Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-14
POLITICAL ITEMS.

From the Boston Atlas.
Some Of tho papers are already making a
cabinet for Mr.. Buchanan, and a very bad
one indeed. What can be expected Of tho
best President with the following advisers:
Secretary of Stat,.--D. s. Dickinson, Scripture
Post Master Genuai.-B. F.. Hallett, Soldier of
Fortune)
Secretary Of Trea,we.-R. M. t. Hunter. (Run-
Mad Tom Hunter)
Secretary Of War.-John slidoll, tBallot-stuaer)
New England gives her entire vote to Col.
Fremont. No Presidential candidate, Wash
inpton alone excepted, shares with him the
distinguished honor.
In Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, the vote
is Fremont 959 Buchanan 1855 Fillmore
SO. Before election, our friends in Potsdam
promised 800 over the highest. They have
given S04! That shows close canvassing.
A letter from one of the free State prisoners
at Lecompton says that Col. Titus, the Bor-
der Rufian leader, who has charge of them.
and who is drumming up recruits for Walker,
" has offered any one his liberty, and a free
passage, to join Gen. Walker in Nicaragua"
A proclamation issu ed by the Brigham
Young Saints of Great Salt Lake to the
faithful, declares, that
"The democratic party i the instrument, in Gods
hand, by which is to be effected our recognition asa
sovereign state, with the domestic institutions of
slavery and polygamy, as established by the patri-
archs and prophets of old, under divine authority,
and renewed to tho saints of latter days, through
Gods chosen rulers and prophets"
Accounts from Chicago, from Cincinnati,
from Troy, from Hartford, and from many
other places where Germans abound, state
that they voted almost unanimously for FIRE.
mont. The English, Welsh, Scotch and
French mostly followed them in this good ex-
ample, but the Irish as a general thing, stuck
fast to the " rigiler Dimicratic Party"
The Troy Wing says that the recent defeat
Of the Fillmore party in New York State is
due entirely to 'some missteps of the Ameri-
cans themselves, as time will show" This
is probably so. The Dispatch says the de-
feat was due to the deliberate treachery''
Of men high in the Fillmore Councils, who
were working for Buchanan al the time.
The N. Y. Times says it is rumored in that
City that Col. Fremont will he elected United
States Senator from New York, in place Of
Hon. Hamilton Fish, whose term expires next
4th of March.
In New York and the New England State,
Fremont's vote exceeds Buchanan's by about
2I0, 1000.
The Richmond Va, Wing had some funny
appeals to voters to rally at the polls on cleo
tion day. Here is one of them
Why =" Why thou art thou cast down, oh
nv soul, and why art thou disquiet.d within me ?
Because the Gibraltar has proved itself a humbui
and a nuisance. Down with the Glib altar Vorl
EARLY"
The vote in the Five Points, New York wa
ms follows Buchanan, SIS Fillmore, IL
Fremont Il, If it had not been for the mis-
si%onaries in that region, Fremont's vot'
would probably have fallen below Fillmore's
The most extraordinary efforts were mad
to defeat Mr.. Burlingame in Massachusetts
In one Of the hotels within his district. TWEEN
ty voters were colonized from other Ward
so as to vote against him. In Cambridge
l6O persons were hunted up who had no
paid taxes and were therefore not entitled I,
vote, and their taxes were paid for them h,
the opposition 1t is said that over $40 OO'
were expended to secure his defeat. Tn
Providence journal says Mr.. Burlingame'
d feat would have been Massachusetts, sayinj
to Sonth Carolina. ''Spit in my face jus
as much as you please.
1t is of but little consequence now. bu
it ought to be put upon record that Judg
Mclean, who had been announced as sup
porting Buchanan. supported and voted 70
John C. Fremont.