Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-02-01
BosToY, Thursday, Jan. %.

Republican -
BosToN, Thursday, Jan. "a.
Did they stop at Springfield as they went
along, or didn't they 60 your way? mean
the dough-iace deputatiOn to carry the great
dough-face petition. Tho petition is about
a hundred yards long, says the Traveller; is
a foot in diameter when rolled up, and con-
tains about IA 900 names. am little sur
prised that they did not get more. The most
rabid abolitionist in the city could have
signed it without committing himself to any
thing. Herein consists the cheat. Why,
oh tell me why, are the bunker movements
invariably conducted on sneaking principles?
What is this petition? Here it IS
"While sharing in common with their fellow
citizens the general solicitude at the dangers which
are now threatening the peace and unity Of the
country, they desire to give their urgent and en-
phatic expression Of the necessity which seems TO
exist for mutual conciliation and compromise, and
without discussion as to the merits Of the various
questions at issue
d" Mutual concession !" think / could
devise a plan of mutual concession which
would leave US as well off as we are now.
should demand from the South 1st, the
repeal Of the Fugitive Slave law, inhuman,
odious and abominable as it is; ID, the re-
linquishment of the dogma that slavery is
property by anything but local law; Sd, am
pie and perpetual guarantees fOr the perpetu-
ltY of Government against rebellions every
time the elections do not go to suit the slave
holders 4th, ample and perpetual guaran-
ties for freedom of speech and travel to north
ern men in the South 5th, the reconstruc-
ton on popular basis Of the Supreme Court;
and so on. Every one of these demands Is
jua But do the men who have gone on
with the big petition dream, even, OF de-
mandiDg any one of them? No. They do
not mean to ask any thing. They go not to
take, but to giye-and give all that the other
side ask. You could not devise plan of
adjustment which this committee would not
accept, no matter how degrading 10 the
North If this is an honest movement, why
are not the Republicans represented with the
petition? The Trdreler says Mr.. Tobey is a
Republican, bat he belongs to the 9 moder-
ate wing" should think so. He did not
dare to take the republican nomination for
| Mayor, though the Republicans were mean
| enough to give it to him, He was never
known to utter republican sentiment in his
| life The others are Edward Everett, Robert
| c. Winthrop and Amos A. Lawrence, Bell
everetts, and Charles Levi Woodbury., OF the
Breckinridge persuasion. Thirty thousand
voters have four members of the conmlttee'
and one hundred and eight thousand nave 4
fshy and doubtful one.
But have no; finished anal yzIng the pc
t;,;on Here II is. and it is as rich as a
Mount Vernon paper, a Board of Trade report
~ ono Of Amos Lawrence S luminous speech
es Il combines the merits of all three, and
must have been the joint work of Ever
EFT, Tobey and Lawrence
Therefore, Your memorialists humbly pray
"a 'umbly," would be better) that such measure
may be edily adopted by Congress, for the pa,
ei6c settlement Of our present difficulties, as Will
embrace substantially"-
What Now comes something definite,
of course Embrace what? The Critten'