Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-08

appropriations by President-her adjacent
territories made the battlefield for AN intestine
civil strife that now seeks to make her own soil
also the theatre of contention-she has seen all
this, and surely it needs not that mortal eyes
should witness more to open them to vision of
the tate that awaits her. if she tarries longer in
the trammes of the spoiler We advise, there
lore, as a preliminary to this step, that the
Democratic Convention. soon to assemble at
Jefferson City, take u mantul position, and say
to the leaders Of the Democratic party soon to
assemble at Cincinnati, that they must choose
between defeat or full justice to the Vest
Let the Convention refuse u send delegates to
Cincinnati, but lay down the demands of equity
and long deterred rights in advance, and require
Their recognition Let it say to the men who
Shall meet to fashion the plank OF n new Demo-
cratic platform-you must insert there oaken
timber for the West or we will not embark in
your cause. Let it tell president makers and Of
hce-seekers yon need not varnish up your Pierce,
or plaster your Douglas, and seek to palm them
of on us again, but give US some worthy man
not touched with your leprous disease of Slave.
ry agitation. otherwise we will not cast the vote
of Missouri in his favor
A Washington correspondent of the Evening
Post foreshadows the prospects of tho Cincin-
natl Convention, as follows:
Notwithstanding the Encouragement of the
present Administration. the Democratic party is
still far from exhibiting the complete disintegra-
ton which has overtaken its rival, the Wing
organization. The strength of old political as
sociations still holds in its ranks large number
of those who disappreve the policy by which it
is now controlled. Such persons am convinced,
constitute the great body of the Democratic
party, and if a fair expression of their senti
ments could be obtained at the approaching
Convention, there can be no doubt that ticket
would be presented for our support which would
not only command but deserve success.
Unfortunately the composition Of the Con-
vention is likely to be Of character to preclude
50 desirable result. Without doubt there will
be present considerable number of thorough
going. old fashioned Democrats. but the proba
bility is, that they will be vastly outnumbered
by the paid su pporters of the present regime,
whose sole object is to retain, under the next
Administration, the Offices which they now hold
at whatever sacrifice of consistency or Demo
cratic principle. 1t is no unbecoming reflection
upon these gentlemen to say, that their FREEDOM
I nance at our State and National Democratic
Convention has been the bane of the Democrat
lie party. No bargain has been too monstrous
no subserviency to special sectional interests toe
humiliating, provided they can still enjoy the
rich droppings of the federal treasury. Hence
the discreditable federal appointments to office
at home and abroad hence the re-agitation Of
the Slavery question, under the pretext Of "pop
ular sovereignty !" hence such OUTLAWS as the
Gadsden purchase, and hence also the ostracisn
of the radical well tried Jacksonian Dcmocra
cy from any participation, or, at least, any eff
iective influence upon the counsels of a Dem
ocratic " Administration.
1t is high time, therefore, that these January
gatherings, mis-called National Conventions
should be overthrown. Ii we desire the integ
rity at the Democratic party, let there be Ma
tional Convention Of disinterested, fairly chosen
representatives of The masses, and not of dele
gates who, by their position, are necessarily
slaves to executive dictaton Let the Conven
ton be purged of federal Office holders-and, i
that be Impossible let us act for ourselves.
As Democrat. therefore, unconnected witt
any hostile organization, propose the following
suggestions for the consideration of those mem
hers of the approaching Convention who, like
myself, owe no allegiance to the present Admin
istration, and who are disposed to fellow it ne
further thin it follows Democratic. principles
|. That the qualifications of members of the
Convention, should in one respect, be the SAINT
as those which are prescribed in the Constitution
of the United States for Presidential electors, tt
wit No senator or representative, or person
holding an Office of trust or profit under thu
United States, shall he appointed an elector'
2 That the Convention be guided in the Sc
lection Of candidates by the understood prefer
ence of the great mass of the Democratic party
throughout the country.
3 That the candidate should be man, no
only of approved Democratic antecedents, Blu
one wholly unconnected with tie recent agita
ton arising from the passage Of the Nebrask;
bill, and whose nomination, would not, there
fore, revive the remembrance of the sectiona
differences which have already proved the ruiz
Of the party in large number Of the States.
If these propositions be voted down at tn
Convention, let the independent Democratic
members refuse to be bound by its action, ant
adopt such measures as may Seem expedient t,
make the result of the next Presidential cleo
ton coincide in some degree with the wishes oil
the great majority of the Democratic party"
The above facts are but straws in comparison
with those with which the nation is filled. Tht
defiant, arrogant position OF the Pierce Democ
racy, will, with their determination to " crush
out" all who will " not stand by positions thu
erected" force great portion OF those whit
voted for Pierce in 1852, into the ranks of tn,
Peoples Observation-Disclosures whateve
name the people choos9 to give them And ii
the present condition of affairs there is no alter
native left to Democrats but to thus unite an(
overthrow power whose monarchial strides ar
fast destroying the Republican institutions o
our country.