Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-09-02

rec SOL PROFESSIONS ana L rec SOIi IItCtlCt.
The Free Soil party, as constituted among
us, was composed of men who withdrew them
selves from both the Wing and Democratic
parties. because, as they asserted, they could
no longer conscicntiously remain in either.
The sincerity of the I,od'rs in the movement
may well he doubted, but the mass Of the
party were probably influenced by a sincere
feeling. They said that the constant truck
ling of the Old Locoioco party in the North
to Southern Slavery, they could no longer
away with. and the Wing mrty-confcsscdly
of the two the .Anti-Slavery party-did not
go far enough in its opposition, to suit them.
They wished for a party, the sole principle of
whose action should be, opposition to the
were to be. \ numerical majority they could
not hope for, except in the far future but
they took high ground. 1t was with them
not a matter of policy but of ro~nScicncc, they
said. They could no longer conscicntiously
vote as they had done hitherto.
Of course, they found themselves in an
tagonism to both of the old parties, and they
took up the cudgrls against both afkc. In
1850, their organ in this county declared {:
- we care not what political consequences
may follow, we dcnouncc as trim enemies of
our cause, the hunkcrism of Taylorism and
the hunkcrism of Iscudo-Dcmocracy-and
IRE arc just as mmch inciincd 10 conciIiatc Mc
OHc, as Tie OfhCr."
:, 1t bcratcd the locofoco party, as the
- thinker doughtidce dcmocrocy, that flares
up at the first movement in earnest against
the boundlcss wickcdncss of Slavery" 1t
=. declared that " honest men had learned
I - to loathc the very name of Democracy itself.
/; In its outward manifestations to them, it has
i, been IA lie and a sham-mouthing of equality,
vet brow beating all who attacked the worst
= ease of inequality on earth" In 1871 the
representatives of the party in convention as
i, scmblcd. resolved,
d have run off the track and into the slough o
# aristocrncy, in which d~cspotism and money are thu
- controlling powers
- And to bring it still nearer to the prcscn
ID time, we find them within a few days still
resolving, 'that there is no essential Difference
w. as to principles between the platforms of tn
two old partics'-and the Courier quote
with full adoption and recommendation of it
sentiments, IL communication from one q
,e their lights, the burden Of which is, 1--WE Civ
of his own words y "lVhy shouId wc to0i,So
~ y, didatcs from their ranks - Does il becon
ny the Free Dcmocracy 10 take candidates fro,
RS other IF these old p%artics' Con Forbid
% And now we simply wish to inquire whc,
n is this party which =. loathcs the very nan
Is, of Democracy itself, because it has been
81, them n lie and Il sham'-and which shrinl
i' back in horror from - coalescing" or ''takn
candidates from either of the old parties
,cv Their leaders have done the very thing tb'
are have so long denounced. They have sold thcl
e a selves into the service of the party they ha
Ih profcsscd to oppose. They have nominated
nd ticket, of which the Old line democrats ella.
in ercry man Int one. With one or two 9th,
: there is some room for doubt, but it is W
red understood ,b,t r. .l,ct.J THAR S.not
to, will act in favor of Robinson for Govern
ned and for II Democratic l.. ). Senator, "
the the originally 'rhig mcmbcrs of the Free 5
ule party stand this! We believe not.
believe there are those of them who HI
ON come to see that their party is an unne'
TT of sary one here. Vermont is, in cur opini
see the last state in which an Anti-slavcry pa
is needed. Slaves and Shareholders are not
US. Sympathy for slavery is not knC
among us-and never can be. There is
iural social interest," no business interest III
ct ? state which rests upon it OF has any
nexion with it.
Whenever any steps of a p%rociical chara
your could be taken to help forward the caus
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