaries, NJ. II Sessions, of Wash
ington county, and Charles smith, OF Windham
county,
The report was adopted, and the gentlemen
named were appointed
Mr. Bradley Franklin county, moved that
committee of five be appointed by the Char, to
report resolutions to the Convention. The Char
appointed Messrs. Bradley, kidder, Barber Red
field, and bingham as such committee.
The Convention then adjourned until "a
o'clock, Z NJ.
afternoon Session.--The Convention re.as-
sembled at half past one o'clock. The President
called the Convention TO order, and while wait
ing for the report of the Nominating onmlttec,
the Convention was eloquenty addressed by
w III DilEHn, lct.s hl AutAtilhth AphiltN anu
Hon. Paul Dillingham;, OF Washington county,
and others, IN regard to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Mr. Brainard, Franklin county, from the Nomln-
atlng Committee, reported the name OF Hon.
Timothy r. Redheld, OF " montpelier, rs the cam
ddatc for Governor. The report was accepted
and Mr.. Red6cld nominated unanimously. His
nomination was received with rounds OF applause.
Mr. Redfed was present, accepted the nomlna-
ton IN an elegant and very eloquent speech, and
sat down amid enthusiastic cheering The re-
port Of the Committee on resolutions was called
for, when Mr.. Redfeld, from the Committee, re-
ported the following;
Resolved That we here again assert, as we
have heretofore, our unwaverng fidelity 70 Dem
ocratic principles /; that foremost among these
principles, maintain that the government was
ordained and the Constitution adopted, to protect
all its citizens in life, liberty, and properly, and
that the government should be ever and perpe-
tually active IN the discharge of that high trust
Resolped, That any attempt to iolst the insti-
tuition OF slavery into territory under the jurlsdic
ton of the Unon-any legislation of Congress
that exposes tho free citizens of a sovereign
State to perpetual slavery, without due process
of law---that denies the trial by jury, and strips
of the panoply of the great writ Of right, Is
invasion of the legitimate sovereignty Of the
States, an Infringement OF the guarantees of the
Constitution and should be promptly repellcd
RESOLVED, That eternal iealty to those primer
pies which deny all these rights to the citizens,
we cannot recognise, as others do, as the test OF
Democracy.
ReSoired, That we discover but one distinct
i've feature Of the Wing party in ITS present
phase as shadowed by the present admnstra-
ton, fidelity to slavery, the maintenance OF its
supremacy and invlolabihty We shall there
fore oppose the Wing partyi its principles 1t has
none.
The report accepted, and the resolutions
adopted. Near the close Of the Convention the
following resolution was introduced and adopted:
ResolpA, That the Wings Of Vermont, by
cordially approving President Fillmore's admin
isiration at their late Convention at Bellows
Falls, endorsed and tender an issue upon the Flu
gitiye Slave law; and that this Convention
promptly accept the tender, and hereby recon-
mend to all their political friends, aud friends OF
freedom and humanity in the State, to meet the
issue in every political gathering, and at the
polls