The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-06-11
The County Convention.

The County Convention. ~
The official report of the proceedings
Of the Convention will be found in our
columns to-day. 1t was the largest
County Convention we have ever seen in
Old Addison, and in the earnestncss of
feeling and determination of purpose
manifested, surpassed anything We had
supposed possible in this pcsceablc and
ordinarily staid community. 1t became
evident that spirit was aroused equal in
intensity and resolution to anything ever
known in our history. The indignant
denunciations by various speakers of the
Administration and its proslavery sub.
sorviency, as we'll as o: the recent out.
RACES upon freedom in Kansas and
Washington, were applauded with
heartincss and enthusiasm, not cqualled
by anything we have over witnessed be-
fore in the way Of popular Indignation
The speakers were peculiarly earnest
and indignant, whether old men or
young men, and seemed fully ready and
resolved to meet the crisis 10 our nation
al affairs with the energy and decision,
which became the sons of tie Green
Mountain Boys. No man who spoke in
that long to be remembered Convention,
uttered one syllable of concession, Of
Compromise or evasion in view of the
conflict, which seems to be invited, and
in so many ways insultingly provoked by
the South. Every man in the Conven-
.ion seemed fully ready to declare that
slavery shall at every hazard be excluded
from Kansas and Nebraska. And when
the call was made for men and money 10
aid the interests Of freedom, civilization
and humanity on that distant and i'm.
pcriled outpost, though no such demand
had been anticipated, the response was
hearty and liberal Ten. twenty and if
ty dollars were promptly subscribed and
that too in some cases by men Of but
moderate pecuniary means. The entire
amount subscribed we have not learned
but rejoice that n Committee was ap.
pointed to procure subscriptions through.
OUT the county. In response TO the d..
mand for men, ono middle aged gentle
man snid he was willing to 20 or to pay
fifty dollars to any other man who would.
Pouryoung mon, through ono of their num-
Der avowed that they were DESTROYS of
going to Kansas and would do so, if they
could obtain the necessary means These
were young gentlemen from the College,
and it was quite evident that literary
culture had nowise checked the ardor
Of their enthusiasm, or quenched the
spirit Of earnest and resoluto manhood
Unless we greatly Inexperienced, no
class Of men sympathized more heartily
i'll the stirring scenes Of the Convention
than the College students. And that is
as it should be-for why should young
men be laboriously trained for the high
duties of life, unless they may be
ready to stand among the foremost, when
the qualities of unAnching manhood are
demanded
This was Convention that will not
soon be forgotten in this county, and to
every man, not frozen up in the polar
ice Of Conservatism, it will be a matter
OF Especial rejoicing that such q spirit has
been called out in our midst. 1t is evil
dent that the manliness of earlier days
yet fingers among these mountains. and
that the men whose fathers were found
equal to the demands made on them at
Hubbarlton, Benningt on, Ticonderogaand
Plattsburgh, are tho right sort of men
TO fight the battles of freedom on the
plains of Kansas. We trust they will
be found Aocking thither by hundreds
remembering for whence they came and
who we're their fathers -.