Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-07-01
BROKEN PROMISES.

These words and others similar, form al
most the whole burden Of the mournful dities
OF Locotoism in these days of their affection,
and the pertinacity which they manifest in
striving to fasten the charge of breaking
promises upon the Wings, might produce an
effect upon the minds of some men, were
the character of those who cry stop thief"
less familiar to the people. But so it unfor-
tunately turns out, that the people are not
the fools which Locoforoism would make
them out 10 be-inasmuch as the memories
of most Of them are sufficiently retentive to
recall the era Of 1929, when these immacu-
late accusers were in high feather, dealing
out "promlses" with the profusion of very
spend'hrifts, and going all lengths in what
ever pledges seemed most likely to elevate
the reformers" Of that day to the seats of
power. The time is too short, gentlemen,
which has elapsed, since the PRONUNCIATION of
the promised exploits of Jackson democracy,
to allow of the possibility of their being for
gotten by those who were cheated by them
and the expericnce,-the bitter, ruinous,
prostratlng experience which has followed
the misplaced confidence of that period, will
be to all time perfect guaranty against the
natural forgetfuness which might in ordinary
cases assist you in wiping from the minds of
the people, the memory Of your "broken
promises. No twelve years is too short
period for any great political events to be
forgotten,- much too short then for
people-a whole people, groaning under the
accumulated disasters inflicted upon them by
twelve years reign of unprincipled profit
gates, elevated to power by virtue of the
fairest pledges, to forget those pledges, or
the men who rose upon them, only to tram
pie them under their feet.
Let no one wonder at the impudence of
such men in talking about broken promises
for who but just such characters would de-
scend to the falsehood ofcharging the Wings
with breaking their promises, with the inn
plcation that they had the power to fulfil
them, while they know, and every body
knows, that circumstances unparalleled in the
history of any party, have placed 1t out of
their power TO carry out all their measures.
Yet this makes no difference to the evil spr-
il of Locoiocosm, which like Satan in Pam
demonium, is darkly plotting, by crafty
stealth, to regain those high seats from which
retrbutive justice has hurled them down for
overland which, like him and his compeers,
they may never hope TO fill again by any
open and bold attempt. The Wings stand
ready whenever they have the power, to FIJI
i'll ALL their pledges, and when the destruc-
tives, after spending the whole twelve years
of their abominable reign in breaking and
scofling at every pledge which they falsely
made to cheat the people into trusting them,
can fasten the charge of PROMISE breaking
upon the Wings for not doing what was out
of their power, then shall We believe the
people love their enemies and hate their
friends, but not till then. Again we saw.
the Wings have had no opportunity to fulfil
all their promises-ahd it is this truth which
will arm them with teniold power to 90 into
the next campaign determined that the peo-