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Democratic State Convention. Will They Ilcur Hint 1 It is a fact that no great and good man, Toleration vs. Proscription The CoiKtifiKioii of Vermont, mid the CoiiNtitiition of tlie Hindoo Order, Hear one oi tiik "Karlv Statesmen Since tho Hindoos in convention at Burlington resolved to stand by the "early statesmen," wo deem it proper to inform them what the doctrines of the 'flnvlv RruMairtntl" w-r. Wrt mirmnart tltn Faction', In times like tho present, when factions arc rife in the Innd, and threaten such serious detriment to the Republic, it is Well to loam, if wo may, of their origin, and the true tests by which they may bo determined. The following fable, and the tests given by its author, more than a century ago, will afford useful instruction on the subject LIBERTY, the daughter of Oppression, after having brought forth several far children, as lixchesi Art, Learning, Trade, nnd many others, was at Inst delivered of her youngest daughter, called Faction, whom Juno, doing the office of the midwife, distorted in its birth, out of envy to the mother, from Whence it derived iu peevishness and fickle constitution.

As miss Faction grew up, sho became so termagant andfro ward, that thcro was no enduring heranv 'iiii Political Adventures Ilyland I'lctclicr. Political parties always have been and probably always will be afflicted With a class of men who seek the excitements of the day, to force themselves into positions to which their native and naked ability could never raise them. Vermont has had more than her share of affliction from such men. The old Liberty party, started by honest men, no doubt, and of no political consequence at tho outset, soon became the rallying point, round which the reckless, and uneasy political adventurers began to gather. A majority in all our elections except for Stato Senators being necessary for an election, it lies in the hands, frequently, of half-a-doztn to dictuto or defeat.

This party was soon in the hands of such men as Ryland Fletcher, who failing in the old par-tics, went into tho new, Ryland Fletcher left the old Whig party because that party did not advance him as fast ns he tlrBughJhis merits demanded and his object, and his only object was, to gather up a handful of votes, just largo enough to control the politics of the Stato and then compel the whigs to do him justice by giving him an office. In this game he at last succeeded He forced his old friends who repudiated him, to lay down and roll over at the snap of his finger, and to swallow the pill they had so often and with so great disgust refused and repelled. Great Ryland! poor whiggcry But Ryland found himself in trouble after all, for the game that made him Lieut. Governor broke the very tool he had used to accomplish his purpose the old Freesoil party was disbanded, by the terms of the contract, and those who hated and despised him, and had yielded to his dictation with wry faces, thought they had him there." But not so Ryland was in town," He saw that the Freesoil party that had worked so well in his hands and had forced his old KniiNns Mutter. Tho legislature of Kunsns Territory mot at Pawnco tho instant.

Gov. It coder's message occupies about two columns in tho Washington Union. Its tone is calm and conciliatory. That portion of it relating to the subject of slavery and Missouri interference is embraced in tho subjoined extract An agitation of that kind, such as we have seen industriously prosecuted in the past history of our country by the destructive spirit of abolitionism, can never be productive of aught but evil, and is calculated in an eminent degrco to obscure tho glories of the past, to evoke' the foulest Spirit of discord among the citizens of our common country, nnd also to mar our brilliant future, if not to endanger the existence of our cherished Union. A want of fidelity to the solemn compacts of the constitution, and an an attack upon the rights of the State which are guarantied by it, can have no justification or excuse.

This view of the case, however, is not to he confounded with tho discussion and settlement of tho slavery question in our Territory, in its bearings upon the formation of our institutions. That has been referred to us as an open question by the legitimate action of the nation, and hero it is not only tho privilege but the duty of every man to speak his opinions freely and enforce them peaceably and fairly. Advocate and opponent stand on the same ground, and must mutually concede to each other tho identical measures of right which they claim for themselves. Freedom ofo-piiuon and freedom of discussion, without licentiousness, are of tho very essence of republicanism nt all times, and are peculiarly to be respected here. Tho permanent character and high authority of a State constitution, and the fact of its submission to a direct vote of the people of the Territory, indicate that event as a signal occasion for the decision of that peculiar question.

In the mean time, however, a territorial legislature may undoubtedly act upon the question to a limited and partial extent, and may temporarily prohibit, tolerate, or regulate slavery in the Territory, and in an absolute or modified form, with all the force and effect of any other legislative act, binding until repealed by the same power that enacted it. There are many spocific subjects of legislation, some of whom are expressly referred to you 6y the bill organizing our Territory, and others spring from the necessities of our community. Prominent among them is the question whether we shall build our government up in tlie basis of free or slave labor. Claiming as we do the same capacity for self-government as our fellow-citizens of the States, with a for greater, if not an exclusive interest in the institutions and laws which nre to exist among us compelled alone to bear their burdens, and entitled alone to claim their benefits, wisdom, justice, and fairness would dictate that those laws and institutions inside of the constitution of the United States should be moulded by ourselves, stimulated by the absorbing interest we must feel in them, rather than by the representatives or citizens of other States, who are no more competent to the task than we who have no stake with us in their results, and who would most indignantly repel any offer of reciprocity from us in assisting to manage their affairs. The provision of our territorial organic act secures us this right, and is founded in the true doctrines of republicanism.

It may be exercised in various degrees and in various ways, and whenever it is called into action it cannot legitimately be attended with that excitement which is incident to the agitation of the slavery question in tho direction of an attack upon constitutional rights. Governor Reeder was well received by most of the Kansas settlers, crowds visiting him at every place where he stopped. Ho was occasionally treated with rudeness, but by the followiug from the Kanzas Herald, it appears he knows how to resent it On one occasion a gentleman approached Gov. R. and said ho heard a friend at Weston, remark that if Gov.

Reeder returned to the Territory, he would gather Up a company of men, ten thousand if necessary, and search every part of the Territory, if need be, to find and hang him. The Governor very cordially thanked his informant for tho intelligence, and remarked "Tell your friend, whether he comes at tho head of ten hundred or ten thousand men, it will make no difference shall never Pursuant to notice, tho Democratic Stato Convention met at the Court iiouso in Montpelicr, at 11 o'clock, A. and was called to order by Hiiam.ky BauloW, chairman of State uommiuw, uuu bv the appointment of Hon Luther B. HUNT, of St. Albans, President, pro tern.

Ciiari.es F. SmitiI, of Montpelier, Sec-rpfjirv. nro tern. George M. Fisk, of Northfield, Assist ant Secretary, pro tcm.

A committee, consistinc of WILLIAM P. Badger, of Montpelier, E. Marvin of St. Albans, C. W.

Cl.AUK, of Chel sea, P. S. Benjamin, of Wolcott, Jen- ness, of Derby, was appointed to nominate Stato officers for the permanent organiza tion of the convention. During the absence of this committee the convention was addressed by Messrs. omui-lev of BurlirwtoiK Kidder of Randolph, l'fympton of Wanlsboro', Thomas of West rairiee, ana urignatn ui "ip to the rise and progress and manifest destiny" of Ilindooism in mis state.

The committee on permanent organiza- tion made the following report, which was accepted and adopted i For President, Hon. LUTHER B. HUNT. For Vice Presidents, Russell G. Hoi-kins, of Orleans Co.

Elisha Mat, of Orange. B. G. BniGllAM, of Franklin. Alt-iia Webster, of Caledonia.

Erasmus Plympton, of Windham, H. S. McCollum, of Rutland. Secretaries, William II. IIoyt, of St, Albans.

CnAKLES F. Smith, of Montpelier. George M. Fisk, of Northfield. Russell 8.

Taft, of Burlington. On motion of F. V. Randall of Northfield, a committee of one from each county was appointed to report a basis of representation of the committee to nominate State Officers, which motion passed unanimously and Bradlev Barlow, chairman of the committee, reported, That, for want of time duly to dis cuss and weigh the matter at the present- convention, they recommend its postponement to a further occasion and, that for the present, the principle or basis adopted be that of the senatorial representation from the several counties. A minority report from the same commit tee was made to th-e-effect that each county have one member on the nominating committee, and one additional member from each 1000 democratic votes cast at the last gubernatorial election, and one for each traction over 500 votes.

The several reports were accepted, and the report of the majority was adopted. Accordingly eacn Uounty in separate con ventions appointed the number to which they were severally entitled. Un motion ot J). A. smalley, Francis A.

Eastman of Montpelier, E. M. Brown of Woodstock, D. A. Danforth of Burlington, Stephen Thomas of West Fairlee, JonN Cain ofWoodstock, were appointed a committee to draft and report resolutions for the consideration of the convention.

On motion adjourned till 2 o'clock, P. M. Afternoon. Convention came to order pursuant to adjournment. On motion of D.

A. Smalley, the State Com. was empowered to report at the next State Convention, the basis upon which the Com. to nominate State Officers, shall be apportioned among the several counties. On motion of E.

E. French, of Barrc, the committee on the nomination of State Officers were empowered to nominate a State Com. for the year ensuing, and also -two Delegates at large to the Democratic Convention. Tho Committee on nominations, by its Chairman, J. 13.

Bowdish, then made the following report For Governor, MERRITT CLARK, of Poultney. For Lieut, Governor, STODDARD B. COLBY, of Montpelier. For Treasurer, JOHN A. PAGE, of Montpelier.

State Committee Bradley Barlow, Stephen Thomas, K. M. Brown, Robert Harvey, F. V. Randall.

Delegates at Large D.A.Smali.ey and J. P. Kidder, (Mr, Peck declined being a candidate.) Substitutes Jasper Rand, Stephen Thomas. The report was unanimously accepted and adopted. s.

li. Uolby being called upon, addressed the Convention, and accepted the nomination. Col. Francis A. Eastman, from the Com mittee on Resolutions, reported the following which ere adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm Rcsolvid, That as tbe Democratic parly has in all peri-sis of trial been faithful to iu high mission of guarding anil preserving tlie Union of tile States, we have full confidence in its ability to check all illegal exercise of every umvarantaule construc tion ol the Uonslilutiim, and that in adhering to their time honored tenets is the only safety of the Govern uieiit.

Therefore the Democratic party of Vermont is pledKed to the principles and organization of the Na-tional Deiuucracy. Rrsolred, That we denounce and repudiate all attempts of demagogue and milled philanthropists to form sectional -M-rtice, believing the Government cannot be administered expressly tor one interest or section, but tiiat all have equal rights and privileges, and equal claims to protection. The Constitution cannot be construed so as to bestow special favors upon any portion of the Confederacy, it being a Federal Com. pact.and sustaining only Federal relations to the several States, leaving to the people of each Hlate or Territo. rv.

the exclusive right to institute and roculate their own internal affairs. Rtsolvid, That Franklin Pierce in his administration has thus far been eminently successful, his acts having all been conformed atrictly to the Constitution he has solemnly sworn to us increased confidence in his ability and patriotism and that by hie stern resistance to all schemes of Treasury -rooking, by his vetoes of unconstitutional and prodigal measures, by his Judicious management of our tor. eign relations he has coinineniled himself to tin, intelligent and frugal citizens uf Vermont. Resolved, In the language ofthe preamble of the constitution of Vermont, MThat all men have a natural and inalienable right to worship At-attoHTV God according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings, as in their opinion shall be regulated by the word of God and that no man ought to, or of right can, be compelled to attend any religions worship, or erector support any place of worship, or maintain any ministry, contrary to the dictatea of hie conscience; nor can any man be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen on account ot his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no auUwrity can or ought to be vested in or assumed by any power whatever that shall in any case interfere with, or In any manner control, the rights of conscience in the free exercise of religious worship." And the party called know-noUiings by Uteir oath-bound secrecy, their repugnant and denationalizing principles, show themselves hostile to every established principle of Republicanism and totally unworthy the confidence or support of good citizens. Now, that religious toleration and equality of citizenship tbe fundamental principles of Free Government an sought to be repudiated by the so-called Whig and Abolition parties, the Democracy of this Bute put forth their excellent candidates, with Uiis plattorm of principles, inviting to their standard all men agreeing with them, regardless of former party affinities.

Speeches were made during the Convention by Messrs. Jenness, Randall, Colt, French, Dickey, Barlow, Sowles, Smith, the President and others. Convention then adjourned sine die. LUTHER B. HUNT, President William H.

Hoyt, 1 Charles F. Smith, I George M. Fisk, kussell S. Taft, Orange County. The Know Nothings have held a convention and nominated the following ticket the old fusion ticket of last year: Senators Joseph Atkinson, John Waite.

JudgesJohn Lyman, Levi Tabor. State's JHlornry Abijah Howard, Jr. Sheriff C. P. Baldwin.

High BatVi Jeremiah Dodge. Judge of Probate for the District of Randolph John B. Ilutchins. Bradford District James 8. Moore.

The convention endorsed the Burlington Know Nothing ticket. in any section of the Union, has joined or in any way favors tho Know Nothing party. In an article recently published in this paper entitled "On which sido arc tho statesmen of America it was clearly shown that ev ery statesman worthy of that distinction, is opposed to, and most of them arc battling against tlie "order." It is no less remarkable and gratifying that the most eloquent clergymen look with disgust upon this oath bound and midnight organization. The Rev, W. H.

Lord, of Montpelier, is one of this class of diviness We subjoin an extract from his tract upon National Hospitality, issued a few months since, which we commend to the voters of this State. Will they hear him? Will the editor of the Watchman, who printed the tract, but is now check by jowl with the Know Nothings in this county, fugling with them for votes, and supporting their candidates for office will he hear him And our antecedents forbid the Idea of inhoapitulity toward the strangers who seek here a home and an asylum. Shall the descendants of those exiled pilgrims, who, in' toils and conflicts, in penury and starvation, laid the strong foundations, whose superstructure is now reared above the clouds that covered them, and glows in the eternal sun light which was hidden to their eyes, refuse to maintain the ancient principles that were the germs and prophecies of our present greatness, and which may still produce new forms of national life and glory in the coming ogesP Shall we refuse a shelter and bread to the outcast and famishing, when our fathers were themselves strangers in the land and by a hard experience ot tlie rig ors of tyranny, learned the blessedness of liberty, and were inspired by their own pri vations to moke this country a perpetual refuge for oppressed humanity In their declaration against the King of England, it was one of their complaints that "He had endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners, ana refusing topass others to encourage emigration hither. Tho principle, that made their complaint a just eternalj the it suggests, has lost none of its reasons. Nor does the pedigree of the best of us save us from the taint of foreign blood.

New Amsterdam, Jamestown and Plymouth are but a few years behind us and chiefly less than six generations would bring our native Americans into the arms of foreigners. English, Celtic and Dutch originals, have left an unmistakable impress upon our persons and intellects. We have hardly ceas ed callinE our translantic neighbors, broth ers and cousins. We have not yet learned to despise the history, the art, poetry and science of the race from which we ore proud to have sprung. Nor yet has time been sufficient to obliterate the recol lection of the war for terminated by that noble array of patriots, who were composed of natives and foreigners, of Protestants and Catholics.

We have scarce ceased to hear the eloquent voices of the English Alexander Hamilton tlieliuffuenotsJayand Kutlcdgei the Uattv olic Carroll. We have not forgotten the services of Montgomery, Dearborn and Moultrie of La FWette, Pulaski and Steu ben nor the right in this territory which their blood purchased for their unhappy and oppressed countrymen. Nor should it fade from our memories, how the ships in the last war, that so triumphantly disputed the supremacy of the seas with their acknowl edged queen, were manned in whole or part by foreign crews, and commanded at times oy such naval heroes as ram ones and Decatur. Nor should we fail to cherish tlie comprehensive principles upon which our uovernmcnt was founded, and which have made the swords of foreigners leap from their scabbards to defend them, like the swords of native-born patriots. It was on the broad principle of the natural rights of man, which are his inalienable possession that our fathers united in establishing a State without a church nnd without a king.

and that should recognize no difference in birth or religion. And any sentiment of exclusive patriotism, contrary to this, bo it ever so wise or expedient, is thoroughlyAn-ti-Amcrican, and savors more of a selfish and sectional bigotry than of an enlarged and generous hospitality. Come out of the Wall, Old Weasel We last week charged the editor of the Freeman with the meanness of duplicity in his position upon the Kansas Nebraska bill, as follows Will the editor of the Freeman inform the public whether or not, in conversation with gentlemen at White River Junction who are friendly to the Administration, he said that he felt himself in trouble that his position as editor of an abolition paper compelled him to denounce the Kansas-Ne braska bill, altogether against his will that upon that question he believed the Administration to be right, and that the law itself was one of the most wise and just wmcn nave passed congress lor years Yes, abolition patrons of the Freeman, your editor did make the above confession! and the miserable flunkey who assumes the lead of the abolition party in Vermont dart not aeny u. Our authority for these statements is no less a personage than a highly intelligent citizen oi tills state, wno wears the title of juogc, to wnom tne aoove confession was made. We have heard before of his mak ing similar remarks to democrats taking his paper, whose subscription he was anxious to retain, out have not until now been able to substantiate the charge.

When will abolitionists learn the depravity of their leaders, especially of the editor of the F'rceman? Again we ask the editor of the Freeman to inform the public in relation to this matter. The people are anxious to know what he can say for himself in this dilemma. Come out of the walk old weasel 1 A SiGJf. The Vermont Patriot auotcs quasi locofoco but really Sair JVkht victorv in Illinois as aa evidence of "the purification of the Democratic party." Watchman. The Watchman further styles the "Say Nothings" a "locofoco party, "inaugurated throughout the west by the tools ofthe Ad-ministrtion." Below we publish the opinion of the In diana Sentinel, of the Say Nothings i Secret Machinery The "Hi inkfru." The Know Somethings, a secret political scion or rather off-shoot of the Know Nothings, are holding secret conventions about the country, winking and blinking around dark alleys and up back garret stairs, The fools are not all dead.

Seward exnecta to be made President throurrh thianrmniantinn. They hold on to their signs, oaths and hatred of Catholicism, and differ with Know Nothings only on the Slavery oueatinn. In public they call themselves "Republicans" in secret, "Know Somethings." Secrecy and double dealing are the characteristics of knavery. The Sentinel is the organ of the Admin istration in Indiana. What lie comes next? We think it fair to presume that the old weazle of the Freeman was in bad condition last week.

His sheep tobacco must have been unusually poor or else, in arranging with the Watchman about the union ot the two papers, he had taken a drop of Fos Men in nil parlies have generally acknowl edged themselves subject to the Constitution under which they livo, nnd have with rare exceptions, been prompt to crush out every indication of rebellion and to defeat every legislative act conflicting with the constitution. It has been left, however, to tho Hindoo organization to trample upon every sacred principle and set at defiance all constitutions except their own. Their only law or sentiment of honor is that which inspires tho mob. Their "Americanism" at elections has been the breaking of ballot boxes and destroying tho votes of a true A-mcrican majority. Their love of order lias beca manifested in every city south and west by shooting down citizens of foreign birth and plunging the dagger into the bo soms of their neighbors.

It is no matter of wonder then that here, in. Vermont, they should manifest their implacable hatred of constitutions, Laws and customs that restrain them. Every principle and object of these midnight nssassins is condemned by our State constitution. And wo appeal to the people to strike tho miserable organization to the dust. The preamble to tho Constitution of Vermont reads as follows That all men have a natural nnd inalienable right to worship Almighty God accord ing to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings, as in their opinion shall be reimlated by the Word of God and that no man ought to, or of right can, be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any ministry contrary to the dictates of his conscience nor can any man be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship; and that no authority can or ought to De vested in or assumed by any power whatever that shall in any caso interfere with, or in nny manner control, the rights oi conscience in mo iree exercise 01 religious Worship.

No man can mistake the import of this language. It plainly condemns intolerance and proscription of citizens of foreign birth and of the Catholic faith. The founders of our stood shoulder to shoul der in battle with the foreigner and catholic had no apprehension of danger from took special pains to secure to them forever equal privileges with the native born. The Constitution of the United States is explicit on this point. It says, "Art.

1. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." In the constitution of every state of the Union may be found clear and definite provisions against the persecution of any man or sect, no matter where born or to what religion he adheres. Now to a brief examination of the Hindoo constitution and rules for Vermont The third article in that document is the vital port of their organization. It is, The object of this organization shall be to resist the insidious policy of the church of Rome, and all other foreign influence a-gainst the institutions of our country hj placing in office in the gift of the prople, or by appointment, none but natiue-bom Pro-teslant citizens." This is the position of tho sons of tho sires of '76 The first extract given in this article, shows what was the position of the "sires of '76." Lest some may have forgotten the nature of the hideous oaths and obligations of Hindooism, we here subjoin them Obligaton. You and each of you, of your own free will and accord, in the presence of Almighty God and these witnesses, your right hand resting on your heart and your left hand raised toward, heaven, in token of your sincerity, do solemnly promise and swear that you will not make known to any person or persons any of the signs, secrets, mysteries or objects of this organiza tion, unless it be to those whom, after due examination, or lawful information, you shall find to be members of this organization in good standing that you will not cut, carve, print, paint, stamp, stain, or in any way, directly or indirectly, expose any of tlie secrets or objects of this order, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in yuor power to prevent it, unless it be for official instruction that so long as you are connected with this organization, if not regularly dismissed from it, you will, in all things, POLITICAL OR SOCIAL, as far as this order is concerned, COMPLY WITH THE WLLL OF THE MAJORITY, when expressed in lawful manner, though it may conflict with your personal preference, so long as it does not conflict with the Grand, State or subordinate Constitutions, the Constitution of the United States of America, or that of the State in which you reside i and that you will not, under any circumstances whatever, knowingly recommend an unworthy person for initiaUon, nor suffer it to be done, if in your power to prevent it You furthermore promise and declare that you will not vote nor give your influence for any man fir any office in the gift of the people, unless he be an Jlmerican born citizen, in favor of Americans born ruling America nor if he be a Roman Catholic and that you will not, under any circumstances, expose the name of any member of tliU order, nor reveal the existence of such an organization.

To all the foregoing you bind yourselves, under the no less penalty than that of being expelled from this order, and of having your name posted and circulated throughout the different councils of the United States, as a perjurer, and as a traitor to God and your country, as being unfit to be employed and trusted, countenanced or supported in any business transaction as a person totally unworthy of the confidence of all good men, and as one at whom the finger of scorn should ever be pointed. So, help your God. (Each answer, I No comment is required to aid the contrast between these latter-day know nothing Americans" nd the true Americans who framed our Constitution. From what is now published it appears that though the Hindoos were in all respects respectable and law-abiding citizens, and their principles unobjectionable, still they would be unworthy of support, and the just object of popular contempt and execration. There remains but a few weeks in which the people can decide what they will do.

There are but two State parties, the Democratic and the Hindoo. Men worthy the name and privileges of citizens will not hesitate to vote against the Ryland Fletcher Hindoo ticket. Whig Delegates to a We are credibly informed that the forthcoming Convention of "straight whigs" at White River Junction, will elect delegates to a National Convention. most intensified Americans, even the grand Hindoo Pope James M. Slado himself, will not deny that Washington was one of the "early statesmen yet here follows what that venerated hero said The bosom op Amkiuca.

is open to receive, not only the opulent and stranger, but the opr-resskd and Persecuted of all nations and all religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation in All our bights and privileges. If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension- that tho ConstituiOn framed at the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society certainly I would never have placed my signature to it and if I could not conceive that tho General Government might even be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than nlyself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny) and every species of religious persecution for, you doubtless remember, I have often expressed my sentiments that any man conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience. 'Wasiiino-ton. THE wheel is rolling. The first part of this week we received the following manly letter from nn old whig of Washington County, There are hundreds like him in this State who will not be led to the endorsement of Hindooism by either the federal or the abolition party leaders.

The old malt is brief but explicit East Calais, July It), 1855. Hon, Eastman I am not used to addressing editors, but I feel impressed with the duties of a Homo Missionary in the cause of liberty. For 40 years you will find the name of Rich on your neighbor Walton's ledger during this long period I have been a federalist, a whig, a federal-republican, and a free soiler. ltut I never dull take a scat at the new table to which I have been invited. Know Nothingism is too bitter a pill for mo at my age.

Enclosed is money for three subscriptiortsi Please to direct your paper' to Albert Hwinell, Joseph W. Leonard nnd myself. The articles I see in the whig and knownothing papers have warmed my heart for the white as well as for the black slave. Respectfully yours, RICH. (fj" The editor of the Watchman having becomei with the Freeman, the joint defender of tlie Hindoos, thinks things are now all right and tight, as tight as he gets occasionally over a new demijohn of Foster Taylor's Rum.

But it won't work. The little class of unscrupulous and trading politicians in Montpelier who own the editor ofthe Watchman, will utterly fail in dragooning the pcoplo into the Bupport of the know nothing ticket. The pitiable position ho has been compelled to take, is so utterly contemptible that thousands of whigs have become thoroughly disgusted with the man and clique he represents, What a know-nothing riot cost. On Monday evening, in the common council of Chicago, the committee on police reported in favor of paying bills for the late riots, as follows, amounting to $1, 223 50." Tho above, (says the Chicago Times,) prefixed to the bill of items, we observe floating about in the newspapers. Our contemporaries are in error when they name $1,223 50 as the total cost of the know-nothing riot in this city, This sum embraces only the items of the military and commissariat departments, including the surgeons' bills.

The costs and fees for trying the prisoners, added, will make the a-mount over 10,000, A handsome sum for our tax-payers to pay for a mob provoked by crazy-brained know-nothings Tlie widow of Gov. De Witt Clinton, died in Poughkeepsie, N. July 2d at the advanced age of 73. This lady was once one of the most distinguished of the New York belles, and figured largely in the days of the Whites, and the Bayards, and Le Roys, ho I The Star at Northfield claims the Washington county ticket, nominated at Montpelier the other day, as a Hindoo ticket and nothing else one that the whigs have nothing to say about Such men aa Horace Hollister must feel proud of their position in the political market traded and huckstered about from one faction to another. like a poor old lame horse 1 TnE lie nailed to him.

The Freeman, this week, attempts, by throwing the blame upon some other lying Hindoo-abolition ed- itor, to rid himself of the odium of the falsehood we last week proved upon him in regard to the action of the Pennsylvania democracy. Not a very honorable way to get out of a bad fix. What is it The curiosity about the wild men from the Island of Borneo is nowhere compared with the anxiety to know what to call the ticket of the Burlington Mongrel convention, Two of the old whig papers in the State call it "Republican," and the rest breath not its name," 63 The Freeman is getting The first of August and no bids I charity's sake gentlemen don't allow a poor "fellow critter" to stand shivering in tht market any longer. (Xj- Why don't the Freeman run Up the Know Nothing ticket? The old weasel can't play in the wall much longer. The Connecticut State Medical Society met in Norwich last week, and was well at tended.

The following extract of a letter from Dr. Holmes acknowledging an invitation from the Committee of Arrangements, and excusing his absence, goes down easier than A dose of physic i I sunwise vrm nar haw fflrsn for a nnrlment la thr course 0f rnar evening festivities, aad It an, pet- saps you nay prese eras tnu, mrrxm. If prhooll memory eTrwe nxa ssrve me wiwog The GoJ of thyme was the Gl ef Sorii, Whence ennning standcr on the lips of some), Porlsres his hest pi-w-rnption wis a hum TrNHifh 100111-01 skill rlismvns tho shameful pMs. Medicine ana Home etil are onlly one, Health to the treat Morieian 1 Bin, whose) art -steals ibronah the eenees to the coldest feenrt Not his In ftaorieh on the harp or let, The born, the fife, the flaceolct, or flute He blows no trumpet, draws no bow, nor emaw lie only plays Urn kara of lao-issnd strir-trx." O.W. Houlae, longer in IleaVcn.

Jupi(er gaVe her warn1-ing to be gone and her mother, rather than forsake her, took the whole family down to earth. She landed first in Greece was expelled by degrees through all the cities by her daughter's ill conduct fled afterwards to Italy, and being banished thence, took shelter among the Goths, with whom she passed into most parts of Juurope but, being driven out every where, she he gan to lose esteem, and her daughter's faults were imputed to herself: so that at this time she has hardly a place in the world to retire to. One would wonder what strange qualities this daughter must possess, sufficient to blast the influence of so divine a mother, and the rest of her children. She always affected to keep mean and scanda lous company valuing nobody, but just as they agreed with her in every capricious o-pinion she thought fit to take up; and rigorously exacting compliance, though site changed her sentiments ever so often, Her great employment was to breed discord a-mong friends and relations, and make up monstrous alliances bettoeen those whose dispositions least resembled each other. Whoever offered to contradict her, though in the most insignificant trifle, she would be sure to distinguish by some ignominious appellation, and allow them to have neither honor, wit, beauty, learning, honesty, or com' mon sense.

She intruded into all compa nies at the most unreasonable times mixed at balls, assemblies, and other parties of pleasure) haunting every coffee-house and bookseller's-shop, and by her perpetual talking filled all places with disturbence and confusion she buzzed about the merchant in the Exchange, the divine in his the shopkeeper behind his cotmfer. Above all, she frequented assemblies, where she sat in the shape of an obscene omnibus bird, ready to prompt her friends as they spoke." And here it may be worth enquiring, what are the true characteristices of aac tion or how it is to be distinguished from that great body of the people, who are friends to the constitution lhe heads of a faction are usually a set of upstarts, or men ruined in their fortunes, whom some great change in a government did, at first, out ot their obscurity, produce upon tne stage. They associate themselves with those who dislike the old establishment, religious and civil. They are full of new schemes in politics and divinity. They have several ways of working themselves into power but they are sure to be called, whert a corrupt administration wants to be supported a-gainst those who are endeavoring at a reform mation and they firmly observe that cele brated maxim of prescvering power by the same arts, by which it is attained.

They net with the spirit of those, who believe their time is but short i and their first care is to heap up immense riches at the public expense in which they have two ends, be sides that common one of insatiable avarice, which are, to make themselves necessary, and to keep the commonwealth In depend- fr-l i i -1 ciiue. i nut, uiev Jiupu iu uuiupuNa men uu- sign, which is, instead of fitting their prirv ciples to the constitution, to alter and adjust the constitution to their own pernicious principles." The author goes on to state some of the characteristics of a faction' such as, inva sion of the rights and liberties of the people, dangerous innovations of church or state, new doctrines of rebellion or tyranny, deception and gross misrepresenta tions of the most faithful servants of the people, Our readers will find no difficulty in the application of these tests, (as true now as ever) and of determining to whom the title belongs. Indeed no language can more ac curately describe that class of men Which now-a-days arrogates to itself the name of Republicans." A Mare's Nest. The Watchman has made a discovery It says the Say Noth ings, is a "Locofoco party, designed by the Administration to bring the Catholic and foreign vote, en masse to the polls it asks, "what says the Vermont Patriot to this new secret society Will it oppose, sag-nichtism, and the progenitor thereof, the present Administration The editor of the Watchman, having be come the defender of Know Nothingism, attempts the "stop thief game. It won't work.

The "Say Nothings" are a sort of free soil branch of the Know Nothings. They late ly held a grand meeting in Ohio, at which Henry Willson, and other leaders of the free soilers in New England attended. Res olutions abusing the Administration in the most bitter terms, were passed unanimously. The repeal of Out Missouri Compromise was denounced and Us restoration, together with the repeal of the Fugilve Law demanded Rather curious action for a party the "present Administration is the progenitor of!" The Patriot will oppose all secret political societies, of whatever name or progenitor And it will not, like the Watchman oppose them one day, and whiffling about, support them the next. The attempt to make the people believe that the President countenances or sustains any secret political society, or that he is not opposed to them all, and will not, so far as he can, exterminate them root and one of the editor of the Watchman's smart and small tricks, and is uncommonly shallow even for him, as to induce the belief that it must have been penned when he had been indulging too freely in Foster Taylor's bad rum, Present to Gov.

Baker. The personal and political friends of Gov. Baker of New Hampshire, presented him, on Thursday last, with a beautiful pair of horses, harness es, and a carriage. The committee, of which Gen. E.

O. Kcnney, of Littleton was chairman, in their letter accompanying the gift, say: This present from those who have long known you, is designed as a token of personal regard, of the high estimation in which they hold your private character, as well as an evidence of their appreciation of your public career and services." If the Hindoos have, as they pretend, abandoned their secrecy, why do they still hold their conventions with closed doors whv do thev keen their tnaa-words. their oaths, their members secret We wli-re Democratic principles lead the way; when limy disappear, we coaie to follow." niOIVTI'ELlEH FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1855. Democratic Nominations. Election, September 4 FOH GOVERNOR, MERRITT CLARK, Of Poullncy.

FOR I.T. GOVERNOR, STODDARD B. COLBY, Of Montpelicr. FOR TREASURER, JOHN A. PAGE, Of Montpelier, The Convention last Wednesday was in all respects one of the best ever held in the state.

There was an enthusiasm and a harmony of feeling seldom equalled on similar occasions. The gentlemen selected for candidates are able and true men, worthy of the confidence and support of the freemen of Vermont; and a platform was furnished by the resolutious a-dopted upon which the entire democracy and all men National in sentiment may and ought to rally. Our paper is too full for further comments this week. TSo Worse than Neutral 1 The position of Gov, Royce on the Hindoo question has been somewhat obscure. His keepers have evidently intended to keep him shady.

The thing begins, however, to leak out. The Vergennes Citizen, the hand organ of Gen, Grandy, one of the grand hyeroglophics of the Hindoos, contained the following, last week If Messrs. Fletcher and Bates are K. NY, they are also Republicans, and we can sustain them as tuck. Is it hard to require that Gov.

Royce, who seems to be regarded at no worse than neutral upon the new question, shonld be indorsed upon the other side for the same reason This is probably the true light in which the Burlington ticket it viewed. Fletcher and Bates, both regular Hindoos, and Koyce worst Otan a neutral P' which, in fact, makes the thing Hindoo througlvout, for the people, in the war which they are carrying on against secret political societies, will regard those as against them who are not for tliem. Besides, they regard the creed and practices of Know-Nothingism as so anti-Republican that they will allow nobody to be neutral. It is lucky that Gov. Royce is now understood but the neutral game will be a hard one to play, this year.

As to Vermont, the K. Ns. at Burlington have backed out from all but the shadow of K. Nism so that en-en Walton Co." and every body else can subscribe to every word of their platform as far as it goes. Watchman, The K.

Ns. need have backed out" of nothing to secure the support of Walton Co." The editor of that paper, as we have always said, was bound to support Hindooism, when the proper time came. Gov. Paine once did for him, in 1848, what we knew somebody else would do for him in 1855. His owners allowed him to sputter away against the Hindoos till they got a little sick of it, and then he stopped A delicate little hand was laid on his throat one night a slight gurgle, and the victim breathed his lost as an Anti-Know Nothing.

The next morning he was a new man But the Watchman, in the article we quote, utters a bald, silly and foolish falsehood, intended to deceive the people and to make an excuse for its treason to the cause of Anti-Hindooism, The Northfield Star, the organ of the Know Nothings in the State, in reply to the very paragraph we have quoted from the Watchman, that The K. Ns. at Burlington have backed out of all but the shadow of K. Nism," says: The Watchman is egregionsly mis- taken then, the A. have backed OUT OF NOTHING ESSENTIAL, nothing except the shadow." Is this not sufficiently plain? And does not every individual in the community know that what the Star says is true, and what the Watchman says is false The Watchman is traitor to all the principles it has professed last year, a miserable it will gain nothing by attempting to palliate or conceal its treason with prevarication and falsehood.

A Measure with a False Bottom. The Hindoos learn fast they begin to cheat in weights and measure. At Burlington they pretend to have abolished the secret part of their proceedings. This has been pretended to be done to give such concerns as the Watchman an excuse for turning traitor, and remove the strong feeling known to exist in the State against secret societies. But the removal of the secrecy is all a pretence.

Every convention that has been held since has been held with closed doors, and, with perhaps a single iinim-important exception, the thing is as much a secret as ever. Its oaths, its passwords, its midnight cabals, its dark-lantern orgies are all the same. KS The Burlington Free Press and the Windsor Journal do not appear to like it because the call for a democratic State Convention spoke of the faction these papers support as being without a name. Pray, gentlemen, what name do you give to your State ticket? KS All the Know Nothing (usionists go for the restoration of the Missouri Compromise the Green Mountain Freeman, goes dead against it! How do these work together how is it done party to give him an office, Was dead and buried and that there was no longer any Freesoil party, which he could use as a make-weight. Ho saw too that the party upon whom he had forced himself, and who hated him, for his political chicanery in ob taining his office, and were ashamed of him for his incompetency to discharge its duties, began, even last fall to talk of getting rid of him at the some thing must be done.

The race was for dear life, and Ryland struck a 2.40 gait, from the start.IIe was up and dressed. He was a trifle too much for the crowd and when the State Convention met, he just exhibited to his enemies a know nothing vote of some 10,000 which he very quietly asked them to put in their pipes and smoke at their leisure I The grinding of teeth and gnawing of nails was distressing to behold. But it was no use Ryland had the thing in his own hands, and they gave in, and we now behold, as the consequence, such old, and proud whig papers as tho Burlington Free Press, and Windsor Journal, supporting a ticket a poor, club-footed, illegitimate monster, the disgusting result of the union of Sam" with Sambo," unwashed and unchristened, and which nobody approaches without nausea, and nobody touches without gloves. Poor, fallen, degraded whiggery It is well that Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster are dead that Samuel S. Phelps, Charles Paine and William Upliam arc no more, and that they have been spared the sight of their old, gallant and powerful party, its banner in the dust, its name repudiated and its principles abandoned, grovelling at the feet of such graceless and unprincipled fanatics as Henry Willson, and Ryland Fletcher singing ho- sannas to such border ruffians" as your Stringfellows, and glorifying jail birds, and outlaws in the persons of your Bill Pooles and your Ned Buntlines.

More Deception. The Hindoos, in accordance with a late proclamation of the President of the National council, have been authorized to "so construct their re spective constitutions as shall best promote the interests of their cause in their several jurisdictions." Hence, in Louisana, the Catholic being the most popular and powerful, the Hindoos have nominated for Governor a Roman Catholic and a for eigner and they there appeal to the pas sions of Catholics against the Methodists and other Protestant denominations. In the south they denounce the Democracy and the President as no better than frce- soilcrs, while in the north, creatures of the same order, bound by the same wicked oaths, denounce all who do npt belong to their assassin-clubs, as tools of the Pope and of slavery Is it possible that any man can be deceived by tins infamous fraud Bosh Several of the Mule papers in the State, the Rutland Herald, for instance, whose editor is a member of the dark-lantern Order, pretend, now, that they are not, or, at that they have been but have withdrawn. It is all bosh These people are now members of the oath-bound frater- rnity pledged to all its darkness, to all its intolerance and proscription, and the pretence to the contrary is only because they discover that their anti-republican doctrines are unpopular with honest men. Trust them not to the wickedness of belonging to a secret and oath bound cabal, intended to proscribe freemen in secret, they add the un manliness of a 'miserable hypocrisy.

Trust them not I Commencement Soiree. The Senior and Junior classes of tbe University of Ver mont announce to the public that there will be a Soiree at the Exchange Hotel, Com mencement (Wednesday) evening, Aug. 1. They have secured the services of Dsd-worth's celebrated Cotillon and Cornet Band, and no pains will be spared, on the part of the Committee and Mr. Blodgett, of the Exchange, to make it an elegant and agreeable Soiree.

Delegates at Large. Hon. Lucius B. Peck and David A. Smalley, were delegate at large to the last National Democratic Convention, and the last named gentleman, it will be seen by the proceedings, was elected, on Wednesday, to the next Convention, Mr.

Pe declined to serve a-gain in that capacity. B3The Watchman and Freeman contain a call for a convention to ratify the Hindoo trominatkms in Washington county. be mobbed; and your friend, if he makes a demonstration in that direction, may rest assured that his minutes are numbered, for I will put a ball through his head, though I know I shall be cut into inch pieces ten minutes nfterwards. I shall pursue my le gitimate business uninterrupted, else the invader of my rights shall pay the forfeit." Tlie Herald, alluding to the session of the legislature, about a week after its organiza tion, says "Thus far everything has passed off smoothly and quietly, without any disturbance or difficulty. Those gentlemen who anticipated a row have been disappointed.

They nave found the pro-slavery party to be composed of men actuated and governed ny principle ana justice. A despatch dated Washington, July 22, says: It is now fully believed here that Gov. Reeder, of Kansas, will not be removed. It is said that the Governor is now demanding the removal of Commissioner Many-penny." The latest from the Territory indicates that new difficulties have arisen there. An order was passed by the legislature removing that body to Shawnee Mission.

The Governor vetoed the measure, but the legislature passed it over his head, and removed. A private letter to a gentleman in Chicago, from Kansas, states that Gov. Reeder informed the legislature that he did not recognise them as the Kansas legislature, and would not meet them at the Shawnee Mission. Let them show their Hands. As it becomes evident that Hindooism is to be badly beaten in Washington County, two or three representatives, looking for a re election, who have joined the midnight cabals, begin to declare that they are not members of the order I In all such cases, the thing may be brought to a test, easily.

If one of these candidates is falsely accused and disapproves of Hindooism, let him come out in the public prints and say so. Getting a man into a horse-shed or up in a garret, and telling him you do not belong to the Hindoos, is no Way to do business. Come out openly over your own names in the papers, gentlemen, if you are in earnest, and if what you say is true. Dodging wont work I The people of Washington county will not be tampered with in this matter. It's no use trying it I It fa Hindooism or Anti-Hindooism, and the music must be faced.

ftThe SUvocrauc Sham Democrats (see Patriot) are very polite just now to the old line Whigs. "Walk in, pretty miss," as the spider said to the fly. The fly got sacked in as no true Whig ever wilL Watchman. The Hindoo Sham Republicans (see Watchman) are very polite to the old line Democrats. "Walk in, pretty miss," as the spider said to the fly.

The fly got sucked in as no true Democrat ever will. ter Taylor's bad rum..