The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-15

up her way through the dark ya,ley.and
burnt incense upon her corse. Bat if
she has chosen bitterness, and dies euash,
ing her teeth, Americans will still mourn
her anguish and pity her weakness. Did
the remnant Of the old wing party think
themselves fat. and like Jesburun kick
they do but kick against the pricks.
Did they think TO ignore or veto the A.
merican party would they attempt to
set back their rising tide2 As we'll might
'ney stop an avalanche or command the
silence of old Niagara. As sure as steam
IS motive power so sure is the destiny
OF the American party.
Their motto is onward. and onward
they 20 We must must clear the track
or fall under the cars. Who does not
Know that the American party of the
North IS one Of gathering strength, one
upon which the united North will stand
with her Bible and Der Eagle forbidding
every encroachmcnt Of political popery.
of slavcry aud Of rumocracy? for these
are the enemies upon which she has
drawn the sword to be returned to its
scabbard only at their final overthrow.
we say then the nominees Of the A.
morlcan party constitute the min Lcpil.
innate ticket. Not but wings had a ripbt
to separate ticket, and had they repudi.
ated the American and substituted
whole of iheir own it would have been
worthy Of their valor. But this thew
have not dared, but as though expecting
TO curry favor have substituted in place
OF the true nominees two rejected Know
Nothngs' who died of their orthodoxy
to that party for lack of their pap. I,
this your whig ticket, f led out aud SUB.
plcmentcd with diseased and dead Know
Nothings? The American party spurns
the hermarhrodite, and right .minded old
wings will dsdain the unnatural off.
spring.
But why Voters ponder tho ques,
tloon-why did not the county convention
adopt the American ticket n. a whole2
why, simply because their platform con.
talns prohibition plank. and her nomi.
nees are in honor bound to sustain it.
This 1t was that aroused the energies Of
gentlemen like Paris Fletcher, Esq to
organize clique whose watchword is
Var to the knife agaius, all prohibito.
ry law" a clique, whose bitterness n.
galnst, measures cnly with their efforts
to destroy, c"ery platform that has in i,
Prohibition plank But why substitute
Warner and Tiden in the place Of Bar.
re't aud Conroc2 Why, every man knows
his owl, tools. The cooper will have a
shave aud the joiner a plane. Paris
Fletcher knows his men, symrathics
create ailiutes. Tilden boasts Of the in.
flucnce of t,ro Banks. With their aid
he thinks to ride, though rough shod, on
the necks of the poor. But if widows
and orphans could vote, Tilden would
never be their Judge Between them
there is no sympathy. Tilden, it is said,
has been with the Temperance party. But
for the last two YEARS he has used his
cold water Oh y to dash upon the fires Of
prohibition. Never ready to respond
to "a call for meeting in his own town,
lie has on one occasion, within the last
year, met for one hour with the Temper.
ance men Mt Nliddlebury but Just so soon
as the Office be sought commissioner
was disposed Of he retired to bury bis
Temperance principles, as he did bis X.
n. principles. on losing their nomination
for Judge of Probate. As for Mr. War.
ner, others beside Paris Fletcher know
him. He is indeed clever man. but hi.
instincts have always led lin to prefer
the shade. Justice requires that lie
should be left in his chosen position
1t cannot be denied that both Warner
and Tilden have by their works proved
their faith, if not in Joshua, in his mode
of warfare, Tor they have, like that vet.
eron soldier, laid under contribution all
the rams horns tina, lay in aud about
the city, where, under promise of aid
and comfort the harlot's flag is thrown
to the breeze. As yet no earthquake has
succeeded to the long, loud but tapering
blast. Danger is now over as their wind
is nearly exhausted. The last blast of
the Vergennes trumpet is quite mellow
and mealy. Possibly some of your friends,
Mcssrs Tilden and Warner, may be in.
.erestcd in au old epitaph which though
lost to memory is somewhat after this
sort
Here lies Dodge, his lodgings done,
He lodged for fear, le lodged for fun
And once or twice was known to try
In dodging TRUTH to Dodge lie;
lie lodged all good, he lodged some evil,
Poor Dodge he couldn't dodge the devil,
Argus.