Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-18

for resisting their proposition They know
not their own hearts. The demon OF party
has blinded them. The hugeness OF the late
enormties have COMPOUNDED -them The
blows which the falling limbers OF the Ad-
ministrution have inflicted, have stunned
them and they talk incoherenily and en-
ragged. When they recover :heir self-pos.
session, it will be found, that they have, on
this measure, been acting upon their in
stiRcts 10 stihe and extinguish the light
which gushes in upon their oppressed vision,
through The o6iciaI facts which this PROPOSE
hon proposes TO promulgate Like one
who does deed of blood, ut night. in the
crowd. they strive, by putting out the lights,
TO escape in the confusion
The Administration is exclusively ans.
werable fol the enormties, the almost daily
disclosure OF which is now appalling TO The
natl on. The effort, ! know, is made TO incul-
pate The laws. Will the party in power new
er learn The soprce fthese eyils7 Can they
never be persuaded that no system can be-
executed without faithful c6feers and that
any party organization or principle of dp.
Poiatment iohieh inrifes into Office The greedy,
unprineipted mercenary partizaa, mast una.
roida6fe beget corruption IN The adminisfra-
ton?
But. sir, every effort 10 exclude from the
nation the information necessary 10 enable
them TO bring this Administration to justice,
will be vain and may be ut once relinquish'
ed. Let there be light-ight |" will BE-
The exclamation Of a yirluous and insuied
people And there will be light Ii can
not be repressed AS subtle as steam, land
as mighty, too,) ii will escape into freedom
Were the Atlantic converted at once into
fervent steam, you might as well hope TO re-
press II, as to exclude from the nation admit
ted, overwhelming. cDfeidi proofs of the most
blasting abuses,-directly affecting the secu.
rity OF the public treasure, involving signal
ly, the purity OF The Administration, and, in
the end nearly subverling public liberty it.
sell.
The gentleman from New York (Mr
Cambrelene) was pleased to say that these
coriuptions, if published. would satisfy the
people, beyond question, that the Sub-Trea-
sury Bill should pass inloa law. A most
ridiculous assumption But, sir suppose
such should be the effect Truth and the
right are what the people aim at as GER
tainly do. All ask--all the people ask
is, give us the facts and we will be RESPONSE.
bic for the impressions they make Hurl
the naked cleaning Truth amongst them
like two-edged sword |. Cut where il
may. il is not its own fault; but OF those who,
Standing in its way. brave its point and per
ish.
Sir the nation could not, il il would. shut
out a knowledge Of these disclosures. But
a short time since-lPss then ten years ago
the Administration was az transparent and
as Tranquil, and, sir, history will say)as pure
as the beautiful lakes ofihe interior. Sudden
Iy its placid surface has been ruflied by one
abuse. and then by another; recently, the wa
YES have been raised higher and higher ill
at last il has been heayed from its profound
est depths, by the avalanches and land-sides
of deialcations to the conduct OF millions !
ACKNOWLEDGMENT threat
cned TO be engulphed by the fury OF corrup'
tons
Yet. Mr. Speaker, / do not despair l
have mistaken confidence in the people
They may have been deluded and betrayed;
but they are viriuous. and they are just
When once they shall be convinced las the
facts now before us are so well calculated 10
convince ihem) of the s,upendous and inef.
fable delusion and treacbery which have
been prnclsed upon them. we shall witness
the sublime spectacle Of people, not trans
ported by indignation, but animated by the
sacred spirit of truth and patriotism, ap.
preaching and sacrificing upon the altar Of
Freedom. every tie that bound them 10 a par
~ which promised but TO deceive. sought
confidence but TO betray it, and proclaimed
piety but TO practise corruption
This language is strong and may seem
unwarraniable.- may pass for declama.
ton. But, sir, unsparing history vii pro
nounce a still deeper condemnation. twill
pronounce that the leaders Of that party,
without having formally conspired against
the institutions Of the country have pro,
claimed principles which have resulted in
pyactiscs more perlous TO public liberty,
because insidious, than hostility against II
openly waged
Pardon of George Gausmaa. This indi-
yidual who was few days since sentenced
by Judge Thompson, Of the U. s. Court, to
one years Imprisonment al hard labor for
The crime of purury was on Saturday dis