Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-09-03
ARE YOU READY.

WhigS of Vermont are you ready for the
contest on the 9TH day Of September For
years YOU have struggled with a giant party
who had trcacherously obtained an ascen-
dancy in the government, which by the in
~fluence of power and patronage, a subsi-
died press and an union of the purse with
the sword, they hoped to make perpetual
But American Frecmen would not bear the
calling chains of a government administered
for the purposes of personal aggrandiscmcnt.
A tide Of indignant feeling burst through
their hearts, from one end of the continent
to the other.
The administration has been changed, and
the triumphant party in Congress are endea-
voring to heal the wounds of the conflict, and
restore the country to that high and palmy
state of prosperity from which it had fallen.
But you have seen how every measure of re-
lief has been INSTRUCTED by indiscriminatc
and unprincipled opposition. The serpent
is scotch'd, but still able to infict his vcnc-
nous wounds. He still swclls with restless
desires to avenge his defeat and regain the
a~scendancy. ThcbIack banner oflocofoco-
ism in Vermont is again flung to the breeze.
They are again endeavoring to bcwildcr the
public mind by their usual arts of m%isrepre-
sentation and falsehood A national Bank,
which the %loftiest patriots of the country have
sanctioned, and whose destruction has pro-
we'd utterly ruinous to the business of the
country, is denounced upon tho falsest pre-
fences; while the odious sub-treasury scheme,
with all the insignia Of aristocracy and mon
archy hanging about it, is the idol of their
profound alteration. The protection of do
nestle industry, and the distribution of the
avails of the public lands which, by with
drawing three millions from the treasury. to
be supplied by additional duties to that
amount, is calculated TO make protection
more efficient, come in for all abundant share
of their loudest anathemas.
While by these means they who are en-
deavoring to terrify the people from the sup
port of the only policy which can afford them
relief, they are still advocating the exploded
empyricism of the two last administrations
which like a walking mildew has spread ruin
and disaster thro' the whole length and
= breadth Of the land.
But if the democratic wings through the
union are true to their duty, their task vii
be hopeless, and the mark which the sover.
eign people placedupon locofocoism IN 1S4(
will last forever. If however, we %reclint
s%upincly upon the %!aurels We have alread,
won, even in Vermont defeat and disastcI
may at length burst upon us.
Freemen Of Vermont ! again VIC ask, are
you ready. The enemy may be weak il
numbers, but hci $ formidable in activity, en-.
t~erprise, and unanmity, and the use of STRAIT
agems not the less eiica cious because til,
most guilty. To our kno Wedge, his beacon
fires are fast tightening up in our glens ant
on our mountain tops. Reccollcct that
victory would be dearly bought by the los
of five thousand votes, Preserve the prou,
prc-eminenco Of the last campaign. Saw
your State, your country and yourselvo
from the modification Of a diminished vote
Reccollect that you are the vanguard of tn
North in the autumnal elections. Let ever
man be at the polls. Garry the wing banne
high, and flash encouragement through til
ranks Of your friends through the Union,