Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-08-16

federal executive possesses a power which
ne can bring 10 bear on almost everything.
HIS agents are everywhere Through their
fundamentally he can reach every ballot
box, and act on every state government in
the Union. Has Congress any such power
las thisR Has the Judiciary any sorsi pow
err Can all the other branches ofthe gov
eminent combined exert thousandh parl
oil the influence over elections, state and ma
uonal, which the President may exert, and
which has been exered by the President and
his successor
Will you censure us, fellow citizens, for
being jealous of such a power as this p
| Shall we be called federaisls, and aristo.
Gratis, and monopolists, and lordlings, because
we raise our voices against il /? Shall we
De denounced as the enemies of popular
rights, because we endeayor to maintain the
true democratic repnblicanism OF '9S, and the
struggling in the cause in which Madison
and Jefferson triumphed2 Will not Yer
mont be The last state 10 yield 10 this contest
with power? Where is there state 10 the
confederacy, whose freemen can draw from
the examples of the founders of its indepen.
dence deeper inspiration for such contest,
than the freemen Of the Green Mountain
StateP Where is there state whose chief
magistrate is vested with less power and
whose government is more truly republi-
canP We repeat it-Vefmont will be the
last in this contest She has indeed given
a pledge Of this in the firmness with which
her people have long resisted the pressure
of nnti.republican influences one every side
Of them. While other states have been pros.
traied before the power Of the federal execu.
tive, Vermont has stood firm as her eyerlast.
ing mountains.
And shall she now yield? Why should
she? What is there 10 induce her TO do il
now What groand of hope can the exec
u,Ive party have that she will do il, unless il
be in the apathy and want Of energy and
concert of The democratic wings at the an.
preaching election2 And is this the time
for them 10 relax their efforts Shall they
now fold their hands, when every abuse OF
which they have complained remains in full
torce-wheD the executive is putting forth
his utmost efforts TO fasien his power upon
the country-and when the final experi.
ment to sustain that power by grasping the
money influence of the sub-tieasury scheme
is pressed upon the reluctant assent OF the
people Is il a time for the Wings TO re.
lax their efforts when the administration is
staggering under the blows they have Civ
en- it-when it is feeling, almost TO the in
tenseness Of agony the screenings OF their
time 10 relax wien evidences OF corruption
are thickening. when the public money by
thousands and hundreds of thousands are
running away in the hands OF executive par
tizans and favorites-when The tree OF Jack.
en- rafor,,,i = ID
the fruit OF detected frauds and permitted de-
ialcations2 And is il time TO relax, on
the approach of period when the people Of
the United States aIe to say directly, whsih-
er the corruption, abuse Of power, prostitn-
ton OF Influence, extravaganza and pecula-
lion of twelve years shall be deliberately
sanctioned, and indefinitely continued -
What kind Of preparation for speaking out
with becoming direclness and sign6cancy
at the next presidential election, The senli.
ments Of republican Vermont would it be, to
fold our hands and permit the executive par
", by our supineness, TO boast of an aug
mentaton Of their strength at the coming
election ? We trust thai the Wings OF Yer.
mont will permit no such triumph--no tri-
umph which would bear on its face, as that
must. evidence that they value their ease
more than the principles for which they
have so long contonded, and that they feel
the force oftheir principles as the necessity
for their vigorous maintenance become more
urgent and imperative.
We have, fellow citizens, selected men as
candidates for our sufIfages, who unite with
rare personal qualifications, an honest and
:ried devotion 10 the principles of our consii-
tuition, and an inhexible opposition to the
policy whose corrupting and dangerous ten
denotes we have briefly described You
need no assurance from us that they will
stand firm in maintaining the true principles
Of republican democracy. They have all
been tried and found faithful to the princi-
Piles Of the democracy of '96-a democracy
which consists nthe power ofan intelligent
and virtuous people, acting through their
constitutional organs--a democracy which
jealous ofpower, which has sense and intel
igence enough 10 look beyond names 10
things which can penetrate the specious
covering in which executive usurpaton
wraps itself, and which would as soon yield
TO the power of the sword and the bayone, as
to the seduclions Of an influence originating
10 40 higher purpose, and directed to no
higher end thanihe qualification Of selfish
and corrupt ambition
Such are the principles we ask you to
support. Weask it, as your fellow citizens,
your brethren, having no interests but yours,
no aims but such as we frankly ayow and
no purpose bot to maiutain the rights. pro
tect the honor, cherish the virtue guard the
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