The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-05-10
Tho State Convention,

in nomination a State ticket and to make
the needful preparations for the next an
nunl election. With the time and place
Of meeting We are well pleased. Though
some wocks earlier than usual we think
a more convenient day. for all classes of
our citizens. could not have beon select
cd. For all party purposes, we believe
our nominations should be carly present.
ed, and our organization scasonably com
pleted. The place OF holding the con-
veniion is, Of course, particularly acccp
table to US on this side Of tho noun
tain. Heretofore, we think more than a
due proportion Of the conventions have
been held Oh the other side.
And now, what will the convention
do That it will be a numerous gath.
erng Of the old and tried friends of
the Wing cause-of the young and ar
dent and activc-of mon intelligently
regulating, and determined to labor to
put down, the present State and Nation.
oil Admlnistration-no ono can doubt.
We would fain hope that there may be
entire harmony Of action and feeling
We should have no question on this sub.
ject, but for tho course two or three pa.
pers have seen fit to pursue, in relation
to suggestions made by several Wing
papers, -sug gcstions Of so obvious i'm.
portancc, and SO manifestly just and prop.
or, that it seems hardly possible for any
sagacious well.wisber Of the party TO
fail to comprehend and approve them.
The determined and pcrsevering attempt
90 misrepresent and throw odium upon
those who have ventured these suCges.
lions, is no favorable omen. We are not
about to 60 into a defence of ourselves
and others against these assaults. Least of
all do VIC SEQ any occas on TO retract or in
any degree modify what we have said. We
believe the convention, when met, will
fully justify our course 1t is enough TO
say, that those papers which have been
fighting each others bugbcais, for some
time past. under the apparent belief that
they were opposing the projects Of GER,
tain other papers they have named, will
have sufficicn. time. before the conyen-
ton meets, to see their mistake, -and,
what is more important, we hope this lit
tie skirmish with hobgoblus will leave
them more amiably disposed for sensible
discussion and action.
The convention, if it acts with DELHI.
Grafton and sugacty, will do something
moro than merely nominate candidates
for the three offices to he filled at the
election in September. 1t will look well
TO its expression Of principles. 1t will
no. lose sight Of the fact that there is to
he great national struggle. such as we
have never seen before, between execu.
tive despotism on the one hand, and true
rcpublicanism on the other between an
insolent, grasping, truce breaking slave
power aud the free spirit Of the North.
7hi, conflict has aiready commenced.
We have seen the FIRST victories Of this
Northern Republican party in Connec,i
out, Rhode Island and New Hampshire
L. was not the Wing party alone which
won those triumphs, The Wing organ.
ization was indeed the main column, the
entire Wing party fought on tho victor
ious side, and on the Wings everywhere
must rest the chief responsibility Of
maintaining this warfare. No discern
ing man can fail TO see that this party is
therefore placed in a new aud most iu..
portant position And where is the true
Wing, not to say the true patriot, who
will attempt to whistle down every at
tempt to arouse tue people to just ap,
probation Of the true magnitude of this
position, Of the demands it makes upon
something nobler than mere party feelings
and prejudices'We believe tho convention
will act wisely, and with due regard to the
wants and requirements of the times
If it does so,its acts and nominations will
be ratified by an overwhelming majority
of the people. Fit shows itself wanting
in foresight and magnauimity-in all The
qualities required to fit il for tho leader
ship in this great emergency no prOdic
ton of the result ia needed.
BKNToNs SPEEcH.-Tho strong sar
castle speech of Hon. Thos II. Benton