The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-06

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TO public opinion which might be created by Ex.
eculive influence through subservient subordnates
ana subservIeDt press. To give party cast 10
ms clam, II has, at |sngh, assumed new form
and The President is now presented To- (soe De.
nocrac Review for September, 1880 rs 'Lke Ma
ttonai Representatives Of the .imerieas DeInoe, aoy
THE representative of the democracy Democra.
! cy personhed living, moving, thinking, speak.
! ing representative OF pure, simple, unadulIered
incorporated democracy
I Such is the claim. The Prrvdent il not slow in
performing bis part. lie taits democracy. lie
,orites democrac''. lie i"oks democracy And it
Is the democracf To monopolios he is reTy hos.
! tile. AgaInsi hanks ke ulters anathemas. 'Asso-
ciated wealth (seo his last annual Message) he
cannot endure The aTis,oyracv intoerablo
In short to erhy thing that is opposed to domocra.
cy, and especially to 'hc democracy he is most
Peto,,aaIIy and :ery exceedingly opposed
| The President Is thus installed as the High
Priest of de'isac"anv aud it would be about as
safe for Roman Cstie!a :; ,,s,eslon the authority
of tho Pope as for az 'Lss F=..-: 10 question
the democracy Of the President so compIeio Is
the deusion, that, when the Wings attempt to
rouse the People 10 n sense Of the danger Of the
Presidents overgrown influence, through the abuse
| OF Executive patronage, thc democracy are made
to believe that that influence is exercised for their
special benefit, because il is all necessary enable
the President, who is their representative to fight
their battles, and pnt down the arisIocracy
The danger of Executive influence and power
(the greatest of all dangers in system of gov
ernment) is thus yelled from the eyes ofthousands.
They see the President only as a mighty champion
OF fhe democracy, leading on its hosts 10 glorious
| victory while every who will not sustain him
in the holy war is held up arslocrat, and
federalist with blue lights burning all over and
around him.
| Thus, sir, are the People taught to look, to
| their Representatives the guardians of their
rights and the opponents Of their will, but the
President, (strange absurdity y to the President
armed as he is with power, through hundreds of
subservient presses and thousands of equally ofc.
ial dependents, to execute the purposes of his sim
gle will, and accomplish the ends of ambition
which such power continually tempts to encroach-
ment and corruption.
Thus it is that this new tangled system ears up
a colossal structure of Executive power the
broad basis of deceived and misod democracy
Like the Pyramids of Egypt,whose towering height
and mighty massiveness give insignifcance to eve
ny object around them, so is the President, under
this miscalled democratic system, made to tower
above and overshadow every other object within
the political horizon. And sir, Just in proportion
as the mighty structure is spread out, and carried
up, is the cry of democracy increased. There is
not man who shoulders a stone carries hod
of mortar to aid IN rearing the towering mass who
will not tell you that he is building up the democ-
racy and no man must dare appropriate to him
self the name of democrat who will not literally
"trip himself to the work.
| 1t is by such means, Mr. Chairman, that this sre-
forming dynasty has been laborng, for ten years,
to hoodwink the People, and make them submit to
be mounted and spurred, and spurred, and jaded by
| the sdemocratic'' Jehus who have DRIVEN with
reckless daring, the PROSTATE Constitution and
laws of the country And, sir, it IS amazing to
efforts at deception TO the height to which
the Presidential office has lowered to mark the
movngs of its influence and power-now standing |
erect in grim and surly majesty, and taking the
responsibility and now winding its sinuous and
silent way, and distlling it's slow but venomous
poison through every department of the Govern
ment, and every portion of the country.
II day of reckoning has come.
But, sir, a day of reckoning has, at length come.
Results are beginning to be wrought out. The
People begin to see that all is not right They be-
Ioory Il
have not been made the passports to office that
the great principle which has governed in Execu.
tive appointments has elevated of mercena
ry, desperate politicians and has put into the hands
Of the Linns, the Boy DIS, the Srencers the Prices
and the Swartwouts, the money of the People, to
be lost in speculation, squandered in extravaganza,
or used to ana Executive power in its treacherons
conflict with the freedom of elections Sir, they
are beginning to lay down their axes, their hoes
and their hammers land, standing up and looking
you In the face In the sterness and amazement of
disappointed confidence, they thunder in your ears
the appalling demand-GIvE AN ACCOUNT OF THY
STEWARDSHIP! Here, say they, are your pledges
of retrenchment and reform your professions of
horror at the danger of an abuse of Executive
COVER your boosted regard for the freedom and
purity Of elections your promises to give up
right and faithful officers and your expressed
fears that, if you were not placed in power, cor.
ruption would become the order of the day And
now, here is the fulflment of your pledges and
promises in the ten years Administration which
you have inflicted on the the country. We call on
yos, as oui SeIVdhts. 10 ten US why tHe 0'hS Jou
predicted have not been averted, and the good you
promised has not been, done; why for bread you
have given us stone, and for fish serpent; and
why, when we looked that the vineyard should
bring forth grapes, it has brought forth wild grapes
is The Presidential question in Congress-
And now, sir, what is your reply to the demands
OF betrayed and abused People, urged, and ably
urged as theyhave been by the Peoples Represent
atives on this floor How do you meet the facts
and arguments which nre pressed upon you Sir,
you do IT by endeavorng to slihe Investigation !
by deprecating discussion; by holding us up, as
the chairman Of the Committee on Foreign hela-
tons has done, as debating club and, IN short,
by every conceivable device which can tend {
TO divert the public mind from the great questions
we are struggling TO bring out in their true magni
tude and Importance before abe country II
Mr. Chairman, dsplors, as much as any one, 1.-The u
necessity whciLiMpels to discussions and invest i
cations here Hooking to Presidential election
But, sir, how are they to be avoided /? Are we to
sit still and see the Executive bestrding the coun
try with his colossal power,, and not warn 1T OF j
the danger? Is corruption to go unrebuked Are d
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