Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-07-03
The State Convention.

AT our masthead appears the flag OF the
party with the names of its nominees inscribed
thereon, and there it will remain until those can
didates are duly elected. The official record of
the Convention by whose fundamentally these
names were thus selected and signalized appears
in another column. 1t tells its own story, and
a good one it is SO far as it goes but it does
not tell ALL
The Republican Convention held on the Goth,
was the ablest and fullest we have ever attend
ed during our nine years residence in Vermont.
Our friends, whose experience dates further
back, say that it has been equalled by no con-
venton since 1874. Every county except that
of Grand Isle, and nearly every portion of the
State, was present by her representative men.
Leading politicians of the Republican party
men who have heretofore been distinguished Ell
Their in the ranks Of the Wings, Democrats or
Freesoilers, but who now have laid aside those
names-came up to the work standing shoulder
to shoulder on the platform of human freedom
and equal rights. The Importance of the pres
ent crisis. and the necessity of bringing forward
as our standard bearers our most efficient and
reliable, men seemed to be the controlling de-
sire of all present This one purpose seemed
to animate every mind, and the prospect of its
realization was SO apparent that almost every
heart was gratifed.
There is no need of commencing to the rank
and file of the Republican party the names of the
selected, chosen leaders. There is no need of
telling them who are HILAND HALL, BURNHAM
MARTIN or HENRY NJ. BATES. These men
have all been too long before our people and
have filled too many prominent stations not to
be known of all, or to need our commentator.
We can only say that the candidates selected
meet our heartiest approval, and they will re-
ceive all the support it is in our power to give.
The platform is one to which we fully and cor
daily subscribe. 1t embraces the most impor-
tant principles upon which the party was first
organized and which give it its present vitality.
1t is broad enough for every man who desires
to labor honestly and effectively for the restor-
alton of the administration of the national gov
eminent to those principles which guided our
earlier Presidents. This is the mission of the
party, and to chs end it has consecrated its en-
ergies.
The convention was ably addressed by our
own accomplished Senator, Hon. Jacob Cola
mer, and by Hon. VIM. A. Howard, member of
chairman of the famous Kansas Investigating
Committee. Mr.. Collamer devoted the first
part of his speech to consideration of the
course pursued by the trainers of the Constitu-
ton and by the earlier Presidents and Con-
crosses with reference TO Slavery. Then the
power to prohibit the introduction of Slavery
into new territories and to legislate against its
extension was not denied. Although the Con-
stitution permitted the Slave trade down to the
year 1908, yet Congress, upon the formation of
the territory of Mississippi, (Which was con-
structed out ofterritory oeded by Georgia. and
of the Territory Of Louisiana, obtained by pur-
chasefrom France,) at an earlier period, prohib-
tied that same trade to these territories. Legis-
lation upon that subject was then admitted to be
constitutional by every body. The Senator then
called attention to the gross departures from
this Interpretation and administration of the
Constitution. He showed the workings of the
new doctrine Of popular sovereignty and illus
trated its legitimate consequences as seen in the
L:-.v,y vr the Ierrroryof Kansas. His speech
was received with marked approval. Mr.. How
ard, by request, devoted his time mainly to a
detail Of some of the wrongs and outrages con-
nected with the earlier period of Kansas and
the election the first Territorial Legislature.
He clearly proved that the pro-slavery party in
and about that territory from Members of Con-
gress downwards, or upwards, had been guilty
Of all manner Of fraud, meanness and lying in
their attempts to fasten the vile institution up
on an unwilling people. For proof he referred
his hearers to the Report, NOT single statement
of which had been disproved or gainsayed.
The doings of the Convention are before our
readers. They have the facts and are to make
up the verdict. What that verdict will be is
not matter of doubt. That ticket and those
principles will be triumphantly sustained by the
Freemen of Vermont. They will rally in their
might at the polls and by an overwhelming ma
jority declare the sentiment of the State to be
inAexibly opposed to the extension and en-
croachmeMs Of that power which now rules the
country through the agency ofa spbservient de-
mocracy,
MAINE REPUBLICAN CosyENTIoN.-TheR Re-