Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-03-05

nave, ana u snow inc SUPERIORITY vi tlc MAINE
law, carried CONVICTION to the heart of every
one present.
ga new move on the poitica chess-board has
taken the knowing ones here quite by surprise
While most of the Virginia newspapers have,
of late, seemed to be taking esp"clal pains to
show their hostility to the aspirations OF Mr..
D5ug.as to the Presidency, by their terocons
assaults upon his particular pet, the Democrat
ic Review. all at once, one OF the most radical
of them ALL the Richmond Examiner, has en-
tered the lists as his champion, and filings its
banner 10 the breeze with his name inscribed !
thereon s6 its first choice This Is an uneX- |
pccted gpdsend to the warning fortunes ot the !
little piaut, and makes some talk here Just at |
moment when topics ot political gossip were
becoming awfulIy scarce. Not the least pecn-
liar part Of the move is, that while Douglas
has been claimed by his friends AS being the
father OF the compromises-( was achlId
blessed with SO many parents)-l Examiner
has ever been one OF the most rampant OF the
anti.compromise prints in Virginia While
! Mr. Douglas is Tor Intervention. even as be-
tween England and Ireland, this journal shows
! it ~ favor. Radical Democracy is the only
point OF contact, bat that, it seems has proved
suhcien, to cement union Of sympathies
crscv, and accept tie Illinois Senator an
exponent Of that interesting phass of Ioco-c-
| colsm In its terms Of euIogium in speaking
OF its first love, it deals out strongly implied
| hts at the Buchanans, Classes, and the old
hnnkerdom OF the party. Is candidate, 1t
SAYS, sis no relic Of the past, no toSSlt remain
of bvgone time !" "no past defeat" it adds,
.'casts lis ominous shadow in his r,th.' lite
belongs to no clique OF old togies." He mas
no past back sIldings, no indiscreet speeches.
&c. &c The Examiner winds up with anti
cipatlug the nomination of General Scott, adj
ms that the Wuigs under his lead will give
them hard strug lie, says the talk about Mr..
Fillmore at the South is IA mere blind Zen.
Cas-, 1t states, is losing ground fast, 50 Is Bn-
chanan, while Douga. and Houston are gain
,ur every dav, and thinks that the contest viii
ultimately lie between the last two Aitogelh-
er it is a rich article, though not one OF really
: much moment.
Y a pparently, however, there may be some
truth IN It's assertion, thai G'nerai Lass is ia,-
linz astern. lie evidently feels il himself, and
for several days past has appeared much cast
i down and disprited, 1t has been suggested
r that he entertained great expectations from the
a sensation his speech on intervention would
e. nave caused, and feels deeply mortified at its
n most perfect failure to make so much as rip
q Die on the public mind. No elaborate effort
i ever fell more completely stubborn. Yet so
J, largely had Mr.. Cass counted upon a sensation;
e that he had been at the expense to have copies
e Of it in New York before lis delivery, and 1t is
d said to have been IN type in that CITY at the
: time lie WAS delivering il IN Washington
o That, after all these preparations, and with all
this preliminary flourish, the speech should
81 have proved so heavy and excited So Little no.
: tice, has not little troubled him, and is the
t principal cause OF his present moplsh detection
d Cor. Boston Atlas.
: II we were n ocofoco (Which, as TttIeba
h Titmouse would say, thank God we are II,
J. such thing y we would rather have the little
IT "black Douglas for cand idAta than IN, Hon
% of such old grannes as the Michigan sword
breaker, Cas-. We beat him to death in lS4S
r, and could beat him TO deather in 1852 There
I'd is not great deal of DoUGLA$,--he is a Gun
le ming, good uaured, pleasant, sensible, and NJ
" dou0l patriotic, Yankee but he is head and
70 shoulders, small as he is, above Cass and We
h hope our Locofoco friends generally think so
re because we want TO whip somebody wo7tI
~ whipping next year. Give us the hule DOUG
n LAs.-the little constructive Shareholder, Doug
l. no never wrote Nicholson Letter no
= produced such an abortion as Casss recen
- Hungarian speech. lie is a clean sort of ;
chap,--not fit to be President of the United
j. States, by any manner of eans,-not borI
lie nor designed by Providence, 1--WE Think for an!
~ such inappropriate elevation, but, after all,
IN right decent Clever fellow" smart, shrewd
I'd and Western,-a man you would be sorry L
see beaten, bul who would be sure 10 be dread
- fully beaten, smart shreHd and Western al
10 he is.
le We think Douglas is by far the best MAI
y the Locolocos can run. Buchanan, the ancien
IL Tory, Csss, tne poor trimmer, and Houston, The
Vi Sir Andrew Agu"chcek of inflated dtiveer~
It are as impracdcabe as suns made of ice It
er warm the world. We cannot determine whicl
10 OF the three superannualed hacks is in thu
w poorest condition for the race. Neither of then
could, by any possibility, win ; and it seems Il
l. be kind OF supertiuous enquiry as TO which 0
a them would be worst dstanced. Houston
=, would carry Texas, Cass might carry Michigan
, and Buchanan could not, by any known
NJ trchery, carry Pennsylvania ;-)ut, ailer all
y, we think Buchanan would get larger volt
Il than either Of the others
20 But give us the little DorGL,s lie is fresl
nc and rosy. He is nice little Western Jack o
e ubs, and thr only Locooco we can think o
'G as standing the least chance of being "turnct
y up" And if he should be turned up it would
''count one" by the established rules of "IIovle
-e IA circumstance that would be Likely to I'll
Al the hearts of the respectable Messrs. Mlcawbe
~ # the party with unspeakabie joy Give u
N he Little DOUGLAS, by all means.
al Patent Laws.
re We find the following, with which we per
It fectIy agree, in the n. \, Times, The exist
ID ing system Of p1ientins results IN nothing hn
d the urn,scsl iuiustice So far as re vast major