Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-09-05

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PROM the DGiy Of y cineSday ErcningJ
The Election yes:crday-Thc Result
Our returns from other parts Of the State
come in slowly, but enough have been received
to indicate with some certainty the grand re-
suit. We have no doubt that the Wing State
Ticket IS again handsomely elected, by THE
PEOPLE,, and that the Legislature will be largely
Wing in both Branches.
Nothing is more apparent, in the few returns
Of the Popular Vote that have come to hand,
than that the poor iugrlc clristcncd Gree De-
mocracy" has cflGctuNlly had its day, and is
completely Frustrated, In common with all
true patriots we rejoice at this Indication Of "A
sound condition of popular sentiment. Free
Democracy san imposition in the beginning
was nurscd in fraud and dcv!ltry generally. and
l,ns died before it WAS fairly wcancd,-and, as
1 Duke of Burgundy said on a different occ0-
SION, we thank God for it y We are not
amonr those who hold that sail is fair in poll
tj,s' We dctc3t aud abomnatc the doctrine.
Nothing is fair in litcs that is unfair any
where else. The political kn1vc and sch,n or
is quito likely TO be knavc and schcmer
generally, and would steal the goldfish thu he
could not buy. THIS is or opinion, at any
rate.
lust look Mt it for single moment! These
yNl tl,y,
bowels of Vermont FOR the past three years, set
themselves up ns the special friends of the
"poor Slave and the guardians of Freedom in
this County by particular appointment. They
srrorated to themselves. in the most impudent
manner, the whole anli.sayery sentiment OF
the tate, and made capital, for brief period,
bv assailing with peculiar venom, the Wing
PART, the only really conservative and eff
cient opponent of Slavery in Vermont. And
when the time for ro'ing approached, they
made base and dshonorabe alliance with the
cohorts of prc-slavery, prcTeXas, and anti
abolition, for the purpose of beating the
Wigs :" and Pan: Dillingham;, Jr, THE
Vermont Representative in Congress who vot-
cu lot lIlc dulHlHsluu VI lChdo Will ia lHCA~
pugnablc stain of Slavery, and who was a
partisan of the Cass.and- Butler concentration
OF pro-saveryism, suddenly became one Of
their most vociferous orators and advocates -
Was there ever cheat more bold-faced and
impudent? But this was not all, nor the half
Of ALL The leading ocofocos in the State,
the Ncedhams, the BARRIERS, the Eastmans,
the Vilases, the Smiths. the Fields alas that
we have to class Chas. X. Field with this
poor faction y men who had voted for and
Otherwise sustained, all the locofoco pro-slavery
denominations that have afflicted the County
since the reign of the Van Buren, dynasty, be.
came loud-mouihcd in their denunciatons o
poor WHIGs Of Vermont BY the prospect oil
political ascendancy in the State, they were
inspired with the highest regard for human
freedom and human rights Nothing was toe
long for their philanthrophy, nor was there
anything too SmHH to check its benevolent
exercise TO hear them talk one would
think that all that was necessary to be done tC
secure universal emancipation was to "dcfea,
the Wings" of Vermont! They appealed tc
the well-known ant-slavery sentiment of the
Wigs Of Vermont, they addressed the well
known lust for office and spos" Of the loco
tocos, and thus attempted to bring about {
Coalition that should "defeat the Wings.
Under the fimsey and transparent Disguise o
Abolitionisrn they endeavored simply to "whiI
the WhiGs.' The mannuver proving unsuc
coCcfn1 thov ba u roturpal n thnir wa llnw
ing" The Gubernatoria vote Of the State vii
show that the old-ne locofocos are desertin!
the Free Democracy organization like frigh,
encd rats Look at the returns from eight
towns in Windsor Co. in another column, ant
Judge 1t is evident that Free Democracy has
become a minus quantity. Those who have uSet
II tor political purposes, for couple of years
have found that it don't answer the end 70
which it was hutch Il!
We rejoice especially ut the diminished vote
of the spurious and arrogant Free Democracy
IN Vermont. Give Us 4 fair and open foe. w
hate these spcclous operators who dilc
from nobody on the main issue" and arc read
'r bargain with ercrybody for Office. We pre-
fer hundred times to see a regular Old-Lin
I.ocOfOc0 elected to the Legislature, rathC
Tran poor observation-disclosures And it is be
cause We prefer a frank and avowcd opponeI
to a trcachcrou' friend. 81 Free Democracy
has no doubt got It's final adjustment"
Vermont, this time, and we are cmphatcall
glad Of it!