Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-05-26
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1854,
Wing State Convention.


the 7th of June, should be attended by full
delegation from all parts of the State. The
delegation should be made up Of men ready
and earnest for the work before them
No matter now from what causes the 'ad-
ministration of the State was taken from the
Wings last year, and given to men who have
had the management of the affairs of the De-
mocratic party in their charge. We think
the mass of that party are not very proud of
the way in which the new controlling infuen
ces were exerted. A decided majority of the
people are deeply dissatisfied with it. The
progress, which is SO often boosted of as a
characteristic of that party, is backwards
rather than forwards, in reference to what the
State demands.
But the positions which that party ha.
placed itself in, on the measure now agitating
the nation,-the readiness with which it's
leaders have harncssed themselves and all
whom they could control, to the chariot wheels
of that dcspotic power, which has its special
home in the Southern States of the Union,
have stirred the deepest feelings of Vermont
ers, with very little distinction of their ex-
GrtiG9 eadsFs aEs Showed themselves
the special and efficient tools of the slavehold-
ing power. With disregard of public faith
and honor, which agrees well with the occa-
slonal acts Of the most absolute governments
of the old world, but which is foul disgrace
In government resting on the sufrages of
the people, the breaking down the Missouri
compromise was announced by democratic
leaders as a democratic measure. In defiance
of every principle held by any party. except
by the slaveholding party as SUCH it has been
pushed to a consummation with q violence
which shows how INSCRIPTIONS that party is,
where there is a chance to add to its own
strength The deed has been done, so far,
with an indecent contempt of all expressions
OF public sentiment, which proves the hollow
heartedness those men from the Free States
who have used the power Of their place to in
fict the greatest wrong on their own consti-
tuences.
What will be the action of men of other
political parties in this State we need not
stop now to inquire. What the action of the
wings will be, cannot be doubted They will
show their detestation of the grievous wrong
which has been thus inflicted on the charac-
ter OF the nation, on the Free States, and on
the great cause Of human freedom They
Will show this, not in vague and windy terms
of Acknowledgement in language adapted to
irritate those who may honestly differ from
them in opinion-not in fierce and useless
threats OF what Vermont will do if the affairs
OF the nation are not shaped exactly as her
citizens would like but in terms so positive
and explicit that there will be no mistakinr
what they mean.
Vermont has never ceased to feel the re-
proach which was brought upon her in the
extension of the Slave power in 1920, by aid
from Vermont herself That aid was only
from the votes of one man, who thus outraged
the feelings of the whole State but that was
from one too many. Thrty-four years have
not weakened the sentiment Of adherence of
those votes, in the bosoms OF her inhabitants
If it has been less vivid of late years, it was
because they felt safe in the belief that all
above lat. SO 30, in that great territory
acquired from France was secured for freedom
and that time would weaken the mischievou.
influences of Slavery extension, as far as il
had gone.
Had 1t been proposed in this State, eight
months ago, to have that compromise act Of
$50 broken down, not five men could have
been found in the State who would not have
denounced it in as decisive language as they
knew how to use
Whatever countenance that iniauitou,
transaction receives in this State under one
delusive aspect or another from those who
claim to speak for the Democratic party, il
can never cease to be condemned by the
Wings to man, by all men indeed of al
parties, who believe that the foundations O
political power are of more consequence thar
the temporary or merely ornamental struc
lures which are placed upon them
The wings will name, we are sure, for Stat,
officers, men whose opinions on all the charac
teristic points of wing policy, and on all tina
Is wholesome and sound in the legislation O
the State are well known and reliable, an,
whose course will never be for moment doubt
full in any contingency where vote is to show
that Vermont, if she loves the Union anc
loves obedience to law, abhors injustice an,
everything which stands in the way of human
freedom and the progress of free institution
like her own
II We call the attention of all concerpe,
to the notice Of the Selectmen, in our adyer
tlsing columns, concerning cattle and horse
allowed to run at large in the streets of Bur