Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-30
THE FEDERAL PRESS--lN 1918 AND IN
1910.


In 1918 the Federal Republican federal pa
per the biuest sort thus slundered aud dispar-
aged Harrison:
"After the command of Lake Erie has beeu n
cheved under federal auspices, & J and with un
paraleled glory,ih puGed up counterpart Of Smythe
acknowledges his INcAPACITY to take advantage
Of what was fairy in his hands After all his
marches. counter marches, aud promises to put
Gen. Proctor IN pttiicodts, he has not horse 10
noun, his general officers; aud the British have
more than a thousand to enable them TO run nwny
WouId-ihn they would run away, to save the
fallen honor of our arms alter such unhcard OF
mismanugement of the Gen. who has been, MS fool.
isbly as can be conceived, called the " Washington
of The Westsrn country" His dispatches, which
we hnve copied from the court paper, is harbln-
ger Of that disastrous sequel which from uniform
experience we have to expect from the fniid hero
Of democracy"
"Puffed up counterpart of Smythe"-"incapac-
ty"-" unheard of mismanagement" y" tnd he
ro." Could any thing be more in keeping with
the foul ephhets which every day proceed from
the federal locofocos now? In truth, if there is
any difference, it is that the locoiccos now will
tell more lies and invent more fagtious ISLANDERS,
in the same space of time. As an example of tho
ferocious spirit of tile federal presses towards Har
rson, we give the following extract. We find it
in that sink olocofocoisn, viz the Windsor States
man, copied from the old federal and now locoio.
CO organ, the New York Evening Post:
! Let the wings be grateful that matters are no
worse Let them call to mind the honest Dutch
man, who having broken his leg, told the by stan.
ders that it was mercy that he had not broken
his neck. The Harrisburgh Convention had the
party in their power, aud might have nominated II
lub or he he xIb
n, the show of beasts in the Bowery. They have
exeted their authority on the whole with great
moderation; they have beer reasonable enough to
nominate A THING IN HUMAN SHAPE, though By M
means as far intellect is concerned, FAVORABLE
, SPECIMEN OF THE HUMAN SPECIES"
We appeal to the people, without distinction of
party-aye, to every honorable friend of the ad-
mnstration is this the gratitude which is due to
one who has periled his life on the field of battle
and sacrificed forty years out of simy TO the ser
vice Of his country? Are the American people
to be told that he who las said james Madison
+" has done more far his country, piM less compensa
tion than ann MN Hping," is but "a THING IN nj
MAN SHAPE 2" And is it to go ont to other lands
that one who has received the entire confidence o
all the nobiest SONS of this boosted republic, fron
= Washington TO j. @. Adams-who has adorned
the Senate, conquered in the field and repre- ent
ed the nation ahroad--nnd who has once aread,
-, received the unhought suffrdges o. more than hal
n million American freemcn for the highest oiic'
II in their gift is it indeed to be told TO the enemies
n OF republics in'Europe that this man, so far q
b intellect is concerned, BY no MEANS a FAvoHA
$ BILE SPECIMEN OF THE HUMAN sPEcrEs?' 1T Is Al
i insult to the whole nation; and if there is augh
of respect left for the honor of the couniry-a ugl
II Of gratitude for patriotic nught of ven
n Grafton for the character of Tried heroes and sue
cesslu statesmen II the insult will meet wther
ing rebuke from the American people.