Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
Shown up!

The Editor Of the Burlington Times, IN some
g terse and appropriate remarks by myself, :"
said few weeks ago that 90 the Platform upon
which stands Stephen "A. Douglas, &C., &C., is
the one upon which we mean to stand' And
the one upon which you tried to bring the Re-
publican party, too, Mr.. Times But it takes
a " bigger bug" to move principle. Now as
we have an indication of where Mr.. Douglas
stands, and of what his platform is, we wish to
show the utter fallacy of any attempt to lower
the Republican party to his position. In the
speech made at his reception at Chicago, he
says:
I" l stand by the same platform that | have
SO often proclaimed to you and to the people of
Illinois heretofore. stand by the Democratic
organization, yield obedience to its usages, and
support its regular nominees. | endorse and
approve the Cincinnati platform. | adhere to
and intend to carry out as part of that plat
form, the great principle of self-govcrnment,
which recognized the right of the people of
each State and Territory to decide for them
selves upon their domestic institutions"
Again, IN anticipating the canvass upon
which he is entering, he says:
Z" Nor will stop to inquire, nor shall l hest
tate, whether my blows shall hit those Repub-
lican leaders or their allies who are holding the
Federal offices and yet acting in concert with
them do not include all government office
holders in this remark such Of them as are
Democrats, and show their Democracy by re-
naming inside of the Democratic organization
and supporting its nominees, l recognize as
Democrats. But those who, knowing they
would be voted down inside the Democratic Or
ganization, go outside and attempt to divide
and destroy it, in consort with the Republican
leaders, have ceased to be Democrats, and hence
belong to the allied army that is now fighting
me and my principles.
We suppose this is sufficient for even the Bur-
lington Times, but really, we would like to
know if it got any fleas in its ear at the State
Convention, and how it harmonizes the above
with the resolutions of that Convention es-
pecially the one in which it is declared that
" we glory in the record which Vermont holds
up to the world upon the question which con-
Germs the liberties of man."
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The Bellows Falls Times says there was l00,-
900 of the " Democracy assembled, at the
State Convention, last week This is the way
the Times figures it up -
The stump-tail Democracy convened in this
place yesterday. Some O,O0O came in on the
Rutland and Burlington railroad Wednesday
evening, mostly from the town of Alburgh III
Grand Isle County, [See Bellows Falls Hote
Register Motifs in one string, being the Gus
tom House officers at that important port l.
Thursday morning 80, 900 more came in on the
same road, and the Sullivan brought 10000
making in all the round number of 100000, OF
the largest political Convention ever held in thu
world +"
To unders tand the Stump-tailP' part of thu
account, it is to be said that the Washington
Unipn called Douglas and his followers "th'
tail of the democratic party. Whereupon thu
Louisville Jomnrl remarked that, the tail being
cut off, that party is in the condition of Franz
Leslie's swill-milk cows, and should 60 by thu
name of the " Stump-tail Democracy" 1t ii
joke likely to stick.-7imes.
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