Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-03-26


may think that "thc safety Of this Union" de-
ponds upon an unlimited Difference to the feel
irg" and opinion" Of the South, but we donh
We believe the South consider us " as good a.
they are, any day." and We also believe that
so IS the fact We never credit half the tales
of the disposition of our Southern brethren to
donnccr over us, and to dictate the National
Candidate for President. Our Southern friends
aud colaborcrs in the Wing cause, are right
nice, clever aud patriotic fellows. They are
as anxious for the supremacy Of VINO PRlN-
cIpLEs as we are at the North, and in our
opinion, do not ask US to defer any more to
their "tecling" and "oplnion," than they are
willing to defer to ours. They are generous
hearted men,--inen who ask nothing beyond
their constitutional rights, with the most
inconSilcrdJic eXccptions) and who under
stand that their political brethren at the North
have no intention nor desire 70 infringe those
rights. Our word for it, the Register has 10
authority but Its own iick-SpWie propensties, to
suggest that the "iceling" and opinion of
the South is OF any more consequence than the
feeling and opinion of the North. We are all
citizens of one great Union,-identificd with
its prosperity and integrity These are all our
Southern friends desire to promote these are
all the North seeks to secure. Such paragraphs
as the one we have quoted from the Register
arc only productive Of harm. They do not add
to the sei-respect Of the South, while their
only tendency is nccdlcssly to eXaspcratc the
North. The true policy, us well as the true
philosophy, is to be decent and respectful :
concedlng no SuperioritieS, nor demanding any.
One single State IN this Union is Just as res
pectablc as all the rest Of it, and no one mem
Der of the Contederacy is entitled to any more
consideration than any other member. As Mr..
WEBSTER once effectively said, We ARE 4
SENATE or EQuALs.'
II o. The latest Telegraph informs US that
a large and enthusiastic Wing meeting was
n held in Richmond, Va, on the evening OF the
:, l6th aud resolutions were passed, nominating
Willard Fillmore for President and expressing
The hope that the National Convention vii
: nominate candidates favorable to the Conpro
@ mise measures, beyond all doubt
We commend this telegraph to our friend o
G the Troy Wing, who, a few days ago, excepted
1t TO the declaration of the Wings of Maine il
!, favor of Cen Scorr. The Wings of Maine
= know when, and Tor whom, they can carry thei
j. s5tate,--the Wings Of Virginia don't. Tn,
o latter respectable fraternity are al,oays beaten
+ dlCayS. When they have once carried thei
Y Sta;e for the WING nominee, it will be in bet
s. ter taste for them to dictate candidate for the
u Wing Party, and prescribe his prime pies "be
- You'd all doubt" We believe, the only VIII
j. President Virginia ever voted for was GEoRG
ID WASHINGTON since his time that sublimate
re State has gone for certain abstract "9S rcsolu
~ TONS" in general, and tie Locofoco nomine
Of in particular. And when Large and euthl
le sastic' meeting Of the Wings of Virginia ON
at inously shakes lis head, we are inclined to say
40 with Mr.. Curran, when an Irish Judge shoe
r his head at one of the Barristel's legal posi-
tons :-"Gentlemen Of the Jury, you see hi
Lordship shakes his head | beg you to under
stand thal there Is nothing in i!
No. Virginia Wings, in our sober judgment
ithougn Virginia contains some Of the bes
- Wings in the Union) had better let President
-" making alone. Virginia is not Wing Stat
and there Is no reasonable prospect for belev
ing that she ever will be. She is, if possibl,
rather worse than New Hampshire and tn
more modest, and equally Jealous Wings o
u New Hampshire are willing to FOLLOW
. When Virginia takes the same becoming pc
3, stlon she will ioot better if she don't feel be,
l. ter. A Wing President o the United State
will have to be elected ,cuhoM the heip of Fir
gtnia, anyway, and if Virginia only could brn
herself o Il realizing sense OF this truth sh
would make less fuss over her large and ct
g thu ,astIc Wing meetings" and her preference
>, among Wing candidates. As long as it don
.. make any particular difference whom, anon
/ Wing candidates. Virginia does prefer, it seem
ID to us plain. thinking Yankees that Nirginl
r. might as well keep her preferences to herse
y We have never yet heard Of IA " hig who sup
) posed Virginia could, by any possibility b
d. carried for Fillmore, Webster or Scott. 1t i
f. John Tyler sort OF 4 State, the best way yo
IL can liz II
= Winfield Scott, Commander-in-Ch icf
. United States Army.
~ AmOur the Cauilldltps snnlpu uf NV the orca