The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-05-02
The Vermont Press.

Inc vermont fT6bb.
The Rutland HcrcM argues that
the Anti-Slatcry issue is the main, and
by far, the most wcirhty question that
needs to be decided by the North, at
ballot box"
-Thc Bellows Falls Argus led.
tied, we believe by an exK n charges
the editor Of the Brattlcboro Republican
with doublc.dcaling, and alleges that his
paper has lost the confidence alike of
Wings ami X. Ms in tina, county.
THE Montpclicr U'otchm0n is
mainly filled with dcnunciations and "ox-
posures' of the X Ms Its editor evident.
ly thinks he has got hold of tie real Sc
crcts, aud that, as Mr.. Littlcjohn would
say, this business must be stopped"
Tile Montpelier Freeman notices
with joy and commentator the position
of late taken by Wisconsin on .hc Slave.
ry question, and particularly on account
Of tho election Hon. Orsamus Cole to
the Supreme Bench of that state over
Crawford who dssentcd from the deci.
sion Of the Supreme Court (of which he
was membcr) pronouncng the fugitive
slave law unconstitutional
Tile Montpelier Patriot is try
ing to whitewash the last Kansas fraud
and iniquity, as to which the proof is
clear, direct and explicit. and with an
impudcncc unparalleled illustrated fee.
bly, by the fable Oft wolfaud the lamb
charges the natural and predicted re-
suits of the Pierce and Douglas treach
cry upon " tho ;ndiscre ct and over-zcal-
Gus abolitionrt. Of tho north"ll The
Patriot, after arriving at this wise con-
| clusion, adds: Are not the Watchmans,
the Freemans. the Journals, the Regis
tcrs, the Calsdonians, and the Chroni.
clcs, with the whole hive of north nboli-
tionism alike chargeable with aiding and
abetting in Slavery extension ?"
If the Patriot has not lost its ilenti.
ty since Isi9. why not include itself ?
Its senior editor is the same now as then
at least in his outward person.
THE St. Johnsbury Calcdonia,'
notices with decided disnpproval new
project" for uniting Wings aud Admin
istration men against X. N.ism, in thi,
State. 1t says that some prominent
frienGs Of the Pierce administration If
this State have broken the subject tt
certain political opponents, and solicited
their signatures to call for Convcn
tion-a Convention for the friends o
General Pierce and certain Of his oppo
Dents, to enter into a union for the pur
pose of smothering certain ubiquitou
parsonage called Sam The same reason
exists IN Vermont, as in Maine, for tn
Office holders under Gen Pierce to de
sire recruits. They are in hopeless mi
nori.y here and elsewhere in the FIRE,
States They are in just the position
their political deserts have placed them
There let them remain"
The Burlington Sentinel says til
facts aud figures Of the recent electio
which came off in Kansas, has not ye
come to hand; and proceeds to vigol
Gus defence Of the popular sovereignty
swindle of Douglas & Co., against tn
"whig and abolition journals" I'll
same paper snubs the Patriot for il
.coustan, appeals for support to the d.
mocracy west of the mountain an
tauhts the editor with bis inconsistency
having recently boen " the rival Of I'll
Fireman in race for freesoil and abol
ton patronage" This is an old famil
quarrel revived.
The Free Press interests i,sc
a, in the doings of the Massachusetts, lie
s islature- unfortunately confounding ii
+ proceedings in relation to the Roxbul
I nuuncry investigation, as to which '
d have expressed on opinion, with corta
y other personal matters which conee
l. only an individual member Of the Legisl
l. ture,N lille in different part ofthe Stat
e As to the former, the contemplate fus
G, ended in nothing. The latter scand
J. we leave where it belongs