Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-07-23
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SwANroN July II, 1852.
Mn. ErToR, will you please insert the following
i'll your paper and much obge yours, and fellow
Wing:
Pursuant to notice. the Wings of Franklin County,
met in County Convention at Sheldon, on Thursday,
the 18th, for the purpose of nominating Candidates
Tor County Officers for the ensuing year
We had the pleasure OF attending that Convention,
aud a more enthusiastic body OF Wings have
not met for twelve years. The old Wing fires which
seem 10 have slurnb red since tie days of Harrison
are rekinded on the hills OF Vermont. At 10 o'clock
\. VI the Convention was called TO order by c. ii.
Il ,ydcn, Esq., aud the Hon. Arqrsrts BURT ap-
pointed Chairman pro trm and G. II. uAYoEH Sec
retary, pro ten Tie Delegates from the se,er4l
towns having appointed COMMITTEE 10 present q
ticket for The consideration of the Convention, it wac
then adjourned till afternoon.
Az o'clock Z. NJ, the Convention re-assem5cd
and permanently organized by choosing Judge
HUBBARp, President. and K. s. TrNSY, Secretary
While the Committee was engaged in making the
nominations, the Hon. ALvAn SABJy and II. Z.
RoYcE, ESQ addressed the people in The street
The business of the meeting having been compile
ted and series of RESOLUTIONS, rcaiimng the chez
ished principles OF the Wing Party having been
passed., the Convention listened to brief and spirited
speeches from Hon. Alyah Sabin, Hon. Orlando
stevens, { H. Hayden, Esq, K s. renney, Esq.
and II T.. Royce, tsl
Zen. ALyAHSABly commenced by observing that
tho1gh somewhat accustomed to public speaking,
yet !, had been IN different sphere, and he COMES
scd he felt some embarrassment in addressingan au
dience OF this kind sill he was happy to meet his
Wing friends OF Franklin County. HIS highest
pjrations had ever been to he identified with the for
of the Wing par,r Of Vermont he felt that the
Success oil the Wing part and the adoption OF ls
lrincpcs We're essential to the happiness and pros
periry OF the Country and The perpctuty of the I'm
ion that il he himself had any bias upon the great
qpes zion Of TIE day. it leaned TO the anti slavery
side, yc; he r,t II subject which called Tor the
exercise o. sobtrest wisIom and ild tlneut and
spirit OF iotbeAlgnce towards those VIII held to
ot'er opinions sui ho had never houyht his duy
70 unite with any bird party organization, and h.
'l9s never known party based upon 81 u" issCc
- accomplish the end they sough, for to meet witt
success
That the Wing candidate for the highest Office n
the gift OF the People OF the lifted States was, in
his op MON, iul y equal to the duties OF that high
Wing ticket, and every exertion which an honora-
he nan could make.
Hon. .. STEVENS recommended the exercise of
Jir, OF courtesy and canior towards our opponents
Ia the coming canvass, and alluded i'll eloquent terms
20 the Islander aud caiunny which had been heaped
upcn Henry Clay whe living, and the eagerness
~lth which the same llen now fastened to pay re-
spect TO his melnorv.
{. II HAYDEN ESQ, gave an interesting account
W ne National Wing Convention, and rrIrped any
,.,tl,e oi fraud and collision in the proceedings OF
hat COW :n,ion lie a!lded to the variety Of pref.
e-erces among the delegate and ia various sections
OF the Country; and sd it was or duty n9to to rll-
10 LIS sapport and redeem tn. pledge mace ty one
Of her deiega.es, that Vermont woulI,in November
l.cM -ail upp bajorlty Of ten apusand ior the Wing
-om!nees. tie briefly reviewed the OF Gen.
Scott, styling him great Military Chei,ain and
PIciticaior. While Winfield Scott was fighting his
countrys Blttles, frank Fierce vas "mew ling and
plling in hs nurses ara7" As or Daniel Web
SER the mea !u!c uG III. fame was fall As long az
eIoQuence amt oIatory were esteemed his name would
be fIinlaf 70 the world. He was an intellectual
GIANT "Oroln king
HOMER l.. RoYCE ESQ, came forward amid loud
cheers and tas Tor his name, and in a bret speech
spoke CT the great which uisiing ushr4 lie Two
parties He had once before tina day answered the
call of his Wing friends aud he now came forward
to ailude TO the policy which seemed to him the true
policy OF the Nation. 1t had been said that there
was no essential difference between the two parties !,
but he claimed there was The Resolutions which
had been passed by that Convention embodied the
genuine principles of the W ing Party Protection
TO our own interests and independence Of foreign
manufactures and lnicious system OF internal in.
pIoyements, principles as old as the VIII. Far
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The meeting finally adjourned amid the warmest
cheering Tor Scorr and GRAHAM, ara the Nom necs
OF the Convention.