Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-11-05
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TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD.
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. ), 1858.

y remarkable manifesto appeared in the
Boston Courier two or three days ago. 1t is
"an address to the voters of Massachusetts, y
and is signed by two hundred or more men
of Boston old whigs..and democrats, who style
themselves d" members of the National Whig
Party" Its immediate object was to
help defeat Burlingame's election if
possible, and Furthermore they talk about
reorganization of the Whig party to
take place as soon as the worthless who sign
the paper can get the proper apparatus to
work.
Galvanizing dead bodies, we have heard of
that is, by of galvanic currents means ex-
citing muscular contractions in the bodies of
the animals recently killed. whereby for the
moment, the dead creature moves in some
respect much as if it was alive. The Boston
wise men referred to, have probably heard
of such experiments, and are for trying their
hand at the business. They seem to be quite
unaware of the necessary conditions to sue
cess. To succeed the subject must have been
recently put to death-thc breath of life may
indeed have departed, but the organic is
sues of the bo ly must yet possess something
of their vital forces-there must be some
natural warmth remaining. But when de-
composition has actually taken place, and the
old body is reduced to what the chemists
call its proumdte elements, as such ready to
be taken up and made subject to living pow
ers quite distinct from those which originally
gave it form and life, an attempt to reorgan-
ize it, and set it moving among men, is suit
able only for the employment of men who are
insane or who have taken passage IN the
''Ship of Fools"
The Atlas and Bee has a lively article
on the subject from which. we take few
paragraphs.
"Let us see what these gentry of politics pro-
pose to do. They say first
"The time has arrived, in our judgment for
a reorganization of the Whig party, National and
State. This movement must begin somewhere"
1t is pleasant to know that the ''good
time" so long prophesied is at last come: A
western lawyer once electrified his audience
by exclaiming s'The crisis which was to
have arrived have arroven ~ So these gen
tlemeu announce to an anxious, waiting
public that they have at lastgot ready to
move, That statement that the movement
must begin somewhere" would seem to be
very clear propositon-a movement that
don't begin anywhere we must confess would
be likely to be very difficult to stop. But
with ali Difference to these gentlemen OF long
incubation and small hatchings, we would
suggest to them another view of the case.
DR.. johnson was once reproving thief for
his rogueries, when the rascal replied, But,
Doctor, must live, you know" The stur-
| dy old hater of everything mean promptly
answered, Il don't see the necessity of that
| So these endorsers for James Buchanan
would have done better had they proved, or
attem pied to prove, that there is anv neces-
| ssty for their ''movenent. Ihe people
don't happen to agree in their Judgment
of this necessity.
But the farce proceeds thus
awe have therefore taken the first steps towards
a reorganization of the party.
| twill be the duty of this committee to open a
correspondence with wings IN other parts oil inc
country; a duty which will be more easily dis
charged, from the fact that the National Wing
Convention, which sat at Baltimore in 1856, ap-
| pointed a committee with reference to such q
measure
The first steps are most important-intants
must creep before they walk-but when old
men, in their second childhood, imagine that
they are recommending to take the steps OF
youth they invariably die before they accom-
plish vigorous gait
But now we come to something, which, as
Captain Cutie says. 4" is an idee, fact to
make note on" These endorsers for james
Buchanan say
"For reasons which will readily occur to you,
we have not deemed it eXpedient to present for yon
sufrages any Whig ticket for the ensuing STATE
| election. While we advise the Whig voters to b.
| independent in this contest. do not advise then
to he neutral. In our judgment they should no
throw their votes at random, still less abstain
from voting at all But in view of the polio,
aud conduct of the present State administration
especially towards the Judiciary-respect for whic
, has ever been cardinal doctrine in the WIFI
creed cannot but consider it paramount dut
of the Wings of Massachusetts, to throw their vote
in way most likely To defeat the election OF tn
candidates of the Republican party"
The reason which will readily occur
: to every man of sense for their not putting
up Whig ticket, is that it would sc
no votes We are happy tn be able to not
this AS the only evidence of political SAINT
to be found in the manifesto.
But what othey advise their friends, tina
is, supposing they have any, to do, and wha
do they say they shall do to promote the re
5 organization ofthe WhiI party aud advanc
old Wing principles! Why just this-te
it not in the groves at Ashland. proclaim
4 not by the seaside at Marshfeld-they al
going to vote the ticket of James Buchana
q ! and his party, the undiluted, black, moder