The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-01-07

and the banks was expeced Tor The party have
sworn TO iaslen the one upon the country while
they ruin the other, or perish IN the attempt
The President has. mnde one important dis
covery-he says. 'On inquiry find out of 81
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, % hold their
funds by public officers 80 Therefore, as the
rotton Monarchies of Europe have sub,treasu.
ries, our Republican Government must do like.
wise Foreign Governments have also kings
and Tyrants as rulers--and il would not in the
least surprise lis IL hear that this aristocratic
king Of the party, this servie mitator OF foreign
customs and nations, recommend the giving OF
absolute power into his delicate lutte hands--he
could thus save the people the trouble of elect
ing their own rulers, and when tired OF ruling
himself, his son Prince John, who has received
"a FOREIGN education, could rule in his
stend
The Message OF George Washington to Con-
gress III 1889, would occupy about one column
in our paper. That of Martin Van Buren, near
y ten. Washinglon's sound aud worth reading
MARTINS an inerminabls string of WORDSM
o. Give us Harrison and Reform.
The New York Correspondent Of the Boston
Atlas, thus speaks of the Message:
So we have the Presidents Message at slast il
is like the anthor-one third devoted to the pub
lie good AMI two thirds to his own. Never be-
fore was Message delivered Of which so large
n proportion was devoted to naked electioneer-
ing-to an undignfed pettitogging of The Nam
Question on which he stands arrnyed against
the deliberate judgment of the AmGrlcan people.
Artfnl MS this document is lhroug hout, and pow
eriu rs ii certainly is in places, there are some
little tricks resorted to in it which wonlh disgrace
the lowest order of demagogsm. Who could
thought so meanly of President OF the u. States
as TO deem him capable of quoting in para
graph OF his annual Message, a rhetorical flourish
of former Bank President that his Bank was
made stronger by eXchanginga National tor n
State Charer-quoting ii as nm evidence of the
| fact asserted-while he himself in another par.
agraph distinctly admits the universally nolrious
! fact that the very reverse was the truth? How
low must be the Court from which n lawy er
guilty of a trick like this would not he expelled!
And yet the Message is full Of similar paltriness.
| Seldom has document appeared which was
evidently calculated for effect on those only who
read nothing on the other side. Who but Mar.
| tin Van Buren, woulG have ndvenured the as
ssu,on hat all the losses since 1887 10y collecting
ofl;ce,s aside from Swartwout's deiacation, do
not exceed sixty thousand dollars. Does not
every man of intelligence know that us is Il
bubble or n faisehood? Who does not know
that scores Of Land Office deiauIters were
brought TO light in the spring of 1888, and that
mnay have sine been exposed, along with the
Collectors ut New Orleans, Plaltsburg, sc. &c?
| And We, this Message,-in which the argument
is shaped To suit the arguer's necessities and the
facts to SUIT the necessities the Arguments
put forth to influence the opinions of the Amer
| lean People! Let The glorious conservative
principle of ONE PRESIDENTIAL TERM he estnb
! lished; and the country will be spared another
snch humlliating exhibition