Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-23
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY MARCH %, 1855
Council of Censors.

Wc have seen for weeks, that the omission
to hold full State Convention without re.
gard to party lines, to nominate n Council of
Ccnsors, was likely to prove fatal one. From
the start we saw no other way to secure a
discreet and united action in favor of any
ticket worthy OF u hearty support. Without
such an action the voters generally would not
interest themselves in the election Luck OF
petty intrigue would be left to decide it. 1t
became soon evident that there was TO be no
such Convention, and though two or three
attempts were made to supply its place by
the action Of County Conventions, that plan
proved substantially abortiye.
The natural consequences followed Here
and there some individual was named NOT
for any apparent reason, but rather as it
would seem, for the sake of saying something
At length full tickets began to show them
selyes-and these were followed by others,
so that we have about score in all,
made up without concert, and without
knowing whether the nominees would allow
their names to be used or not. From decli
natures and substitutions in all these tickets,
The whole thing is in as pretty state ofcon-
fusion and uncertainty Ms any one could wish
TO see Yet the election occurs on the 2Sth
inst, next week on Wednesday, and it is
quite time for the electors to know who they
can vote for with any chance of aiding to
elect good set of men. We have the whole
array Of tickets before us-so far as they have
been published. If there is any one uHpub-
hshed, or determined upon any secret organiza-
ton, we know nothing of it,and care nothing
for it, Secret nominations we have no sort
Of respect for. We give the ticket which
seems to us, as whoIe, most worthy ofsup-
port and these are our reasons. Several of
the candidates are on nearly all Of the tickets
which have appeared-others are on MAJOR
part of them. Two or three, though not on a
majority of the tickets, we believe will prove
acceptable to very large number Of the
voters throughout the State,
Most of the persons on this ticket
wc are personally acquainted with, and be-
lieve them to be men who understand the
principles of our free institutions, that
they are men who have strong love for po
puiar rightS-men who, ifthey venerate the
past, and respect the opinions of those who
have gone before us, do not believe that Wis
dom died with the men of III, or of 1898 or
of 1928, or of 1896, or even of 1850 but
rather, that.improvement in the Constitution
is yet a possible thing, and that it is well to
seek for it fairly, and when found to make it
if possiblc. Most of them are men widely
known in the State, and highly respected for
their character and their abilities for such
abilities as are needed for SO important a
work as that Of a thorough scrutiny Of the
legislation Of the State, of n careful exam
nation its fundamental law in the light OF
increased experience and profound apprc-
citation of the free principles on which it rests
Two or three OF them we do not know but
we place them in the list on the recommended
ton Of others. Able men who were first pro-
posed for those places, have withdrawn their
names, and we can do no better now Here
is the list
For Council of Censors