Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-03-31

the following speech OF the Hon. William Jar
WIS OF Neathersheld, al the great Wing Con-
%ventior at Claremoni, n. H.. assembled from
Inc valley OF the Connecticut Mr. 1afvis
has always iae u a sound anu consistent re-
publican of the Jeffersonian school, and a
close observer of the rise and progress of
parties in this country, from the foundation
OF the Government. Looking back to the
BfIilsh Government. prior TO the Revolution.
lie has traced the origin of the terms Whiq
and Tory in England, TO their adoption in this
country. The parallel between the Wings
and Tories of England and the Whirs and
Tories of the I'm ted States, is apt anil s,rik.
ing. His eloquent appeal to the good sense
of THE people, in favor Of Gen. HARRISON,
will he responded to by every true patriot in
the AUTHORIZATIONS Fails Gas.
SPEECH OF MR.. CONSUL JARVIS,
AZ tie Wing Contention, at CldreD,oni, Feb
ru7ry L..
Ma. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIzENs:-I
am butt plain. and practical man, my life
having been spent in the active pursuits of
business, and ! do not pretend to any powers
OF oraiory worthy of SO respectable an audi
ence. But, at a time when the bad admins
tration of the Federal Government, is des-
troying the best interests of our ,ommon
country | hold it to be a duty which every
citizen owes To the community, to exert him
self TO the utmost TO stay a course of meas
ures that must Infinitely bring us to ruin; and
shall therefore throw in my mite in aid Of the
cause.
We are assembled in a State where thou
sands of honest and well meaning men, have
been deluded into a support of the pernicious
measures Of the administration, under a belief
that by so doing, they were maintaining the
cause OF Jeffersonian democracy. | was nur-
tured in the school of Republicalism. The
music sweet to my ear when a lad, was the
drum and fife that beat up for recruits in the
streets of Boston, To defend the liberties of
their country. Those principles were incul-
Gated upon my mind, by the precepts Of Han
cock, Samuel Adams, Thomas jefferson and
James Madison. all Of whom | had the graft
fcation personally to know; and those prin-
ciples of patriotism | have steadily adhered
10, as the sun guides to the prosperity and
happiness of this Republic. ID ,mocracy, as
1t Is now understood, is not the Democracy of
those fathers of the Revolution and of our
institutions. Fully to explain my meaning
1t viii be necessary TO 90 some way back, and
examine into the origin and political principles
implied by the party names which have pre-
vailed IN this country, and in that from which
we have descended.
The terms Wing and Tory are of English
ilIlI. dilu NCttI htlDluttu IIlo Itldt country
in the reigns of the Stuarts. Those who de-
Tended the rights of the people against the ar
bitrary proceedings and despotic claims of
the Stuaris, under pretence Of enforcing the
preroeatiVes Of the crown, were called Wings;
on the reverse, those who claimed for the
crown prerogatives, amounting, in point of
fact, to powers ofa despotic character, which,
in many instances placed the crown beyond
the control of Parliament, were den, minated
Tories; and those party names have been con-
Time in that country To this day.-As the
Revolutionary contest for our country began
by defending the rights of the American colo
MES against the arbitrary claims 10 unquali-
fled jurisdiction over them, set up by the Brit
ish crown, or in other words, the power assu-
med by the king ofdeiending the rights of the
colonisls according to his understanding of
the Brush Constitution, the appellation of
Wing was dsemel by our Revolutionary
fathers probably, applicable to those who
were defending the chartered and civil rights
ofihe American peOple;-and those who sup
ported the arbitrary pretensions OF the crown,
were denominaiel Tories. The terms Wing
and Tory continued throughout the Reyolu-
iionary war down TO i7s7, at which period
they gave way TO the party denomination Of
Federalists and anti Federalists. Those par
~ names oriainate1in the discussions which At
that time took place in regard 10 the Principles
upon which n confederation ought. to be formed.
The lele. alisis were ofopinion that in order
to form a regular, uniform and stable admin
istralion of our public afTlirs, il would he
necessary to clojhe the Executive with large
powers-thai the people were often liable TO
be led asiray-ihat the more ignorant classes
were unthinking and turbulent and, under
strong excitement, might proceed 10 such ex-
cesses as 10 enlanger the governmental final
IN destroy their own liberty The Anr-Fed-
e~ralisis, on the reverse, conlended that there
was a disposition N exc 'uiiye mlgisirl es TO
increase their power-ihat most Republics
had been overturned 10y popular chief mlgis-
tr,tes encrociing on the rights and liberties
of me PEG ,le-ihlt an enlightened AMI intsl-
ligcpt Deople like the Americans. could be
safely trusted with the management Of their
own affairs, and that there was loss danger ol
a D,ople destroying their own liberty than
there was tha, they would be destroyed by
the p,,ronage. the willy arts, the corruption and
d~1plicity Of cunning Executive. About l70l
The Ar. Federalists assumed the name oi the
Republican party: and about 1907 or lT9s n
was changed FOR that OF democrat. which ai-
relation | think was first adopted "a the
Southern States, and gradually travelled
north, until II became general; and the party
names Of Democrats and Federalis's eoniin-
u,d dsun 70 1915. about which year ines