Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-03-20
VOL. WI.

the following able speech of the Hon. VIII
LIAM JARVIS. Of Wethersield Vermont. d
the great Harrison Convention a, Glare
month Fl. assembled from The valley Of III.
Connecticut Mr.. Jarvis has always beer
a sound and consistent republican Of the
Jehersoniar school, and close observer oil
the rise and progress Of parties in this coon
try, from the foundation Of the Government
Looking back 10 the British Government,
prior TO the Revolution, he has lraceslth or.
igin Of the,e terms Wig and Torn in Eng.
iund, TO their adoption in this country. The
parallel between the Wings and Tories Of
England and the Whigsand Tories Of the
United States' is apt and striking. His elol
quent appeal 10 the good sense Of the people,
in favor Of Gen. HARRISON, will be- res.
ponded to By every true patfio, in the
nation
SPEECH OF CONSUL JARVIS,
AT THE WING CONVENTION, CLAREMoNr,
~ FEBRUARY ~.
Mr.. President and fetio,o citizens--I am
but plain, and practical man. INV life hav-
ING been spent in the active pursuits OF bust.
ness aud / do not pretend to any powers Of
oraiory worthy of so respectable an audience
But, at aitime when the bad administration
ofthe Federal Government, is DESTROYING
the best interests Of our common country.
I hold tito be duty which every citizen
owesto the community; to exer, himself To
the utmost to stay course OF measures that
must ultimately bring us to ruin; and shall
therefore throw in my mite in aid OF the
cause:
We are assembled in a State where thon-
sands Of honest and we'll meaning men, have
been delnded into a support Of the pernici-
Gus measures of the administration, under
belief that by so doing. they were MAIN
tainingthe cause Of Jeffersonian democracy
lwas nnrturcd in the school Of Republican,.
ism. The music sweet to my ear when
lad was the drum and fife. tina, beat up for
recruits in the streets of Boston, 10 defend
the liberties oftheir country: Those princi-
Piles were inculca,ed upon my mind, BY the
precepts of John Hancock, Samuel Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, all
OF whom L had'the qualification personally
TO know; and those principles of patriotism
l'haye steadily adhered to. as the sun guides
10 the prosperity and happiness Of this Re.
public. Democracy. as il is now understood.
is not the Democracy of those fathers ofihe'
Revolution aud Of our institutions. FullytoI
explain my meaning il will be necessary TO
20 some way back, and examine into the
origin and political principles implied by the
party names which have prevailed in this
country. and in that from which we have
descended.
The terms Wing and Tory are Of English
origin. and were introduced into that codn-
try insthe reigns OF the Stuarts. Those who
defended the rights Of the people against the
arbitrary proceedings and despolic claims
ofthe Stuarts, under pretence Of enforcing
the prerogatives Of the crown, were called
Wings; on the reverse those who claimed
for the crown prerogatives. amounting, 10
point of fact, to powers Of despo,ic charac-
ter, which. in many instances placed the
crown beyond the control Of Parliament,
were denominattd Tories; and those patty
names have been continued in that country
to this day.-As the Revolutionary contest
for our country began BY defending the
rights OF the American colonies eainst the
arbitrary claims 10 unqualified jurisdiction
overthem. set up by the British crown. or
iu'othef words the power assumed by the
king Of defending The rights the colonisrs
according 10 his understanding OF the Brit
ISL Constitution. tie appellalion of Wing
was deemed By our Revolutionary fathers,
probably applicable 10 those who were de-
tending the chariered and civil rights of the
American people --snd those who sdppor-
ted the arbitrary pretensions Of the crown,
were !nomina,ed Tories The terms Wing
and Tory continued throuhout the RevoIu
tionary war down to 1887. at which period
they gave way to the party denomination of
FederaIists g. antisFederallsts Those party
na.nes, originated in the discussions which
,hat.time took place in rrgdrd to the printi-
pies upon which confederation ought to
be formedt
The federalists were Of opinion that in or
derto form regular. uniform and stable
administration Of our public affairs, il would
be necessary TO clothr the E xactiliye with
large powers-:hut the people we're often
liable 10 be led astrdy-thnithe more gnor-
ant classes were minimizing and turbulent.
and. under strong excitement. might proceed
10 such excesses as TO endan9erthe govern
men,. and finally destroy their own libahy.
The Anti-Fsdefalists. on the reverse, con-
tended that there was disposition in execu-
tive ina gistrates 70 increase their power
tina. Republics had been overturned BY
popular chief magistrates encroaching on
The rights and liberties oi the peopiel-that1
an enlightened land intelligent lpeopiV like
the Americans could be safely trusted with