Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01

pendent ticket for State officers !;
and he SO far succeeded as to obtain
the appointment of n committee to
report ticket The report was
accepted as a matter Of form. to
bring 1t in order before the conven-
ton for action upon it, Some of the
most reliable friends and advocates
of prohlbitory enactments for the
suppression of intemperance, were
opposed to Doci. Powers attempt
virtually to form a separate aud dis
tnct political party of The friends of
Temperance, as unnecessarily adj
ding a new aud serious lmpedment
ia the way of much needed aud
very generally desired union of
sentiment aud concentrated effort
by good men and true, of the three
/ political parties, into which the
/ Freemen Of Vermont had been, for
a number of years, divided essrs.
/ Sampson, Pangborn. Judge Pmgrey
and Gen. Walton, opposed the uomi-
nation IS unnecessary aud unwise-
the people already having decided
at the ballot box. by 40 unmistakea-
bic majority, IN favor of prohibilory
enactmeuls, so that no respectable
party in the state would venture to
nominate with any hope of success,
men for office, tainted with opposi-
! ton to the existing law for promot-
[ ing the sacred cause of temperance
A very large majority of the con-
veution voted to lay the report of
| the nominating committee upon
the table where it was permitted to
slumber. the Mass Meeting having
made its nominations TO the entire
| satisfaction of all reasonable men,
( and reliable temperance men in al
tendance upon both meetings ofihe
people noticed, IN the STANDARD,
Of which Doct. Powers is the able
aud Jealous editor, somewhat
boastfui, and must confess, II was,
to me, at least, not a little disgust
ing glorIficatiouN of the nomlnl-
tons at tire Mass Meeting as a tri-
umphaui victory exclusively won.
{ for The first time, by the friends of
Temperance IN Vermont had
supposed that the very memorable
vnle OF the entire people of Yer
mont, selling wuh The verdict of
their votes the wisdom Of putting
down uiemperance BY vntue of law,
was more glorious victory than
the mere nomination of candidates
for office Bat | would pleasantly
put up with little VAIN glorious
boaSling of the Doctor, knowing
how much his heart is sc upon the
success of the good cause. But
when | see snch men as Gen. Wal
ton denounced by the editor of the
! Standard, as bowling the knee to po-
lltIcal demagngues. and declining q
no nipatio for Cover sti matiz,c
as a dsno lorable act, and The nnml-
nation of Judge Royce, with the me.
uuivncal expression OF hls endorse
ment Of the proceedings of the Mas:
Meeting both as to Slavery anC
Temperance. meeting the trowui
and rebukes of the editor of Tenn
perance pape,, must say that look
upon the editor Of that pa er more
in pity than in anger. am extreme
lly sorry that an editor of so good 1
paper generally and advocating Sc
good cause, should very unwlsely
as | think, dlStorl the PLAN meaning
If Judge Ruyce's letter Of accept
ance, addressed to Hon. Lawrence
Brainerd into mere political twaddl'
meaning anything or nothing =
Men who have long known Judg,
Royce know him to be plaln-spok
Ell. straightforward man, wilhou
suspicion aud without guile-an'
they know too, that the editor o
the STANDARD, by the course he pur
sues towards Judge Roice, is doinl
more to iulnre tue cause O
temperance than to the character q
Judge Il The cause may suffer
but the character of The present can
didate for Governor of Vermont
vinually nominated by two meeting
of the sovereign people is beyon'
the reach of the editor of any pape
in Vermont. The people will d
HIM justice.
A TEMPERANCE MAN