Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-07-11

we supposed it would, the senseess clamor Of
It's Washington leader. we have read If with
care, and we own our surprise that n papct
which, within the last year, has been the open
advocate of the election Of the most ultra
Free Solers in the Commonwealth TO the biph-
est State oiliccs--that for weeks carried the
names Of Hon. Henry Wilson, Edward l..
Reyes. and others of the same color of faltb "
at the head Of its leading column. and called
upon the Democracy to rally to the polls and
support them, should have the eflrontcry to
to talk against abotionisn at all, under anv
circumstances but that it should presume to
set ltsel up as censor upon the doinps ofthe
pennsylvania Wing Convention, and question
the integrity of WIN. +. JOHNSTON. as TO his
devotion to the Union, the Constitution, and the
Laws, was stretch IN the game of nnpudence
we were not prepared for.
we nave no patience with politicians whom
we believe to be heartlcss and corrupt. Now
what can be more perfectly contemptibe than
such papers as the Union, Post and Journal of
Commerce accusing the Wing party of Penn.
sylvania Of being hostile to the Union? Is
there person connected with those papers that
believes 1t Do they not know that they arc
pennlng rlght-down talschoods when they write
these accusations? Most certainly they do
And tins only shows that all thei~ expressed
devotion to the Union is but as the PRAYER of
the Pharlsec, mnde for show, TO gain for them
an odor OF patrlollSn, which they now m st
Wolully lack. 1t shows that this cry about the
Uhloh Is dishonest cry, 50 far as concerns
thcln. Were they really fearful of the safety
OF the Union they would have hailed with dem
oIlStratlohS OF great JOY the proceedings of the
pennsylvania and Vermont Wing Conventions,
at Ooth oil winch resolutions were passed. ex
pressing In the strongest possible language de-
Votlon to the Union, to the Constitution and to
the laws. We say they would have reoccd at
inc broad, genial, national feeling expressed by
these two Conventions. But, no, this would
not do; 1t would take from them part of their
political capital ; it would be Acknowledging
that others were as holy d" az we profess to bs.'
Now we do not accuse he editors Of the
prints we name with being disunionists: we
should be sorry to believe they WERE But we
DO accuse them of knavish hypocrisy. in accus-
ing other men of being disunonsts, when they
Gnop that their statements are false. We ac-
cuSc them Of being knnvish and hvpocritical.
when they tell their readers that Il word was
sald, at either the Pennsylvania or Vermont
W hlg Conventions which savorcd in the least
degree of hostility TO the Union, or to the Con.
stltutlon, or that favored SeciionaliSm in any
"dy-OccauSc thcy know that their statements
are false; because they know that sentiments
breathing the most devoted attachment to the
Union and theConstitutlon were passed, and they
ought TO have the manly honesty to admit it,
ana not play the small drmagoguc upon mat
ter OF such grave Importance.
And then these gentlemen mix in the name
OF GENERAL SCOTT with their abolition, ""dIs-
union cry. Yes. these newspaper patriots,
who were probably running about in their
short clothes" when Gen. Scott was pouring |
out his blood in defence of his country, and Of
The Union and the Constitution, and whose |
very name, when mentioned, brings up in the
mind recOiecions connected with the highest
achievements, ard the most devoted patriotism
this Is the man whom these scrbblers bes-
paiter with their piiiable, lying abuse Let
mem beware OF the game they are engaged in.
1t may prove their ruin.