Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1837-08-15

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The bank party" the r5cc Press editor seys
'krcp up torrent II in,ccfivc armu.t the 1881
aud present Administrations. and arc u.ur e,,r,
~ in srouse and Keep operation the old prtju.
dircs ~ 'ho people sgaius' ccro,n mcu io whom
'n,l'-N 1T the liveineu 81 THIS Stale have seen
opposed
"A torrent " nvcciivc 80 And what shall We
d. io escape ths eh1teel why wc most Tor.
-oo,h do Just nothing at al. With rll ;hc oLgsrs
aud usutpaions Of power of the national pdmiuis-
'rai,on--sll ,r Aoemn, attempts to unite the ,noa
~ to tie pai,ica poVct--aud the Gll height.
depth length sud breadth Of the mad experiment
cne"s es, "e peeSe oShSex iS; our '''' ~ st.
dealing IN ',nycc,i,c." Nothing will satisfy the
editor but silcnrc-nbsoute ,iicucc - Now We
say To htm once for a-icc HW not bc sicnt II
We were to hold our peace, The very stones IA the
streets would cry uui.
And who Is the editor who whnes about "in-
vccii,c" aud keeping alive "old ptewdces -
Why reader, will you believe it He is The very
usn who three years ago denounced the expert
mout aud the expcrimchters in a strain Of "inycc.
tive" which We should N vain attempt To- equal.
ln al address. IN 1884 To the ircrmen of Vermont
drawn up by NJ Barber as the appointed organ for
tina; purpose, of antiinasonc State Convention,
after making a full enumeration of the leading
measures Of ''the present Executive of the United
States" including the measures which formed The
beginning Of the experiment.. he declared them "io
be IN their tendency u not in their direct effect, IN
DfRoeATion o. THR AUTHORITY OF Tnr cnNsrlru-
Ti0N AND LAWS, sUByRRsfvR THEIR siiRIT ANp
PROVISIONS, AND DANGEROUS TO TnE ExIsTgNcR %
OUR LIBERTIES. For these several prominent acts
of The Executive, (hc added we consider there is
no defence. If ocgui,sccd in by the people We
shrink from The contemplation OF their DISASTROUS
KHsuLTs.
Well, The "disasfrous res,ifs' have come. The
country is nc;ually gr"anng under them and
now, behold this very same mnn calls fei'era'
ton of his own charges "a torrent OF 'nrccf're,'
and dcnounccs il Ms an arifl attempt to keep IN
operation old prcJudices" prejodices which he
himself las laborcd with all his might to produce
The extract at the head of this article closes by
saying Of the Wings, that they make charges and
sweeping denucalions against their opponents, as
the supporters of tyranny and nrstocrocv, but are
careful not to specify wherein the principles they
/ profess obcc,i"nable.'
/ Does the editor mean to say that the W mgs do
not specify wherein The Supported 10y their
opponents nre objectionable lfhe does, he snys
what is notorously untrue for nothing can be-
more dislinct and definite than their specifications
Of the measures which they deem objectionable ::
aud nothing more iull and urcdnlvuchble than 'hcir
assignments OF the reasons Of their censures-rca
sons which the editor OF the Free Press oonnJi an
siCcr and dare not attempt To answer.
The editor however. IS careful not to say any
thing but the measures which the Wings deem lob
j.ctiunab!e" but says they do not specify wherein
the principles they he supporters of the admins
/ trntlonl prcfrSs objectionable.
Principles proGYscd! There is wide differ
enre between professions aud PrHctIco--a differ
e1ce which none beucr understand lhau the editor
/ of he Free Press. Nothing is easier than To make
professions of general principles that are not oh
osliOnsule. Why, the editor of the Free Press
ctu manufacture "dcnocrdGc ereeds and pioVorms.
as fast patent mschpe can ,urn DOT shingles !;
and nothing can exceed the oA0clness will: which
he joiEfs them, according to the latest Van Bnten
pattern. Hell not permit an article % this sort Ia
90 from bis hands objectionable" Professions
are plenty und cheap bot where Ii the practice |!
( II Is fund ~ the support of an administration
which hss outraged all the principles Of genuine
democracy aud Sc, up and maintained the most
dangerous monopoly with which any country was
ever cursed aud Yet the editor IL democrat aud
an ami mOaopohsi. Oh, conssieucy-wl,.ie has
thou fled