Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-01
Political Intelligence

Political Intelligence.
A dispatch from Harrsburgh states that
O new political combination has just been
developed in Pennsylvania, between por-
tion of the Democracy and the straight-out
Americans, and that Ex-Governor Greary
has agreed to accept their nomination for
the Gubernatorial chair.
The result of the late election for under
state executive officers in Iowa is still
doubtful the Republicans are ahead by
some two or three hundred votes.
Upon an issue expressly made by the Pro-
Slavery Press of Wisconsin upon Judge
Wilton, who pronounced the fugitive slave
law unconstitutional, that official, cand.
date for reelection, runs ahead of his Re-
publican associates all over the State
What is more remarkable, in many locali-
ties his vote leads that of Fremont in the
exciting election of last fall.
By the enabling act of the last Congress
the people of Minnesota are to elect los de-
legates, June LIST, to a constitutional con-
vention, which meets at St. Paul July 18th.
The convention will first vote on PROPOSE
ton to adopt the enabling act, with the
boundary lines therein affixed, and must
then proceed to frame state constitution;
which being accepted by the people, will
give the state its own internal government
and representation in Congress next win
ter, The republican party is rapidly Or
ganizing for the delegate election and is
confident of its ability to control it.
The President has rendered the governor
ship of Utah, to Major Benjamin McCulloch,
1t is "stated that the design of the admins
tration is to pursue peaceful policy tow
ards tab, in order that the laws may be
executed, and the rights of every inhabitant
in the territory be protected, without
recourse to arms"
The signs of a strong Republican party
South of Mason Il Dixon's line in the cam
paign Of 1850, are unmstakable. The
Newport, Ky, News, sturdy Freesoil pa
per, in the heart of a slave state, saws that
proposition is in contemplation to buy
the land and negroes owned by Shareholders
in Kentucky, at their present valuation,
and If three-fourths of the slave holders in
the State will agree to sell the proposed com
pany will advance sum of money equal to
one-half the estimated value of both, and in
one year after, pay the whole balance. The
slaves will be set free and the land sold at
an advanced price, in view of the state be-
coming free in one year after the first pay
ment to the masters, and the state become
settled with real Industrious, enterprislng
free people. This may not be feasible
plan, but it shows that those who desire to
throw off the burden of slaY very aro taking
courage.
Caleb Gushing, Mr. Pierces Attorney
General, returned to his home in Newbury
port, Mass, last week, and met q cordial
reception from his townsmen lie was escorted
to his residence-the same house from
window Of which they say he pledged him
self,in his night SHIRT TO ,roiitiouI-iu, when
a candidate for Congress-was addressed,
and entertained by levee at the City Hall,
where he made lengthy speech 1t was
mainly somewhat ford rhapsody upon
the manifest destiny of the United States
to swallow up and assimlate all the ter
ritories and governments on the continent,
Mr.. Gushing rebuked Massachusetts, for al.
ways ptting herself against this manifest
destiny, and counseled her hereafter to lead
and direct in a movement that he considers
inevitably fixed in the purposes of Divine
Providence. lie said
Why is it, again let me ask, that Mas
sachusetts has not, instead of opposing always
rather assumed her post in conscious right Of in
tclligence and courage, proudly in the van of the
march of the Union Why hnger in the rear al
ways, to pull back to criticize to complain of the
Federal Government
cannot say why it is l see how it is. She
permits her self to be pre-occupied with some
secondary incident of the great event, and works
herself into rage on that, until she has lost all
thought and care of the great event itself and Of
the part which in it she ght and should play
Al the present time she, when human wit is at
the maximum of creative and productive action
when the steamship, the railway and the electric
telegraph, marvels though they be, are but faint |
signs OF the progress around u.-when earth and
sky, air and sea, and all which therein is animate
or inanimate, partake of the great movement and
are instinct with its spirt-at sach a time the
public mind of Massachusetts stands still, and |
grows passionate over the question whether GER |
tain black men citizens Of the United states or
not.
We know that by law they are not we know |
That Massachusetts cannot make them such; we |
know that however that may be, whether accord /
ing to our conviction or to the opposite one Of !
others, matters not In the consideration of any /
practical end. And We forget that while we sit
by the wayside, angrily discussing these nuga |
not dltaie' of hours of deness the world is rush.
ing silently by, leaving us in the lurch.
MIR. Cushing's idea evidently is that the
United States should attend to its business
OF absorbing all the territory around it,
and that such petty questions as whether
its domain shall be covered with free men
and free homes, or blackened by negro