The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-30


EIGHT ARTICLES appear in the last Bran
don Post, ostcnsibly in reply 10 this paper.
| The FIRST two columns and a half long, dis
cusscs the late Burlington platform, with all
a fathers zeal and anxiety for his offspring
While its author is pleading for its life, with
all the logical art, and the rhetorical nuency
and elegance which characterize his produce
iions, his own friends have s,raraled the
misshapen ban,ling in its cradle, and buried
it out of sight
fit were true that the Wings hold 10 every
principle of that platform, it would by no
means follow that the exposition of them in
question might not be consistently disap-
proved by Wings rs rabid, ultra, and ranat-
zeal, in lis language and manner. 1t is hard
ly necessary to say, however, that the Wing
party do not appr owe those principles. In
tcligent persons will well enough under
stand, Notwithstanding the laborcd arguments
of the Post, that the Wings never advocated
the Sub Treasury, or a Revenue Tariff, or
resistance to the fugitive slave law. Nor has
a single Wing convention approved The has
beas corpus act of the last legislature. Such
being the case, the Posts reasoning is desti'
tuie even of plausioility.
In another article, BY way of retort for
orr showing up this person a, most admira-
bly, inconsistent, we have that common re-
Spouse of boys" so are your This flat
and insipid wit may 90 for whit it is worth.
Every one who knows us is aware that We
have always been consistent and s,raight>
forward Wing.
The Post denies that il declared the Bur
linslon platform no test of party orthodoxy.
As we gave tho very words of that paper,
asserting in express terms all we stated, its
charge of lalsehood amounts TO very little.
Two explicit and distinct avowals of princi-
pie Collected 10 by Mr.. PEcK) contained in
that series of resolutions, this quibblcr even
nor admits to have not been considered as a
test. This admission is all we ask, and fully
sustains our former statement.
OuI lOI bONClHoIf ihS L OoA
claims to have discovered, has been incon-
sislent, IS well a. its talented" corresponding
editor" Possibly he has, but the Post does not
show il. It asserts that Gov. WILLIAMS was
both Fcdcralist and Democrat under the
old party organizations. No proof Of this is of.
fered, and nobody believes it. Since the
first Wing organization, we know rom the
testimony of men whose statements cannot be
doubted. he has always been a Whig-unlesS
bis running on Liberty ticket, with this
same " corresponding editor" is regard as
an objectionable alteration. We have par
doned it, on the supposition that he gave the
leaders Of that party some credit for honesty
at the outset and forsook them, as soon as
he discovered their true character, The facts
we stated respecting the tortuous course of
the corresponding editor" are so well
known that he does not venture denial.
BARRIERS bitter bllingssate, aimed at US
individually, serves only to show that he is
il great trouble and distress 1t is as iniu-
rious to himself as il is harmless % US. 1t is
not strange that the modesly with which he
charges us should be attributed by him TO
accusations of conscence-w which, however,
he Enthusiastically denies us the possession
of altogether, almost in the same breath. 1t
is quite probable there ,cas a time when he
himself was capable of such feelings as he
describes, and his past career has furnished
abundant occasion for their exercise. With
respectable people generally, we believe,
brazen-faced impudence does not pass for
innocence, nor the opposite for guilt.
GO JouN F. DEANE, Esq, of Cavendish,