Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-01-19
NO.. 20.

custom house duties and lis post Office rev.
enues are required 10 be paid in specie. Not
q letter can be produced from the Post or
nee without paying the specie. Our Post
Master in Nashua has been obliged 10 nav
over eight hsHdred dollars within a few
weeks ln specie, 10 the orders of the Gov
ernmenl thus depriviug us of our small
change, the loss of which is so severely felt
among US. We do not see why the Gov
eminent should not share the hard times
with the people, why they should not take
the bills Of those Banks Which are kno,ru
10 be good, and which the people are glad to
get. n
With the specie thus collected, all the of.
6ce holders are paid their salaries. The
members oftbe last Congress, who received.
each his EIGHT DOLLARS a day, besides
EIGHT DOLLARS for every twenty miles tray-
ell-were all paid az goLdi This specie
they can sell TO the Brokers at an enormous
premium and thereby increase their salaries.
already too great, even vastly more than the
people ever intended This state of things
IS such as may well suppose would suit
Government OFFICE HOLDERS who are re-
ceivlng such princely salaries-but it is
hard indeed for the laboring classes, who
though willing 10 work, can find nothing 10
dol
But how do Government pay the p~eopleq
When my thing has been due TO the mer-
tehaphss tbeyo haze been Obliged to receive
same merchants have rendered these same
checks TO the Government officers in pay-
ment Of Bonds and Custom House duties,
the checks have been rejected and specie
demand and Actually PAIDl The Govern
or of this State receives the money belong
ing TO our old Revolutionary Pensioners in
specie or its equivalent, which he can sell to
the brokers at an advance. And YET he pays
them of in the bills OF the broken Pet Bank
of which he is President tor in other
words, TO use a party pharse-he pays them
a second time in old continental money!
We would notice also. the alarming in
creases OF public expenses. Because Ad-
ans spent thirteen millions annually, the
cry of "retrenchment, extravaganza and re-
FORM was rung through the land. But the
expenses Of Van Buren's first year exceed
ed MirtyGee millions! Our State Tax
eight years since was only about Mirfy
thousand dollars: this year it is almost sia-
iy thousand dollars!
Our State Prison nsed g"ce 10 pay about
TWO thOuSuuu uOildis q Ntdi u tue Otute |"
vet for the last eight years, instead of be-
ing the source Of income, it has cost The
State about sixty thousand dollarsl That
there has been very great mismanagement
in this institution seems 10 be given up by
all parties;-and it is equally true that this
Acknowledgement has been kept secret from
the people. 1t is time we should know the
whole truth.
One thing is certain there is something
wrong in the present state of the times
and this wrong MUST somehow be corrected.
The Rulers of a party which has long been
in power are apt TO grow corrupt and
when any members of the party, which has
elevated them 10 office, become satisfied that
the measures advocated and supported bv
those rulers are erroneous, it is NO DIS
GRACE to desert them on the contrary, il is
one Of the highest privileges secured to us
by our Constitution, that we NAV,
THEM AT II PoLLsl 1t is the duty of
every good citizen TO consider himself. not
the lover of a party, but the lover of his
eOaatrg!-to inquire, not what will benefit
his party, but what will promote the inter
ests of the Prophetic covert the satisfaction
Of acting conscientiously and uprightly,
rather than to fear any abuse which may be
offered him, by those whose measures he
refuses longer TO supporti-in short, to RISE
ABOVE SLAVERY TO ANY PARTY.
1t has been said that if we want a change
of MEASURES, we must have a change Of
MEN. We therefore. the undersigned, for
the reasons above stated, and for other reas-
ons of a minor importance, shall 90 for
sucHA cHANGE;-and in making this state
ment of our views, it is not our design to a.
buse any one. While we have a right to
our W opinions. so others possess the same
right in common with US. We have en-
d~eavored to give our views candidly-if
they are correct, we hope they may con-
vince others-if wrong, we are willing TO
be corrected. For the truth of the forego-
ing facts we rely upon what we believe 10
be AUTHENTIC INFORMATION. We do not
depend upon party newspapers; for one par
ty pronounce them TO be uneqnivocally
FALSE, the other unequivocally TRUE. w
believe they can fully be proved TO be tue.
If the leading men of the Democratic Par
ty have by their measures, brought distress
upon the people, it is time that all true de.
mocrats should desert them. II, however,
others think our rulers are correct in their
measures, far be il from us TO pronounce
them knareS for this honest difference of
opinion We only ask that there shall be
perfect liberty for every man to think and
act OPENLY according TO the dictates of his
own Judgment, and conscience, without be-
ing denounced as a TRAIroR, or a TURN
coATl