Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-29
Fom the n Y Coorcf and Enquirer
THE CHARACTER OF LOCO.
FOCOISM.

a small party in this city who first as
sumod the name of "Workingmen."
at whose head was a fellow by the
ers were principally English and
Scotch Radicals. A few of our low,
est laboring classes joined them, but
no sooner asccrtalnlng that under the
garb of workingmcn they were propa-
eating the most destructive and infa-
nous doctrines, then they reccded in
disgust from this nest of Fanny Wrigh
agrdrians, and exposed TO public indig,
nation Skidmore and his infamous
gang.
Once exposed, they threw off all
disguise, and openly advocated the
social principles of Fanny Wright and
the broadcast agrarlan doctrines. From
this time they gradually increased in
number, until they became so formid-
able that the Tory party imagined they
held the balance of power in this city,
and made overtures TO them for un.
ion. The overtures were accepted,
and one of these agrarians was placed
on the assembly ticket nominated at
Tammany Hall. This increased their
power; aud being possessed of far
greater energy and more perseverance
than those who congregated at Tam
many Hall, they demanded concession
after concession, until finally they gave
directions to the entire Tory party in
this city, forced it to abandon all its
principles, and caused it to become
what it now is-a reckless, uuprinci-
pied Loco Foco faction, utterly with
out honesty, and whose aim is, gradu-
ally to subvcrt all the institutions Of
the country, and establish in their
stead, Agraranis m and the peculiar
social system advocated by Fanny
WrigM.
1t was the agrarian Loco Focos of
this city who forced upon Mr.. Van Bu-
ret his crusade against State Banks:-
it was the Agraran Loco Focos OF
this city who forced Governor Marcy
and the editor of the Argus into po-
sition which induced Van Buren, and
his associates at Washington, to be-
licve that they had rebelled against
the General Administration;-it was
the Aerarlan Loco Focos of this city
who broke up the ranks Of the Tam
many Party in this State, and drew its
best and purest men into the formation
of a new party, known as Conserva-
tiyes; it is the Agrarian Loco Focos OF
this city who by changing the charac-
ter of Mr.. Van Buren's Administration,
have brought upon the whole country
the unheard Of distress under which it
labors, and which has reduced thou
sands and tens of thousands from pros
perlty and aliluence to poverty and
want; and il is tho never dying spirit
of agrarianism which was first warmed
into power by the administration party
of this city, and which Martin Van Blu
rem is pledged to establish and sustain,
that is now breaking up all the land
marks of the Constitution and which,
every friend OF civil liberty, is eyerting
all the energies Of his nature to crush
and defeat, in order that our govern
ment may once more be restored TO
that prosperous and healthy state,
wich so long secured to us national
and individual prosperity at home, and
respect and admiration abroad.
/ We are well aware that very large
portion of those who sustain the admin
Istration are kept in ignorance Of the
true principles Of the party 10 which
they belong, and the inevitable ten
dency Of their doctrines. We know
that unwearied efforts are made to keep
the people-the honest portion of the
people-in ignorance ofthe principles
and designs of the leaders AMI more
active spirits of the party, in the full
conviction that If once enlightened on
this subject, the administration would
be left without any supporters except
the open advocates Of agarianism and
Of Fanny Urighf's social system. But
the parry leaders cannot keep the peo-
pie IN entire ignoropce and al the same
time reap that support for their inia-
nous doctrines, TO which they are entl-
lied, from those choice spirits TO whom
they are acceptable. Aud accordingly
one Of their prominent oilIce-holdcrs-
a Mr.. o. A. Brownson, Of Boston, has
published an address to the "Laborlng
Glasses" in which the original princi-