Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-02
IcoEErsruypKNCE or THE FREE rREss.I
From the Alleghanics.
NO. XIV.
Elcction--rhe Rcsult-lts
Causes and Effects.

llrsrlSGpoS, PA, Oct. 1855.
II ne Ed,io, nj tho Free Press
Your Pennsylvania correspondent " still lives ;"
and after long silence, once more writes from his
mountain home to his friends Of the Green Noun
tain state. do so doubling not that your readers
will he glad to learn what causes produced the ap-
parent change in the political complexion of our
state at the last election. and what the antici
patcd results.
claim no superior wisdom, yet, with familiar
knowledge of the elements, shall express my
opinion, confident If the truth Of what affirm.
At the election of 1854, Loco Focosm with all its
cohorts was overwhelmed. The strength which
ovcrpowered it however alliance of all ts
enemies The wings, with an organization as ac-
tive and efficient as ever, we're in the field and al
most everywhere backed by powerful and tthen)
determined party while the Kansas Nebraska
infamy, had aroused a strong Northern feeling
against the National Administration, and in re-
serve stood the American organization organized to
perfection. and determined in its course. The re-
suit was what we have seen three fourths of the
members Of the Legislature were Americans, many
of them elected however as nominees of the old
parties. The acts of such body, sustaining
State Administration elected by the same allied
forces, it may be imagined were well watched
and any and all their errors and blunders were
remembered and used against them. large
majority of the Legislature were elected as pledged
temperance or rrohbtory liquor law men, or
from counties which gave large maJorites for that
law and this too, although the vote of the people
had decided against its enactment
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that the old Wing party-the " simon pures" or as
they are now denominated, the Virgin Whiss,"
became terribly eGasperated that their nominee the
new Governor, had fallen into the hands of the
American party and they now began to feel that
Loco Focoism, with all its nfamy, was good enough
company for them and that it was better for them,
and for the country, that this new party should ho
crushed out even though it gave new strength aud
power to the party which had branded them and
their Clay an Webster British torie. and
traitors, n murdercrs, gamblers and drunhards,
Starting at this point, that legislature failed to
elect United States senator-iailcd to do any
thing to rid the people OF the burthcn of the State
improvements. and failed to carry out the purposes
of the party in power but it did net fail To incur
porate a shoal of Banks-to pass law increasing
restraining the sale Of liquors. which nearly if
MT quito as efficient as prohibitory law aud then
returned to II constituency maddencd by the re-
suits produccd,--uo party Mt home satisfied. Rum
sellers and driukcg, denounced the legislature for
its disregard ol Ia, ,.tr # tEa people. Temperance
men snccrci at the jug -lau Anti Bank men
bswled about the creation Of rag money--B"nk
complained because odious distinctions were
made,-somc incorporated and some killed. Amer
leans were dissatisfied because the iladyised quarrel
of some who ought to have been friends had defeated
the election ofthe L =. Senator, Mhigs were ;roNl-
Ing generally that they were badly treated and the
Loco Focos everywhere stirring up the strife that
they mi sht win in the next contest
By the time that the forces were again to he
organized Tor the late campaisn it was disco 'ercd
that the allies Of last year were no longer to act in
concert, On the contrary the general aspec, Of the
contonding parties exhibited this l'atmc,- har-
IN my of purpose among Whiss Loco POGO ald the
Rum League, to defeat at all laIaids the can l.
dates of the American party, When that could he
accomplished best by a fu ion m one ticket, that
coarse was adopted where the running OF separate
tickets was most likely TO succeed, that you're wss
pursued AMI when neither ol thcs' plans was
deemed pruicnt--thena republican ticket was 2 t
up, nqi to drt W-hut to loa o cuoish Of the veto
to elect the loco foco ti9h.i; aud the bald milmy
of julie Kane, in ,hn imprisonment Of rassmorc
Williamson, mAio tais dol,e chcctual in sone
counties,
A DEPRESSION hrs sentence or two will now chow
how the effort VAS made to direct the forces of the
Anti-Kansas feeling to one point. The American