Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-07-26
THE PROSPECT.



It is now a month since Colonel FREMoSr
and Judge Dayton were nominated by the rep
rescnialives Of large majority oflho American
people, assembled in Convention at Phladel-
phia, and almost two months since it was very
certain that Colonel FREMosT would be the op-
position candidate for the chief magisiracy Of
the nation. During the time that il has been
40 understood lhing that the Napoleon Of snow
drifts, as he has been sneerinely called, was to
be our leader, everything has gone on admira-
BIZ. Not biunder has been made. Not
mistake has happened. Not false step has
been taken. All that has been done has been
well done, and much has been done. We know
of no contest in which so much well directed
work has been accomplished in so short a time.
Aud this work is telling on the country. The
public mind is moved beyond all precedent
The people are giving the clearest indications
of their determination to put end TO that rule
of rufIianism which has inflicted 60 much dam
age upon the United States, and brought so
much disgrace on the cause of freedom. The
free States are coming together in one solid
moral phalsnx, which shall by its sheer weight
bear the s'ayeholjDg ohgaIchy inlo the dust.
The North, the West, and the Centre of the
Union are all one way in opinion, and will show
by their action what that opinion is. Every
New England Stale is sure TO throw majori-
ty of its votes against that embudyment of the
Cincinnati Plalform,-a platform composed in
equal paris of mud and blood James Buchan-
an. The popular majority against the Buchsn-
iers in New England will not be less than one
hundred thousand. Yet they carried four oflhe
New England States in 1852 Now they have
not chance Of carrying one Of them, unless
their opponents should be guilty of some act of
incredible folly, such as the wisdom Of their
cunduct hitherto, during the contest, warrants
our believing they will not commit. New York
is certain to oppose the Cincinnati platform
The union of the Hards and Soas is mere
delusion and even we're ii TO be effected, moth
ing could be gained for il to the cause of slave
ry. The Hards arc not so soft as to be taken
10 by men who are vowed 10 a continuance Of
that Pieroeism to which they so vehemenily OBJ
jeci; and the Sois are not so hard as to ap-
prove in mass Of the extension Of slavery. or
the establishment in Congress Of bludgeon law.
The BUCCANEERS have no hope for majority in
the Empire State, though that brazen-iaced ras-
cal, John Van Buren, had the audieity, at the
latest meeting Of the party in New York city,
to pledge 35 900 majority there for Mr. Buchan-
an When ii is recollec,ed that he actually
predicted the election Of his treacherous old
father, in 1913, and an electoral vote was cast
for the hoary reprobale, the value Of the rogne's
prediction will be properly estimated. All the
NORTHWEST is for FREMONT and DAYTON. and
could the votes be taken to-day, every State in
that quarter would be sure TO cast its electoral
vote for them. Buchanan and Breckenridge
could have no chance in one of them. They
have become weary disappearing such creatures
as Cass, Pugh, and Douglas, who grossly mis-
represent the sentiments of the free masses Of
their countrymen, and who are the veriesl tools
of the Shareholders that ever disgraoed the hu-
man form by yenturng to assume it. 1t is the
disgust that these creatures have caused by their
abject conduct which has contributed to make
the Reaction against Buchanersm so emphatic
10 the free Western States. The West has no
disposition to interfere with the domestic in
stilutions of the South, but when the South de-
clares that the power of the nation shall be used
to extend those institutions into regions yet un-
cursed by their presence, the West will dissent
from any such reading OF the national compact,
aud refuse 10 be party to the inquiy. Free
dom has been connected with the Northwest
from the very dawn Of its history, and it is not
now about to prove false to its traditions, its
| duties and its interests The Buchaniers were
/ very confident Of having their own way in Penn
Sylvania, and we, for one, were not much in
ciined to dispute their pTetensions in that guar
tor, which was reckoned Mr.. Buchanan's owl