Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-04-17

for the sole purpose of defeating or injuring !
some body else. He denounced the temperance
movement, not because he honestly believed the
good of great portion of our community re-
quired it, but because heEwished to defeat the
opposite party. Again he endorsed the princi-
pies of the True Democracy in 1919, for motives
which if the people think were disinterested,
let them turn tn the time when, after receiving
all htEyors in their power to bestow, he for.
sock the Democracy, and joined that bogus clan
Of Office holders and spoiis men--the Pierce De-
mocracy Again, look 1T this Couaty, in 1855,
when he abandoned the organization of the
Pierce Democracy ard went iaSe nnion with
Silver Grey Wings. At one time, llS49,) he
denosuced the Fugitive Slave law--at another,
(1S55) he culogized it, asserting that " it is in
strict obedience to requirement. of the Consti-
tuition, and in perfect harmony with the views
of all the early statesmen. y At one time.
(lS49, he passed resolutions and spoke in the
strongest terms in favor of Freedom--at another.
(Feb., 1885, he says, " it has been the misfor-
tune of the Northern Democracy to have tam
p red in q measure with the Free Soil sentiment.
Let us hope and pray it may never be done
again; it is prostitution too debasing to be
endured At one time, March, 1861 he de-
nounced the amendments of the Council of Cen
sors-at another, april, 1859 lie says he
!'' was the first to propose some of those amend
ments, and may, aotOppose any CT them; al
another time, (aee article above,) he says that
the Patriot is against the amendments-oi
course he means all, or he would have qualified
his remark
Now as to our supporting the amendments
If we see an opportunity to support the amend
ment giving, election of all officers to thu
people, as does the 10Th, 18th, 18th and l5tl
articles of amendments, we shall give it ou
support. But when we see an attempt made to
wrest from the people by any means whatever
aside from their own act and deed-as does tn
articles of amendments given by the report o
the Middlebury Register, but withheld in tn
official report afterwards given in that paper
and which We have doubts as to the true repor
of tive shall oppose and expose the attemp
to the best of our ability--believing it to b
an i-Republican and anti Democratic. Their
.. are other articles of amendments, some of whic
we shall support and there are others, espeeiall
the one which proposes to take the power frol
the hands of the smaller towns, and give it I
, the larger, which we shall notice more full
} soon, which we think undemOcratic.
We do not believe there is reader of til
, Freeman, not even the sapient editor of tt
Patriot, but what believes and knows that tt
D Patriots statement is false The editor of Il
y, Patriot has said us much in favor of the,
amendments as has the editor of the Freeman
In his last issue before this, he says he " 'cos
9 first 10 propose some of those amendments
Then, OF course, he must be in favor of - some
Of them. He also said, "ve may not oppo
= any Of hem." Now the editor Of the Freen,c
= has never gone further than that for them, al
h the editor of the Patriot knoys it!
> In conclusion we say that those who do NJ
: read the Freeman have nc business in statir
T. what it does or does not support. If any OIL
wishes to know our position, let him read I'll
!" Freeman.
, P.S, Since the above was in, print, we ha
n received Communication, given in another &C
~ umn. which is both timely and to the point.