Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-08
The Democracy OF the People, VS
the Pierce Democracy.


Of the Democracy. The Patriot says:
"Though the committees separated without
fully perfecliug any plans, their meeting was
one Of Importance, and good to our party aud
State s liEely to result from it. A system of
organization and invitation will be effected in
season for the first s&rmishing of the battle of
Septembcr and November, One great thing
lacking here is sympathy and familiarity be
tween the Democratic party oil different sections.
n Without organization, as our party
now is. it becomes fragmentary, cold and inhar
monious; we freeze ourselves by partition walls
of ice between men cherishing the same exalted
principles and bearing the same shining colors.
A few lion-hearted Democrats in everytown work
faithfully and nobly, hut separately, each in his
own way; often crossing and defeating, without
intending it, une another The opposition have
long ago noted this one crying weakness, and
the prostration and political degradation of Yer
mont is the Consequence. There are
to-day 20 900 Democrats in Vermont; some, it
is true. are or have been led off temporarily by a
misunderstanding of the policy of the Admins
tration, but they are coming back in Scores
From this and the remainder of the article,
we learn that there is a 6 misunderstanding of
the policy of the Administration" and til t
there is 50 no sympathy among the different sec
tions of the Democracy, and that there is no
" organization among the Pierce Democracy
in the State. but that they are cold and inhar
monious."'
Now all thisis but veri6cation of the facts
of the case, as We have them from the proceed
ings in the State and District Convention to ap-
point delegates to Cincinnati. In the Conven-
ton at Montpelier, to appoint delegates at large,
party of the people. who made an attempt to
nominate Il ticket unpledged to the Administra-
ton, and one that would favor the interests of
the people more thin that of the Office holders,
was crushed oft" by prcponderance of
office holders. Atthe District Convention at
Hydepark. resol ton was offered by the un-
paid Democracy, b the effect that Office holders
should have no voice in appointing delegates
but it was overrued
Now what hav. those Democrats done what
are they now doing They have stood, and are
now standing, alCof from the paid menials, and
refuse coalition with them. 1t is these Dem.
ocrats whom the Committee at Burlington and
the Patriot are trying so hard to soothe and
coax into an organization. How did that Com
mittee succeed =! They " separated without per
lecting any plans says the Patriot Said a
Democrat 10 us, /" We boted, and shall bolt
any yielding of principle to Snaley, Peck, East
man Co. We must have party of the PEG.
pie. or no party at all :"
This condition of the Pierce Democracy in
Vermont, is but a specimen of what pervades
the party throughout the Union The Hon
Mr. Butler, of Lowell, delegate from Massa
chusetts, and appointed by Democracy that
i'll remember Rantorl, asserts that resolution
will he offered in Convention at Cincinnati, dis
lranchisng c6ice holders from voice in that as
s'mhly, and such "a resolution, as things now
look, will he successful
As a further demonstration of this feeling
among the Democracy of Massachusetts,, We
give the following, first communicated to the
Pierce organ, the Boston Post, by a Democrat
bat tho Post refused 70 publish it, and it wa.
ent to the Advertiser
9 1t will be recollccted that at our last State
Convention, held at Worcester, resolution was
passed. that the Massachusetts delegation shoulc
cast their vote at the Cincinnati Convention, in
the nomination Of a candidate for President, al
u unH. The vote was passed without any de-
bate, and probably without any thought at thu
time After the Convention had passed, wherev.
or it was noticed IN the Congressional districts
it was generally condemned If the vote of thu
State Convention shall be considered compulso
ry upon any delegate except the four delegates
at large, it may embarrass the vote of Massa
chusetts, by preventing that free action O.
claims as his brthright Whatever may have
been the object of those who introduced the res
olution, no reason was given for its passage.
Undoubtedly the State Convention had right
to instruct their delegates at large to vote as ;
unit, or lose their vote whatever justice there
may be in such instruction so given, if the dele
gates at large accepted the conditions, they may
abide the consequences.
That the State Convention had any right tt
go further than the instructing of their foul
delegates at large, no one should or can admit
Their power ended or should terminate within
its jurisdiction.
What power has a State Convention, chosen
for ordinary state purposes, to nullfy the actor
of the several Congressional districts Wha
right has State Convention to annihiate the
whole power of the several Congressional dis
trcls, by virtually DISTINGUISHING them by de-
priving them of any voice or action, by allowing
them 10 choose delegates, and then form then
into chattels, to be used by others! What
right has State Convention, after choosing its
four delegates at large, to say we instruct yot
to vote as II unit, and as you vote, so shall al
the other eleven Congressional districts cas-
their twenty-five votes Is this Democracy
Is this free action, is this free opinion, is th
right, is it honest, is it just, to give four mer
power to dispose OF the whole delegation, or t,
give one person the power to nullify the vote o
Massachusetts Such is the fact. Will thi
be submitted to, will the twenty two delegate
submit to this understandable assumption o
power, an assumption without precedent. onl
under aristocrat'c painciplcs of higher law
Such proceedings will he apt to keep til
Pierce Democracy in numbers " conventional
small" in Massachusetts.
New York has two sets of delegates, one 70
Pierce and one for he people.
"Whilo in Pennsylvania" says dispatch
:. the late american Minister to England, (Bu
chnnan, has received the formal endorsement Q
all the Democratic members of the lower branc
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature, save one
and all the Democratic members of the Stat
Senate, save two ~
Again we find the organ of the Missoul
Democracy, the Democrat, even in its slave
holding condition, saying to the people OF tn
State, what will find many imitators furthe
North. The Democrat says