Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-28
For the freeman.
The Old Democracy.

Mr.. Editor: The organs Of the Compromise
Democracy seem to find plenty Of employment,
at present. in quarrelkng among themselves, in
duging in natural ordinations and recri'nins
tons of each other, and those, too of the most
bitter character. Their house seems divided
against itself, and may HeaVea speed the day
when the predictions Of Holy Writ, respecting
such houses, SHALL in their case, be verified.
Let us hope that these family jars are bst the
precursors of the breaking upof old party lines
and the final dissolution ofold organizations; that
the shattered hulks of the old parties will, ere
long, crumbe and sink, as all the issues
that divided them, beneath the dark waters Of
oblivion.
1t seems their State Convention was 'not9seS-
tecty harmonious, if we may Judge from the re.
ports and comments of some of their own organs,
and this speaking out 10 meeting" in various
localities, sasais to have fred the Vermont Pee
riot and sohe Of it's coadjutors,w holy ndg
nation, the refractory members Of the fraternity
having received proper chastisement for past
sins and wholesome distractions by which to
regulate their future conduct.
But tho State Convention of the New Hamp-
shire Democracy and its action is the fruitful
source whence most of their troubles How. And
from this they seem determined to make the
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each other in downright earnest, castgasing Que
another soundIy, and dealing out the home
thrusts, one might suppose, to their hearts con.
tent, certainly to as great an egtct as their space
and length of wind will admit
Edmund Burke seems suddenly 10 have ac-
CURED an extensive notoriety FROM The opposi-
zion he has excited, VIXEN, had they but suffer
ed the fellow to rest quietly after his unsaccess-
full demonstrations in the Convention, very little
would have come of it. But, as it is, being dnv-
en- to the wall by the relentless crusade started
against him, he faces his foes, and, OF course,
makes the best defence of which he rs capable
Really those who live in glass houses shouldn't
be the first TO throw stones.
The Concord Reporter defends Mr.. Burke from
the attack made upon bin, and in turn is furi-
ously assailed by the Vermont Patriot and its
New Hampshire name sake, while the Bellows
Falls Standard which also defends Burke, is
castigated with all the energy the Patriot can
spare from the contest with the Reporter, assisted
by the Burlington Sentinel, St. Adams Democrat,
the North Sta,, &c. +; the STANDARD, meanwhile,
standing its ground, and not appearing in the
least frightened by the array of its enemies; and
thus the war RACES.
Well, let them fight. 1t, of course, matters
very little to the Free Democracy which Of them
may be in the right, or how the contest may ter
inmate, which is, in itself, of very little interest,
except as indicating the disafection sprngng
up between different portions of The Democracy,
SO called, and which, if present prospects may
be taken as guide in forming opinions, will
eventually rend it assunder, when the free ee-
ments must be absorbed by the army of Freedom
and the political action of the Northern masses
will be where their hearts have long been--with
the friends of bleeding humanity.
The idea some Of the Old Line organs seem
10 entertain of the incacuable mischief Edmund
Burke is capable of doing the Administration
and the country, and the great merit they make
of coming TO The rescue, the selfcomplacency with
which they talk of defending The administration,
are merely ludcrous. 1t reminds one of the
days Of Union-saving--that contemptibly long
and bard ridden hobby and we Invountarily ex-
claim with Buns:
| 20 wad some power the gftio gieus
| To see oursel's as THEIRS see u.s.
| II wad frae many blunjer free us,
| And foolish notion"
| Gentlemen need not be alarmed, The Union
still stands firm, and General Pierce will prob
ably complete the full term of Office for which
he was elected, unless some more powerful
agency is brought to bear against him than is