Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-11-12

ment, are essential to their welfare and true |
progress. On these grounds substantially the |
people confidcd to us the administration of the
Government "Our defeat is no radical change
ofopinion on their part, but the interpostion of
unforeseen obstacles to the attainment of those
great national blessing. Many who voted with
us to elect Harrison, Tyler, and Wing Con-
grcss have now refused to vote because part
| of the vital measures which they expected to
follow the Wing triumph have not been pressed
to successful issue. Many accuse Mr.. Tyler
of treachery to his party, and refuse to vote from
Indignation at his course. Some on the other
track have grown cold, from feeling that the
President has been harshly treated by the great
mass Of the Wings. And there is still another
class, not nconsderablc in numbers, whose pat
riotic aspirations to serve their country in some
easy, well-paid station have not found response
from the appointing power and they have sew
orally cursed politics and the ingraitudc of re-
publics, and resolved never again to mingle in
the strife till they have found candidates and
leaders gifted with an omnscience to discern
their transcendant merits and claims. All these
adverse influences have proved for the moment
too much for us. One State gave way, then
another; the panic became contagious, and SO
resstess that even New York has sunk under
/; tive trust only for brief season. Such is
the history of our reverses.
1--WE foreboded much of this when our ears
, were first stunned with the sad tidings of Gen.
eral IIarrison's death. The fall Of the General
, is too often followed by the rout Of the army
and this was not dssimlar case. 1t could
not be expected that John Tyler or any Other
man should retain Pennsylvania and Maine
while local and sectional questions must ever,
!. where nterpose TO diminish if not destroy the
great majoritics given to General Harrison.
Mr.. Tyler and the whg majority in Congress
e had in every reapect done the best that ight
ened patriotism could prompt if angelic wisdom
T. had guided all their steps and ruled every hear
Y the death of our elected head and the ANARCHY
G Of opinion the loosening of ties consequent
= thereon. would probably have involved US il
Temporary disaster.
!" "And yet the disagreement OF Congress and tn
Is President on the currency question: has increas
q ed immensely the i'll elects of our other ard cal
G. lier calamnitcs. 1t was not the fact that tn
'e President differed from Congress on singl,
st though vital measure-lt was the censoriou
u. and uncharitable spirit which dictated the fir.
lie veto-in its palpablc design to aggravate rattle
+ than reverse the differences therein demonstr;
re- ted-that the poison urked. Its hostility wa
ne very naturally, though perhaps not wisely hur
e. ed back by Congress and from that lnonel
tn was exhibited the spectacle of divided hou.
W "a house lettering TO It's fall.
p Ave speak frankly of these matters al
" shall pursue the subject in a similar spirit. W
he feel that the wounds received by the VIII
ed cause are not irremedable but thcy reuuir
A. probing, not plastering. the approaching re
n. assembling Of Congress, must bring about co
he dial and thorough reconciliation between tn
" President ana the Wings, or 4 personal a,
Il. thorough separation. 1t is abundantly evide
as that we cannot go on as we arc.
ny But no true Wing will be discouraged |
MT the clouds that now surround US. we hay
es seen darker days than this'-one of them W
nd that on which noble band of patriots and stat
w. met in Harrisburg to nominate a WING cart
he date for President, in December 1889. The
as now, defeat after defeat had paralyzed MAJ
re arms, and filled feeble hearts with despair Y
ed the proper means were taken for arousing Il
10 Wing spirit, andhow magical was the chan!
NY which a few months exhibited! Sc may it
NJ again.-N. Y. Tribune.