The Caledonian

THE AIMS OF CERTAIN THIRD PARTY LEADERS.

The movements of certain leaders of the 3d party in this State deserve some attention—they are such, as we think, as are intended for evil and to cast an odium on the cause of abolition. Some time last spring, a State Convention was called to nominate, if thought expedient, a State ticket.

The Convention met, and when the question of nomination came up, certain men whose connection with the cause never inspired the belief that they were too honest in it, moved that the matter be postponed and another Convention be called—

The second Convention was called and Judge Williams was nominated for Governor and Eli. Barber for Lt. Governor. This first move of postponement looked suspicious, but the anxiety was soon after developed.

The Locofucos called their State Convention earlier than usual, and Nominated Barber for Lt. Gov. and Smilie, a pro slavery man, for Governor. The third party convention soon re assembled and took up the same candidate for Lt Governor that the Locofocos had on their ticket associated with the pro slavery Smilie.

Here comes out the secret and evident, the men who put on the nomination in the first Convention were rabid Locofucos, who are known to act in concert with the leaders of the loco foco party. They put it off for the purpose of taking up Barber and thus aiding the Loco party to elect him Lt. Governor. They also nominated Judge Williams—a reputed Tyler man—who has accepted of their nomination.

Here then we see the design—it is to help the Locofocos, to elect Barber, and defeat the whig ticket. Heman W. W. Miller was at the bottom of this game, and so base did it appear when it was discovered, that the honest members of the Convention left the room in disgust. They were abolitionists, they said, but they did not go there to aid a party that went on all occasions for gags and free trade, and for slavery too—and they would not agree to any such arrangement. Miller had so managed as to get Locofocos enough there to carry his point.

Now, how does it work? Why, a few weeks ago. the Montpelier Patriot was out—cautioning the abolitionists of their (Locofoco party) not to vote for Williams, "O, no, the Locos must not vote for Williams, but for Smilie, but you Whig abolitionists may vote for Williams and Barber, and elect Barber Lt. Gov. and defeat the Whig candidate and perhaps Smilie elect too." Draw off votes from the Whig party and they go indirectly to aid the Loco foco party. Here is the plot and the underplot, and it is simply a game to aid Locofocoism, and not abolitionism—to aid a party that votes in Congress for gag resolutions, that slanders honest abolitionists and mobs them too, and that is now in union with J. C. Calhoun and Van Buren, to bring the freemen of the North into the condition of the poor slaves of the South.

Surely, if the Whig State ticket was not right on the question of abolition we should repudiate it instantly. Ranney, our Candidate for Lt. Governor, was the author of one of the ablest papers that ever issued from our Senate Chamber, made by him, as chairman of the Committee on the subject of Slavery, when he was a member of the Senate, and he has ever been a consistent and ardent defender of the cause. Gov. Paine, previous to last year, had not been in public life, but was known to entertain the sentiments maintained by the great body of the abolitionists of the State, and in some of his public papers last year he referred to the subject in the right spirit, showing that his principles were correct on this subject.

The Whig party in Vermont has always taken strong grounds upon the subject of abolition—their State officers, their Legislatures and their members of Congress, have on every fitting occasion, raised their voices for Equal Rights. And where is the occasion for any abolitionist to vote for a third party, and thereby weaken the Whigs, and throw the State into the hands of a party that goes with New Hampshire for gags, and the whole slave system ?

At the last trial in Congress, the gag rule would have been repealed had there been in Congress 3 Whigs from the State of New York, whose election was defeated by the 3d party ticket, which secured the election of 3 Locos who voted with the South for the gag rule. Let us look at those things, and see where such fellows as H. W. W. Miller would lead us—into the support, indirectly, of the doctrines and measures and men that uphold the slave system.

We are glad to learn that many of those who were deceived by this trick last year have got their eyes open, and will have nothing more to do with it.