Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1836-12-20
For the Waterman and journal.
THE PARTY.


ant for nearly eight years, is about eithetto
lose or change its head and as there appers
TO be, especially at this time, some little en-
fusion in the mode Of designating 1t, void
there not be proprlety in now agreeing up,n
some name whereby to Ci.tinguish said. pai
~ both for the present aud a" future time 81
So far, in our country, this party Is unique IT
bears no resemblance 10 any that has hereto
tore existed. Ii is compounded Of parties Of
I'll other parties of the ultra advocates and
opposers OF every political principle, in rela-
ON 10 which two opinions have prevailed in
this country, and the pros and cons in relation
to every measure of national Importance which
has been of late years suggested Made up
originally OF the most Isoordant materials
he party never has had, and with eight years
OF party drilling, has not now, any thing like
political bond Of union. Just at this time
the fear OF having the rotation principle brought
TO bear upon the hundred thousand office hold
ers, is the strongest, and almost the only liga-
ment, that holds the party together. Origin
ally, aud until of late, the man Andrew jack
son was, and has been, the sole rallyng point,
and the sole bond of union Of the party in ques-
ton. If every portion o. this party has at diff
lerent times played the jill, some towards one
class OF our republican Institutions or prlncl.
pies, and some towards others, they have all
preserved their fidelity to Gen. Jackson
Touched with the loadstone of office, and i'm.
bued with the popular admiration of military
renown, they have with unerrng precision,
pointed their noses towards the magnetic pole
Of their party, during the whole period Of his
eccentric and zigzag flights through nearly
every sign of the political zodiac. What, then,
can be more appropriate permanent desgna-
ton, than tina: Of the Jackson party y There
i'm fpFm fho
Van Buren, party as many do, than there would
have been in calling the old democratic party,
the Jefferson party or the Madison party
1t matters not whether or no Mr.. Van Buren,
receives all the vote Of the Jackson party, he is
the candidate of that party only-not of new
and distinct party-and will receive the vote
ot no Other party He has avowed himself
political disciple OF Gen. ackson, who, by the
by, is remarkable for not having, and never
having had, any settled political creed wha'-
soeyer. 1t is hardly fair, neither is it strictly
correct, TO call ii the tory party firstly, be-
cause the term Is particularly offensive TO the
party, and secondly, because that party con-
Ialns considerable number Of theoretical de-
mocrats.
And although General Jackson and Mr..
Van Buren, are the greatest practical nullificrs
in the union, il would not be proper to term it
r,
theoretically opposed 10 the doctrine OF Multi
ication. Again, then, ask what name. can
be more descriptive and proper than the one
proposed IL has the further recommend of
being probably the least dspleaslng to the par
ty in question, OF any which lis opponents can
accord TO it. AS for the camorous pretcn.
sion of tho Jackson party to democracy, it is
loo amusing, laughable, ridiculous, absurd
and prcposterous, 10 require coniutation. lfa
frequent repetition of the term democracy,
makes democrat, why then a maybe, or
poll parrot may distance the most garrulous
Jackson editor in the race Of democracy If
this party insists upon being known and dis
tlnguishcd by some term significant of any
particular polilia faith, it must wander be-
yond the remotest confines Of rank federalism
10 seek it. The shaved heads of the celestial
empire can pretend TO democracy with as much
consistency as that portion of the people of
the people Of the United States, which has for
eight years made a total surrender 10 one NOR
tal and deporably falible old man, of all free
dom Of action and Of opinion. There is not
man of common understanding in the whole
Jackson party, but laughs in his sleeve, when
ever he himself applies, or hears others apply
the term democrat.
A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN,,