Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-08-03
VOL. ss, NO. WHOLE NO. 1853.

mountainerS Of Vermont! What u convention
anu what place IL were to travel round the
EARTH should find | am shure. no people more
deVoledly attached to the principles of virtuous
freedom, Than those who will be collected on that
occasion and no place where those principles
would gather more strength from the nower of
past associations, than among the mountains that
looked down, sixty years ago, upon the struggle
ofthe "Grecn Mountain Boys" to maintain their
Independence
Your clter informs me that one of the pur-
poses pl your meeting is 10 respond to the nornin-
alton of Gen. HAHRRIsoN fer the Presidency.
And from what people could such response
come, more appropriately and more heartily, than
from those Of Vermont-from the descendants Of
the Aliens and Warmers, the Chittendens, FHys,
and Robinsons, whose valor and wisdom saved
her in an hour of deep peril and gave to her in
stitulions cast Of pure and elevated freedom9
Nowhere would Gen. HARRISON be more at
home than in Vermont. Nowhere would his
competitor be more stranger. Vermont will re-
spond she must srespond, by acclamation, to
nomination which proposes to place WILLIAM
HENRY HARRISON in The chair now occupied by
! MARTIN VAN BUREN.
And this she will do, not from blind impulse;
not from sense of suffering under experiments.
Vermont has not waited for pecuniary distress to
wiring from her condemnation Of thcvRIeu if
trrHer. Even when the experiments seemed to
be working well when money was plenty and
labor was amply rewarded, and her people were
nrged to give in their adhesion 10 the Adninstra-
ton, under whose policy they seemed 10 be pros
perirg even then did they stand firm in opposi-
ton. They felt that there were higher questions
involved than those of mere profit and loss They
saw the Constitution violated They power
abused They saw independence "punished" and
subservency "rewarded" They saw Executive
influence silently working its way through the
country, reaching and subduing men in Office, and
aspirants for Office, Substituting the press, manu-
featuring public opinion controlling the action of
State Legislatures, and entering the Halls of Con
gress
| They believed that, sooner later, the whole
system Of experiments would explode and involve
the country in embarrassment. But, without
gard to such result, it was enough for them Tint
the Administration experimenting for the
sake Of poacer; that progress was going forward
which would send the bane of false principles to
the heart Of our institutions, and that corruption
would undermine the citadel which daring and
fragrant usurpation alone might in vain assail.
Such has been the high ground of principle on
which the people of Vermont have maintained the
contest, and resisted the encroachmens of FEEDER
al Executive power. They have thus given
pledge of what might be expected OF them when
the time for final action should arrive. That time
now draws nigh. And shall not the pledge be
redeemed? put it to you, gentleman put it to
the thousands wo will assemble with you on STRAIT
ton Mountain put it TO the other thousands of
the kindred spirits in Vermont, who have assem-
bled and who will yet assemble, on like occasions,
and TO the yet other thousands, whose retiring
habits will keep them at home until the time for
decisive action shall arrives to all these, if my
voice could reach then would put the solemn
question, Shall not the pledge be redeemed faith
| fully, fully redeemed? need not wait their an
swer. know what it will be. The first Tues
day of September, and the Presidential ballot box
es in November, will give it, l lrtst in language
that Po,oer will understand and with decision
which will put its impudent and artu emissaries
TO silence and 10 flight.
! While thus speak the language of hope and
confidence, do not forget how formidable is the
power with which we have to contend. And if
could utter but one sentence in the ears of nv
Wing friends TO urge them to effort, it would be
that OF admonltlon to keep steadily in their eve the
character and dimensions of that power.
! The Wings feel a natural confidence in the
goodness OF their cause. But that confidence a.
lone will not give them triumph. 1t may even
bring defeat. 1t has often brought it. The
friends of the Administration make no such re-
ance. Trey trust alone to organization and eff
iolt And what an organization what means of
systematic effort Ito they possess! The whole Ex-
ecuive department of the Government, with all
It's relations and dependencies, is converted into
party machine. What power, IN the hands OF a
| President who wants reelection, and who is ca
pabe of appealing TO the basest passions to move
his official dependents to pay their money, and
put forth their efforts, TO perpetuate the power
that gives them bread
To this degraded level has it been the steady
purpose of this Administration 10 bring down the
standard of official fidelity, and with il the stan .
dard of qualification for official favor and thus 10
multiply the number of those who will work the
hardest for the party that will pay the hest. New
er let the Wings forget that this is of the pow
ers with which they have TO contend that there
are thousands on thousands OF Executive depen-
dents scattered from one extremity Of the Union
to The other, who, under drill which has acquir.
ed the perfection of ten years practice may be
moved and are moved, with celebrity and pre-
cision which the Bonaparlean system of tactics
could scarcely rival. 1T is difficulty, yea, impos-
sble, TO conceive the aggregate amount of force
thus constantly in the service of the Executive.
And as the contest draws towards its termination,
are new means devised TO augment il, aud give it
efficacy. Thus have we lately seen member of
the cabinet res On his station, and, awaiting him
self of the influence Of his recent official relation
! 10 more than thirteen thousand postnasters, call
upon them to aid him in circulating the Extra
Globe of which he has become editor sgnii.
canly assuring them that they shall not have rea-
son to repent their efforts 10 aid him in the adj
yancement OF the cause. And 10 these efforts of
| the Executive, through the official dependence of
the Postmaster General tlor, to all practical pol
| itica purposes, Amos Kendall is now at the head
of the Post Office Department. are added the ac
tive agency OF numerous travelling post office ex-
amners, and thousands Of assistant marshas, TO
say nothing of numerous other officers, every one
oil whom has been carefully selected with view
to this object.
| There is not a county in the United States, and
scarcely a town of any considerable magnitude
in which an Executive agent, of some grade, in
The pav of government, is not at this moment
gagged either in obIannng subscribers for the
Globe, or exerng his personal influence in aid
ing the election of the present Executive, from
whose service he would be instantly dismissed
il he should dare to assert his independence, and
enlist heartily in the Wing cause. What ire