Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-11

The VERMONT DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
The few men into whose hands the man,
sgenlent Of the so-called democratic
party of Vermont has fallen, contriveC
some time ago to throw Out,of that par
ty the members who formerly gave ii
some respectability and standing
Those whose sentiments of duty and
patriotism i'm time of the country's great
peril fatally conficted with slatter-day
democracy being thus cut ofthe way,
it was supposed that the remainder could
at least go down acknowledgement
Butas the party sinks lower, there are still
6hose who either cannot continue with
it or IaUst ease their conseienceS. by do
ing thunder an occasional protest. The
Burlington Sentinel for example, % dem
Ocratic paper which is sometimes, over
taken by lgcid intervals that are re-
freshing in latter-day democratic Jour
nalisn, felt 1t incumbent some days ago
to apologize for the absurd resolutions
of the late Vermont State Democratic
Convention. 1t stated that the resolu-
tions were merely read once to the Con
vention, and paid the Convention the
compliment OF saying that as q whole
it had only a ''yague and general idea
of them till they appeared in print
There is one of the series which it was
forced particularly to condemn, viz,
that which declares that the admins
tration 'ihas denied to sovereign states
all constitutional rights and thereby
absolved them from the duty of allie
glance" The Sentinel, although it had
the state ticket nominated by this con-
vention at the head of its columns,
said:
We need scarcely say to our readers
that this is not the position of the DEM
Ocratic party of Vermont, or of the ma
ton. No administration or individual
has authority TO absolve state from it's
allegiance, and such supposition is,
therefore, impossible. 1t is simply alb
surd to suppose that Mr.. Lincoln has
absolved state from it's allegiance, for
where should he derive such authority,
which even the constitution itself does |
not possess? IT the administration can |
thus abs0lve sovereign states from their
duty of allegiance what is there to Sc |
cure unity of the states moment be-
yond the will of any administration |
who may see fit to grant such absolu- |
ton of all allegiance to sister states.-
1t is but simple justice to state that the |
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merely read once to the convention and |
then passed in body, owing to want
of time, although several gentlemen
called for their re-reading and the adop-
ton of the resolutions singly. In fact. |
we doubt If the Convention as a whole |
had anything more than vague and |
general idea of the resolutions till they
appeared in print. The most charitable
thing which can be said of the resolu-
ton quoted is that the author whoever
1T was, probably wrote it in ignorance
OF what he was really saving. The
Convention certainly would not have
committed Willingly such a blunder."
The North STAR democratic, evidently
agreed with the Sentinel.
But there was no "blunder." The
revolutionary and utterly ruinous senti-
ments expressed in the resolutions of
that convention were the deliberate ut
terances of the present managers of the
party whose organs are the Montpelier
Argus, the Rutland Courier and the
woodstock Age - only these and no
more. The author of the resolutions.
who wrote Sin ignorance of what he
was really saying" according to the
Sentinel, it seems was no less a person
than the candidate of that Convention
and of the Sentinel itself for Governor.
The managers have repudiated the sug-
sestion of "blunder" since that sugges-
aon was made by the Sentinel, and left
the alternative to that paper to swallow
the entire platform without further dis
turbance, or "walk the plank"