Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-07-20

We commended the minority platform
made at Philadelphia when it was set up,
though its anti-slavery planks were not as
thick and broad as Vermont has been wont
to use, time out of mind, in such structures.
We find great improvement in the Platform
of the VT Council. Vermont woods furnish
frst-rate timber for such work, and it is not
surprising that the Vermont work should
show the difference. Close scrutiny would
show. we think, that the floor is not quite
up to the standard of that made by the
State Convention of June 9th, the work
mon had less experience, perhars-but far
he it from us to find fault The platform is
good and we heartily commend it.
We have uniformly said that when he
trial should come on, the notion, so far MS it
existed that anything else could take pre-
cedence ofthe great slavery question now be-
fore the nation, must fade away,--that
though the managers of the X. n. organi-
cation in New York and the South were bent
upon making the order subscrvicnt to the
cause of slavery extension, they would be
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in Vermont and in New England generally
! Anti-slavery ground was the only ground
they would stand on and so ,cc Gndu
We commend also, as far as it goes, the
doctrine in the 18th and 9th pieces of their
platform though even here they do not come
quite up to our own notions, freely promul.
gated long ago, and believed in ever since We
were old enough to think on questions Of
national policy. We will quote passage, en-
bodying our views, from a leading article of the
Burlington Free Press tWeekly) of March 23d
which some of our readers may have forgot
ten and others may not have seen.
We desire 10 be understood IN Mis NATTER
Nc. arc mol. 9A@9 .tthRf et foreigners. ";
mou(d Precef Mc. Foreign population, both TO,
ITS OtOh sake and for our owr, rom bccopiin.
an element Of disturbance and diScord in on
midst. We ,couH By no means aHo,c me,
born and brcd undcr the arbitrary governments
Of Europe, md ignorant Of the spirit an,
worhng Of orr institutions, 10 rarp the polio,
or mar the prosperity IF the land ,chich offer
10 them protection and home, and IN ,rhic,
their children riH hare the same rights trhic,
are enjOyed By the descendants of The men o.
&c. We uOuid remedy the OUTRAGEOUS abuse
of oar ndturdH> atom iatcS; ,re ,couh crtent
the time requisite for naturalization IL
,could put stop as far as possible TO intcrter
dnce an or influence Ouer our political affairs
By Roman Catholic Priests, or any rel g,ou
teachers, as such ce rould torbid the f0rma
tio@ Of mihtdry companies erciuarely o
foreigners, and discourage everything phic
tends TO increase the cidnniSh tcndtnc,es o
hcJ foreign element and preUent its assimild
ZION nth the natice Glood and bone: and u,
would haze our country represented abroad
not By Souies and Bclmonts, but By infelhgcn
and honest men Of American birth. To attn,
these ends IN proper manner, and at
suitable time, IRE rOuid use all righ nicdnS.-
Secret Societies we do not consider right means
The Increment Of which ,ce hare been ,cr'tin &
can, IN our opinion, result IN no good, unies
its secret features arc dropped
1t seems too, from the llth article Of thei
platform, that the Vt. Council are gettin
on to the right ground in the rarticula
spoken of in the last remark of our extrac
above. We are glad to see it.