Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-08-10
For The Burlington Free Press.

Mr.. EDITOR notwithstanding the bu.
siness of farmers is necessarily urgent at
this season of the year. especially in hay
weather, still am for one by no means in
attentive or Indifferent to the affairs Of
state. Being by habit a constan reader of
such papers as circulate in my vicinity,
become of course acquainted in q good
measure with the clashing views, the ad.
verse interests of those contendng political
parties whose wordy warfare is constantly
agitatng the intellectual atmosphere ofour
country, and an observer of the various arts.
fair and foul to which party zeal is ever
ready 10 resort to he p its own cause and
strive to put down that Of its opponents.
And while scan the columns of some of
the prints which occasionally come within
my notice, and more particularly of that
little sprg of self styled democracy which
issues both weekly and semi weekly from
your neighbours press, must confess hat
| am sometimes ready 10 think that the
manufacturers of that mixed metal called
brass, throughout our country, mus: have
been heavily taxed indeed to furnish so
much as appears to constitute the faces Of
the editors, since there is no face not made
of this material, but would blush crimson
at the consciousness the utter falsehood
of many of their oft, yea constantly repeated
statements. am led to make this remark
Mr. Editor, from the pertinacious impudence
with which the administ ration papers, are
continually ringing in our ears, and insulting
our understandings by repeating the self
reiutlng charges, that the Wing party are
the old federal party ofthe days OF Jefferson
in disguise, and vice uersa, Of their own
party, i c. democrats in Jefferson time, and
also their charging upon the Wings the
fault and mischief, of all the bank niquty
of which they are now piteously complain
ing. Sir when see and hear such slang
repeated over and over, day after day, and
week after week, as if there were not hum
dreds and thousands in community who
know better, and as if these falsehoods have
not been again and again exposed and re:u
ted, can well nigh believe in the doctrine
advanced by some dvlnes ,oftota depravity
at least in regard to some men. 1t would
seem that these tory editors, and dema.
gogues, who are stoutly asserting what they
all know themselves to be false, think the
people of the United States are such stupid
fools they can be made to believe that black
is white, and white blask, or that they have
lost all remembrance of the way in which
some public men in our country were dis
posed among the federal and democratic
parties in the days of Jefferson and Madi
son. In denominating the administration
and the wing parties, fedora and democrat
bank and anti-bank, the Van Buren, editors
make both false issue, and an unnecessary
one. The true issue, the only question il
now are the men in power, the administra
ton of Van Buren, g. Co. right in the poll
cy they are pursuing, or not' The subject
has no more reference to, nor connection
with the bone of contention between the
federalists and democrats some twenty six
or thirty years ago than it has with the af
fairs of China, or Turkey, and l would al
soon think Of using the names, old woman
or young giv, to determine whether such