The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-07-20
ON WITH YOUR ARMOR, WINGS.

The battle-day approaches. On the one
side and the other the busy note of preparation
is to be heard at least it is so in the camp of
the enemy. Are the wings preparing? 1t is
time-high time-to think of efficient action,
and to prepare for 4 new and noble victory
Last year, there was more enthusiasm, more
determination, more exertion: but then, even,
there were no greater motives than exist at
the present moment. Mark this truth; or if
you doubt, consider well whether it is not real
ly and simply the truth. That victory was
then achieved, is not to be denied one more
splendid than every other, as the exhibition
which it gave of the majesty of the people was
the most signal of all. But what else than
costly and empty pageant, is victory achev-
cd, if the field is not retained and the fruits
gathered! What avails it, that the people in
their might have spoken, and demanded
as they did, in a terrible voice-the overthrow
of the corrupt and faithess administration then
in power; the abandonment Of their "expcri-
ments," and their entire policy, and the sub
stitution of entirely different men and different
measures; we ask, what of all this, if so be the
popular voice is not re-asserted and the new
administration is not sustained in the work
which, at the command of the people, it has
begun! 4 revolution in the policy of the gov
ornment was our aim last year; it must be cur
steady aim to persevere until the work is per-
tected. With the single exception that the
man Of our hearts is removed by the fiat of
God, all else presents now the same motives
for action that existed at the last contest The
same principles, the same great interests, the
same great measures are at stake; and by all
these let us be neryed to do our duty manful-
ly.
This is emphaticalEy true as it respects YER
mont. Look at the policy of the two parties,
as declared in their respective State Conven-
tions. On the one hand the wings have reaf-
firmed the great doctrines for which they so
zealously contended in 1910; for retrench-
ment and reform in the National Government;
against the sub-treasury for a sound and safe
National Currency; for the tariff, and for pro-
lection to agriculture, manufactures, and all
branches of domestic industry, by means of
discriminating duties for a distribution of the
proceeds of the public lands among the states
and, in fine, for the present national admin
istration, so far as it is faithful to the people
and aims to accomplish the great ends which
the people of Vermont had in view in elevating
1t to power. On the other hand, we find the
iocos, as if bent upon defying and insulting the
People and sealing their own condemnation,
boldly resolving in favor of the condemned
sup:'reasury against all other modes of COL
lecung the revenue and regulating the curren.
cy; against protection; against giving the
states their own patrimony, the public lands
even against the execution of the act of their
own congress, giving to the states the surplus
revenue
Thus fairly is the issue put tothe people of
Vermont; so put that they cannot fail to see
that they are vitality interested in the result
interested, if we come to mere dollars and cents,
to an amount of revenue, from the lands alone,