Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
The Position of the Wing Party
in Vermont.

Unless the tone of its presses has ceased to
be a criterion for judging of the sentiments of a
party, the Wing party of Vermont may now be
considered as irrecoverabIy committed to sus-
tain the schemes ofthe slave power, as the same
party in Maryland and Kentucky. Nine or ten out
Of the thirteen Wing presses in Vermont either
take open ground to support the compromise,
and abide the new tests Of the Administration
in its behalf, or indirectly signify their acquies-
cence IN the views Of the more frank, and there
fore the more honorable opponents of their party,
In order TO show how far we are justified in
making these assertions respecting the stand now
being taken by this great majority of the Wing
presses in Vermont, and at the same time to
show in what estimation the only realfy rGfrac-
tory one among them is held by those who ought
to know him best, and what motives are supposed
to have actuated him in his recent course, for
which we were stupid enough to accord him
some credit, we subjoin the following extracts
from The editorials of two of the leading Wing
journals in the State, only further promising that
we can furnish enough more of the same sort
from other Wing papers, if wanted.
From the Bellows Falls Gazette.
Gin saying what we did say, we alluded to no
individual, we spoke of the Wing party. The
whole article is one which we are not ashamed
of but one we feel proud TO father. This ar
ticle was, by the Montpelier Watchmun, consid-
,s,I ,,o~tb,, &c an yn(n;r p.oeopto,,o, - -
readers. We noticed that attack as we thought
il deserved, and the Wdtchman accuses US of
giving it " nearly three columns of as imperti-
nent and i'll assorted stuff as it ever had coca
sion to see" If truth is impertinent, there is
much more impairment stuff yet to come, and
from a source inrxhaustible. When we have
no better employment, and cannot sleep, we will
quote a few Of the W~0tchmdn'S lamentations to
amuse ourself,-at present we have other bust
ness. One, only one truth will we impress upon
the Uatchman at this time, it will be enough Tor
it now, a week to come. We told the WatChman
when it was abusive Of General Taylor, that it
would have lis own words to eat. We now tell
that paper to be careful how it speaks of the
present able WIG Administration, and the
WING peace measures, unless it desires to
make another feast Of words uttered and said.-
Not only an immense majority Of the Wing par.
ty, but a majority of the people are now trlum
phlntly sustaining the peace measures of the
last Congress. AS in the cause of Gen. Taylor,
the Wing party must sustain and triumph with
the Compromise floating at their mast head, or
they will see the Denoctaiic party victorious by
The adoption of tins popular Wing thunder!-
VIII any Wing 60 ont OF the open path 10 vic
tory for the miserable bait which AboIitionism
throws out? No, M. Let the Watchman gulls
take that kind Of food, others, we lust, see the
hook"
From the Vermont Journal.
ITO the gross aud indecent illusions of the
editor vt the WGtchmdT, we have but little to
say, He Is quite welcome to all the capital he
can make. We can have no personal contro.
yersy with the blackguard, whether he calls
himself Wing, Democrat. or Abolitionist. AS
to the charge OF being" deaf" we ignore it, as be-.
Ing something entirely new 10 US and our friends.
As to the charge Of being " short sighted" we
plead guilty, so far as we are responsible for SO
hemous q crime. And as to our being " voluble,"
it is barely possible that the editor of the Uiatch
man may find US as " voluble" as may suit the
vulnerable position in to which he so vnadly throws
himself. In reading some half dozen editorials
in the last WdtChmdn concerning the Admins
%tration, Mr.. Webster, and ourself, we were for
chilly reminded of what " Junius" said in reply
to the mad aud incoheront rawlings of Sir Will
liam Draper 1--WE think it was, when he told Sir
William that he had 90 all the madness of poetry
without any of its Inspiration
This whoe affair lies in a nutshell. The APP
pointment of law publisher has been given 10
an able Wing newspaper, that needed the small
support such an appointment yields, instead of
the Watchman, which did not need it. Now the
question simple is, shall Vermont Wings wage
a war on the Wing National Administrations and
suffer internal strife and division, merely to graf.
ify a personal pique of one editor? Is the birth
right of the Wing party of Vermont in the hands
Of the editor Of the Watcman? And il so,
would he sell it fol an income of $3.50 per an
mum? Is this the value of Vermont Wing prin-
cipleS as fixed by the Montpelier editor ? Let
the conduct of that paper answer.
THE MISSISSIPPI, at the last accounts, was
within three feet of the highest mark it has ever