The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-15


on our article respecting " Another State Con-
ycntion,' which are partly fair and partly un-
lair. Let US understand each other.
The FREEMAN did say that the (no-party)
movement was begotten and nursed by the
Interest partisanship." g Its authors have had
d purpose to serve, and under the cover of a
no-party " organization they make their at
'Ack upon an organization that they had not
dared openly and avowedly to assault, &c.
n this the Times has fairly represented US, and
al the same time, for TIE" no-party" Republic
ans. denies charge. This disclaimer is good SO
;ar as the Times is concerned and while we
oppose that paper knows its own purpose in
leading the van Of the no-party Republicans in
,ac State, we still would like to know if it be-
.ieves the following extract from an article cop
ed into it's columns from the Springfield Repub-
.icQu:
Subs antially the republican party of 1856
and 1860 has accomplished It's mission it has
rescued the government from the hands OF the
democratic party, who permitted it to be used
for the benefit Of slavery it has settled the ques-
lion of the extension of slavery, and now the
question is on the maintenance of the govern
ment itself"
Does the Times regard the mission of the Re-
publican party as acce mplished? Was not the
object Of the distinctive no party men in the
Convention here on the Goth ult to ignore Re-
publcanism entirely? Did not that class ct
men together with the editor of the Times vote
in that Convention against the appointment Of Il
Repubica State Committee straightforward
answers to these questions will perhaps serve to
show the position of the Times so far as the
Efforts to break up the Republican organization
are concerned.
The Times, unfairly stating the position of
the FREEMAN to be hostile to Democratic State
Convention, says
" II Ohe FREEMAN) spurns all proposals for
:. union unless on terms that are both unfair
and insulting. II has bid the Democrats 90 and
raise their own flag. But the moment they pro-
pose to do it, though they inscribe on it the no.
Ole words, 6 The federal union must and shall
De- preserved" the Freeman falls into bitter de-
nunciations of the party and its leaders. We
will leave the Freeman to wallow, If it can, out
OF It's own inconsistencies.
The Times may have seen call for Demo-
cratic State Convention, but we haven't. The
Democratic State Committee have issued call
for q Convention, which is neither one thing
nor another, neither Democratic nor Republi
can ; but nomi nally a g no party" Convention
We expressly said of it, that, while we had no
/" objections to any attempts the Democratic
party may make to strengthen themselves and
weaken the Republican party we thought it
would be more g straightforward to call these
efforts by their proper partisan names; " and
still remain of that opinion. If that is in
consistent with the opinion that each man and
PARTY in these times had better march under his
own csIors, we shall make no attempt to escape
from it by wallowing, or in any other way.
The truth is, the Times has in its violent eff
forts to lie good Republican and a good " no.
PARTY ;" man at the same time, become SO much
confused that it isn't a safe judge of the posi-
ton of anybody else. Everything it observes
takes the hue of the lenses through which
i; looks. Evea now its anxiety that there
should be go party in Vermont this fall, is SO
;rea, that it actually seems to favor a new
Convention to nominate ticket hostile to the
one put forward by the Convention of the 26 h
u!s. And we suppose it,eslls this consistency !;
and while it does we are content that tho
course Of the FREEMAN shoulG be characterized
in its columns as inconsistent
Eyreac Bemis Of Brattleboro was seriously,
though probably not dangerously injsred, by