Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-07-28
Washinoton. Iune 90. 1910.
WashinQton City, Jnno 2sth, lsil

Gentlemen: have been honored with your
invitation to attend "Log Cabin Convention
in Stratton, on the Green Mountains" on the
7ih and 9Th of July next. 1t would be very
gratifying to me to meet my fellow cllizens
on that occasion, but circumstances beyond
my control compel me TO deny myself the
pleasure. / shall, however, be with you In
spirit, and promise you har'y remember
ance.
There are associations connected with
your meeting, which give il, to me very pc
culiar interest. A "Log Cabin" Convention
among The mountains Of Vermont What a
convention! and what place! If ] were to
travel round the earth, should find, ] am sure,
no people more devotedly attached to the prin-
ciples of virtuous freedom, than those who will
be collected on that occasion; and no place
where those principles would gather more
strength from the power of past associations,
than among the mountains that looked down,
sixty years ago, upon the struggle of the
''Green Mountain Boys" to maintain their
Independence.
Your letter informs me that one Of the pur-
poses Of your meeting is to re spond to the
nomination of General Harrison for the Pres
idency. And from what people could such a
response come, more appropriately and more
heartily, than from these of Vermont-from
the decendents of the Aliens and Warmers,
the Chittendens, Fays, and Robinsons, whose
valor and wisdom saved her in an hour Of
deep peril, and gave to her institutions cast
of pure and elevated freedom,
Nowhere would General Harrison be more
al home than in Vermont. Nowhere would
his competitor be more stranger. Vermont
will Responsible must respond, by acclama-
ton, TO a nomination which proposes TO place
William Henry Harrison in the chair now oc-
| IL -.
And this she will do, not from blind impulse
not from a sense Of suffering under expert
ments. Vermont has not waited for pecuniary
distress to wiring from her a condemnation OF
the men in power. Even when the expert
mens seemed lie be working well; when
money was plenty and labor was amply re-
warded, and her people were urged 10 give in
! their adhesion 10 the Administration, under
whose policy they seem 10 be prosperng
even then did they stand firm in opposition
! They ielt that there were higher questions in
voived than those of mere profit and loss
They saw the Constitution violated. They
saw power abused. They saw independents,
! punished and subseryiency rewarded" The,
saw Executive influenced silently working
lis way through the country, reaching and sub
DUNG men N office, and sspirants for office
subsldlzing the press, manufacturing public
opinion, controlling the action OF State Legis
latures, and entering the Halls Of Congress.
They believed that, sooner or later, the sys
TEN OF experiments would explode and in
volye the country Ia embarrassment. But
without regard to such result, it was enough
for them that the Administration were exper
imeniiag for the sake Of power; that process
was going forward which would send ,h
bane Of false principles TO the heart Of our in
siiiuiions, and that corruption would under
mine the citadel which daring and fagran
usurPaiion, aloDe, nigh, in vain assai