The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-07-07

last legislature, excluding foreigners-in-
habitants who own property and have
grand list-from the right of voting in
this state in town and school-district meet
ings. This right that class of inhabitants
have exercised since the formation of the
state and as a proper corrective to this
unjust legislation, we hope they will all
get naturallzed and vote against their op-
pressors
I. Resolred, That in the wise and con-
stitutional policy of President johnson, to
restore all the states to their constitutional
position-reinvestilg them with rights
and corresponding duties, and cementing
anew the integrity of the government, -
we discern most happy augury that the
malignity, which strife and collision have
engendered, may be utterly supplanted by
the fraternity which enabled our fathers to
form the constitution and create the Un-
ion; and if, with Jacksonian firmness, he
will maintain his policy against the plot
ting of treason on the one hand, and the
raving and ribaldry of fanaticism on the
other, we tender to him our earnest and
undivided support.
8. Resotred, That our grateful thanks
are due and are hereby rendered to the
gallant soldiers Of the army, who, by their
bravery and self-sacrifcing labors in the
field have subdued the rebellion, and there
by have nobly vindicated the declaration
of the immortal Jackson. "THE UNION
SHALL BE PRESERVED"
9. Resolved, That we will unitedly sup
port the nominations this day made.
Vermont Democracy.
Not much in a practical point of view
is ever expected of the democratic party
of Vermont. 1t is like the delegate of a
territory in Congress, it can talk and that
is about all it can do. But this very po-
sition is favorable to freedom of expression
for whatever may be said in convention, it
can make no difference with the result at
the polls. Hence we are as likely to get
at the general drift of the democracy at a
given time by the action of the party in
Vermont, as in any other way. We all
remember how it was two years ago.
The convention at Montpelier rung with
the most advanced cries of copperheadism.
1t was charged that President Lincoln be-
gan the war for the purpose of elevating
the negro, that he had only made progress
in conquering the North, and that if even
the South could be conquered, which was
doubtful, "we should need standing ar
my of 100000 or a million of men to keep
that country in order !" Such proved to
be the keynote of the democratic party
that year.
1t is with some interest. therefore, that
we now see the democracy of Vermont
coming up again and declaring that they
shave renewed confidence in, and vencr-
alton for, democratic principles" as, we
presume, they have heretofore proclaimed
them. They may not exactly maintain
still that it will require 500, 900 or 4 mil
lion of armed men to keep order in the
conquered South, and they seem to have
forgotten all about the divine institution
Of slavery, but they yet cling to the great
8 democratic principle" that "a negro
has no rights which white man Is bound
to respect" If they can't keep him a
slave. they are determined to exclude him
from the ballot-box. and to make his con-
dition at the South wholly dependent up
on the mercics of the late rebels in arms
This they make the great central plank Of
their platform. They record themselves
as " unalterably opposed to comforting the
right of suffrage upon the ignorant negroes
of the country" As to intelligent negroes
they would probably deny that there are
or can be any such.
This, probably, then, is to constitute
the great principle of the revived demo-
cratic party. 1t is true, confidence in
President Jollnson's reconstruction policy
is expressed, but as there is an eff" in
that, it will probably amount to about as
much as President Johnsons reliance upon
the democratic party of Vermont. No.
persecution of the negro is their chief and
most characteristic principle. Adopting
this, they may we'll congratulate L" the
men composing the democratic party"
South and North probably, "upon their
patience and patriotism during the late
terrible crisis" and may, doubtless, look
forward to the same sort of party success
es which they have gained during the last
four years .-Boston Journal
Hon. a Big OH Bubble has Burst.
The United Service Petroleum and
Mining company at New York has made a
pretcnse Of doing business on a capital of
$500, 900 and has promised "big things
to whoever should invest in it. There
have been goodly number of invest
ments, but not nearly as many ''big things
in the way of dividends as the anxious
stockholders had anticipated. On Mon
day George ID. Kellogg of New York and
some others made complaint against Will
liam d. Mann, the vice president and
general superintendent of the company,
and Daniel Stratton, Jr, one of the trus-
tees of the company, charging them with
having obtained ahont S65 OOO IN suh-