Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-06-29
HERE DITARY POLITICS.

HERE DlTARY POLITICS.
The effort now making by the locofocos, to save
themselves from the overthrow which awaits
them, is by ondeovoring to persuade the people
That they are the descendants and true representa-
tlves OF tie old democratic party. and that the
wings nre the successors Of the federaliss. Ev-
cry attempt they make, however, the more clear
y proves the iasy of their pre,ensons. But by
what process do they attempt TO make out their
c'nIn! lsit 10y shelving that the Wings embrace,
o''n mat The locofocos repudiaie, the here,es of
'ederalIsmF Do the Wings maintain the doctrine
oi hereditary merit and dcmerit? Are they in Gn-
vor OF strengthening the executive branch OF the
government, by uniting the purse with the sword?
arc 'noy ior large standing army or arc they
or 10" wages ana low price for agricultural
products that the poor and midding classes may
always be kept in subservency to the rich These
are the principles imputed to ancient federalism.
against which the democrats contended. End do
not the ocolocos, Ivy cOntcnding for these very
principles now, prove themselves entitled to the
inheritance Of federalism? Democracy frowns
at any claim they make ofrelutionship or acqunii,-
lance with her. But il is not from the identity of
supporters Of Jefferson, that the oco(ocos s,tenp
10 prove their affinity to the old democratic party.
II is Ivy showing TINT some of their party ,cere
democrats of the old school, and that those too
young TO he such, were either born democrats or
born of democratic parents; thus showing that
they embrace another old federal hcresy, which
democracy most of all abbors Wis claim to
merit 10y birth or Inheritance How would Jeffer.
"on have treated man who should hava boosted
to him of being born a democrat? He would
have regarded him real aristocrat, and told
MN That he had no respect for any democracy but
such as was the result OF rational conviction But
the locoiocos are constantly Boosting of their in
lerrnt aud hereditary democracy.
Mr.. Senator Grundy, at the late Baltimore con-
vention, said he claimed the merit OF being born
a veteran Democrat !" the Globe and the pari-
r OF, rs likewise all organs of the Iurty, are con-
slanty Wanting of the hereditary democracy of
their friends and supporters. And Mr.. Van Ness,
at the late county convention in this place, talked
, IN the same loco!oco, or aristocratic, npn,iape
once he consigned to the Wing pany from The.
II fact alone Of his being born of federal parents, and
another to his own party for having been born Of
democratic parents But how vain are all the
I attempts of the ocofocos to appreciate the merits
/ OF the old democratic party to themselves. with
out possessing its principles. IT'S true many of
them once belonged to that party; but the more
I. shanei TO such for having eschewed their former
IN faith. lis useless for them TO pretend that ihev
\ have not changed. Who are now their PRINCIPAL
~ leaders? Are hey not old federuIists ofhe strict.
Ipst nd still - a, y
st Among their writer's, who give a lone and direc
t'on to their journals, are not George Bancroft and
:, HHlidm Cullen Bryant acknowledged to be chief,
I'd And was not one the avowed opponent and the
IN other the lampooner Of Jefferson ? And among
their leading members of Congress, are not Wil.
~, dams of Maine, Hubbard of New Hampshire,
Val of New Jersey and Buchanan of Pennsvl.
r vania, at the very head? And were not all these
= old iederaliss Of the highest tone? So of thei
IL leaders in our own state were not Chuenden and
HaigM and Emerson and HasiceY and Sa,gyer and
Noyes, &c. &c. &C., among the most odious OF
n that party during the last war; And who are the
~ younger members the Iocofoco party the Dor,
he democrats, who are acknowledged as leaders
to Are they not sprung from The ranks of the old
federal stock? Look at those appointed to pre-
m side over and give tone and direction to ter con
W. ventions look at their State Committee men
look ut their public speakers; look at their newI,
'eo nominated candidate for Governor! How mis-
M :, , -
me- erably then do they succeed in proving their H.
nd tie ms representatives of the old democratic par
est w. even by their arstocraic claim of succession
L. and Inheritance. But away with all pretenson
m to democracy, founded on birth, inheritance o
on succession. The Wings repudiate all such claims
'oi 1t is nothing in their estimation, that the Mad
,,,' SONS and Monroes of the laud were Wings, O
ven that The Galushas and Buffers and Olns of ,hi
,lly state were Wings, or that their sons are Wing,
, 20 This in no way proves them the representative
are of the old democracy. But their claim to his ii
the tie rests upon the identity Of their principles wit
u. those of the democratic party. And SO long II
= the locofocos nnintan the doctrines and are gov
erned by the principles of federalism, it is in val
for them TO strive to hide their deformify by as
ear Stunning names which do not belong to them. TIL
y" ass in the lions sSn easily detected in hi
re- disguise, and when stripped, appeared the NOR
nd contemplate for the attempted cheat.
ton
a, ar THE PUBLIC LANDS.
at How do the locolocos of Vermont like the 70
lde lowing reluke from the locofocos of p.npsvlv,
" MIA?