The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-09-04
TORYISM.

doctrine, i '~-
It's 90 now. The President of the United State
- ,ho oves ofTories can do no wrong With then
al, his measures are right, They will not ALLOW
,houselves freedom ofspeech without first knowing
v,bo, the president has said. If the president ha
said there ought to be no United States Bank, tn
Tories say the same. IF the president says Their
ought to be sub treasury bank, and he at the hea
ofit to crush State banks, the Tories say so too
If the president says he is economical, when h
spends thirty three millions OF dollars per annum
support the government, the Tories say the same
and ready to swear that it is not so much as E
President Adams spent per amman, although it l
twenty millions more. IF the president says Slave
ry ought not to be abolished in tho District Of Col
umbia against the wishes ofthe slave-holding States
the Tories say TOO. Every usurpaiion of powe
and waste of public monies will be justified by To
ries. They follow in the footsteps of the Tories o
1776 Instead of being democrats, and wishing the
government TO be in the hands OF the people, the
Tories for surrenderpg every thing into the
hands of the President Their motto is paSsioe
obedience and non-yesistante." Who Tories in
Vermont? l answer it is the corrupt part of eder-
alists and Masons, who have congregaed under the
name of the Jackson Van Buren, party--the very
men who being of Two political pares formed a
Into their own hands, that they might tread upon
the necks of tho people. In struggle for indie
pendcnce 90 the first Tuesday of Sept. 1884, there
was hardly freeman who had held any important
Office in the State, and a democrat in the days
of Jefferson, that not a Wing that Tuesday.
and gave his against the tories. And these
Jefferson democrats, dyed in the WOOL are now in
the Wing party with very few exceptions; and are
looked II ~ In for Hinder thnir Uui1
safe But the tories call themselves democrats
70 know whether man is democrat ascertain
with whom he voted in 1884. If he voted with the
Wings lie is democrat, unless he has since chang led
his principles If he voted with the Unionists he
is tory, md no dcm0Crat.
Fellow Citizens: IF any of You voted with the
Wings in 1884, and have since voted with the u
nionists under mistaken notion that they the
democratic party, beg ofyou to to the Wings
where you belong. l ask YOU, what evidence is
there, that these UaionlSts denn0cras9 In 1884
they were hostile to every prime. pie of democracy
they did all they could to crush every faithful dem
ocrat in the State. If these were their principles
then, what evidence have you of change in them
since9 What have they done to gain your conf
dencc? Why, they have pracliced according TO the
tory principles of passi1e obedience, and resist
ance, and insist that they democrats But be-
seech you mistake toryiSm for democracy; for
there is wide difference between them. The
Unionsis tories in principle, and form the tory
party. do not say that every man who voted with
the Wings in 1884 is a tory, if he has since voted
with the tories unless he has altered his political
principles. And will not believe, he has altered
his Wing principles, but he has beon deceived into
the tory party by their constant cry of democracy
democracy! fedoiaiists federalists! see what dem
ocrats are!! Whata is democracy? 1t is that
government in which the sovereign power is lodged
in the body of the people What democrats?
They friends to this popular government, and
will support it, Such were the Wings in 1894, and
such they have been ever since; therefore they
democrats in the truest sense of the word I should
be pleased to have the tories define what they
by dcmccrafy and democrats. If they mean by
them nothing more Than to gull the freemen, let
them know it. Be ready with your Notes.-The hour
of trial is at hand. WING.
o. The Star of the 1st inst. intimates, by its cor
respondent, that a certain FIX member of Congress
with his brother, in this village write the editorials
of the Caledonan. So far own feelings are
concerned, we care a fig for this intimauon.-
But we fully understand its object 1t is to preju-
dice those who know no better than to beve it,
against and paper, account of the
opposition of these two individuals to Anti Mason
ry in other days. For sake, and in justice
to these men, we say, the assertion is without the
least foundation. Neither oftlese gentemen have
do they, write editorials tor the Caledonan,--
nor have they any thing to do with it. directly or
indirectly; and whatever appears in ou columns
editorial is from and belongs 10 the ostensble edi
tor alone; and further no other person has any CON
troll over connection with the paper. Will the
Star reract the assertion?
CALIFORNIAN.
In looking over some extracts from the journal
OF the secret session of the Legislature of Maine,
published in a late Maine paper, find the name of
our Tory candidate for Senator McMen, record
e6 among those who voted in favor of a resolution
for appointing commissioners to negotiate with the
General Government the terms upon which the