The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-28
Vermont Democratic state convention.

lFfom the vermont fatriOt June ID
Finding it impossible to give the proceedings OF
the convention at length this week, we place the
ticket at the head Of our columns, and publish the
resolutions. The resolutions are straight, square
honest, and mean just what they say They are
perfectly explicit, perfectly plain, and need no COM
ment. The ticket will strike every man at glance,
as being most powerful combina ton Of intellect,
private worth, and personal popularity No cleaner
ticket has ever been presented to the people of the
State.
Mr. Clark is of the purest democratic blood,
and as democrat, a man Of business,
and a courteous citizen, every way quail
fed for the Office of chief magistrate of the
State--has no superior. The name, even, of Mr..
Mattocks will rouse the old Vermont blood A
A branch of a most eminent family, the son of one
of Vermont's most noted men, and himself young
man of the highest natural and acquired endow-
mente, perfectly acquainted with legislative bust
ness he sjust the man to preside over the Senate
Of the State. The candidate for Treasurer, Mr.
Page, was on the ticket last year. and as everybody
knows, sis up to" his business. The Governor and
Lieutenant Governor both, in accordance with their
determination expressed last fall, declined being
again run. upon the hull" as an unfortunate in.
dividual would say, the democratic ticket is one
that will combine vast strength. 1t is clean. 1t
is Union ticket. II is awhile mans ticket, and
as opposed to the colored ticket nominated at Rut
land, will make splendid run if the democracy do
their duty, and they win. The resolutions were as
Resolved That our devotion to the administration of
Franklin Pierce continues mistaken; that have
tire confidence in the wisdom integrity and devotion to
democratic principles of the President and are fully
assured that under his guidance, the government will
be whely and economically conducted the laws firmly
and mparaly executed, the lives and property OF our
citizens protected at home and abroad all attempted
evasion Of our neutrality laws promptly repressed and
every proper and constitutional excrted to en-
large the boundaries Of country and secure its true
Resolved, That non intervention or the right of the
people to enact their laws and regulate their
domestic institutions, unresraned save by the Hmita-
tons of the constitution laid down in the platform
adopted Baltimore in 1882 is democratic doctrine,
and should practically carried out in all the territories
which now are hereafter may be organized in the
Union but do not propose to make differences of OPT
among democrats in relation TO the policy OF all the
for and Ka parsy
Resolved That attachment to the Constitution and
the Union, so far from becoming impaired, grows
stronger and sronser and that regard the attempts
which have been, and being made by political
and other fanatics to loosen and ALLEVIATE the affections
Of the people from these sacred and time honorsd bull
warks Of free deserving the severest
condemnation and hereby pledge ourselves to frown
upon all such efforts whenever and wherever made
to the peace Of the country and an insult TO
the patriotic feelings Of all true Americans.
Resolved, That the democracy of Vermont bcl'evh
that free constitution sanctions proscripti@nv
account Of BIRTH openly and emphaticay condsHm to
organization, secret otherwise, that woulsviI NO.
deprive any citizen native or adopted, of his
litieal or religious liberty. the Whip
convention at Rutland Of their former Dc - ths;y rtter
the adoption Of sectional instead Of their
want OF confidence in the dstinctys of cousistsncy
and lone os bu ~ oy. hostility
to the Constitution and the Uron aion Of every YER
the emphatic and indignant sonus5 il not bounded by
Resolved, That II Ill becowf Ae esmpTomises or the
pirate about the sancts part in their repeal when
their own party histoy uo'a p,onross. they did not
that there nsys. h spt upon whether Of Consrsss or
Of the conetitutic~.