Burlington Free Press

A WARNING TO WHIG ABOLITIONISTS.

Let the Whig Abolitionists of this county read the following from the St. Albans Messenger, and govern themselves accordingly.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Among the names of those appointed to act on committee at the Van Buren District Convention at Burlington, on Tuesday last, we perceive the name of Austin Fuller!!-We knew that Mr. Fuller had signed a call for an abolition convention at Sheldon, and that he presided at that convention as Chairman and pretended to be a third party man.-But now, his liberty partyism is merged, it seems, in Loco Focoism-the very worst species of Slavery which can bind a freeman of Vermont;-since that Loco Focoism denies the sacred right of petition and idolizes the 'northern man' who has sold his birthright, and embraced 'southern principles'!!-We respectfully ask the voters in this County to remember this fact, and to enquire anxiously 'What does this mean?'

Party tactics are described in the following quotation from a pamphlet written by Oliver H. Smith, late U. S. Senator from Indiana:

"Names are all powerful in political contests.-Well do the leading modern Democrats know the force and truth of this remark, and hence they not only hold on to the respectable name of Democrat, but with one voice they stamp their opponents with the name of Federalists, and their measures as Federal measures. They abandon and adopt measures themselves at pleasure-at one time for a national bank, at another against: at one time for the pet Bank system, at another against it; at one time for the issues of State and local banks; at another against all bank paper; at one time for Treasury notes, at another for specie; at one time for distribution, at another against it; and still they are Democrats, and each measure, while they support it, is Democratic. But the moment they abandon it for some new expedient, it becomes a vile Federal measure, and all who support it are Federalists."