The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-08
POLITICAL.
FRoM~THE PEOPLES PREss-ExTRA, OF JULY TO-
THE STATE CONVENTION.


terests and insensible their INJURIES the Con-
vention on Wednesday last produces it. 1t COM
pletely exceeded expectations The number
who attended than SEVEN HUMID
RED of whom not less than SIX HUNDRED
were acting members of the Convention. 1t may
safely be said that larger Convention never
holden in Vermont. They came from all parts of
the State; and we truly say
more venerable and dignifed assembly of men, for
Sany purpose. They looked like formidable bar
Tier to the progress of tyranny, and were strong
witness that she cannot yet plant her foot upon the
green hills OF Vermont When seven hun
dred of her freemen, from various and distant
tons coming together, at most hurrying season of
the year, and at time when the best can
hardly get money enough to buy dinner, to con-
suit together for The public good, may well con-
clude that Vermont is awake-emphatically A
! WAKE.
Col KNAPP, of Montpelier, in letter to a gen.
tleman of this place, says of the Convention:
''The Convention yesterday exceeded anything
since the halcyon days of Ethan Allen! The num-
Der of members was plump 700 by count! Old
Orange county takes the palm for sending up the
largest phalanx of invincibles out of Washington
Windsor and other counties sent in host OF hale
and hardy yeomanry. The venerable revolutiona-
ry patriots, Theophilus Crawford, of Putney, and
Stephen Herrick, of Randolph, and others
on the ground representatives of 76. Depend
upon it, we come off in September with majority
that will astonish the most sanguine. Nine cheers
for the PEOPLES CONVENTION of the 10Th of
July!'
Mr. HurcH1NsoN, from the committee, reported
the following address to the freemen of Vermont,
which was read and accepted, and on motion of Mr.
MILLER, the address was adopted and ordered to be
published:
To Tie Freemen Of the State of Vermont
FELLOW CITIZENS The time approaches when
you will be called on again to exercise the high
privilege of selecting from among yourselves your
public servants We have assembled TO consult
together on this subject, to determine upon the
course which we ought to take, and to express to
you, as it is now our purpose to do, the reasons
which shall guide US in this important crisis.
We came together under a call to the ":upportcrS
Of the supremacy Of the laaos, and Of Constitu
tiOnGL government honestly administered" Has
the supremacy of law been maintained? and has the
government been honestly and constitutionally ad-
ministered? are questions which 1t is appropr-
ute occasion TO examine We have examined them
The course of an eight years administration of the
general government has been brought under review
its principles subjected TO the test of the Consl
tuition, and their tendencies looked at in the lights
OF experience They have been weighed in the
balance and found wanting, think in the
great and essential characteristics of genuine repub.
licanism We believe their tendency to be fatal to
the purity and permanency of our free institutions,
and the more so, by reason of the specous names
and fair DISCUSSES under which they have been COM
mended to the confidence of the people.
Up to the time when the present Dynasty was
invested with power, the government had been
mainly administered in the simplicity and purity of
open, straight forward repubcansm Our pres.
dents had carefully RETAINED from pressing the Elk
ecutive prerogatives, and had scrupulously respect
ed the rights of the other branches of the govern
ment. The Executive Legislative and Judiciary
departments, moved in their appropriate spheres
while the people yielded to each the confidence
which was due only to honesty, capacity and fdel-
ity to the constitution.
Thus should we have continued, but for the nm
scrupulous and mad ambition which has been the
bane of all the Republics which have gone before
us. The declaration of the present SECOND OFF,
GEE IN the government, four years before the pres
ent dynasty came into power, that the then admin
istraton 'snust be put doaon, though pure the an
gels at the right hand of the throne Of God," was
regard OF TRUTH and appeals to passion in per-
feet keeping with that proAgato declaration The |
opposition was successful and administration
which its subverters are now forced to admit qoas
The 4th or March 1929, came, and Gen Jackson
was President of the United States His first pub
Tic act was to endorse in his inaugural address, the
leading SANDER of his predecessor by sayng-"irbe
1recent demonstration of public sentiment inscrbes
on the list of Executive duties in characters too
"legible to be overlooked, the task of REFORM |
which will require particularly, the correction of
~ those abuses that have brought the patronage of
the governmentint conflict with the freedom of
:. elections, and the counteraction of those causes
l." which have disturbed the rightfhl course of APP |
Pointment and have placed continued power in |
"mnja,ufM or incompetent hands" With this
gronndless charge of an abuse of executive power
ere mad been associated charge, equally ground
ess, OF wasteful extravaganza in the expenditures
-. tne public money; and this was also especially |
20 oe e. embraced within the REFORM einscribed on
the list of Executive duties"
me commencement of Gen. Jaclsons admins.
Hatioh was the commencement of THE ERA OF uoI-
Low PROFESSIONS AND BROKEN PROMISES IonLad
ut IN It's beginning, progress, and disastrous termi
net.on !. forms one of the most striking examples
Oh POLITICAL DECEPTION which the world has ev-
er witnessed. Its profession was reform. II had
come into power upon the strength OF the assumn.
hon-now known and admitted by the whole world
to have been fase-that the public money had been
squandered, and the executive power abused bv the
administration that preceded it. Gen Jackson
boastingly pretended that the public sentiment call
ed for Reform, and that he selected as the great
reformer 'I3y their fruits ye shall know them