Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-07-22

record, and we copy the following
The Boton Adas says
There is, perhaps, not another State in
the Union which manages its political affairs
with so much conscience, economy and good
sense as Vermont-if any other could contest
the palm of Republcanism with them, it
wbuld be Now Hampshire or Maine We in
Massachusetts, have too many diversified in
,crests, too many large and important LOCAL
concerns, and too many ambitious politicians
TO permit us to enjoy so much internal peace
and order as is always vouchsaiod to our
Green Mountain neighbors.
Ever since Allen, Warner and Baker found
ed the Commonwealth Of Vermont, she has
been noted for the independence and the con-
science Of her people in all political matters.
Vermont people will do what they think is
right, though the devil stands at the door,
and it is this, among other things that al
ways makes feel proud Of our Vermont
birth and education. For very many years
that State adhered to the good old doctrines
Of the Wing party there was no moro chance
then for locoioco than there is now for
Buchananite. Vermont was the one star in
the Wing galaxy that neCer set, and that
proud pre-eminence she maintained until the
very last. And it may not be generally
known that she was the very first State to
inaugurate the Republican party and to pro-
claim the necessity of reorganization Of the
party Of freedom Such is, however, the
fact, and we arc proud to be able to say that
in that pioneer work we had an active part
/ When the Wing party through the unwise
/ counsels of her Websters and Winthrops,
/ and Hunts, consented to undertake to keep
silence in the presence of the slave power,
and so doomed itself to deserved decay and
| dissolution, after the first shock was over
Vermont was the first State in the Union to
perceive and acknowledge the new order of
things that must arse, and in her People $
Convention of S5i she sounded the first
notes of the glorious Fremont campaign.-
From that hour she has never wavered, never
swerved from her steadfast allegiance to the
uncompromising warfare against the uni ust-
fable aggressions OF the slave power. In
every contest Vermont is as true to freedom
as the needle to the pole. Sham conserva-
tsm, dough -lacesm and "negrophobia' are
alike roweress in the Green Mountain State.
Her people will think and act for themselves,
and true to their early training and republican
instincts, they will always be found against
slavery and despotism, and for liberty Of
speech and thought. SO the victory of the
Republican party of Vermont is assured in
advance, and we are also certain that they
will be ready to cooperate with all the enc
mics of the slave power and of federal cor.
ruption, in the grand effort which we shall
successfully make next year to bring back
the government to the principles and policy
: of the fathers of the Republic
The Springfield Republican weighs GOV
Fairbanks, and appreciates j. d. Bradley
, "Ex-Governor Fairbanks of st. Jobnsbury
who has been weighed in the balance and moi
: found wanting, presided with solid dignity
having as Vice Presidents u. II. Penniman o
, Winooski and b. w. Bartholomew of Wash
ington; and as Secretaries. Messrs. C. J
/ Gleason of Montpelier, A. n. Swain of the
Bellows Falls Times, and j. |. Cook of til,
/ Bennington Banner, which completed thu
simple organization of the Convention. Mr.
t Fairbanks carries in his firm, thick set frame
f his broad forehead. his iutting, black eve
' brows, his direct. comprehensive words, an,
his prompt business manner, The explanation
: of the worldwide reputation of II. ~ T
Fairbanks, and the large influence which h,
yields in the business and politics of Yer
5 mont 1t is quite true, as be said in his few
A this Convention was the nominal representa-
d tive Of party, it was the real representativ
G of the people of Vermont. From the tim
V when one Of her judges demanded bill q
e sale from the Almighty as the only evidenc
a upon which he would remand man to slave
@ ry,--irom the days of the Revolution to tn
G present, she had been for freedom ilustrat
: ing it by her government at home. and de
4 ] 4 1
d representatives at Washington Liberty wa
i indigenous to her soil, and the Repubhca
l. party was another name, only, for the repub
e lican people of Vermont
= The convenience of the farmers aud tn
professional men in regard to the period c
y holding the animal State Convention was tn
!. occasion of brisk little discussion durin
II the forenoon. In behalf OF "haying time.
/ it was urged that the Convention should b
g held by or before June 2Sth, while again.
:. this it was said that the lawyers were bus
h in the courts through that month The VA
e gar sarcasm about engineering lawyers an
e. the Qualification of the cnltiyators of the SO
a failed, however. to carry an instruction
" the State Committee fixing an earlier perio
n for the convention. The dominant feelin
,e seemed TO be that the question might well /
" lNlt W Nlt hlaNIttluh pl lht committee. col
b, sulting the convenience of all classes and III
ie changing aspects Of each years business
t Messrs. Bradley of Brattloboro. Robbins ,
)" Ludlow, Chittenden of Burlington, and L,
Ie arts Of Rutland participated in this debat,
At the most distinguishing feature of whio
ID were the compact, pregnant and incisive SCI
8 fences of the first named gentleman. He
Il a son Of the venerable William c. Bradle,
* still left to Vermont Of the last generation
,r statesmen, while his associates in public Iii
" from other States--the Clays, Websters, Ca
ID houns, Bentons-have seen the last of eartl
it No stranger could hear the son without
in curiosity to know who and what he was. an
~ why the outside world had not heard more
O. man whose simplest utteranoes showed sue
x mental grasp and force Of expression"
Sc The Windsor Eer1aont journal contains II
as following good account of the brief speech,
" made at the Republican State Convention ii
r. other day, by Ex-Goyernors Fairbanks an
IN Fletcher.
ION taking the chair, Gov. Fairbanks bre