Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-08-31
The WING state Convention
at White River Junction.

AT w mite HlNeT ouhSeioh'
BRAproRp, Aug. %, So.
Friend Walton IL have been told that
YOU expressed surprise because the proceed
ings of the Wing State Convention we're no,
sent you. Beg pardon. You here hnd
them, with address TO Wings OF vermont
mailed with this letter, aud you will very
much obige by giving them place IN your
next Yours uuly,
L.W. Bliss, Sec'y.
Friend Bliss has certainly been so widely
nisinformed, that We are tempted TO apply
TO him the old line
where ignorance 10 Bhs,, ii, folly to be wise"
The only "surprise" we have expressed
is, that the proceedings Of the so-called
estate Convention" consisting of four very
respectable ex-Whies, were sent to Frank
Picrcs-Bhig organ in Boston instead of the
Vermont Patriot The Patriot published
the call; the Patriot clique, Including Lief
tenant Colby, who figures on the Democratic
State ,icket,) spilled personally TO persons
hereabout to attend the Convention, and we
have been told that the zeal of some of the
Pierce men for Whggery actually reached
their pockeis-tbey offering 10 pay The erpens-
Is Of delegates, and, finally, the action of
the Convention tends, if it was not intended,
solely to operate for the benefit of the sup
porters Of Frank Pierce and the ..Slayocracy.
For these reasons we had right to be "sur-
priscd" that the Patriot was neglected +;
and we think, for the same reasons, that we
are fully justified in respectfully declining 10
publish the proceedings of this falsely called
Wing State Convention in the Waterman.
We csnnct pass bogus paper to our honest
patrons.
Friend Bliss and his three patriotic ASSOC
cistes seem not TO appreciate their true posi-
ton, as dissenters from, The Whig party Of
Yermont, and we therefore beg leave most
respectfully to set these four and no more
innocent gentlemen right They doubtless
suppose themselves to be The Wing party OF
Vermont, and hold all its well earned honors,
all its rich harvesis Of glory, and all its
responsibility as being solely their own
We have read Of insane men, who verify be-
lcved themselves TO be sane and all the rest
Of the world mad - and hey were innocent
Certainly we shall not treat these three
Wings of Bradford, and their solitary broth
er from Fairlee, with less than the charity
due 10 mad men. Well then, we do now,
most respectfully and teDderly too, suggest
to these four innoccnts Of Bradford and Fair
lee, that the ever glorious Wing Party of
Vermont spoke for Itself in regular and full
convention assembled, on the 9TH of June
1854. Ii spoke spontaneously, freely hon
cstly, earnestly. 1t spoke in defence of the |
noblest sentiments Of such Patriots as Wash
ington and Franklin and Jeiierson--of such
Wings as Adams and Clay and Webster in
their best estate Of such VermoDters as Al
len and Chiticnden and Galusha. 1t spoke for
Freedom, against every aggression of Slav-
cry; for Humanity, against Tyranny for 1
National Integrity, against the shameless vi
olatcrs of National Faith fof the Union
against every foe--for the Union as il ,cas,
in IFS pristine purity, when sacredly dedica- /
ted by the people of these United States TO p
Liberty and Justice, and TO the Common De. :
fence and Welfare Of all within its sacred
bounds. Thus spoke the Whig Party Of n
Permoni, officially and deliberately, on the fl,
7th Of June, 1854, and the Whig freemen Of v
permoni officially, deliberately, and by all \
overwhelming verdict at the polls, IN Sep,em-
Der following ratified the decision Of the
Wing Party as represented in Convention. -
These four men of Bradford and Fairlee v
ook their stand then 4 ey disssnted thin
rom the Wing party of Vermont and we n
ind that with the aid of newspaper press .
o preach dissent through the County of
Orange, they procured exactly DOB scatter =
ng votes Now with such record aud
such verdict, we beg leave to say that it is =,
100 late for the four innocents of Bradford to :,
assume to be The Whig Party Of Permont.- !
They are insane-at least very much mis- ,
taken. Having abandoned their Wing bre,h-
rem in 1854, their proper place mop is in the
ranks Of the Dough-faccd supporters of
Frank Pierce and Slavery the allies of
Atkinson and Stringfellow They .f,h and
acted this when they issued their call in the
Vermont Patriot; they felt j, and acted it
when they consented to intrigue with Leften
ant Stoddard D Colby they fel, it and act
ed il when they went to the printing office
of New Hampshire Slavocratic organ in
Haverhill TO get their sham proceedings and
address printed; they felt it and acted it,
when they sent their pamphlet all over the
State, to be distributed by Dough-faced post
masters; and we only regret, for their own
sakes, that they did not co Mess themselves
out and out Doughiaces and allies of the
Administration, from the beginning, and go
over openly TO the Slevocracy. These men
may be insane; If not, their Convention was
a bumbug and fraud, and as such It's pro- 1
ceedlngs can't come into the Watchman.-
Friend Bliss, we can only give you this no
tce. We fear ii is better than you deserve. d