Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-31
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The following article from the N. Y. Eve.
Post, shows conclusively what appears now to
he the policy OF the Black party. We COM
mend it to our readers. 1t is well known
that if the people fail to elect president, It
devolvcs upon the House, If the House fails
then the Vice President acts as President
The Post says:
Within the last week the Presidential can.
vass has assured rev and quite unexpected
phase The report il that that Douglass
and his friends have lost faith in Buchanan,
anaare intriguing fer the elevation of Breck- |
enridge in his place, III way which we Will
presently explain.
It has been quite apparent for some time,
to MIR. Buchanan's northern friends, that it
was impossible for him to succeed on what
Col. Benton SO significantly termed the ipe-
cac platform" prescribed for him at CinciD'
natl. To hold some portion Of the northern
democracy if possible the Sage oil Wheat
land has been gradually easing up on the
slavery subject, in various ways. until the
Douglas men begin to think he means, after
all, to stand where he stood in lS4S-upon
the principles of the Missouri Compromise.
Col. Benton's course in supporting Buchanan,
while denouncing the Convention which nom
mated him. and the platform it laid down,
first put them upon suspicion. Then the dis
position manifested in Buchanans letter &C
ccpting the Cincinnati nomination, to qualify
the position he had previously taken in his
speech to the committee. increased their
alarm.
/ But the heaviest blow which has been
givss-aa abe confidence of the Kansas party
was struck the other day in Congress, by
Barclay Of Pennsylvania, in voting for the
admission of Kansas into the Union as rec
state, under the Topeka constitution. Mr..
Barclay is well known to be fast friend OF
Buchanau, aud his detection attended as it
was With such critical results, has spread con.
stcrnation among Mr.. Buchanau's bondsmen
in the Cincinnati Convention They do not
disguise their belief that he is rafting, and
that he will be as ready now to betray the
South as has always been when public senti-
lnent ran in the opposite direction to betray
the North.
Inspired by this new and unexpected dan
ger, the pro.sIavery leadears have hit upon
plan of securing power by decelving the peo-
pie. The most they hope or desire now for
Buchanan is, that he may have votes enough
to defeat an election at the polls. In that
case the election goes to the House Of Repre-.
sentatives.
The three highest candidates before the
House, in case Of defeat cf the popular
choice, will doubtless be Fremont, Buchanan
and Fillmore Each state then will cast but
one vote. Rhode Island or Delaware has
Inst as much weight in that election as New
York or Pennsylvania. Neither party in the
House has, according to present party dlvis-
ions, a clear majority. The Republicans
have majorties in and control the delegations
from Maine, New Hampshire Vermont
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, New York, Peuusy Ivania, Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana and Observation-Disclosures
states. The democrats arc represented by
majorites in Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia,
Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi Florida and
California-eleven states. The American
party numbers majority in Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee Missouri, and Delaware
five states. Iowa presents tie--one repub-
ican and one democrat, RS also docs Texas,
represented by one democrat and one Amer
lean 49,.
NE Republican candidate, having hut
thirteen states, would shus lack three Of Il
majority. California, Illinois and Iowa are
the three states from which the required aid
would be most naturally expected.
The Kansas party, now disguised with Blu
chanan, are laying their plans not only to de-
feat an election by the people, but by the
House Of Representatives. In the event Of
the House not choosing the President before
the fourth day of March next, should the
choice devolve upoh il. then the Vice. Presi-
Dent becomes the President de facto. Who
the Vice. President would be in that event is
not at all doubtful. The Senate has the
power of choosing the Vice. President from
the two candidates having the highest vote
for that Office in the electoral college, and
the strong democratic majority in the Senate
would insure the immediate choice of Mr..
Breckenridge, the tactotum Of Mr.. Douglas
in securing the passage of the kausas-Ne-
braska bill, and one OF the most thorough
going believers in slavery jure diUino in the
United States,
To make Mr.. Breckenridge President by
the vote of the Senate; to defeat the popular
choice to take from the popular branch Of
Congress constitutional perogative and
transfer it to the Senate-these are the plans
which are just now said 10 engross the whole
ingenuity of the pro-slavery leaders. This
is the consummation towards which Mr.. Fill
more and his friends are labofing, some igno-
rantIy and some desgncdy, with all their
might.
Deeply as we should deplore such result,
we have no comniseration for Mr.. Buchanan.
His subservience to the South, and his faith
lessaess to all bis political convictions, time
and again, enttle him TO no better late. The
mao who, in his position and at his years.
would make himself the organ of the barba.
rous creed proclaimed at Cincinnati, deserves
to be betrayed.
Fremont AND Dayton CLuB.--The citizens OIL
this yillaea came. together on the 25th, upon
the adjournment of the BIak Convention, anc
organized rousiug Fremont and Dayton Club
On the 18th the constitution was adopted anC
officers chosen as follows: President, L. P. Wal
ton: Vice Presidents, j. w. Ellis and D. Tryor
Knapp; Secretaries, Ii. D. Hopkins and W
II. Marsh Executive COMMITTEES, Joseph Pc
land, Abiah Keith, J. G. Emery, D. L. Fuller
and s. Nj. Walton, and fifty members signed
the Consultation. The Executive COMMITTEES