Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-07-28
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To the Freemcn Of the State Of Vermont.
Fellow CITIZENS
The time approaches when you will be
called on again to exercise the high priv
icge Of selecting from among yourselves
your public servants. We have assemble
to consult together on This subject, to de
termine upon the course which we ought
20 take, and to express 10 you, as it is
now our purpose to do, the reasons which
shal guide us in this important crisis.
We came together under call to the
'supporters Of The supremacy Of the ia,os,
and ofa constitutional government honestly
adminis'ered.' Has the supremacy of law
been maintained? and has the government
been honestly and consi'utionally ad.
mlnistered? are questions which it is an ap
propriate occasion to examine. We have
examined them. The course of an eight
wears administration of the general gov
eminent has been brought under review
is principles subjected to The test of the
Constitution, and their tendencies looked
at in the lights of experience. They have
been weighed IN the balance and found
wanting. rs we think in the great and es
s"utlai rtiarnctcrlstlCs or genuluu repuucan
sm. We believe their tendency to be ia
tai to the purity and permanency of our
free institutions, and the more so, by rea.
son Of the speclous names and fair dlsgui
ses under which they have been commen-
ded to the confidence of the people.
| Up to the time when the present Dy-
nasty was invested with power. the gov
eminent had been mainly administered
in the simplicity and purity of open, straigh,
| forward republicansm. Our presidents
had carefully RETAINED from pressing
the Executive prerogatlves, and had scru.
pulousl y respected the rights of the 9TH
e. branches of the government. The Elk
ecullvc, Legislative and Judiciary de-
partments, moved in their appropriate
spheres, while the people yielded to each
the confidence which was due only to
honesty, capacity and fidelity to the con
Stltutlon.
Thus should we have continued, but fer
the INSCRIPTIONS and mad ambition which
| has been the bane Of all the Republics
which have gone before us. The declara
ton of The present SECOND OFFICER in the
government, four years before the present
dynasty came into power, that the then
administration must be put do,on, Mough
pure as thu .Angels at The right hand of the
throne Of God," was followed by an an OPP
position whose recklessness, disregard of
truth, and appeals to passion were in per-
feet keeping with that profligate decara.
ton. The opposition was successful and
an administration. which It's subverters are
now forced to admit a0as pure, was put
down.
The 4th Of March 1929, came, and Gen.
Jackson was President of he United States.
His first public act was TO endorse, in his
inaugural address, the leading SANDER OF
his predecessor, by saying-"The recent
demonstration of public sentiment in
"scrlbes on the list of Executive duties
"ln characters too lcglb|e to be overlooked
"the task of REFORM. which will require
'paHlcuarly, the correction otthose abuses
''that have brouhgt the patronage of the
government into conf CT with The freedom
'of elections, and the counteractlon oil
"tbosc causes which have disturbed the
"rightfu course of appointment. and have
placed or continued power IN apnfaith(ul
, 'or incompetent hands" With this ground
, less charge of an abuse of executive pow
er, there had been associated charge
equally groundless, of wastelul eXtrava'
: gance Ia the expenditures of the public
money aud this was also especially to be
embraced within the REFORM inscribed
on the list Of Executive duties"
The commencement Of Gen. Jackson,
administration was the commencement o
THE ERA OF HOLLOW PROFESSIONS AM
BROKEN PROMISES. Looked at in its be-
ginning, progress, and disastrous tcrmlna
Ton, it forms one of the most striking ex
G amples of POLITICAL DECEPTION which III,
= world has ever witnessed. Its profession
was reform. IL had come into power up
, on the strength Of the assumptlon-nov
U known and admitted by the whole wor
I TO have Decn ialsc-that the public none
G had been sqnandered, and the eSecutlv
power abused by The administration whic
preceded il. Gen. Jackson boasllngl
u pretended that the public sentiment calle
r for Reform. and that he was selected a
q tho great relormer. "By their fruits y
islall know them" lie administered til