Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-07-29
POLITICAL CHEATS.

The Vermont Patriot is scandalized at the
Misrepresentation made in some democratic
quarters on the authority ofthe Boston Post,
which said it had "the highest authority for
saying that there is not the slightest warrant
for the report that the Delegates chosen to
the Charleston Convention from Vermont
were douglas Delegates" The Post, it
thinks, Gained to state facts, though it did
not The Patriot says 1.-THE issue was dis
tinctly made up before the Convention
Douglas and Popular Sovereignty, against
the Cowboys and a slave code, - land the
Cowboys were most inglori.usly beaten and
annihilated.'
The Patriot reminds the Democracy that
"it's no use cheating all the time and saws
that "of the 3.338 votes given by the De-
mocracy Of Vermont last fall, - it is safe to
say that Is, BOG are Douglas men," True
"the democracy Of the State never asked
that their delegates should be instructed to
vote for Judge Douglas at Charleston -
They only meant 1t seems to have the Dele
gaves understand that they were to be sure
and go for Inn! If the Vermont Democracy
cannot have him nominated why, then they
will 90 for the man the Convention shall
nominate.
'Such are the facts" says the Patriot.
land the attempts in any quarter to annoy
i nd D.. g. l.
preston that the d,mocracv OF his native
State will not stand by him in all fair and
honorable means To obtain the nomination at
Charleston, if he wants 1t, in accordance
with the usages of the party, indicate
meanness of spirit worthy OF some OF his OPP
ponents and a short-sightedness Of policy
characteristic OF others, who appear to think
that trickery, deception and corruption are
to win at the Charleston Convention
If there ever was cheat, the Popular Sow
ereignty doctrine, of which Mr.. Douglas
claims the authorship, as it was set forth in
his Kansas and Nebraska bill, is one. The
Cincinnati platform, which pretended to en-
body the same doctrine as a basis Of national
action, was a cheat from beginning to end. The
men who have kept on s1oearing by that
Platform, yet practically unfolding the most
atrocious series OF operations ever known in
North America, intended to cheat, Or rob out
right the people Of Kansas Of their dearest
rights, and to reduce TO the condition Of
brute beasts before the law, thousands bvna-
ture and by law as free as any native Of our
own green hills, have proved themselves to
be political cheats Of the worst sort The
same men aim to carry their plans success
fully through the Charleston Convention, by
cheating. They hope to nominate Douglas,
or some other as great political cheat as he
is, for President. and then to cheat him into
Office, as James Buchanan, the chief cheat of
all, was cheated into Office in 1856 Whether
it's of use to cheat all the time or not. the
democratic party do it, and intend to do it,
as long as they can succeed by it.
"No use cheating all the time - says the
Patriot. Why, cheating is the life-sustain-
ing process of the Democratic Party. Its
doctrines are a cheat, its practices are a cheat,
its managing politicians are cheats, and its
ignorant rank and file are cheated and appar-
entity love to be.