Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-09-18
The New York News, and the Vermont
Democracy.

The New York News, and the Vermont
Democracy.
The New York NeiCs, one of the most ad
amant!ne pro-slaverv papers of New York
has put forth very unsavory bit OF doctrin'
t. the democratic postmasters in certain part
of the country. 1t charges that many of then
are unsound in the faith, and that judgement
ought to 20 forth against them. Having
s.ored the backs of the guilty in the State
ofNew York, it turns to Vermont
There is another point outs ide Of the Empire
State which requires the "ween g" process &c
be enforced with more vigor even tn an here. We
mean Vermont. There little but rottenness a.
bounds. We suppose there are few very few ex-
ceptipns, but as a rule the whole department is
file with man whose Free SOilisn AMI "Repub-
lcauism" have been rubbed in SO deep and for so
long time that their very complexion is tine
tIred That State has been sinking yearly deep
ora and deeper into the slough of Abolitionism."
Bang! y blum icrbuss discharged among
flock Of ducks could not produce great
cr quacking, luttering, and diving than
that discharge has among the Vermont
Host-masters Only a few of them arc in
iositions where they can give air to their
griefs and their fears to the fullest extent
but from what the Postmaster litors san
may be inferred what the Postmaster
tribe generally tccls.
The Scntihci tells the New York Ncrs man
that he may as well take care of his own
soul'-spcaks of the wide spread infection
which has made the democracy of the En-
lire State IA proveIb of weakness, disorder.
and corruption. However, it says, "we do
not assume to interfere nor to dictate to
those who understand, we dare say, their
own household affairs better than the
most Jealous of outsiders. We hold the
doctrine as one akin in sancty to that OF
State Rights, that the Democratic party
in each Of the several states is tho best
judge Of its own men and Of their own
status as Democrats ; and that any inter
ference from without. Is undemocratic, i'm
pertinent, and, when accompanied by igno-
nance and arrogance, in ultiur'
Designating the sound, an looking fl
the sense Of that doctrine, we understand
1t to be Just this and no more that the men
who have possession of the Federal Offices in
the State of Vermont This year are the ones
TO say who shall have that possession neat
year, and 50 on. That is the doctrine Of
state fights applied to office holding and
a very comfortable oue it must be for those
who have got the Treasury teats in their
mouths, provided only, that the one who
has control Of the milk can be made to be-
lieye in it The Sentinel is of course indlg-
nant at this impertinent intermeddler who
presumes to thus lecture the democracy
of Vermont about their household affairs"
Ii insists uponi it that the democracy of
Vermont has no faint of abolitionism or re-
publcanism-and so far as votes go, it
says, Eat the recent election, though the
vote was light one ali around, the com
parative vote Of the democracy shows them
more Jealous than their opponents, and at
fords no ground to complain of autelilu-
vianism or apathy" and it insists upon 1t
that "no party is more devoted to the Ad.
mlnistration and the Union. With what
ever discouragements, it is at least faithful
hopeful, and energetic 1t Is eminently ca.
pable OF managing its own affairs and is |
willing to be judged by its men, its meas
ures, and its fidelity to the great and dis
tnctive doctrines of the democracy.
We do not need to refer particularly to |
what is raid on this subject by the other
democratic papers of the State. The drift
Of their remarks is substantially like those
of the Sentnel-quaifed a little by the
peculiar temperaments of tine parties. We
do not see that any one of them gives any
more light on the question, what constitutes
Democracy, than the Sentinel does One
or two Of them have not given utterance to
their feelings yet,-possibly they may
have some recollections of the past which
they are willing to leave in the shade The
Patriot for instance, if placed on the ques-
ton block, and asked to explain its violent
anti-slavery extension talk when Van
Buren, ran against Cass, might be put in
futtef for moment. We presume though
1t would assert that there is a perfect con
sistancy in its two positions-that one is
as thoroughly democratic as the other, ac-
cordng to the democracy of the Admins
tration Postmasters in Vermont
But the Postmaster editors of this State
are mt left to express their grief in this
way without sympathy. The Plattsburg
Republican comes to the rescue in their be-
half. 1t lays down thu same doctrine about
'non-interference, or State Rights being an
important element in the democratic creed
- and is panied to notice its violation
oy certain New York papers. As for the
Vermont Democracy, it vouches for them,
or 1t knows them, and" knows what il costs
10 be National Democrat in that State.
n no State, it considers, is the Democracy
more thoroughly e1purgated of all iso,s of
every sort than in vermont-to call them
jilatilatei, imbecile democrats, well
known Free Sellers and undoubted black
-epublicans, who have moved around in the
anne circle for years, allowing no innoya-
ions upon their old fogy move.
nents and opposing all democratic pro-
gross" it looks upon as "gross injustice"
And how does it prove their transcnde mt .
merit az democrats Why it says one edu.