Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-11-24
NV YoRK. November 8, 1868.


NAV be deemed most effective to Sc ure the uom'
ipation aud election Of Conservative men IN the
approaching Presidential Campaign. The meet
inc will he composed of OLD LINE WIGS
WAR DEMocRATs-CoNsERv MEN, without
regard 10 former party predictions flenus VI
JACKSON, WEBSTER, CLAY and Chll iLSDh'''
who desire 10 preserve the Union and the OonS'''
tuition unimpaired Who are Wiling 10 'aAe
their stapd upon the Kentucky Platform, opposed
alike 10 secession and abolition lanatlcsm,- no
believe that The war should be carried on I'll those
in armed revolt are compelled to obey the Con,
sttution and the laws Of Congress, and who hoIo
that the State Governments suspended by the
revolt should be restored under their Stat Con
stitu,ions respectively. All such persons are III
vited TO be present.
The meeting will be held under the auspices Of
the "Nstional Conservative Udion COMMITTEE,
appointed at the recent Rochester Convention, OF
which the venerable patriot Amos Kendall, Is
Chan man that Committee having been called
10 lHe-t at the ,4pe time and place. In his let
ter to the Secretary, Mr.. Kendall writes, The
ou!y ure paJly m tor patriotic men who love tbe
Union, is The Constitution as Il IS" With
the gentlemen whose names you mention, (men'
Dtfh VI lit NoulWNttf j. hui PoiNN W ~ "
crate in the attempt TO unite the Conservative
elements Of the ountry in the next Presidential
Election, and it seems 10 me no time should De
lost IN Determining upon line oil policy to be
steadily pursued henceiorth.'
Persons arriving TO attend the meeting will
please report their names to the National Com
mitlee at the Burnett House. Enclosed please
find proceedings of the Rochester meeting.
Your presence is earnestly solicited, that We
may have the bentft Of your counsel.
BY order OF the Committee
X. i. STEVENS, Secretary.
l05 East 49ih Street, New York.
p. S.-please inform US if we may expect
your attendance.
lnasmuch as it will not be entiry convenient
for US to be at the proposed Convention, we take
this opportunity to say so. No DOUBT, however
the defurct politicians who have been left behin1
10 the march of events the last three years, o
have been buried Ike Valandigham under The
mountain Of popular mejortes, will appear a
the appointed time, coming from their varlou
political limbos, TO take ghosly counsel togethe
respecting their own departed glory and power
and the decadeDce ard evidently approaching
death OF their vel. beloved institution, whcl
Abraham Lincoln smote 80 fatally under the iiitl
rib on the LIST day Of January Of the current year
"All such persons are invited to be present, y
"Old Line Wings" men who with Webster ant
Fillmore abandoned the faith which their party
proiessed Tor years, took out Of that party it's vi
tai principle and run it high and dry, clear out o.
water in 1852 and since that time have been stead
fast in but one thing, and that is adherence To
the fortunes Of Slavery, are expected 10 be
present." "War Democrats" of the Hortit
Seymour pattern, and not OF the Butler, Dix
and Van Buren, stamp care expected To DO pres
ent." The Conservative" gentlemen mel
who will not look upon the new moon out Of re
spect for that ancient and venerable institution
the old one, Who have nc party predictions
but always vote the Democratic ticket, who ar
the friends Of Jackson, Webster, Clay and Crit
tenden, and nearly all the dead men, in shor
whore friends are mostly under ground-and wh
are willing to stand on the Kentucky platform, G
any platform which will conserve slavery, "ar
invited TO be present.
Tbs object Of this gathering OF defunct poit
clans is, in the language Of Amos Kendall, the
chairman, " to cooperate in the attempt to uni
the Conservative elements Of the country in II
next Presidential Election " in other words an
ganiz Of party for the next President
campaign. Nominally the movement is in Il
hands OF old line Wings but it is really eng
eered by those who have worked with and for Il
Democratic party for the last two years, and ha'
done what they could to oppose the Adminislr
ton in its war policy. The enterprise is in a
of the party which has been 80 signaly beaten
the polls, but which yet hopes by divisions. II
no other means, TO weaken the Admnstratio
and thus advance the political fortunes Of the o
position in the election Of President next year
These old line Wings still harp on the o
string, apparently needless of the fact tina, Il
voters Rave most distinctly refused to dance
that particular strain Of Conservative music, al
have very clearly intimated that they preferred
live issue, to all the dead questions which Jacksc
and Webster and clay ever debated. But the
poi':eal f,hermaa persist in dropping the
hooks and casting their nets in the stagnant "
tiers of the old channel where they used to angl
needless Of the fact that the mad rush Of the Gu
rent has worn a new channel AID turned the Ii
ing waters entirely away from their old fshir
ground, The result will be, tast whilc they una
catch some ia poles and frogs, they will get I
6sh, Fine trout may be invited to be present
but they don't run in such dead water.
How amazing ii IS that men will persist In b
ing blind to wha, is passing before their eye
will s,tempt to ignore the startling and gigsnt
events now attracting to us the attention Of Il
whole civilized world, and endeavor to stop Il
march Of liberal and progressive ideas, vii
meaningless Numbering about "Conseryati,
Unionism.' Why cannot men see that the dui
and the policies Of yesterday or of lastly ms
not be the duties and policy Of to day, aud tn
be is worse than fool who sndeavors to ac, vii
reference to the facts Of three years ago, inste'
Of with reference to the facts as they exist tn
year9 Why not ls,
" The dead Past bury i,t dead,
Act, act, In the living Present.
Heart within, and God Ger head n
But we have noticed this proposed conveutic
Of fossils at more length than We intended. w
trust il will be well attended. Mr.. Everett aim,