Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-06-15
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1855.
State Convention,

The Call for q State Convention, to be held
at Burlington on the 9th inst, is one which
will come home to the feelings of the great
mas. Of the people of Vermont. Though We
have not a thought that any attempt will be
made to alter the State Ticket which was
sustained by an uneXamplcd majority of the
voters last year, it is none the less important
TO have full and earnest Conventions Last
year two Conventions were held, one at Rut-
land on the 9Th Of June. and one a Montpc-
lier July 18th, both of them attended by
large numbers of the freemen of the State
who were indignant at that outrage on the
Fanctity of public faith, on the rights of man
and the rights of the Free States which Com
gress had committed few weeks before in
passing the Kansas Nebraska Act. Other
acts of kindred origin had been passed before ;
but that one, in its abuse Of Congressional
order, its trampling under foot the principles
Of justice and humanity,-in the vastneSs of
the evil which will naturally flow from it if
suffered to work out the intent of its origina-
tors,-n the impudent use of corruptive in
huences, to secure its enactment, by an Ad-
ministration equally shameless and dishonest,
stands out in bold relief before all the rest
The whole history of our country can show
nothing equal to it,
Nothing has happened to lessen the indig-
nation which that atrocious act awakened
The course of events, with which all are too
familiar to make it necessary to recount
them here, is giving additional intensity to
that indignation every day; for every day is
showing more and more plainly, that no
stretch of authority and no outbreak Of lawless
violence will be omitted which shall be
thought necessary, if not wholly to subvcrt
our Tree institutions, at least to put them
under entire subsection to the INSCRIPTIONS
power OF m'norHy IN the natiOn-a minori-
ty made up Of less than four hundrcd thou
sand Stakeholder. If in any part of the
country conviction was wanting, last year
that the intent Of that iniquitous act was to
work out that very result, and by the use Of
Just such violent and lawless means as have
been brought into use, if it could not be Sc
cured without them, the people of this State
ut least were not so blinded They knew
'Hen as the whole country knows noc, that
the evil doors were working not to establish
Tree prHopIe, as they falsely said they were,
hut to extend the unjust power of Stare
h0iderS,-that while, traitors to freedom as
they were they were talking loudly in faror
OF popular rights, they were working with
all their might to dcstroy them.
Whatever were the incidental circum-
stances which led to there being hco Con-
ventons last year they are worth recount
ing) the result Of the ballot last fall showed
that deep common feeling perfectly conss-
tent with the character of the people of this
State, lay at the bottom of the action of them
both-and that it was participated in by
large number who were not directly con-
cerned in either Of them.
Their Committees have done well and wise
ly, therefore, in joining by their Cha irmen to
MAKE t'"tr CAL Cor n State Convention, not
W.tf reference to those who have possessed
one party name or another, but to all who
agree in the broad sentiment expressed in
their invitation. The question which tina It
invitation regards, is one which now over
powers all others in tho nation. aud il must
do 50 for a long time to come. The freemen
ol Vermont are bound to give expression to
their opinions and feelings respecting it, in a
manner suitable to its immense Importance.
There ought to be large Convention. Glad
should we be to see every town in the State
represented by its ablest and most patriotic
citizens.
= NEW HAsPsHIRE.-A despatch from
Concord received. just as we go to press
announces that BELL and Hale have hcon