Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-08-16
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FRIDAY ORNING, AUGUST
SMILE AND BANK REFORM,

last four or five weeks, shouting at the top of
their voices, SMILE AND BANK REFORM -
This is the charmed phrase with which these
pensioned and proilgato presses think they
will be enabled TO harness the invinciblo state
OF Vermont TO the car of Van Buren, Dcmoc.
racy. For the three or four last state cleo
lions The cry Of these unprincipled wretches
has been Down WITH THE BANKsn "GlvE
US HARD MONEY CURRENCY" !! "Awav
with the Rags and shin.plas,crs and hurra
for Silver and the yclow.boys" Yes for six
or eight years past, the Administration party
in this state has been waging relentless
war against the Banks and the c:edi system.
But being now in utter despair of inducing
the freemen Of Vermont to dance after this
tune, they have charged their song. They
now sound the bugle of the party on q lower
key. They now say TO the freemen place
Nathan Smile in the executive chair and we
will Improve the Banking system. "Raise us
to power and we will give you Bank Rtformy'
But we warn the people of this state against
placing any, the least, confidence in the dclu-
svc and reacherous promises Of this abandon
ed and desperate faction. This is not the first
time the Tory party has promised "Reform."
.4ndre'0 Jackson came into power under the
most solemn pledges of ''Retrencllment and
Reform" and happily for the WmIes, the
PEOPLE have not yet forgotten how he re-.
declined them. His promises were made 10 be
broken, and his pledges were given 10 DC vio.
| lated. He promised economy and cconomised
by TRIPPING expenditures. Yes, he praciised
his boastcd Retrenchmem by augmeniing The
National expenditures from THIRTEEN TO FOR.
TY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER ANNUM! He
promised purity of elections and purified cleo.
tons By the hab'tual Interference Of his office
holders. lie promised Reform and filled your
public Offices nth public robbers. He plumber.
ed your treasury and scattered its contents
among his followers, 20 feed insolent rapacity
and stimulate venal ambition. He destroyed
your currency---your manufactures were par.
alised by tho bow--,he mechanic arts were
proslra,ed-- languishec, and your
ships rot,ed at your wharves. Reckless spec.
ulation supplantcd honest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
capitalists and usurcrs rioted in the downfall
of mercantile credit; and in lapscd mort cages
and unredecmed securities. the rich augmented
their opulencc by the plumber of the PEOPLE
BY disgraceful violation ofnational faith he
involved you in a disastrous war with the
Florida Indians. lie corrupted your House
OF rcsentalves--subverted the dignity and
authority Of your Senate and assalcd ,insulted
and dcied your Judiciary. Treaties and
laws and constitutions were but parchment
scrolls, which he crushed in his relentless
grasp. and trampcd under his heel. Such was
the reform Of Andrew Jackson. Next comes
Martin Van Buren,, with the collar on his ser
vile neck, pledged to tread in the footsteps Of
his illustrious predecess or. He throws him.
self at once into the arms Of the desperate
cabal under whose tyrant rule the people had
so long groaned. lie follows the dictation OF
Benton and Kendall. divorces himselffiom the
Legitimate control of Congress and repudates
the constitutional sovereignty of the People
| lie urges measure which Congress and the
People have repeatedly condemned, and in
that condemnation sees no reason for chang
! ing his opinion. Through his scrvile instru.
mcnt, MIR. Cambreleng, he braves Congress Ia
its face and threatens that his favorlo meas
urc, the Sub Treasury scheme, shall continue
the law Of the land, in spite Of the lamonla.
ions of the People. He continues in Office a
Secretary of the Treasury, who STANDS cons
victed of accomplishing and connivanco in
the grossest frauds upon tho community; and
a Post Master General who has outraged
by gratuitous insult, the Senate oftho United
States. And when the sovereign People, in
the extremity ofthcir sufferings, rise in their
majesty, TO condemn his high handed career
he deliberately accuses them Of haring been
briJed by The Banks. And there the insult
stands recorded in his message to Congress
and there let it stand as n monument of the
tyranical nsolcncc of Martin Van Buren, and
to the cvcrlaiting shame Of the people he has
slandered, if they should ever forgive or forget
It. Such, Gcemcn of Vermont, has been the
"Rehenchmem and Reform' of Andrew Jack
son and Martin Van Buren,. And now with
unparalleled cfi'rontry, the col!ared presses in
this state are endeavouring, under the delu
Give promise of still further Reform, TO induce
you to place in the executive chair of the
, Green Mountain state, the redoutable Nathan
Smihe! They have succeeded by their full
some flattery in making this probably honest