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

TO keep up the delusion, and retain the conf.
dence OF an abused and betrayed People. Il
cannot explore this field; but must advert.
IN passing, 10 one OF the most prominent of
these expedlenls. ltisahe high.sounding
and extravagant profession ofa fegard for
democraey rSotinug con exocei. ~ ar.a
nothing has ever equalled Il, but the profess
ions OF the "put-down" party from 1925 to
1899
Democracy Yes, sir; notwithstanding
the complete organization of an Executive
corps throughout the country moved by a
common impulse from the Executive head,
regarding his will as their law striving, in
the strength of single master-principle, to
perpetuate his power, and elevate il above
every other in the government, and acting
with an unceasing reference 10 interests dis.
tinct from, and adverse TO, the interests of
the people Notwithstanding all this, have
we heard from the authors and fnishers of
this system OF Executive corruption and tyr
amy the loud and inccessant cry of demo
cracy! democracy DEMocRAcYl r'-.
Nothing can exceed the love professcd for
the dear People, and the regard pretended
Tor their rights. Sir, the men who knew
how 10 deceive the People TO gain their con-
fidence. know how to faiter them for the
purpose OF retaining it. They can "stoop 10
conquer" They know that, though the
People cannot be corrupted, they may be de-
ceived and tha; approaches to absolute pow
er may be successfully yelled by professions
OF regard for popular rights. They have
not consulted the history Of usurpaiion in
vain They know how insidiousy po,ocr
has encroachec on right in every country
where liberty has found grave, or ambition
throne.
1t is as wonderful as it is painful TO observe
the progress which has been made within
the last ten years in the caeer Of popular de-
ception. General JacksoH'a at his Inaugural
lion, protested TO look with reneration to
the hts that flowed from the mind that re-
formed our system" JEFFERSON was the re-
former whom he thus protested 10 venerate,
and to whose light the leaders of the party
sIil profess TO look for guidance. But, sir.
they have left MIR Jefferson, and the princi-
Piles OF his reform, at sighiless distance be-
hind them. He was Republican, and an
enemy of accumulated, overgrown Execu-
tive power. He respected the equal rights
ofthe People, and labored TO secure and per-
pe,uate them But there were conservative
principles in his administration, which We
shall in vain look for in this. "RepubLican-
ism" was then the word a republicanism
regulated and controlled by Constitutions
a republicanism jealous Of po,eer--a republi-
cansn whose essential element was far
and free representation of The People. an
controlled By ETecutire influence. The
madness of that sort of democracy" which
breaks open flour stores-threatens to raise
bank edifces TO their foundations-and enter
halls Of Legislation with an armed force, TO
assert constitutional rights, was then un-
known. Mobs had not then become part of
the Government OF the country, and Lynch
law had not namel
But behold the change Nor, republi-
canism is an obsolete word, for whose mean
ing we must consult the dictionary; while
democracy is the first word that is learned
after the alphabet is mastered. Every man
who obtains an election through the power
OF Executive Influence will you hear boast
ing that he has been elevated through the
power of "he democracy" just as though
"thc democracy" means something besides
the People, and the whole People. Moth
ing can exceed the impotence of the sYsie-
matte attempt 10 make that portion of the
People of the United States who consti-
tuie "he party" and who are subject
ed to the mysterious action of Executive
influence, The democracy, and the exclusive
democracy; while that portion of the same
People, are struggling to break the charm
Of that influence, resist the encroachments Of
power, and maintain popular rights, upon
broad, liberal, and constitutional basis, are
treated as though they formed no part Of The
People, and are called by every name that
has ever been associated with odium and re-
proach in our political history
TO blind the People to the falsity and alb
surdiy OF these pre,ensions to exclusive dem
ocracy, and veil the receptions practised on
them, the managers, with the art of the Jug
gler, who, by sleight OF hand, diverts aIten-
tion from the true point of observation, take
care 10 direct the attention OF the People TO
other objects with which they are more ia
miliar, and which are capable of being
brought TO bear more directly on their feel
ngs and interests. While Executive pow
eT seems great way of, and Executive in
fiuence, though advancing with sure and
steady step, is Of a nature not to be immedi-
ately felt in its bearing on private interests,
there is class of objects near home. which
the managers know how TO present so as TO
engross the popular attention Thus, the
the rich are made an object Of jealousy 10 the
poor, The laborer is excited against the
captalisl-the indoent and improvident
against the industrious and frugal--the ig-
noranl against the learned and Intelligent
and even the vicious and abandoned against
the virtuous and the upright Associated
wealth no matter how widely il NAV en-