Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-06-02

| Monroe was about coming to close.
long period of public prosperity and repose,
under his peaceful and harmonious auspices.
had lulled tho activity Of republican vigi-
lance; and good men saw with concern that
mania was stealing over the public mind,
much like that which once seized the I'M
happy Athenians, and led them TO Danish
their best and wisest men and benefactors,
only because they were tired Of hearing
them called 'the just"
AS far as learning and integrity, and eff
cient public service could form recommen-
dation, all men who regarded such quaifi-
cations, turned their attention to j. q. Adams
as the every way qualified successor 10 Mr..
Monroe. The Van Buren, conspiracy had
not yet obtained sufficient consistency and
"irrepressible energy" to defeat the sound
national preference in his favor. But lis
audacious character, little short OF Internal,
Immediately manifested ITSELF and found
open, shameless utterance through one OF its
cherished organs, Johnson OF Kentucky
fmacnnue- Inv or is,tter the hendish threat,
pit .lop RECOMMENDATION "-meaning that Of
| Mr.. Adams-"shall be put down, though
pure rs the angels in heaven, and that too
before ii had scarcely commenced, and be-
fore its measures for good or evil had been
tried-must have been long an habtual
abuser Of himself, and thus have supersded
to the noxious qualities OF heart originally
superhumanly depraved, ten.iold burden
of actual guilt Knowing this, and know
ing the moral condition OF the man, the inia-
nous threat was received by the sober por-
ton Of the people with contempt. Others,
less fastidious, treated it as a profane joke,
in moral keeping with the proaigatc ANAL
gamator of colors. and gross propagation of
mulattoes, and as such worthy only OF a
passing laugh. But events shortly Showed
that the indecent wretch was much in earn
est. That a conspiracy for mischief had
been already organised, more unprincipled
in its character, and more extensive IN its
field of operation, than had ever before ex-
listed among men. The odious canting n.y.
pocrites, in league with Cromwell-those,
| If possible, still more infamous hypocrites Of
another sort, who shouted their detestablo
ca-iras, and cheered ZEN aranG en- e1aai!)
onward onward those furious popular
blood hounds Marat, Robespierrc and Dan
ton, in their career OF blood. sacriege and
terror, were harmless,-were novices in de-
ception, crime and folly compared with
those vulgar imposters among us, who have
made shit, first to humbug, then rule. and
then ruin, great and generous people.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great,
In being cheated as to cheat,
was said by sage and philosopher who
had watched with deep interest a vulgar
usurpa,ion which had sustained itself by the
grossest fraud and lying, long after it had
become perfect stencil in the nosirils, even
Of those who had been the first to promote
lit;-long after such lies and deception had
been exposed beyond all doubt or cavil so
that no one could be at all imposed upon OF
cheated by them that did not choose to be-
One would think that the human mind was
hardly capable Of an absurdty and weak
ness SO stupidity obstinate and grovelling as
this. But alas melancholy experience
shews us that il is Shews TO us, at this
moment masses Of men who know perfectly
well the corrupt nature oil the despotism they
sustain; who know perfectly we'll the vulgar
lies and receptions Of all sorts that have sus-
tanned it; who have stood 10 them, and
proudly too, because they were lies. in the
firm belief that although not at all deceived
themselves, yet that they were deceiving
others. and thereby acquired influence and
consequence in the party. And thus they
move on. perpetually, deceiver and deceived.
in one incessant stream OF shame and degra-
dation. One by one, like those imposed
upon by the shameless Snowman and his
tricks, who, because they know no way to
Indemnify themselves for the rage and shame
they feel at being duped. eagerly lend them
selves 10 the juglers employ, and thus aid
him 10 seduce, and bring others to the same
humilialing condition as themselves. And
II, at any time, any among them, disdaining
the vassal bondage under which they have
groaned, have manifested an integrity too
pure and an independence too proud, to be-
come any longer particepts in scene so de-
grading, and in a servitude so worthless,
their remorseless masters and drivers have
told them, that so long as they were called
by their name, clad in their iivery, and fed |
from their crumbs, it was not for them to ask
questions or be particular. That they were
.. for IL, and must do or die.
Alas for the short-sighled folly and |
madness of men Woe TO those who strike
the revolutionary ball. from motives of am
blllon and personal ACCOMPLISHMENT. and set
it rolling None can tell what direction it |
may take, or who shall be crushed under its |
wild gyrations All tell me now, Messrs.
Calhoun, and Hayne. and Nc Dufie, and
Tazewell, and Tyler, and Leigh and Berri- |
en-, with many others like you. confessedly
of the first grade Of intellect, where are you
To what an unhappy, ridiculous condition
have you arrived al last2 You heard the
wild, the frantic, the execrable "Hurra for
..rly A Il