State Journal

CHAUNCEY L. KNAPP. EDITOR.

MONTPELIER, JULY 12, 1836.

ANTIMASONIC NOMINATIONS

FOR PRESIDENT,

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

Of Ohio;

Appointed by Mr. JEFFERSON, Governor of the
Territory of Indiana, in 1801;

By Mr. MADISON, Commander-in-Chief of the
North Western Army in 1812;

By his Fellow citizens in Ohio, a Member
of Congress in 1816;

By the Legislature of Ohio, a Senator of
the United States in 1823;--and

By JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to the Republic of Colombia in 1828

Or Nominated by Conventions of the People in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Delaware and Vermont, Connecti-
cut, and by the Legislature of Kentucky

Sentiments of Gen. Harrison.

"I cannot but consider the existence of Mia-
conry as an evil, both moral and political."

"In the exercise of the elective franchise the
people possess the means of correcting all the evils
which may arise in our government, and that it
ought to be used for this purpose "-Letter to the
Pennsylvania Antimasonic State Committee

"It [the exercise of the removing and appointing
power to suppress freemasonry] could not fail to
be the parent of mischief infinitely greater than
those it is the design to cure. ** * * Correct dis-
orderly that may arise of that character by the
power of the people themselves, or by the authority
of the state governments and let the appointments
by the President be made upon the general rules
of Jefferson-honesty, capacity and fidelity to the
Constitution; and a further requirement which I
know he always made-that of their being accountable to the people for whom they were immediately to act."-Letter to Thaddeus Stevens, Esq.

It is the most difficult thing in the world for
me to believe that a people in the possession of
their rights as freemen, would ever be willing to
surrender them and submit themselves to the will
of a master."

I contend that the strongest of all governments
is that which is most free."

Man does not learn under oppression those
which qualities and feelings which fit him for the
enjoyment of liberty.

"To be esteemed eminently great, it is necessary to be eminently good "--Letter to Bolivar

Neither Masonry, nor Van Burenism, nor both
can succeed with the Green Mountain Boys. Po-
litical Juggling will run a short race among the
descendants of Ethan Allen

E.D. Barber

Our opposition to freemasonry and Executive
usurpation springs from the same principles. We
cannot, as consistent Antimasons do any less than
resist what we deem unwarranted assumptions of
power on the part of the President. * *

We act

in our opposition to the measures of the Executive
strictly as Antimasons. We are only applying
doctrines our party have ever advocated, to a new
case and carrying them out into practice in relation
to a new evil

E. D. Barber.

I content myself, on this occasion, with saying
that I consider myself the honored instrument, se-
lected by the friends of the present Administration,
to carry out its principles and policy : and that as
well from inclination as from duty. I shall, if honored with the choice of the American people, en-
deavor to tread generally in the footsteps of Presi-
dent Jackson-happy if I shall be able to perfect
he work which he has so gloriously begun.-M

Martin Van Buren's Letter to the Balt. Con

FOR VICE PRESIDENT,

FRANCIS GRANGER

Of New York.

ANTIMASONIC ELECTORAL TICKET

JABEZ PROCTOR,

At large,

ASA ALDIS,

Dist. No. 1. DAVID CRAWFORD,

ZIMRI HOWE.

TITUS HUTCHINSON.

WM. A. GRISWOLD,

5,

EDWARD LAMB.

ANTIMASONIC STATE TICKET

FOR GOVERNOR,

SILAS H. JENISON

FOR LT. GOVERNOR,

DAVID M. CAMP.

FOR TREASURER.

AUGUSTINE CLARKE.

SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS

WASHINGTON COUNTY,

MILTON BROWN and

JONATHAN P. MILLER.

CALEDONIA COUNTY.

SILAS HOUGHTON, and

WALTER HARVEY

ADDISON COUNTY.

HARVEY BELL.

EBEN'R. N. BRIGGS, and

JESSE GRANDY.

ESSEX COUNTY,

RICHARDSON

GRAVES.

ORLEANS COUNTY.

AUGUSTUS YOUNG.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY

JOHN N. POMEROY, and

HARRY MILLER.

CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS

FIFTH DISTRICT,

Hon. Henry F. Janes.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Hon. William Slade.

NOTICE.

With a view to a more extended dissem-
ination of correct political intelligence
at this important crisis, we propose to send
the Journal to those ordering it, from the
2nd of August to the close of the next session of the Legislature, for fifty cents,
payable in advance. Communications
to be post paid.

By inadvertence, the name of George
Nye was published as a committee for the
county of Orleans. It should have been
Thomas Jameson, of Irasburgh.
Orleans Senator. We have received
several letters from leading Antimasons in
the county of Orleans, who were present
at the meeting at which Mr Young was
nominated for the office of Senator. Our
friends assure us that due precaution was
taken, previously to the nomination, to
ascertain definitely Mr Young's views on
masonry : that a committee of tried anti-
masons had an interview with him on
this subject, and were entirely satisfied
from his own assurances, that he had long
since, discontinued his connection with the
masonic institution; that he moreover ex-
pressed the hope "that it might never again
enter the State in which he resided."

This information comes from men person-
ally known to us, and whose characters for
uprightness are unquestioned. With the
nomination as now explained, we doubt
not all our friends will be satisfied. Mr
Young possesses high qualification as a
practical legislator, and if elected to the
Senate Board, as we trust he will be, he
would discharge the responsibilities of the
office to the satisfaction of all concerned.

MR VAN BUREN AND THE CATH-
OLICS.

A correspondence has been got up be-
tween Mr Casey a member of Congress
from Illinois and Mr Vanderpoel of New
York, relative to Mr Van Buren's religion.
It assumes that Mr Van Buren has been
charged with being a Roman Catholic, and
proceeds very gravely to deny the charge.
Mr Van Buren's friends are trying to make
up a false issue in the case -that is, wheth-
er he is a Roman Catholic-and then dis-
proving what nobody has ever asserted.-
The truth is, if he were really a Roman
Catholic, he would stand much fairer in
regard to this matter than he now does;
because, then, his flattery of the Pope might
have been regarded as sincere. But as it
is, the very disproof of his Romanism only
involves him deeper in the guilt which it
has been attempted to fasten on him-that
of hypocritically flattering "His Holiness"
from no motive of religious zeal, but for
the base purpose of enlisting religious big-
otry in his support.

The following are the names of all
the Senators who voted for and against the
Bill to Destroy the Liberty of the Press :

Yeas-Messrs Black, Brown, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Cuthbert, Goldsborough, Grundy,
King of Alabama, Ewing of Georgia, Moore,
Nicholas, Preston, Rives, Robinson, Tall-
madge, Walker, White and Wright-18.

Nays-Messrs Benton, Clay, Davis, Ew-
ing of Illinois, Ewing of Ohio, Hendricks,
Hubbard, Kent, Morris, Niles, Prentiss,
Ruggles, Shepley, Southard, Swift, Tomlin-
son, Wall, and Webster--18.

Martin Van Buren gave his casting
vote in the AFFIRMATIVE. Remember that.

MR BARBER AND MR HALLETT

As these two gentlemen have taken a
leading part in attempting to transfer the
Antimasons of New England over to Van
Buren, it may not be amiss to recur to their
former opinions, by way of showing off
their consistency

In 1832, as Editor of the Middlebury
Free Press, Mr Barber used this language:

"If there ever was a party which eschews
the Van Buren system of politics, it is the
Antimasonic party. ITS WHOLE INFLUENCE
AND EFFORTS, ARE CAST INTO THE SCALE,
to destroy that system; and for one, we are
FRANK To SAY that when it (antimasonry)
SHALL HAVE DEGENERATED INTO the
CORRUPTIONS OF VAN BURENISM
we will not only DESERT it BUT OPPOSE it
AS UNCOMPROMISINGLY AS WE NOW OPPOSE
FREEMASONRY."

In the same year, Mr Hallett, Editor of
the Boston Advocate, noticed Martin Van
Buren's return from England as follows:

"Hon Martin Van Buren has arrived at
New York from Europe. He comes at an
inopportune time for the princely recep-
tion which his liege subjects of New York
had prepared for him. The Cholera will
be an overmatch even for the Magician.—
It seems to have come just in time to save
the citizens of New York from the degra-
dation of having the freedom of their city
laid at the feet of the HIGH PRIEST
OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE."

Correction. In our report of the
proceedings of the Van Buren State Con-
vention, an error was committed in at-
tributing certain remarks to Mr Beardsley
of St. Albans. Mr Beardsley of Franklin
was the gentleman intended. We request
those Editors who may have copied our
report, promptly to notice this correction.
We shall take no notice of the uncivil
attack upon us in the last Franklin Journal,
further than to remark that the writer
whoever he may be, is a bungling liar, to
all intents and purposes.

The Montpelier Antislavery Society
held its first annual meeting at the Brick
Church on the 4th of July. An address
was delivered by C. L. Knapp. Thirty-
three new members were enrolled at the
close.

Boston July 2. Wool. The new clip
does not yet come to market-most of it
remains in the hands of the growers. Prices
as last week.

The Washington Globe announces the
appointment of Gov. Parris, of Maine, as
second Comptroller of the Treasury. It
has been stated in some of the papers, that
Gov. Wolf, of Pennsylvania, is nominated
to the office of first Comptroller.