Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-07-31

which was to be enforced only during the continuance
of hosltics compared with that, of raising military
force of 100000 men, 100000 of which number are to
kept constantly organized and embodied. ms lUu,
900 to be olicored to be paid to be clothed and to
be provsioned by the Presidents and are to be subro-
dnatc to his will and subject TO his ordcrs and for
dsobcdence TO be subject TO the pans and penal
ties of martial law. No other officers will be select,
ed than such are known to be his warm and decided
partlsans, and who have been thoroughly taught the
doctrine of implicit obedience and non-reslstance to
his will. Once pass the law and organize them, and
it will then be discovered, that as citizens Of the I'm,
ted States they have right to vote for President and
Vice President wherever they may be- and law will
be passed to this effect; and also to vote for state Off
GERS in the state from which they were drafted Now
let us see the effect Vermont has majority OF 5000
against the Administration. Just anterior TO the Pres
icntial election the public service will require that
$500 of those troops should be sent into this state
They will vote at the election for Electors ageeably
to the orders of their officers and cast 1870 votes IN
favor of the Presidential incumbent, which will over
balance by 2j0O the majority of the frcemen against
hm and thus secure the electoral vote OF The state to
| the incumbent. New York may have 5000 against
the President but the public services will require that
$4,000 of these troops shall be stationed there's and thus
the electoral vote of that state will likewise he secured
for him This process will also be extended to Penn
sylvania, to Ohio, and any other state that is deemed
necessary to carry, to the Presidents rc-cec
ton; aud thus the incumbent will secure his reelection
SO long as he chooses and by the same means appoint
his successor.
know that these men are to be called the militia;
but crafty tyrant will secure his end by The same IT,
sluous and stealthy steps that cat poun-
ccs upon her prey. This recommendation of Mr.. Van
Buren, and Mr.. Ponsett place under the Presidents
control 100000 men, is one OF the most bold, daring
l moves that entered into the brains OF crafty
despot; and certainly would not dlscredlt the cold
bloodcd cunning of an Octavus Caesar or the
kingy craft of Louis the eleventh of France. Once
pass sac law, and the liberties of this country are
at ar end, unless reganed by bloody civil war Ju-
Illus Caesar said, Give me money and will Obtain
soldiers; give me soldiers, and will obtain money
He had soldiers, he marched to Rome he seized the
public treasures, and from that day ne and his sue
ccssors ruled the Roman Empire. Mr. Van Buren,
) is urging through Congress his Independent Treas
, ury" which will give him the control Of the public
purse In addition to which, give him the control
r of 200 900 men, and he will be in this country what
Bonapartc was in France, master-nless some
Waterloo defeat should restore to us our liberties
Mr. Van Ness seems to think this Independent
Treasury very innocent scheme, mere measure for
the safety Of the public money; but IN lS5l when first
preached, Mr. Richie of the Richmond Enquirer, de-
nounced it, power i'll the hands of the President,
dangerous our lbertes and so said the Globe with
the addition that it would afford the means Of the pub
!, lie monies being robbed by hundred hands where
n then only could reach it, Even Gen. Jackson
declared that trusting the purse and the sword to the
l. Executive, would be granting power which, if I'M
II properly used might prove dangerous to the liberties
C Of our country The first Congress, principally com
posed of our Revolutionary patriots jealous Of
the public purse, and considered the purse and the
o sword in the same hands dangerous to beIties
the control Of the Treasury. The department of State
c of War. and Of the Navy, were made Executive de
p1rments directly under the control of the Presden
and subjected TO his orders he being by the Const
l. tuition made COMMANDMENT Chief of the army an,
navy and our foreign negotiations ond relations bena
ID confidcd to his charge. But the Treasury was pla
n ccd under the exclusive control of Congress, all
he ports from that department, being made to, and it
ID regulations being directly by that body. For tn
). truth of this examine the laws organizing the depart
J. mcnts.
g To day, however the pure modern Democrats de
lc clare, that Revolutionary fathers eau
L tous and that p acng the purse and the sword in tn
is Presidents hands, is perfectly safe, proper, and wise
NJ 1.-THE people trust them, they will the conscqucn
Id ces if power is continued in Van Burens hands Nj
Sc Van Ness too, thinks that this power placed in III
H. hands the immaculate Van Buren,, will be not onl
of safe but sautary. He has already uxuriaod upo
Treasury paw under the clear sky and amidst the fin
lc vntages of SPAIN until his long, giant frame has be
Il come round az Dutch burgo masters; but i
st gaining the rohnty ofhjs paernal ancestors, he ha
n regalncd the honest frank, straight forward cha
s. ractcr OF Dutchman.
J; Mr.. Van Ness undertakes to vouc for the uniforr
II Republicanism and political consistency Of MART
u Van Buren, but it happens that IN Vermont the Wi
u, ness has lost all credit for sound ke2ubcansm
n political consistency. Doubtless in 1926 nine freeme
D. Of Vermont of ten would have pronounced hi
to athless pledges and TO the old Republican party
Il Weshall therefore wan, nnimpeach liable wnes
d. than he is clear Mr. Van Burens character frol
lll the imputation Of gross regeneration.
r. hnew but little Of Mr.. Van Buren before 1872, fo
!! he was not till that time much known out of his Stat
ne but do know, that in 1872 de Witt Clinton was SUI
he ported by the Federal party in NewYork for Pres
IS IS dent in opposition to Mr.. Madison. further know
Ill that Martin Van Buren, co-operated with the Fedcr
Is party in promoting his election; and also know, tn
~ very large portion of the Republican party supper
n ed the reelection of Mr.. Madison, did the who
M Republican party throughout the United State
IS Every new success of our arms made the war MOI
popular and Mr.. Van Buren,, with cat like wachfu
we ness porccvng that the current Of public opinion wa
r. setting in favor OF the war, deserted De Witt Clinton
% padded his canoe into that current and foated wit
cir it. When the Hudson and Erie canal projecte
n by Mr. Clinton, Mr. Van Buren, pronounced it n wilt
Ia impraciicabe scheme which was going to involve II
10 state in an nexrcabe debt and cautiously denour
ccd the shemea as the visionary big ditch. The Sta
ct sustained Mr. Cnton's views and after the canal ha
Is. progressed so far place ii beyond doubt that
ISIS would succeed, the scales fell from Mr., Van Buren,
eyes, and he became its warm supporter and again ii
cs proiesscd friend of Mr.. Clinton. But no sooner In
n he and lis friends got the ascendancy in the lcgls;
oh ture, than De Witt Clinton was unceremonously d
g- missed from the principal direction of the canal TIL
by of gross injustice reused the indignation of the pee
= pie, and Mr.. Clinton was elected Governor of 4!
it State by large majority. Ii is understood that a
r. ter his election Mr. Van Burrn sent mutual friend
ny propose a reconciliation and concert Of acton
ed cheated by Mr.. Van Buren,, and that lie would tax
MT care not to be a third time.
IN In 1924, Mr.. Van Buren, in favor of Mr. Craw
he ford for the Presidency and bitterly opposed to Gei
Es cral jackson. The Argus then under the control
he lespo unqualified by education, by temper and h
led habits for the Presidency; and that he had no pril
rs cipcs and feelings in common with the Democrat
MS party.
IN. After the election of Mr.. Adams he remained @
>" the fence until 1926 when he came out for Jackson.
The next prominent part that he plays, was in tn
'p- mastery court intrigue, in which Mr. Eaton and Pr
l sident Jackson, on the side, and Mrs. Calhou
ate and j. C. Calhoun, the other, pitted again
OF each other and made play very prominent, but N
very enviable parts; and which broke up the unit q
'th bnc and brought about the deadly rupture betweG
TOT Jackson and Calhoun. This precious specimen
or Van Burens talents for court int, que, secured
ms him the friendship of Jackson, and the deep scat
Use hatred of Calhoun. But when, in 1887 the little NJ
&C. gcan and the arch Nufer bya new coalition, cou
is perpeae the greatest mischief against the best int
gu rests of their country, they became extremely low
av friends and have since hamonlousy acted togethe
ted Both of them of nordnate ambition, but destitute
he that noble ambition which makes the public good Il
nal polar star TO guide their political course both unscr
er- puous as the means provided it affords probal
chance of gaining their ends both SO extremely st
Of fish, and nordnately egotisca, that they have II
art the least conception that any measure can benefit
ch neODlc which thWarts their interested views ~