Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-01

son received ninety-six votes, with only nineteen
against him-the residue not choosing to vote
and the said Thompson was declared the noml-
nee Of the caucus. This nomination was in
good faith announced to tho Joint Assembly,
when convened Tor Che purpose Of electing q Sec
rotary Of State; when 10 and behold !, the Hun
ker Wing Senator from Chittenden County,
and Editor of tho Free Press, arose in his place
and nominated, for that office, Chalon f. Davcy,
straight-out Wing of Burlington and accom-.
panied that nomination by hypocritlcal TRADE
upon the regular nominee, on account of his
youth-asssrtins that he was but little over
twenty-five years Of age.
And who is that nominee-Geo rye r. Thomp-
son! He is a young man of liberal education
ready penmanship, and an unspotted purity of
moral character, and who has performed the
main duties Of the edcc, and given entire salts
faction, under his father, for the last two years
Too young is he, when of the precise age of
William FIench, who started the Ball of the
American Revolution by the sacrifice of his own
life, on the banks of the Connecticut! Too
young is he, when Of she precise age of the great
Napoleon when he began to control the destinies
of the human race, and Of, the gallant Melon
ough whom he achieved one of the greatest vic.
tories ever recorded in the annals of naval war.
fare,
Such was the argument of this skin-deep Re
publican Editor. In charity for the ex-Profes
Sor, I cannot believe the dagger was aimed, Sc
much ut the accomplished and virtuous yssns
nominee, as at the principal and most Influential
AntiSlavery Press in the State, in the hands o
his father. Rule or ruin, was the black spo
nearest the heart of him who nominal Davey
looking back to the days when aristocratic ant
Hunker Whiggery SO long yielded the loayes an
fishes to Its satellites, and, like ancient Isr ael
whom it forgot and repudiated its Maker, an
: sighed for the flesh pots of Egypt.
!. On the nomination Of Davey, it was Instant
seen that fire-brands, arrows and perhaps Deaf
were in the near future And the Editor of til
Free Press and his friends should understan
that SO great hlow has not been struck for tn
; last year at Fusion, and the united action Of a
Anti-Slavery men in Vermont, as was struck
a that most ill-advised and unfortunate nomins
ton. What shall the decomposing fragment
Q of by-gone Whiggery be ever again permitte
to knock into segregation the liberty-loving ell
: ments of Vermont patriotism e! Ask the 10, OO
. ingrained old-hns Liberty mon who voted ft
Lawrence Brainerd for Governor Ask tho SOC
) Administration Democrats who have left til
i party within the year Ask the 24,000 WI
u voted our no-party nomination for Governor :.
Ask the Anti-Slavery PARTON of that Governor
rs Message!
= No! no Profess r Try to squeeze out
/ the flesh that arstocracy which was bred in I'll
j. bone, and by all the means in your power
+; atone for thatalmost blasting per6dy to Freede
d tho nomination Of Davey and learn. if yo
N can, thut great lesson in the category of huma
20 knowledge, that L" Pigmies may be Pigmies still
D. though perched on Alps"
D. I have nothing to .ay of the protracted stru,
a. gle, and expense to the State, of an election
% the Office of Secretary of State nor of the your
~ Know Nothing who was finally elevated to th'
a Office, very much, no doubt, to the chagrin al
IL Disappointment of the learned Professor, al
10 who may be % year or two the College senior
l. the regular nominee--Mr. Thompson.
10 Mr.. Willard is young man of promise. al
t. has recently married, understand, an heircs
A. and the Legislature, in their wi dom ha
= made testament as worldhngs do, g,pi,
their sum of more to that ,uRich had too much
and will close with the single remark, that it
but one short year since MIR. Willard was a p
itician in full communion with two parties
in both of which, at the same time, believed thu
a. they; and they only, were the idols of his hea
ur AN OLD-IhNE LIBERTY Man
IN Caledonia County, OFT. 10Th, 1885, W