Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-08
F1a Is and Candidates.


A most novpiand singular discnssinn is now
going on among that portion Of the public press
which is seeking to excuse itself for supporting
the nominees Of the Baltimore Conventions on
the subject Of the binding force of platforms.
when not in cbnsonance with the sentiments of
the party which they purport to represent. Gree.
ley of the Tribune feeling conscious Of the ut
ter Inconsistency of supporting the nominee of
the Wing Convention. when taken with the
platform the most prominent article Of which he
has thousand times condemned. repudiates,
spurns and spts upon thn Wing platform" CON
tending that it neither binds the nominee nor his
party, and should therefore be set aside. and then
he. and those who feel like him. csn come heart
principle, he has already decided to do. On
the other sids the editors of the EUening Post,
heretofore the leading organ the B1rnburners
who have even denounced the Compromise. ard
who but week or two before their Convention ,
pnt forth a long and able protest against its
adoption at Baltimore, predicting that such n
step would lead to the certain defeat of the
Democratic party, IA prediction which deserves,
if it does not receive, literal fulf nent) pursue
the same course in reference to the National
Democratic platform, and by so doing find their
justification ia supporting Gen. Pierce.
Now thsre would be more plausibity in this
mode of reasoning and acting, if the candidates
themselves had kept themselves disconnected
from their respective platforms. But they did
not. On the contrary, they voluntarily and dis.
timely identified themselves with The most OBJ
noXous priniple therein set forth A copy of
the Platform drawn up by the Southern Caucus.
tor the Wings, was sent to Gen. Scott and
though il was then even worse than when il was
finally adopted, ho at once approved lit, and
thereupon wrote letter to the Convention to
say that he had decided to write no letters to the
ConyestiQd. Z 4 hnt that be- would endoFae the
NaifofTn STRONGER than he ha talked to the Beau
tltu Bots, which was qnite strong enough to
satisfy that gentleman before. And on that
pledge, publicly read in the Convention, he re
ceiyed the nomination. Nor was that all. After
the nomination was made, he wrote and publisb.
cd letter OF acceptance in which he distinctly
accepted the platform, aud pledged himself to
carry ii out
And as regards Gen. Pierce, though not pub
'lcIy pledged beforehand, like the eleven foor
who replied to Robert Scott, yet he wrote let.
ter to one OF he delegates of his Convention
'hfee days before the setting of that body.
Nuououess to be shown. as it was 10 which he
heartily approves the Fugitive Slave Bill, and
seems TO look upon it as something more sacred
'nan an Ordinary law, and nearly or quite as
much 80, MS the Constitution itself! And in his
subsequent letter of acceptance, he saws he
don't endorse the platform because it was pxpec.
Tea OF Ilm' but because he likes it, and always
u'u' ara "e Challenges the world IA safe chal.
,u"se p'uOuesss) to show single act Of his
lie inconsistent with such declaration
NO" 1t both alese nominees have not so thor.
oughIy and completely identified themselves
with their respective party Platforms that one
cannot be supported without the other, we ask
IN 'he name OF common sense how they should
nave gone to woti to do it? Why, there is not
ooooy OF boy TO be found in our district
schools, who would not at once see and say that
Scott and Pierce could not hive bound them
serves 10 the support of the Slave Law more
eHeclna'y' and that the idea of separating them
from that law is too absurd and ridiculous to es
cape me contemp and derison of the most in,
sohSate' But what then are we to think of the
euNo's we have named, and their hundreds of
lmltators both Of Ge press and otherwise, who
snalchlng at arguments from such high sources,
10 SANCTION their recreancy. are just now heard
piping inc same aoes in all sections of the
c'untry9 If tiwySve u5 credit for ordinary
dscernmcn, they mist know what we think Of
them, and that the iuing appeIlations are already
in the mouths of thousands of the honest masses
who with surprise and contempt are Witnessing
their conduct f.
Some men seem ,ngulary blessed with the
faculty oil making Tie worst appear the better
side, and of sliding over irreconclIabIe facts and
conclusions with the same ease as il truth. logic
ana consistency were their supports. We, how
ever are endowed with no such convenient and
happy faculty. There is, therefore, no other
way lett Tor US than to pIod on in our old course,
ana still preach love for freedom-hatred to
saVery-respeet for the Coosilnion-eernal
war npon the Compromise that vetoes it; and
consequently SO spwn and spit upon" the two
platforms in question, leaving The nominees
thereon standing to run their own risks of get
ting spattered in tbo D.ocaes