Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-10-19

would do nothing 10 protect from
violence the thousands Of white cit
izens in Kansas, while he had re-
Gently shown his eager aptitude to
employ both military and naval force
in catching miserable, runaway
negroc ia the streets of Boston.-
(Applsuse.) Nor is Indignation at
the removal of the noble Reeder
softencd by the contempt felt for his
craven successor, who heralds has
approach to the territory, by the pro-
clamalion, am for Slavery ia
Kansas !!
The chief actors in this drama
have been Democrats. From the
first scene TO the last, they have re-
celved the noisy plaudis or the sllen,
admiration of the recognized organ
of the Administration at the seat OF
Government. The final act IN the
drama-lhe introduction of Kansas
to the Union as a slaveholding State
lis beyond all question the grand
consumalion, 10 secure which the
Administration is, at this moment,
bending its entire energies.
Under these circumstances, the
Administration branch of the Dem
ocracy of New York met in state
Convention In 1852, that section
of the party gave It's preponderatlng
vote in lavor of the present incum-
bent Of the presidential chair From
It's ranks he subsequently selected
the first officer of his Cabinet, aud
distributed among its members a
large share Of the patronage of the
government 1t has the ear of the
Executive His Administration is
dependent on It's determination. 1t
can mould Isis policy, or crush him.
II, then, there be any portion OF the
Democracy OF the Union bound 10
utter the truth clearly and firmly on
all the phases of the Kansas lnlamy,
past. present aud future, 1t is the pat-
~ whose Convention not long ago
adjourned a, Syracuse And, If that
I Convention failed to meet tie cx
igency 10y denounciog IN plain terms
the repeal Of the prohlbltory clause OF
the Missouri Compromise, lis authors
aud abeuors-if 1t failed TO Stigma
uze 10 appropriate language the ruff
fanly act and ultcuor designs Of the
Missouri horderers--il 1t failed to
reprobale the removal ol Recdcr,
aud spurn the hypocrI,icul pretext
under which the real motives for
the decd are sought to be concealed
If IT failed TO declare 1t TO be the
duty of Congress to veto at least all
such acts Of the fraudulent lcgisla-
ture OF kansos as tend TO the intro
duclion OF slavery thercln--ll 1t fail
ed to utter the fixed determination
Of the people of this State to do
what they can 20 right this wrong
by insisting upon Congressional
Prohibition of slavery IN that ieruto-
~, or, failing IN tins, 10y resisting the
introduction of any Slave State
formed within its borders - say
the Convention failed to do the
whole or the major and principal
part of these things, then IL lmplica-
/ ted itself and those whom IL repres-
eutod IN tins great crime, unless ITS
members aud their constituents ab-
solved themselves from guilt by pro-
testing against the action &C The ma
JorIty OF that body on this subject
This truth must he evident to all but
the lamest tools, the stolld serls, OF
party organization.
What, then, was the action Of the
Convention on this question
VIGOROUSLY, It did mol do any one
OF the thugs which have deslgna-
ted as its duty-not one. (Hear
hear
1t passed no resolution which eth
er expressly or implicitly condemned
the repeal Of the Missouri reslric-
ton, but laid all such on the table
by test votes.
Some well-mcanng but rather
nervous Democrats, while admitting
that the majority at Syracuse failed
TO express The sentiment Of the par
", nevertheless fear that open pro-
tests against their action will hazard
the success OF the Soft ticket. Let
all such he consoled with the rofec-
ton, that if anything they may
say or do tends TO defeat The party,
this will prove them TO be FIRST rate
administration mentor, defeating
the party seems To be the only meas
ure in which the administration has
been uniformly successful. Gap
pIause and larghter.) Let them be
further consoled by knowing, thai Ia
SO doing they will be but helping TO
fulfill the expectations OF the man
ayers of the Convention, who lho'f
that TO shield The administrations from
censure and secure a free passage
into the Cincinnati Convention, were
objects far more important 10 be OBJ
tanned THAI the election of State Of
ficers this fall. And this policy is
dictated 10y men who fiji our ears
with clamor about the importance
of pending State issues No,
my nervous friend it is not the man
ly expression of opinions that invites
defeat, but their cowardly suppress
sion. (Yes, that's it.) De(ea, -
Better he defeated than dsgraced.
Better fail while avowing our prlnci-
plies, than triumph by repudialIng