Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-08-02

is 10 put the President at the head Of 'the
democracy" and make him its great cham
pion and leader in the war. And beheld
Forth from hundreds OF well-trained presses,
and thousands of well disciplined partisan
leaders in every quarter ofthe country there
go high sounding praises of the superemi-
nent democracy Of the President He is
the democratic President, and has been cleo
ted by the democracy. There is, moreover,
y claimed for.him the representative character
Under the Administrations that preceded
the advent of the great "retormer," the Chief
Magistrate was simply the President Of the
United States 1.-The constitutional Erecufire
Tha rss,f Ssenfd timer horsaiar svos understood
10 belong eminenty TO this body, drawn as
it is from the midst of the people elected by
them for short periods; invested with the
power of impeaching The President and all
other officers in their name, and directly and
exclusively responsible to them for the exer-
else of that and every other power. But to
carry out the scheme Of deception and usur
patton it became important to claim a new
and unheard Of relation between the Presi-
dent and the People. General Jackson,
therefore, set up the pretentons of being
1.-THE DIRECT representative ofthe American
People" Such was the c lain Of his memo.
rable protest sent TO the Senate in lS34--a
claim intended TO lay the foundation OF
practical exemption from all other response.
biity, save responsibility directly, without
the intervention Of either mpeac hment or in
vestiga,on by Congress, to public opinion
which might be created by Executive inhu-
ence through subservicnt subordinates and
subservient press.
To give party cast to this claim it has, al
length, assumed new form and the Pres
ident is now presented to us (see Democrat
ic Review for Sep,embr, 1887 as "the Ma
tional Representative Of The American Dem
ocracy" THE representative of The demo
cracyl Democracy personied liv.
ing, moving, thinking, speaking representa-
tive of pure, simple, unadulterated, uncom-
pounded democracy
Such is the claim. The President is not
slow in performing his part. He talks dem
ocracy. He acriieS democracy He looks de-
mocracy And it is The democracy To mon.
opolies he is rerg hostile. Against banks
he ulters anathemas. Associated wealth"
(see his las, annual Message) he cannot en-.
dure. The arstccracy are intolerable In
short, 10 erery thing that is opposed 10 de-
mocrncy, & especialyt TO The democracy" he
is most especially and very exceedingly OPP
posed
The President is thus installed as the
High Priest OF democracy; and il would be
about as safe for Roman Catholic TO ques-
ton the authority ofthe Pope as for one Of
'Ahe party" to question the democracy OF the
President. So complete is the deluson, that,
when the Wings attempt TO rouse the Peo
pie TO sense of the danger OF the Presi.
dents overgrown influence, through the
abuse oil Executive patronage, "he democra-
cy" are made to believe that influence is ex-
eIcised for their special benefit, because it is
all necessary to enablethc President who is
their representative, to fight their battles, and
put down the arstocracy
The danger OF Executive influence and
power (the greatest of all dangers in our sys-
tenn of government is thus yelled from The
eyes of thousands. They see the President
only as mighty champion of"the democra.
cy," leading on its hosts to glorious victory
while every man who will not sustain him
in The holy war is held up as an arstocra,,
and federalist with "blue lights" burning
all over and around him.
Thus sir, are the people taught to look, not
10 their Representatives, as the guardians
of their rights and the opponents of their
will, but to the President, (strangc absurd
tyO 10 the Presdent-armed as he is with
power, through hundreds of subservient
presses, and thousands of equally official de-
pendants, TO execute the purposes Of his sin
gle will, and accomplish the ends Of an am
btion which such power continually temp,s
to encroachment and corruption.
Thus il is that this tangled system
rears up colossal structure of Executive
power on the broad basis Of deceived and
misled democracy. Like the Pyramids Of
Egypt, whose lowering height and mighty
massiveness give insigni6cance 10 every ob-
Ject around them, so is the President. under
this miscalled democratic system, made to
tower above and overshadow, every other OBJ
ject within the political horizon And sir,
just in proportion as the mighty structure is
spread out, and carried up is the cry of "de-
moeraey' increased. There is not. man
who shoulders stone or carries hod Of
mortar TO aid in rearing the towering mass
who will not tell you that he is building up
the democracy; and no man must dare appro-
pirate TO himself the name Of democrat who
will not literally strip himselfto the work.
II is by such means, Mr. Chairman, that
this reforming" dynasty has been aboring,
for ten years, 10 hoodwink the People, and
make them submit TO be mounted and spur
red. and jaded by the democratic" Jehus
who have driven, with reckless daring, over
the PROSTATE Constitution and laws of the
country. And, sir, it is amazing to con.
template the success which has attended these
efforts at deception; to see the height TO
10 which the Presidential Office has lower