Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-10-28
For the Freeman.
A Dialogue.

supported the union Of the 3lst of Nav, 1919
aud one of whom was Intending to 90 for Plerc,
and King, and the other for Hale and Julian
The Pierce and King man we shall call D
and the Hale and Julian man Il. The,
met in the highway near the house of d,
D-Where are you going, Mr., H., thi;
evening!
Ill am going to hear free democratic
speech at the meeting house Won't YOU
20 too!
D-What's the use going to hear any
body speak My mind is made up. | shall
go for Pierce and King. What's the use in
voting for IlaIe--he can't get an electoral
vote in this State or any where else!
H-Well, can Pierce get an electoral
vote in the State7
D-No, suppose he can't.
H.-WeIl, then, what's the use Of voting
for Pierce? Do you like his principles aud
platform better than you do Ilaes!
D.--No. SO far as understand i'll
never saw il but once-l don't ike the plat
form. | have been straight along since
1910, aud believe the principles we have
supported since are true; but Pierce or
Scott must be elected, and | prefer Pierce
to Scott
H.--Well, if your vote will not help
Pierce any, what vii! you make by voting
on that side You don't help elect him
over Scott any more than you do to vote for
Hale, and if you vote for Hale you support
the principles you bclieye in. If all the
democrats who prefer Pierce to Scott would
vote for Hale, Hale would get the electoral
vote Of the State, and take it away from
Scott, and in that way do something towards
preventing SCOTS election But every
democrat who draws off on to Pierce, does
all he can to give Scott the State-does
just as much as though he voted for the
Scott electors. If you vote fer Pierce
electors, you accomplish three things.
l. You help the Scott men to carry the
State.
.. You get into worse minority than
you would be, if you and other democrats
would 90 straight along with the party, aud
not1go over 10 the " old liners"
3 You abandon the very principles you
say you believe are the true principles, and
vote directly against them.
Do you think such course will pay an
honest man for adopting it!
D-What the old liners" and Dave
SmaIley a. the head Of them shan't
support them Besides, am not going to
support that Fugitive Slave Law. curse it
from the bottom Of my soul.
H-But you do support the old lin
ers, and Oav SnnIIey, and Bowdish, and
those very fellows that boIted off in lS49,
and gave the State to the Wings, if you
vote for Pierce for Pierce is an " old line"
candidate, and uphoIds the very doctrines
which the old liners" have supported all
the time, and condemn you and ne for not
supporting one of which is, that the Fug.
tive Slave law must mt be rcpcaled, but
must be maintained and supported just as
it is ! Aud this is one of Frank Pierce's
sentiments
by Jupiter you don't mean to say
that all you state is tue!
True as preaching Look at the Pierce
electoral ticket and you will find the names
of David A. SmaIley, |. b. Bowdish, Mer-
rift Clark and H. E. Stoughton, upon it,
all of whom were boilers in 1919, and
helped the Wings carry the State. Lucus
3. Peck is the other name upon that ticket,
and he did about as mean thing in 1851,
when he got the nomination for Governor
and then declined So you see that you
you have got to become an old liner and
support the very traitors who have prevent
ed US from having old Needham for Gov
emor, if you support the Pierce and King
ticket, As to the Fugitive Slave law, look
at the Pierce and King platform and you
will see that it expressly sanctions that law
and pledges the Democratic party to go
against its repeal, or any modification OF IT
which will impair its efficacy, and Frank
Pierce says that the principles Of that plat
form command the appreciation Of his j"dg'
ment-those are his very words-and il
you support him take it you support his
principles
D,-But amt YOU cumming little!
H.-Not 5lt--aiI true as the gospel
Dwell, ii you speak the truth, vii
see Frank Pierce and the old liners II
H-aIifaX before | will 90 for them
Have You got ticket for John !, Hale
llyou have, give It to me, and | VIII V"''
It, Hale has stood up against slavery an'
those condemned, sancy sIayeholderS' ''N
a mayor lie deserves to be President
but | hate the Wings SO, mat ! Thought
should vote Tor Picrcc ana h'ng' Just
put them down, But SEE ITS no use
don't help Pierce and N'ng any becaos
we can't do any thing IN ;nls state, nnle'
all the I.emucro's are anned-and the
wont be, and all slmil do if vote Is
them viii be 'n make a (u'I of myscIt--yo
for the old liners and the Fugitive SIa'