Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-09-15
For the Vermont Phenix.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

Mr. EDIroR,-This paper is labored
defence, artiully and cautiously drawn up, o.
the leading measures Of the administration
that is, It's attacks on the currency,-and
OF his own after-hoUghts in relation to it,
On The face of il, il bears marks of intense
andanxious e!ectiOneering effort; struggling
for some decent ground on which TO place
his apologies, like the poor butler putting
out his feelers now this way, now that, and
meeting with unwelcome and disastrous oh.
slacles every where. Pity the good Presi
dent had not dispensed with his feelers, and
opened his eyes before the 'revulsions," he
speaks Of were indeed present TO him.
He has labored hard to disguise and get rid
Of the solemn truth. Subleriuges are resor-
ted lothat village pettifogger would disdain
any thing, and every thing is offered as an
excuse for the losses and sufierines which
he now at length admits us intolerable," but
the true cause In one breath il is the great
fire in our commercial emporium" in the
next, it is the "unbounded liberalty Of for.
eign merchants; and again, his word for
Il, difficulties similar TO those suffered by
ourselves have been experienced in Great
Britain" But the true cause, to wit Mar
tin Van Buren, wanted to be President of the
u. s.. and had not of himself sufficient weight
of character TO carry him 10 that place, and
must therefore attach his name to some OBJ
ject-some measure. no matter how preg-
nnnt it, might be with ruin, or disastrous in
its results, to which the prejudices of party
might be enlisted, and its 'inhexibility" main
tanned. The Bank of the United States was
made this object Ii had in its very name
all the elements by which an atrocious and
reckless party might enlist prejudice, igno-
rance, stupidity and brigandism for its des-
tructIon. There was no merit or genius
shown in selecting the Bank for this object.
Ii had been tried before for the same pnr-
pose and with success. No matter how
widespread the ruin that followed the des-
truction of the first United States Bank
We We're not permitted to learn wisdom
from that first experiment Another tex
pertinent" must be tried, upon which the for
tunes of the party, and OF Van Buren, must
be staked. And when so staked, all the
temper, passion and corruption of party must
be stimulated TO perserering opposition to
the institution; and no pecunary pressure,
or any other combination of circumstances
must induce q surrender Of an opposition so
long and inReGibiy maintained" Thus Van
Buren,, the eui bono of this "oppostion"!-
And now when the same widespread, and
overwhelming, disastrous consequences have
followed the destruction of the late Bank
that did the former,--the same that all the
wise and good in the land predicted would
iollow,-the same that in the nature fittings
must follow, the true causes of these disas-
tiers are cunningly attempted to be wnked
out of sight in the Message, and we are fob
bed off with the ridiculous farrago of i'm
pertinent, frivolous, and imaginary causes
that appear in that document
How this demagogue treats the under
standings OF the people,-how he considers
them worthy OF all trust and confidence
when they twice elect him to high Offices"
land how he considers them their "own
worst enemies incompetent 10 manage their
oion affairs az their otcn asay when their
honest operations disturb him in The least,
may take some other occasion TO shew up.