Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-10-12
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
HIGHLY INTERESTING LETTER

We bcspeak OF our readers an attentive perusa
Of the letter from our fellow citizen, Judge Bur-
net, to the Lancaster COMMITTEES, which we copy
from the Lancaster Democratic Herald, Of the
OH instant.
We take great pleasure in laying before our
readers The following letter from the Hon. JACOB
i}uRSEr, of Cmcinnati to f.. G. REIGART, ESP,
Chairman of tie Committee of Invitation for the
18th instant.
Judge Burnet has known General Harrison in
tnntely from his youth 10 the present moment.
His testimony is of an high order, and adds still
another chaplet to those which already udorn the
brow of this veteran Hero and Statesman. We
bespcak for it an attentive pertisa and beg our
friends to place il in the hands Of those of our
political enemies who ARE yet willing to be enlight-
cncd by the glaring langnage of SINCERITY aud
TRUTH.
LETTER FROM JUDGE BURNETT OF OHIO.
CINclNNATTI, Aug. "a, 1910.
DEAR Sir have had the pleasure of recelv-
my your letter of the 10Th Instant requesting me
to attend Il convention of The friends OF Gen. liar
rsun, in Eastern Penusy lvania, TO be held IN tie
City OF Lancaster, on the 18Th of September next.
can assure you, with great sincerity that there
is nothing connected with the affairs oil lie, IN
which take II deeper interest, than in the object
to be advanced by the Convention which you in
wife me to attend. Were it in my power to com.
ply with your request, | should ,lo with the
greatest alarrily, because am confident the pres
ervntion Of the liberties Of the nation depends on
the success Of the cause, for the advancement of
which your conventions has been called.
Those OF orr citizens who know from memo
ry, as do or-who have otherwise learnt, the de
pornhle condition of this country at the close Of
the revolutionary war, aud the relief afforded hy
he a,lop;1n aud faithful administration Of the
constitution Of l7SS, under the auspices OF wash
ngtou, " i'll know how toapprcclnte the value OF
that instrument, and the importance of preserving
it in lis original purity. The revolutionary war
mad left the American people in poverty and dis.
ress-W without money without commerce - with
out manufactures without credit, and without Il
national character. Under he wise aud well ar
ranged system devised by Washington, and faith
fully pursued by all of his successors, ill 1899,
the American people rose from poverty and dis
tres to and aIuence and from the rep oach-
u SCOTS of Europe to the level OF the most hon
ored and respected nations on the globe. That
policy was faithfully pursued by every President,
from W Washington to the younger Adams incu
sire, and had it been persisted in ill the present
day, imagination can scarcely conceive the heighth
of prosperity to which the American people
would, ere this time, have attained. 1t may safe
" lie affirmed that the world has never wtnes.
sed such an instance of rapid elevation AS our ma.
ton presented in 1929. In the short period Of
Forty years, we had risen from poverty to ever
flowing abundance, and from foreign derislon TO
the summit of national rcnowu. Our flag was
seen on every ocean and sea-it passed without
lnsult or molesialion, and brought back to our
shores the wealth of all portions on the globe -
aud let it he remembered, that the fruits OF that
wise system of policy were enjoyed hy all c'as
scs Of the community. The most humble day
laborer participated in the profits and in the glory,
which the wise measures If the government pro-
cured for the nation. A field was opened for the
industrious and enterprsing citizen. though hum
bile aud obscure, to rise to wealth aud distinction.
Credit, the poor mans capiIa, could he readily
obtained, and it rarely happened that talent un-
| cultivated, it connected with industry and homes
ty, failed to oltiin patronage.
This, sir. was the condition OF the American
people in 1929. After HAT period, The system
previously pursued was abandoned, and n sue
cession of uhried experiments was resorte 10,
commencing under the administration Of Gen.
Jackson. II was, und ubtcdly, Il design of t ut
distinguished man, when he went into office, To
administer The government on me principles lie
had previously ayowed, which were approved by
HE great mass of the people, and he would have
done So if he had fallen mo honest hands but,
unfortunately. lie chief now NJ the head of The
nation gained his confidence, aud hecame his prn.
cpaI adviser aud had controlling ageIcy in
bringing about tie course of eXptr ments which
happiness of the nation. Wien W Van Buren,
succeeded TO the Presidency, he promised to tread
in The footsteps of his illusIrlous predecessor As
far rs those steps wore the impress OF error, he
did follow them; hut he abandoned all the sound
principles which his predecessor had advanced in
his letter 10 The legislature of Tennessee, and in
his inaugural address to Congress; AMI resorieh
to n succession ofnrbiirary measures, AT war with
those principle and with the practice of all the
rliei mag sratps who had preceded him II was
ttctl for The lawyer OF Undertook to discover
that Washington, jefferson, Madison, Nonrne,
ulI Ihn Adams ignorant OF The
principles of the constitution, and had administer
ed il, during period of 40 years, in violation of
lis plain import! For one shall not attempt 10
disturb The complacency VIII CHI may have been
produced in his mind by such UNI araIlelcd vanity.
On this extraordinary discovery he Juslcs his
own course, and vindicntes the nrl Fry neasur
he is pursuing. And what has b, Ell their result
How rapidly has the nation fallen from the pill
nnce OF prosperity and happiness enjoyed IN ls2o,
To the valley of distress and despondency Whe
the System, lnatured by the father of his country,
was adhered 10, the nation rose 10 wealth. happI-
ness and character with unexa;npled rapidly;
hut when that systeni was abandoned, aud when
Mr.. Van Buren, came Into power, the prosperity
of The country suddenly checked, n It nip
ned .Iy the frost Of death aud from that day, We
| have b. en- sinking with velocity as unexanpled
az thut which had marked the progress OF our ell.
ovation.
IL is evident that fleets cannot he produced
wilh0u; adequate causes. When we zee na'lon,
! under the operation Of n we | defined course OF
policy steadily aud rapidly rising without check,
through period Of forty years, we cannot but
asc lie the prosperity of that nation to The plan n
| which its government has been admin tered, and
when we see that plan abandoned Tor new, unri-
ed expedents, aud discover that the prosperity OF
the country is suddenly checked aud destroyed
who hesilates TO trace The effect TO its producing
cause? As certainly as the prosperity OF the UNI
ted States, from 1850 TO 1929, was the result OF