Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-30
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1855.
wore .Demeera,,e,, Division.

against ratifying the constitutional
amendment and the Rutland Courier
copies and endorses the Argus. The
Argus calls them "prefessed" democrats
and twaddlers," and accuses them Of
moral Cowardice" 1t first gives the
names Of those who were absent nom
the session, and proceeds as follows;
"The evening before the meeting of
the Legislature q democratic Caucus was
held, at which were present the follow
ing
CLARK Stone, OF SALISBURY Henry L.
Smith, Of Stamford John Elwell, Jr.,
of Glastonbury; W, J. Stanton of Dan
Vile; Raymond Fuller, of Bloomfield
d. II. Shot, of Brunswick; Charles
Stevens, Of Maidstone W, simms, Of
Lexington; VIM. II. Kimball of West
Fairlee; Paul D. Dean, of Barnard;
Columbus Carpenter, of Bridgewater.
A full discussion of the matter took
place. and every man but Stanton ex-
pressed himself as opposed to the amend
ment for reasons entirely aside from
the question of slavery. An adjourn
ment was then had until the next morn
ing, when they met, and all present at
the meeting the night before were at the
meeting in the morning, except Messrs.
Fuller and Simms. After much talk it
was unanimously voted, by a hand vote,
to act on the question as a unit, and
then In the same manner ereyy one Of
those present declared that thew should
register themselves a"ainst the ratifca-
ZION o! Lhe a~ .ndment Mark the fact
ma Snat az u AS caucus William j, Stanton,
- Stone, II, l.. Smith John Elwell,
Jr, ID. II. Shnd, Charles Stevens, Will
liam Ii. Kimball, Paul D. Dean, and Co
lumbus Carpenter, goted that Hey loore oD-
posed to that amendment, and pledged them
selves to 50 vote in the Legislature
During the adjournment for dinner an
other meeting was held, and no differ
ent action was taken, but A. j. Chaffee,
of Belvidere, gave in his adhesion to
the pledge to vote against the amend
ment. When the yeas and nays were
called for in the House, we find that
only D, Fl. Shof, of Brunswick, had
manly independence and moral courage
to vote as he thought, that Messrs. FL
well and Stanton voted with the aboli-
on-republicans for it, and that all the
Others kept out Of the waT Some of
them claim that they had good reasons
for not being present, but we are in
clined to think that if they had not de-
sired to dodge the responsibility they
could have been there. Messrs. Fuller
and Simms also voted with the aboli-
tionists as did George Buckley, of More
town, and j. Z. Macomber, of Worces-
ter. Buckley was elected by Democrats
from town with a large Democratic
majority, after having pledged himself
most emphatically to the Democrats,
with whom he used to act. Since he
has beeR in the Legislature he has never
identified himself with the Democratic
members, but has constantly affiliated
with the abolitionists. The sturdy De-
mocracy of Moretown say that he shall
not misrepresent them again, and we
hope that he will not. Better send an
out-and-out abolition-republican than
gu ch man as George Bulky, who is
really the most dangerous kind of foe
to conservative principles. If he desires
to wallow in the mire of abolitionism,
the Democracy of Moretown propose
that hereafter he shall do it without
any help from them. DR.. Macomber
doubtless desires reelection, and
Worcester being a strong abolition
town, he has probably taken the best
course TO secure it-Judas lscariot re-
ceived his thirty pieces of silver"
There was just one man in the Legis-
lature who had the moral courage"
to toe the Argus mark, and that was d.
II. Shoff Of Brunswick. To such a pass
has come the pro-slavery, peace and-sur-
render, treason-sympathizing "democ-
racy" Of Vermont; it has one solitary
representative in the Vermont Legisla-
ture! The others who were profess
eddy" democratic, the Argus reads out
of the party" and suggests that they
at once follow the example of Clark and
Englesby of the Senate, Bradley Barlow
of the House. Paul Dillingham;, Chas.
Reed and other open political traitors"
as it calls those who early sacrificed
party ties that they might help main
tain the Union when assailed by gigant-
ic treason.
If any further proof were. needed as
to what is the one all-controlling "prin-
ciple" of lstter-day democracy in Yer
mont, or elsewhere, we have it here
most convincingly. Here is a faction,
claiming 10 be the democratic party OF
of the state, already so reduced by de-
sertion and decentralization that it could
not muster a couple dozen members Of
the Legislature if all had been present.
The necessity of carefully outstanding
the little strength it had, is apparent.
But with one stroke of the Argus goose
quill every one of its small squad Of
representatives is scratched out Of the
party" except that one morally courage
Gus individual, Shot, out
because they would not, at the Argus
bidding, vote to perpetuate that anti
democratic, pro-aristocratic, treason-be-
getting curse of the country-slavery.
And the editor of the Courier, who was
an abolitionist a few years ago and