Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-06-09
SPEECH OF HON. c. p. VAN NESS.

SPEECH OF HON. G. p. VAN NESS.
Delivered before the Van Buren, State Conven-
ton at Woodstock May 1910, and published by
the re quest of the State Committee, Burling-
ton Sentinel, May 20, 1910.
| we are not about to enter upon labored
review of this production. 1t is not worth the
time or the labor which it would require to
notice all its errors, to expose all its unfoun-
ded assertions and false assumptions, and to
follow the author through all his wndings
1t might be as difficult to thread all its mazes
as to trace the turnings of the authors own
| political course.
We notice the document mainly on account
OF the position first assumed by the author
After alluding to the sacrifice which it cost
him to attend the Convention, the length of
time since he commenced his exertions in the
great cause, period of SO years the great
and important contest before them; the com
poncnt parts of the adversaries force, the van
guished and scattered fragments of the old
enemy with modern pretenders and apostates;
and exhorting his friends to buckle on their
armor for the fight, he says ''the principles
which divide the two parties are the same
now as formerly. The party supporting the
present administration of the general Govern
ment is the continuation of the same party
which elevated Mr.. Jefferson to the Presden
cy in the year 1900, and sustained his princi-
pies. 1t is the party which supported Mr..
Madison, and defended the measures of his
administration in Isl2-l3 and IA. On the
other hand, the party which now opposes the
general administration, is the remains and
continuation of the old Federal party which
was founded by Alexander Hamilton, and
which upheld and supported the odous and
arlsiocratic measures ofthe administration OF
John Adams during the year 1898 and 1893"
"The Republican OF Democratic party has
not only preserved its principles unchanged,
but also its name. II has never practiced de-
ception, nor sought concealment, but has
always come before the country with full
and open avowal ofits principles and objects.
The opposition party has passed through sew
eral changes of name, and has made various
attempts TO rise upon new and assumed
grounds and pretexis. 1t was originally call
ed the Federal party, but its members after
wards assumed the appellation of National
Republicans, then Wings and finally .JefIer-
sonian Democrats
About this position the author occupies
about four columns and a half, giving il great
prominence, and feeling doubtless, il was
very important to gull the people into the be-
lIei that 1t was true, that they might the more
serViieiy submi I to his biddiDgs Much of the
evidence upon which he relies in support of
TINS point is drawn from early periods in our
hiSory' showing some research among musty
documents for individual opinion, that might
by construction be made 10 suit his case.
lie finds an opinion of Alexander Hamilton
IN his argument before the Convention in 1881.
IN opposition to state sovereignty. lie has
discovered some ayowed opinions Of John
Adams in work Of his, published while in
England before his election 10 the Presiden-
cy about Coleman. and simplemen which he