Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-06-30


However, To prove the reverse Of this, have
been called Foderaisi Here was loud
( cry Of s'the charge is a liza base lie. You
ar, no felerslist."l Well, what is , federal
is,' | rccrolcct what the word formerly sig
I ni6c1. and there are many others present who
! rrcollcct its former Specification also They
know that the federal party were accused ola
design to strengthen the hands of the general
government at the expense OF the sepera'e
1 States That accusation could not nor cannot
apply tome. Twas brought up after the strict
cst manner of Virginia anii-lederaism St
Paul himself was no, a greater devoioe 10 the
doctrines of the Pharisees, than was ], by in
I clinaiion aud fathers pfecepis and example
10 anti-ieleralism. ! was taught to believe
that. sooner or later, that fatal catastrophe 10
! human liberty would lake place-that the gen.
cral government would swallow up allie the
I Stale governments, and that ono department
| of the government would swallow all the 9th
er departments. do not know whether my
| friend Mr.. Van Buren, (and he is, and hope
ever will be, my personal fliend) has gullet
that can swallow every thing; but do not
! know, that i'll his measures are all carried out.
! he will Law a foundation for others 10 do so il
| he does not.
What rejecting man, fellow citizens, can
not see this The Representatives Of the
/ People were once the source of power Is ii
so now Nay. 1t is TO the Executive man
sion now that every eye is turned-that every
wish is directed. The men of office and party,
who are governed by the seven principles of
John Randolph, TO wit: the five loaves and two
rected to the great bell at head quarters, TO
! indicate how the little ones slial. ring.
But to return, have but to remark that my
anii-fedcralism has been tempered by my long
service in the employ Of my couniry-and my
| frequent oaths to support her general govern
ment but am as ready 10 resist the encroach-
ments on State rights, as | am to support tn C
! legitimate authority of the Executive.
Now, fellow citizens, have very little more
TO say, except to exhort you to go OF. peace
fully if you can-and You can--to effect that
reform upon which your hearts are fixed.
What calamitous consequences will ensuc TO
the world if you fail II you should fail, how
the tyrants Of Europe will rejoice. If you
fail how will the friends of freedom, scatter
ed, like the few planets of heaven, over the
world, mourn, when they see the beacon light
of liberty extinguished-th light whose rays
they had hoped would yet penetrate the while
bcnigeted world.
Ifyou triumph, it will only be done by vigil
lance and attention. Our personal friends,
but political enemies remind each other that
External vigilance is the price of Liberty"
While jourreying thitherward, [ observed this
motto waving at the head Of procession com
posed of the friends of the present administra-
ton.--From this Inferred that dscrimina-
ton was necessary in order to know who to
watch. Under jefferson, Madison and Mon
roe, the eye of the People was turned to the
right source-to the administration.-The adj
ministra,ion, however, now say to the People,
''you must not watch us, but you must watch
the Whigs' Only do that, and all is safe !"
But that, my friends, is not the way. The old
fashioned republican rule is to watch the gov
ernment See that the government does not
acquire too much power. Keep check upon
your rulers. Do this, and liberty is safe
And if your efforts should result successfully,
and should be placed in the Presidential
chair, shall invite a recurrence to the old
republican rule, to watch the administrator, |
and to condemn all its acts which are not in |
accordance with the strictest code of rcpubli- |
canism. Our rulers, fellow citizens must be |
watched. Power is insinuating. Few men
are satisfied with less power than they are a.
bic 10 procure. If the ladies whom see a.
round me, were near enough to hear me, and |
OF sufliclen, age TO give and experimental ans
Wer, they would tell you that no lover is ever
satisfied with the first smile ofhls mistress.
1t is necessary, therefore, TO watch, not the
political opponents of an administration, but
the administration itself, and to see that it
keeps within the bounds of the Constitution
aud the laws of the land. The Executive of
this Union has immense power to do mischief,
if he sees fit 10 exercise that power. lie may
PROSTATE the country. Indeed, this country
has been already Frustrated. 1t has already
fallen from pure republicanism, to monar-
ohy in spirit il not in name A celebrated au-
thor detin S monarchy to be that form of gov