Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-06-27
FLOR the Free Press.l
POLITICAL COMPREHENSIVE.

1t is a comfort 10 know, that the Burlington
Sentinel, which for the past year, has been walking
in dry places seeking rest and finding uone, has
at last found repose in the swept and garnished
rooms Of tho VaIlandigham Democracy. From
the profession of that faith, it should never have
allowed itself to be seduoed by any glded bait Of
Office, ror should have yielded for a moment to
any absurd twinges Of conscience Gf indeed it
was conscenee) against association with its natu-
raj allies the Rutland CoRrier, the Woodstock Age,
The Bellows Falls Aryns,-("give me some civet,
good apothecary")-and other like awkward copy
lists Of the covert treason of the New York HG-
aid.
Its like COMFORT to know, too that that inh-
deity to the great principles involved and at
stake in our country's present contest with armed
treason, land so in truth an infdelity to both
the country and the couutry's causc,) which last
year was opologetic. sneaking, and disguised IN
der the forms of loyal speech is this year outspo-
ken and defiant In the tone Of its Democratic |
State Committee, who, il their call for a State |
Convention, inform Us that " the sectional and |
fanatica principles and the unconstitutional prac
and that the Government, the Constitution and
the Union can be restored and preserved to the
whole country only through the national and con-
servative principles Of the Democratic party -
/, is matter Of congratulation, that the Pestilent
doctrines Of this latter-day democracy should be
eliminated from Republican association, and
should assume form. shape and dimensions IL
distinct organization which can De seen and known
Of all men. Certainly each organization is the
purer, according TO its own notions Of purity, for
the separation; and, as certainly, that one which
IL, in it, elementary principles, the purest and
the truss,, becomes all the stronger for being sep
crate from the impure and the false.
Every voluntary association in society, church
or politics, mas its elementary ideas and test prin
/ ciples, which form its bond OF union. So tar As
men are found to agree in such elementary ideas
aud test principles, they naturally coalesee and
readily assume. with common sympsthies aud
aims, a common name. Any other union than
this i. forced and unnatural, internally iscoFda-t
tending ever to disintegraton aud rupture
There are in this life a. in the next, the n eer
and The goats. It Is not divine hu.baldry TO
compel both into the sane ill-.
We cannot Disguise 1t # we would We ought
lot il we could, that tie leading elemental idea
Of the Republican party is au snti-siayery idea
not the full rouuded-out sentiment Of the techui-
cal abo!i,ionisi, but .tIl an idea substantially
aHti-slavery-as, hostility Co the stsrc>.ions oi
slavery an absolute check % its further sfread
or advancement aui the restoration u t4e COVE
eminent t. its arc..ut u,ges ani ideas, ~ si-
ministerine 1t upon the Constitutional theory
taat freedom is the great national idea AMI inter
est, aud slavery sn exceptional. sectional aberra-
ton. To this eni Mr.. Lin, % was made rre.i-
deaf, and ex,eilenuy VIII Of iit-ie more slowly
than aecerls with the mpaiiru-e If some, be-, AID
the genuine Republican, 10 Congress. are doing
their rr,scrbed work Thus We see slavery o.
ished ia the District ,. columbia. a camreusa
tory sy.;em Of en- aacipaiiou recommended &. the
Slsye-hliiins >tate-. commercial relations il .i-
ta.eI with Hsyti AMI Liberia, the laws against
the African slave trade Tor the hr.t time executed
and elective treaties made fs- IFS utter ex.irra-
ton. AID the finishing blow Al once siyra g. the
profane dogma of Calhoun, that property iu
slaves e1iss wherever the Constitution extends.
and to the Popular sovereignty hgmtu. ai Doug
Jas, by a sweeping enactment prohibiting slavery
forever in an Territories now owned. % hereafter
e. lie acquired BY the United sutes Whether
tie Fugitive slave law shall be So modified a. 90
require some proof OF the claimants loyalty, and
secure to the party claimed, in cases Of doubt she
decen; forms Of real trial, AMI whether the slaves
Of rebels shall be set free aud be pa; TO the uses
Of the Union in this is extremity, depend upon
the relative strength Of the genuine Republican,
in Congress upon tie oue s.de. AMI Boiaes state
slave holders VAllaudieham Democrats AMI Ger
tain fossils upon the other tide, self-stylei Con
seryatives--so named, because oanservaiige %
the bad 70 the destruction II the good, a came
OF which j; nay be said a. Of the 'sai body Of
Lazarus, BY this time 1t s;iuksth.
These are all measures Of tlis Republican Al
mini,,ratiou and all have sqr5utei by natural ger
minatioD from the central t-slavery idea Of the
Republican party. Now Whosoever accords with
these and such like measures, or adopts the great
idea from vhish they spring, - with US and with
the country, by whatsoever uaue heretofore kuov-
AlLNi u4tl AM y NuI tInAltr OF tue lAlA ullNl.
But whose sneers at the anti-slivery ideas Of the
Republicans, and finds in the earnss; advocacy Of
anti-sayery men the bameiul cause Of thi, great
rebellion, an carTe at these measures IS fanati-
ca or partisan, and like busy blue-bottle goes
burIiag about to ay-bloF the good name Of those
earnest souls by whose energy and zeal these
ideas have become Fixed in the form Of stable laws,
is but bastard patriot aud surely no Republican,
however open-mou thed he may be 10 shouting for
a vigorous prosecution oi the war, and in his
praises Of Gen. Mcclellan.
It is not for Republicans. OF for those who cher
ish the ideas and sustain the policy Of this Admin
i.tration, to court association with such men. It
is holding our principles at too cheap rate to
be willing to waive them, or stiae their expression
for the sake Of securing such companionship; nor
is it well to set abo-t oribing such men TO a de.
Gently seeming loyalty. by the promised aivanta-
ges Of political association with u. And so long
goodby TO the Sc-n1si, and to all other ssntinels
Of the outposts Of slavery. H.