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The Republican Meeting FriiaY Eyeninr.

a large gathering Of the citizens of Bur
lington, with a fair spriEkling of ladies', met
in the Town Hall Friday evening, Hon. Job.
Lyman was called to the chair. and ). II.
Parkhurst appointed Secretary. &. F. Ed
munds Esq, from the committee appointed
by a previous meeting, reported Il constitution
for the Republican Club, "rcquiring no
other test of political doctrine than a simple
desire to labor for the correction of the terri
bic evils which the present administrator
has brought upon the Country and which il
and its abettors seek to pcrrctuatc.'
The Committee also reported the following
list Of officers.
President. Hon Daniel Roberts.
Vice Pres'dcntS. f. W. Peck, James
Mitchell, S. pattce, &. l.. Blrstow.
Secretary. &. G Benedict.
Treasurer. W. II, Root.
Erecuhre Conn. j. 5. Adams, :. II. Park
hurst, Samuel Huntington.
Finance Conn. Henry LOOMS, VIM. Wcs-
ton, Levi Underwood.
The report was unanimously accepted -
The Constitution WAS adopted hy the meet
ing, and the above named officers were an.
pointed, and the temporary Chairman resign
cd the char to Mr.. Roberts. who. on TAKING
it, made a few exceedingly forrible, arrrorri.
ate and elo uent remarks.
Levi Underwood ED, delegate to the Nn.
tional Republican Convention at phiioIoIrrin,
then addressed tie meeting. In an able speech
lie traced the causes which brought ON the
emergency which called for tile Philadelphia
Convention, and went on u describe in an
interesting manner the character and action
of the Convention. Never on this continent.
he said, did so many men, showing such pa
triotism, ability and good feeling, meet in
Convention. Schemes to promote private
and party ends were not thought of. There
was none Of the towards talk Of dissolvinc the
Union. The country ran and mast be saved,
was the word with all. There is strength
enough in our government and institutions, to
restore peace and harmony, and to bring
traitors to condign punishment. But in or.
der to that the power must be taken from the
hands that abuse it. The action Of the Con-
vention is condensed into the platform, which
should be read he said every day, for a morn.
ing and evening lesson.
lie had the pleasure Of an interview with
Col. Fremont, who assured him that for veal
he had cherished the principles embodied in
the Platform.
81 pledged Vermont, to him" said Mr..
Underwood, " for a majority of tmcnfy. thou
sand, and after | had met Mrs. Fremont
! told him ! wanted to add FIRE housand TO
the number.
Mr., Underwood went on to express his
conviction from a survey of the whole ground,
that Fremont and Dayton would carry the
day. That ticket is destined to swecp the
free States. About Pennsylvania some doubt
has been expressed, but there is a misundcr-
standing about that. There arc lie, said, a
few old fogies in Pennsylvania, who propose
TO 90 for Mr.. Buchanan, because they can
not have a whig 20 years old for their candi-
date. These and the secret adhcrents of Mr..
Buchanan, make all the talk about the cool.
ness in Pennsylvania. lie was himself an.
preached by several men at the Convention.
who urged him strongly to go for Mclean,
us the only man who could carry Pcnnsylya.
MIA agains. Mr.. Buchanan. subsequently he
discovered that all these gentlemen were Bu-
chanaH man. The truth is that the Buchanan
men, desired the nomination of Mclean,
because he could be beaten moro easily than
Fremont. There is need of some hard work in
Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania will go for
T! emont. The Quakers, stirred up by the
outrage on Passmorc Williamson, who was n
delegate to4he Philadelphia Convention. and
by the Kansas wrongs, will all be at the polls
this year, for the first time, and vote the Re
publican ticket, and the Quaker vote, added to
the Wing vote alone exceeds the largest de-
vote ever thrown in the State
With Pennsylvania Fremont is sure of the
Without Pennsylvania he NAV
still be elected by carrying every other free
Mr.. Underwood's speech was frequently
interrupted by long and continued applause.
At its close, before nd iuurnment, Mr.. j. $.
Adams stated as chairman Of the Executive
Committee of the Club, that the Ladies were
invited to add interest t. the
'uture meetings of the Club by their pre-.
;cnce.
The assembly then adjourned in the best of
We subjoin the Constitution of the Club.
OF TIE BURLINGTON REPUB.
LICAN CLUB.
Anr. /. The object of this association is the ad-
ancement of the cause Of Republican, IN as under.
TODD and p~ractieed by the early fathers of the Goy.
rnment, and now impaired and well nigh destroyed
y men w~iekedly and falsely acting in the name of +
emocracy. y
Arr, 2. This object is to be attained only in the
verthrow Of the present Administration and the n