Green Mountain Freeman

Harmony among the Democracy.

The Democratic papers have taken some pains to meddle with Republican matters for the past six months, and the result is they have enough of their own to attend to now. Here is the best idea of it we have seen. It is from the Patriot:

"To the democracy of the State more actively engaged in politics, it is well enough known, that since the advent of the present Administration, some two or three, professed democrats in Montpelier, have been actively engaged at home, and abroad, to supersede the editor of the Patriot, in the Postoffice at Montpelier: The virulence malignity, and utter want of common decency with which this war has been waged is, also, well enough known. But, let that pass. The reasons urged for the supersedure, were, rotation in office, and that the editor of the Patriot, and his friends, were strong personal friends of Gen. Pierce and Judge Douglas, and a very small minority of the party in the State, while those who sought a change, were "original Buchanan men," and a very large majority of the party in the State. They urged upon the President that they had been overridden, kept down and abused by "Eastman and his set'--and that something must be done for their great and numerous branch of the party in the State! To touch as lightly as possible upon the matter where we are personally interested, we go on to state that by such assertions and a strong outside pressure, they succeeded in inducing the President to take the Postoffice at Montpelier into his own hands and make a new appointment, against the wishes of four-fifths of the democracy of the town."

Now we really think that so small a party should not be dividing up, for we are of opinion that the result of all this will be to again send the Editor of the Patriot into the Radical Abolition ranks, as in 1849, and we should certainly very much dislike to have so capable and formidable a rival for abolition honors, as he has and can be.

While two or three Buchanan journals are trying to extract comfort from Senator Douglas recent Chicago speech, the Washington Union only sees in it new evidence of his purposes to continue his war upon the Administration.—Burlington Times.

What does the Times "see in it?" Anything of that "respectable party which so long maintained an honorable and honored ascendency in Vermont?" anything of that "platform " which so strongly unites those two brother Catholics—the Editor of the Times and the Senator from Illinois?