Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-31
To The Free end Independent Electors
of tho County Ct Washington

10 me free Gnd Indepehdeht Electors
ofhc County ef Washington;
GENTLEMEN Why are there three distinct
tickets for County Officers now claiming your
suFrages Are the Wings of your County hon
est in their prolessed desire to secure the union
of all good and true men in resistance to the
slave power! "By their fruits shall yo know
them
How are the factsl At the State union con-
vention of the 18th of July a printed handful
call from the Waterman Office, was circulated
for all the friends of freedom without distinc-
ton of party, to meet in convention at the Court
House, on the Goth of that month, to nominate
Il ticket for County Officers.
On seeing this CALI some of the Free Demo-
Icrats believing hatthS Wings were the authors
Of it, and fearing that there might be something
in it beyond the purest love of country, request
cd the County Committee of their party to call
Il cqnaeution for the same purpose-and there
upon such convention was called by the Free
Democratic County committee, to he held at the
Court House on the same Doth of July, and it
was called rs u Mass Contention, so that all who
wished ior a union of parties could come and
act in full communion, and be received with
open arms which call was published in the
Freeman, on Wednesday of the then next week.
The Old Line Democrats called their convention
for the same time and place. Three days after
which, the N'atchman Gene out with the call
identical in language with the handful, but al
tering the time to the 9th of August and then,
agents were sent through the County to prevent,
if possible, Free Democrats from attending the
convention of the 10Th of July. Why was all
thisl If the honest fusion of all the Slavery
hating freemen of the County was intended
The County of Washington has never had a
majority of Wings, within its borders, for the
last twenty years. large plurality, if not
majority of its votes have been Free Soil or Free
Democratic, since the union of the two wings
Of the Democracy inlS49.
The Wings of the County had majority
against them, of some seven hundred votes at
the last election. The Democrats and Free
Democrats assembled agrecably to their respec-
tive calls and united in the selection of ticket
of good and true Anti. Slavery men.
Now suppose the Wings had met the other
two parties, at the Court Heuse, in accordance
with their handbill call of the 18th of July and
had walked into the Free Democratic conven
ton, as the Democrats did, and requested un.
ion in the nomination. woald there now be NOR,
than one ticket before youl
But the Wings held their convention aereea
bly, to their altered call, on the 5th of August
and what did they dol they did what provideu
and cunning Yankees usually do, by contriyin.
to keep what they had, and get what they could
Was any man asked to make speech in tina
convention, except Whiss' although there wer
Free Democrats, who would have been glad o
the opportunity and who would have urge,
upon the convention the propriety Of nomina
ting u portian, at least, of the ticket Of tn
other two parties. Were there not men on tina
ticket, of whom the whole County, the warm
est friends Of the slave and of universal freedom
may we'll be proud Did not the Hon. Rode
rick Richardson resist the power Of Pierce am
Douglass Democracy in convention, within
the walls of that same Court House. one yea
before and is he not u man of mark in tn
great Anti-slavery battle, which Is now bein
fought, with liberal wealth, honorable FEELINGS
and Christian desire of usefulness amopy h;
fellow men!
And who is Timothy p RodGeld, standing
the head of his profession, is he not the mos
proper man in the whole County to fll the ii
flee Tor which he is nominated Was he mn
elected to the Senate of the State. in his pat;v
county, by the Free Democracy and in coun
ty too which had heretofore been Whiu am
did he not receive the entire vote of the Ere
Democracy in 1850 for the highest Office in IN
osAfe "a man of no ordinary cast of mind
and with character in all the moral and s,o;o
relations of life without blemish, and withou
reproach. ''"O