Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-04-13
70, tho watchr-a AZ d Journal.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT in Rutland
County.

county.
E.P, waLroS, JR., ESQ Having motto.
"a that Won, with yonr usual acuuieA, es-ly
orsaw the danger. likely to accrue 10 he
,est interests OF Ntfmont politics, and the
rue interests of the people. by the introduce
ion at the present time of the "new creed"
md having with you, from the outset, looked
with entire dis,rust upon the awhile heap"
If Know No,hingism, | take especial pleas
IRE now in saying a few words TO you i~
reference to the advance and sr~~ 80
= last card" Of tie 49, ..~~s ri this
,monc ~ ..---avass aemeetaey
I, cav Mat take a pleasure in
doing ,Als. and 50 far dos for though the
ins,dIous march of this hoodwinked band
has thus far been onward, ! still believe that
the native good sense, and the general in
telhoence OF the people of Vermont will en-
able them in good time to see, at least, the
claws Of the feline animal concealed be-
meath this cheap Of Southern ground prov
ender.
The growth Of this order" has been well
likened 10 that of the mushroom and with
equal truth may il be said that in its attri-
butes it possesses all the poisonous quail.
tiles of the mushrooms counterfeit, the
toad-stooll In no time within the past doz-
en- years has the body polite Of Vermont
been in so susceptible a condition 10 receive
the poisonous effects Of this exotic, and
hence it is, unlessspeedily rooted out, Yer.
mont will suddenly meet with political re.
verse. and stand once more before the nation
politically disgraced.
The Seventh of June, 1854. was a glori
Gus day for Vermont; aud all who werC
present at the Convention held Il Rutland
on that day will long remember the enthusi
asm with which the resolutions there offer
ed were received by the people, and thC
strength oil felt IN once moro standing on
common platform, under The republican ban.
ner of freedom The past wanderings O
different factions, and the delinquencic'
and venial errors Of individuals were thm
for time forgotten; private anlmosiies
were silently buried and personal prefeen-
ces were yielded up, and the incense finn
ed upon the altar that day was the ofer-
ing of fee-nen determined To remain sch.
And thus was the curtain drawn over the
chickering's, the Understandings AM the
feuds of the past, while in the future all
saw the full beauty of promise. not only, but
the bright certainty of the glorious victory
which awaited them in the coming cjntcst.
OF the healthtul influence which the action
OF this Convention shed upon the boy poll
tic and the salulary lesson which The victo
nv gave to all dough-faced demagogses, 1t -
unnecessary here to speak. Suffice 1t 10
saw, that the one was fully Acknowledged,
while the other was as deeply felt. But
who would have supposed in view of the
then existing state Of parties-wlh the rec
objection of the bitter triangular fight OF the
few past years, and with the last most inso-
lent act Of Southern aggression stlll fresh
before us--who, ! say, could have looked
I for such a stampede of this grand army as
we have since seen. in chase OF the tirs'
" viii o the Wisp" set up by the cunning
enemy And to what end and for wha
purpose, other than TO dsorganize and hreaF
up the existing dominnnt pary of Vermont
/ has this Jack o. Lantern been lighted ui
among us ? or admitting that this was no
1 the ain of the orgiuators Of the movement
what else can come Of il?
Iadnit that it Is now useless to cast blam
upon those whose particular duty It vas Il
unmask Sam" on his first appearance a
mong us-but who, instead. stood shakin,
in their shoes at his first approach, an
/ through fear or mistaken policy, blindly fel
into line under his guidance bat the tint
iriH come, ami that soon, when these gentle
men will be called upon to give their rea
sons for thus virtually abandoning and all
/ ing in the breaking mp of the strongest, hes
united and best grounded party that Yer
mont has seen for years, and to show TN
grounds of their belief in the necessity o
an oath-bound party TO destroy it. That
pro slavery democrat or a dsheartened sil
yer grey wing should follow the drum bea
of the rodoubtable Sam IN his march, i
not in any way surprising but that a Re
Z r'.s'i---, ---i honest Fraesoil man ant
supporter of Northern rights against South
ern aggression should be thus msled, i
/ most strange, and TO be wondered at.
OF the Know Nothing party, ! have a
the present time, but liule or nothing to say
Suffice it, that with ITS proscrptivo aim
and its ayowed "ends," ! have but liltl
sympathy; and as for the underhande
means by which these ends and aims are I
be accomplished, they are just suited to III
unworthy followers of Ignatius, who no
roam over the world and vampire-like dra
blood from friend and foe and 70 this I" O
der" alone would leave them.
have often seen Sam"-and | mu
confess that have never liked him in an
" guse" in which he has ever made his al
pearance. Whether as the bullying maral
der of New York or PhIladelphia-the mi'
night incendiary of Boston or Charlestow
or the Jack Ketch" of the country--cou
ageously (in the night hanging "old cloths
ST. Pauicks, on our shade trees-he is, alii
TO me an odious and contemplate swagge
In his antecedents he Is Infamous aud
his subsequents, he is no better. He is
Hindoo and a Thug and worse than all,
us in Vermont, his last daguerreotypc pr,
SCENTS him with i" dough face" and sir
grey" jacket national REPUBLICAN
Rutland Co., Ap'l 8, 1855. lOld Schoo