Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-07-11

/ flercc ana douglas platform me'la his Cuf-
dial and hearty appreciation"
The Sheboygan Journal, Buchanier, has
expired for want Of support
Among the Vice Presidents Of the Ru-
| publican Ratification meeting 10 Cincinnati.
was the gentleman who presided over the
! Pierce ratification meeting in that city 10
1852 and four Of the gentlemen who spoke
IN favor Of Fremont aud Dayton voted for
President Pierce.
Cassius NJ. Clay, Of Kentucky, wrote a
letter to the Republican Ratfcuton meet
ing IN New York, 10 which he says the plat
form adopted at Philadelphia is just such as
he would have made, sud concludes as fol-
lows;
most heartily approve the nominations.
| DO not hesitate 10 avow that, in my opinion,
John g. Fremont IL the strongest man that
we could have just now put before the peo-
| pie. Ills youth, his heroic ond gallant life,
are well calculated 10 inspire enthusiasm a.
mung the people. Whilst all his antecedenls
viii ass, "a tine most umid Of a calm, hrm
aud able administration of the government,
when those qualities, boo which be is admitted
to excel, nre so urgently demanded by the
umcs. 10 Mr. Dayton, Of New Jersey, we
have a man Of tried statesmanship. and cm-
nent personal popularity with all who know
him-a man every way calculated to inspire
respect ami kindly feeling, M the presiding
/ officer 10 ihe Senate in tunes Of high party
! exc tement.
Gentlemen, Kentucky can give you no
electoral vote We are few; the foe is
I many But we belong 10 the Davy Croc-
/ kett School FIRST, sure that we are right,
| then go ahead /" Our CONVICTIONS are with
you our interests are with YOU our hearts
are with you yes It the worst comes TO the
worst-frsl, the ballot box, rnd then the car
fridge box iri are Nth you there also
You are 10 the midst ct a revolution far
more important IN an that concerns this peo-
pie, and oil people, than was the revolution
of l51G. God grant Us a solution with no
more blood than Is now shed ; but IN peace
or war, living or dying, have no other "sen-
tmenw than that, TO which my life has been
devoted, "mIy our country vet Be free 2"
Very truly, your obedient servant,
G. n. CLAY.
Five Of the Fillmore presidential electors
Of Virginia have declined To run. It i, I'M
dersinod they abandon Americanism for dem
ocracy. AZ the safest ally Of slavery. The
Old Wings of the slave States are poiug over
10 Buchanan 10 large numbers and from like
motives Macy prominent names are men.
toned. The St Louis Repub lean, long the
leading aud ablest Wing Journal of the west
and southwest, and now a strong sympathzsr
with border ruihtnlsm, raises the Buchanan
flag openly So too does the Louisville
Journal, also an old Wing paper. The
South is rapidly consolidating on Buchanan
The ST. Louis Republican says, until the
slavery question shall be decided " all 9th
or questions sink into insigudcauce."
The Louisville Journal Is for Fillmore.
AT Lecomptou. Kansas, recently. sheriff
Jones, Eli Moore, some of the chyairy"
and other law and order gentry met TO en-
durse the Cincinnati convention and as n1-
unees. Buchanan was declared " An sound
ou thc Goose and the ruhians resolved
ihat southern rights were safe in his keep
lug.
The Chicago Journal, which has good
opportunities ot Learning the current Of Ger
man feeling in Pennsylvania, sends US the
f1ilowing:-
We are assured, however. By very in
telheent and observing German, who ls well
acquainted 300 that State and who ha, lust
returned from a tour through the Northern
counties that Pennsylvania IS sure for IRE
mont and Dqyioai The Democracy, he
assures u.s. has lost IT'S hold upon the conf
dence Of the hone-ta well-meaninn Dutch
mrn by us oit-repeated treachery. aud by IT'S
nomination IT Buchanan, the old Federahst,
and The enemy the free laborng man"
The Buchanlers Of Detroit true TO their
nsmel last Saturday cut down the Fremont
banner, and carried t or They were seen
fu~nas ln New nrS' VIII nave To pay TIE
penalty of their larceny. Another magnlf-
cent flag was al once raised 10 the pace Of
the one thus violated.
The Milwaukee Sentinel a sterling paper
comes TO Us all alive for "FRENoNr and
NicroRr." The Atlas, German journal,
VIII bee issued as a campaign paper through
odt the contest.
gcntemln of Cincinnati having canvass
cd cansl bosunen met by hm during two
days. finds them to stand thus :-FRfNoNr
-. Fillmore ., buchanan 4, doubtful 3.
They had about haIfd mile OF Fremont rsti-
fcauou iu Rochester \. Y, last Friday eve
ming About 10000 of the people we're In
attendance and the enthusiasm was unbound
eI.
The Wccksr," a German newspaper in
Baltimore has hosied the flag Of Fremont
and Dayton. u is paper enjoying IN that
slave-h0l1ing State a circulation OF about two
thousand aud 1t bias always opposed the ex-
tension of slavery.
Mr. John c, Underwood, Of Clarke county,
/ w.. lahoung under the fearful hallucination
that this is free country, attended the Peo-
pies Convention 10 Philadelphia; for which
offence he has been ordered to leave the
State. His offence was IN saying that we
ought to be free and independent and that
the olgsrchy ought not to govern the honest
[ people of the Ncrih
10 The Boston Bee the organ of the A
meucan party iu Massachusetts, has aba nd
oned Fillmore and Donelson, and will sup
port Fremont
OPThe Springfield Mass. American,
winch supported Fillmore, is defunct. The
/ Republican says The men who kept the
/ concern above water, got together and
! squelched it,
I At meeting of two hundred voters in
I the town of Port Williams, Clinton CO.,
/ Ohio, a Presidential vote was proposed. At
: call for the Fremont men to rise, erery man
/ in he house rose 10 his feet OF course
1 there wa not one to rise to the call for the
/ friends of Bucha
AT rasln," IN Dudley township, llar-
/ din county OHIO twenty four neighbors we're
/ present. A vote was called for, which re-
suited in twenty three for Fremont, and one
for Buchanan.
The Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, in hoist
| ing the Fremont and Dayton flag, says;-
we supported Franklin Pierce under
| the hope, which has hecn most sadly blasted,
/ that he would be the President of the whole
country. But we feel that our consistency,
our honor and our duty, will not permit us to
give support to continuance of that dam
gerous Administration. We trust that we
shall not sever from old friends, for there are
/ tens Of thousands Of Democrats who gave
/ their votes for Franklin Pierce who will
/ now give their votes for John c. Fremont, az
the best and truest Democrat, in life, charac-
ter aud principles, of all The ,andldates pre-
scented for the suhrages Of the American