Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-04
A Democratic Pickle.
"The People laugh, dance and sing,
To see what a pickle am in.''

Editor from the Post Office here in Montpelier
and one can easily imagine the GO feelinks " o
him of the Patriot when he makes the following
remarks taken from his two last issue;
Gas to the position of Judge Douglas, We set
no reason for any further talk about it. VIZ
should have preferred his agreement with thu
President, but his disagreement, not essential
as we think, is upon his own responsibility
He is able to take care of himself, and any at
tempt of small potato papers to read him out O
the party, or to wimble themselves into the
especial favor of the Administration by abusing
him, or into his good graces by abusing the Ad-
ministration, will result in q waste of muscle
and u useless display of toadyism.
A State Convention was appointed
at Montpelier in 1854, and the forces were raj
lied from all parts of tho State. The Argus
man and his set came to prevent the State Con-
ventioh endorsing the Kansas act, and Bowdish,
Barlow, Smalley, Thomas, Kidder, &C., came to
see that he was defeated, and he loaS."
What victory that was But we must sin
ccrely protest against thus HOnising the Ass Of
the Argus.
Again, and the Patriot gives us an idea Of a
pretty gsssswf yaaFsssiis' 44==says:
ave will introduce ncontestsble evidence to
show oho have reduced the party in the State
to its present degraded condition In 1853
the party was fully united upon Robinson and
Kidder, and polled Is, l42 votes. In 1854 the
editor of the Argus, when it required all the
skill, argument and GOODNESS of leading Demo
Gratis to hold the party together, went into a
Democratic State Convention, denounced the
measures of the Administration as impolitic
unwise, and fatal, asserted that the Democra-
cy of his own County would not submit to theil
endorsement, and in short did all he could tc
distract, divide and sink the party, and embar.
rass the men who were straining every nerve tc
keep it together. The Convention nearly broke
up in a row. Many Democrats who looked OF
were alarmed. The noise Of the proceeding
of the Convention spread through the State
frightening other Democrats. The opposition
papers seized upon the course of the Argus
The men who now join him and the Telegraph
denounced the action of the Convention. They
winked at Know Nothingism. They left NJ
stone unturned to defeat the party. The ole
guard counties, Washington and Orange wert
Frustrated Washington which refused to bow
to the Hard Cider fury-our old and most reli
able towns were lost Our strongest Democrats
defeated. Our representation was reduced il
the Senate from Y to |; in the House 81 to so
and the popular vote went down from IL, l42 tt
l5,04S and the end was the extinction of thu
party in the Senate, a reduction of some fftecr
in the House and loss of some 1000 on tn,
popular vote. During all this discouragins
time, while the Sentinel, the Star, the Patriot
and the Age, and such men as Harvey, Reyes
Chase, Kidder, Thomas, Bowdish, Robinson
Bingham, Peck, Smalley, &c. &c, were fghtin!
like blood-hounds for the Kansas principle, TIN
editor of the Argus and his peculiar friends
and the men who are now, if their representa-
tions are worth anything, the only champions o
the party in the State, were denouncing tn
Administration, holding Know Nothing meet
ings in their offices, and secretly or openly aid
ing the enemy they ttHn up as the lead
ing men of the party, and are going to set VI
and tear down at their good pleasure
| But what, enquiries the editor of the Argus
is the use of aluding to these things now
didn't / stand rske.ller to shoulder with til
Patriot in the last campaign?' Aye-yes, yo
did, my brave boy You did do hat-but The
it was all fair weather. Then the skies wer
bright. Then the party had endorsed the Kar
sas act, and victoryi and may be spoils, wa
certain. But wheRiS was dark, when the ha
and the storm came, when the bulldogs of tn
opposition had the Patriot by the throat an
death or life was in the grapple, THEN whel
were you? Whose shoulder, locked against i
own, did the Patrtetteel THEN? Not yours
not yourS-but the shoulder of the very me
you and your jealous, envious vain, and selfs
set, are now traducing, slandering and villifyin
and secretly seeking to discredit and disgrace.
Boo, hoo, hoo Amt that one of Eastman
last poems? On the interim of publicatio
days the Patriot got into a storm with h
&C best friends" for making such an expose
"by-gones, and seeks to bring up by anoth(
silly begging to save his bacon. 1t is now we
known that one wing of the infnteSimally sma
party in this State is at bulldog war wit
the other, and 'Lifo Or death is in the grapple.
1t is also well known that the Postmaster
this village has not yet received his confirms
ton under Old Bucks Administration, and IL
attempt of the opposing wing to prevent i
troubles.him more than little. The last Pa
riot says;
"In reply to several correspondents. Thel
is no necessity for saying too much about tt
matters alluded to last week. No allusiO
would ever have been made to them had it NJ
been for the insolence of few who seem
have arrived at the conclusion that they are tt
only people NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Some of
have spent too much time and money in Il
cause to be turned out to grass by men whosu
port the party only when it suits their nj
ideas, to do So.
"Too much time and money for the cause
be turned out of Office now
Again
I" There are men in the party who have ncv
hinched, and there are men who always flincl
they hinched on hsSub-Ireasury finch
on the Nicholson letter-they hinched on Tex
they hinched on the Mexican war-they fine
ed on the Kansas issue-they always fin
when the wind blows. The party is neuer rigf
in their estimation We shall submit to thu
association as long as we can bear ito tn
insolence and dictation, never. The party ha
ceased trying to satisfy them, for it cannot
done. We have all felt, for years, thatit won
be better for all concerned, if they would
somewhere where they would feel at HON
somewhere, where they would find men a
measures, that once in dogs age, would 81
them. Still, as there is nothing in the cons
tuition that compels them to do anything e
than hang on to the Democratic party, fndi
fault with everybody and making fuss abo
everything, we shall submit to it when it dc
not become absolutely unbearable.
We seek no quarrel with any professed De
ocratic paper, nor do we avoid any. 1t is of
consequence what efforts, open or secret,
made to use us up. We care nothing abe
that. Our associations with the party are
some twenty-five years standing. They KIN
all about u.s.
"The party in the State is moving stead
along to its old position, and it appears to
that it is better to encourage, cheer, and uni