Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-29
WHO ARE TIE DEMOCRATS

zing It's energies.-Hichmond Hing,
WHO ARE THE DEMOCRATS?
Amos Kendall transfers TO the col
umns of the Extra Globe, list of
gentlemen, prepared by G. G.. Greene
and b. L. Hallet of Boston, which
they londly suppose will convince the
People of the u. States that "WnrGGr-
ny rs FEDERALISM" All this is labor
{ 81 30 9-nc-avou which was orru-
pied with politics during the last war
must, according TO the estimates of
Senator Young, have passed from this
troubled and transliory scene. TWEEN
ty-eight years have elapsed since the
declaration of war, opposition to which
Is now sought to be fastened on the
supporters of General Harrison but
if there is any truth in figures, another
generation now fills the stage, and is
engaged in playing another part in the
political drama. Do the advocates of
Loco-Focoism expect TO convince the
ma lorlty of the electors in Louisiana.
INDIANA, Kentucky, North Carolina,
! Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
and Vermont, and they are the "black
cockade Federalists Of the days Of
John Adams" or the opponents of
the war in 1917? If so they will be
obliged 10 call TO their aid the corps
of imps whom Satan thought fit to re-
tain in his dominIons, as soon as he
learned that Amos Kendall had become
! sub Editor of the Globe. "Men may
change and names may alter, but prin-
ciplcs, truth, justice and Democracy
are unaltered and unalterable. No
man is Federalst longer than he sup-
ports Federal measures, nor is any man
a Democrat unless he supports and adj
vocates Democratic principles and
Democratic measures" Now we are
prepared to prove that the great prin-
ciples of the Wing party-diminuiion
of Executive power; divorce of the
President from the Peoples money
a strict adherence to the spirit of the
I Constitution an implicit obedience
to the Peoples will--are portion of
what was understood by the term De-
mocracy in the days of Jefferson and
Madison. Are these the great princi-
plies Of Loco Focoism! If, however.
we must prove our Democracy by the
character of the individuals who are
numbered amongst US, we shall not de-
cline this issue, and shall be prepared
whenever the Argus feels inclined to
enter into the scrutiny, TO show, from
the uniform, Interchangeable course OF
Erastus Root, James Burt, Peter B.
Porter, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Elisha
Jenkins, Archibald Mcintyre, Gideon
Lee, and hundreds more, who are mar
shalled in our ranks, when contrasted
with that of the lngersolls, Tancys,
Buc hannans, Walls Vanderpoels, the
leaders Of Loco Focoism, - who are
the Jellersonian Democrats, and who
are the Fcdcralists Of black cockadc
and blue-Iight notoriety. We should
prefer, however, a course less personal,
and discussion of the subject on the
broad ground of principle; and we
therefore in all good feeling ask of the
Argus whether they adopt the princi-
plies of the party as laid down by Mr..
Brownson! Lest ''the documents have
been mislaid," we recapitulate briefly
".Slave labor is decidedly less OPP.
pressive than free labor"
''lf there must always be a laboring
population, we regard the slave system
as decidedly preferable TO the system
OF wages"
"Wages is a cunning device Of the
devil, for the benefit Of tender con
sciences, who would retain all the al ,
vantages of the slave system, without
the expense, trouble and odlum ofbc-
ing slave holders"
"The remedy is first 10 be sought IN
the destruction of the Priest. The bad
must be removed before the Q God can
be introduced"
'The Priest is universally tyrant--
universally the enslaver of his bre,h-
rem"
"We object TO every thing like an
outward, visible church /; to every thing
that in the remotest degree partakcs OF
the priest"
"Priests are, ia the capacity ofpriesi,
necessarily enemies 10 freedom and e.
quality"
"A man shall have all he honestly
acquires, so long as he himself belongs
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