The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1856-05-03
THE PATRIOT W.. John WENT.
WORTH.

The opposition papers in this State are
copying an article upon the next presidency,
from the Chicago Democrat, in which is the
stae'ment that its editor, John Wentworth
has always supported the regular democratic
nominees, and that now he il democrat Of
the Jefferson and jackson school The Cal.
edonlan copies it, and gives it grave edito.
rial endorsement and 60 do many other black
republic an papers in this State. Now, these
editors either suppose their rea'Iers are fools
or they themselves are wofuIly ignorant of
the facts. John Wentworth has not voted
for or in any way supported the regular nom
inees OF the democratic party since 1915
D"l all Mts time has been a renegade and ado
HfiOnist: and at this moment is as bitterly
hostile to the democratic party as the devil j.
to true relig'on.-Jiontpeiier Patriot.
- Against the above assertion Of the Pat
riot VIC copy once more the following aecla
ration from the pen of John Wentworth him
self. We copy from the Chicago Democra
Of April 9th:
The proprietor Of this paper (John Went
WORTH tor the last twenty years has supported
the regular nominations of the democrati,
party, and all his sympathies now are with
the principles of that partv. AZ illustrated n,
!ne administration OF Jefferson, jackson, and
Van Buren,"
Well perhaps belief in the principle.
OF Jefferson and Jackson don't entitle . man
in the view of the Patriot, to the name Of
democrat! The democracy claims to he q
progressive party. and it is quite possible tina,
even Long John Wentworth can not keep ur
with it. a fat Office in prospective and con
venient government jobs in possession, or
the principle Of tying bundle of straw to {
donkey's nose to increase his speed, have
doubtless failed. in his case, of the remark able
success which they meet with when admins
tered to northern consciences Of democrati,
elasticity. John Wentworth stands now just
where he has stood for the last twenty years
II is President Pierce and bis officials, it i.
the Patriot and few similar sheets. who are
:" renegades from the democratic party, and
not that large and increasing body of sobe,
rejecting men who will not be drawn BY
party allegiance into schemes for personal
ambition or slavery propagandsm.
Democracy is q much-abused word, and
has now come to be used, not a. an expires
sion Of the rights Of the people, but as the
synonyme Of wrongs for tie slave and outra.
ges for the North. The pro-slavery party
of the present has no title to the name If de.
mocracy, either by inheritance or propriety
1t has flung away its ancient principles, and
is now trading on false pretences. 1t now
means slavery neither more nor
less. In its present state it is the result Of a
we'll understood. if not expressed, bargain
between the Pierce and Douglas politicians
Of the North and the shareholders In ell. C.,
the former say to the South, alone and un-
aided your schemes must utterly fail. But
give US the key to the public treasury, make
us Presidents and Secretaries and foreign
ministers, give US custom house and Post-otIi.
ces, and We can deceive and influence enough,
At the North to help YOU carry through all
your undertakings" The party thus held
together, for such purposes, is attempted to
be vanished over with the name Of demo
cratic. Whether it will succeed in it. hope.
remains for the freemen Of the North to de
tcrmine. We think they have sense enough
to separate the true from the false, and cour
age enough to speak out upon the great ant
only vital question Of the day, regardless Of
such harmless cries as the Patriots and Post
may bring of "renegades ard abolitionists
In fact, the utter recklessness and wilfu
talschood Of such charges indicate a despcr
ate and falling cause, and the vulgarit,
displ4ye in such extracts as the above is on
ly equalIed by its feeble .ophistry. The edo
ny epthet applied to the Republican part,
only blackens those who use t,and we shoul,
naturally suppose that their cause woul'
hardly need any more such co'orirg.
Having allowed the paragraph com
municated by "Solon" aplace in TIE Cal
EDONIAx of last week, We can do no les
than publish the following reply to the char
ges therein specified.
| To the Ehiors of the (ale'mian:
am sorry that you allowed the articI
signed "Solon" to appear in your paper Of
the Goth. It must, on your part, have bee
inadvertent. That article bears on its from
the stamp Of malevolence and it is . mi.
take to suffer public journal to be the VI
hicle Of private malice. Now I will ventur
to say in contradiction to that article, that I
fair minded men the proof against Williar
and Alva Stevens did not appear conclusive
and many Of their townsmen honestly thir
that the means used by some Of their neigh
bors to procure them to be bound up for a
, infamous crime was much more reprehensi
Die than anything tina: they we're guilty o
And their townsmen, in choosing them to tn
same offices that they held last year, inten