The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1856-04-26

Of the non-rXten.ion Of slavery party. No
:" I mon man Of the Southern int rprcta:!on
Of the phrase will receive their votes. They
are united, determined and interchangeable.
Whoever che candidate of the North Amer
lean Republicans NAV be- WE can with no de-
gree Of certainty predict: but we think we
can imagine. from the general feeling Of IA
vorItl>m expressed in the papers we have
read for the last two months, that John C.
Fremont stands better chance OF the nomi-
nation than any other man. His name is IA
miliar to every one - his in,rtati.abIc cxer-
tons over the mountains and the praircs of
Oregon and California have been read with
interest everywhere. liz is free TERRITORY
man IN every SENSE Of the word and should
he te elected 10 that office - the hi CHEST in
honor. the most responsible and the most
powerful known to man upon the surface Of
tn" glotr-he will truly carry out those prin-
riples. OF untarnishcd reputation. Of high
order OF intellect and expansive mind ne has
within HIM Tie very elements uf success.
from ne i.-Hqo Illinois Democrat. .iprl {"
lur"EIANT DrMocRATIC PKoNrNcIA-
ME>T".-Tic proprietor OF this paper (.|ohn
Wentworth) for the last twenty years la,
supported the regular nominations of tn,
Democratic party, and all his svmpathir> now
are with the principles of that party. As Illus
tratcd toy the administration Of Jrilcr>on
Jackson and Van Buren,. These principit>
row, which he deems primary, seem 10 have
become secondary to the schemes Of aspiring
drmaro"ucs, VIII" are continually disturbing
our slavery compromises, and cndravorIng &c
profit toy the Ill feeling which they them
selves provoke between the Noit. and the
South.
1t would take the democratic party not fit
teen minute, to settle the whole slavery d,iii
Guilty and restore the party to is original har
mony. Kansas applies for admission. with
her constitution in accordance with the | nj
ted States constitution. She has elected her
two Senators and aRcprcscn, .tivr. who are to
take their seats and TO AFT with the democrat
ic party the moment they are sworn in. II
but the Free State Senators alone, would
vote for the admission Of Kansas, in fifteen
minutes she would be IN the mon, and the
whole slavery controversy settled. But if
they should settle the slavery controversy
SUI III "'V'S as iOu0idS ~ \ u WOuau lO>t
their vocafion. Ii is evident from the retu-
sal to admit Kansas. that Douglas and his par
~ intend to keep slavery agitation alive a,
an important element in the cO..iny Prcsi-
dental election.
In view Of this fact we have been looking
around for gentlemen as deeply imhnrd with
the principles Of democracy as the rankrs,
democrat could wish, and vet gentlemen who
are anxious TO arrest the agitation of slavery
whom We could support at the coming clcc
to3.
/ While We have not now, nor never had
any sympathy with the party with which Mr.
Milard Fillmore has ALWAYS acted, we look
upon the platform of the convention which
nominated him as an entire approval of the
course of Douglas & Co. in relation to n an
sas. We are therefore satisfied that there
has got to be new man ard third new
ticket brought into the field, and, in order to
attain success, that ticket must be the embed
imcnt OF the principles of the great democrat.
ic party, which accomplished so much good
under the administrations VI Jefferson, Jack
son, and Van Buren,. We must 90 back and
take democratic hearts wherever thew NAV
have been found for the last ten years. and
organize them into one great, national, demo
cratic party, which shall respect the right.
of the shareholders, and vet arrest their at
tempted inroads upon the rights Of non slave
holders in our territories.
We therefore hoist upon our own inlivid
ual responsibility. the following ticket of true
and decisive national democrats, who will re-
sist upon all occasions the re-opening of on.
well settled slavery compromises, and who
will adorn, by their talents and int gritty. the
Offices to which We hope they may be elect
ed
Col. JOHN c. FREEMOT, Of California.
For Iice President,
! NATHANIEL p. BANKS, of Massachusetts,.
For GOrernor Of Illinois,,
Col. WILLIAM H. BIssELL, of St. Clair
county.
Ofthese gentlemen, individually, We hope
to speak another time But we deem it hes,
to say this much, in announcing their nomi
nations, that there has been a combination a.
mong the politicians Of this country to keep
down its ablest and most honest men. o..
security has of late wears been the sureSt pass
port to the Presidency or the GovernorshiP
No man can give any conjecture what obscure
polite ian is to be nominated at the coming
Convention in order to heal the breach in
the ranks Of Judge Douglas and his friends.
Our ticket reverses this custom, and brings
out men celebrated for their talents and pat
riotism from one end of the Union to the 9TH
er.
4 About twenty delegates to the National
Squatter Sovereign Convention, to be held