Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-02-14
COMMUNICATIONS
ARE WE COMMENTED?

ARE WE COMMENTED
Morals, politics, and society present to the eye
Of even I'M Indifferent observer nm hue of the
most sonbfe cast. Whole states have descended
to the pitiful level of the scOundrel who obtains
credit OF his baker, or his butcher, for supply of
bread or meat, and when the bill comes to be pre-
scented for payment coolly thrusls his hands into
his side pockets and says, "Mr. Bloody Butcher,
(or Mr. Doughhead Baker, never eat all that
go to the ID for your pay" Or in Cockney style
puts his thumb on his nose, and drawls out I" no
you don't" We have large body Of men as
sembed in Congress TO cure some Of the evils of
our internal policy, confessedIy out Of Joint, and
to seek n safe and honorable delivernnce from The
threatening aspect Of our Foreign Relations. But
these subjects, of such primary, national magni-
tude, are showed one side, by bawng blnckguards
as destitute of patriotism and modesy as they
of any useful talent, who after becoming pot-va.
liant, delight in blowing their cheeks shaking their
fists, aud, if the obliquity of their vision were to
be trusted, the very Capitol reels the Union it.
self staggers-while they are adding their drug
to the bubbling political caldron The deSpofism
of party throws its ponderous iavoIin into the
breast OF every measure proposed by men who
might be statesmen were they not compelled to
carry the dead-weiglt of their peers; and the
man who allows the common welfare 70 urge
him forward to the breach, does so at the peril Of
lead and stcel--in the teeth of the duesl, aud
bur hands bread h from the assassin. What
iyrdnny is worse than that of nm excited party?
or of ferocious leader of party? How many
of the members OF Congress are anything but
party politicians? How many dare an honest
man rank in the clnss of STATESMEN? Alas if
a statesman, or a'phllosopher, Madison, or n
Franklin, were now TO come forth, he woLl fnd
himself aslray-lts birth unproftnby IN The wrong
time OF the moon. SoLoNs and LYcUBGUsEs are
too passive to live in the present diaholus era. 1t
is the eliminating Point ofihe spnrring SheriddnS,
the Deaf BukeS, aud tho 'silver-belled' Chanpi-
onS Pugstic heroes, sans buckskn shirts, with
bowie knives and horse pistols-enough of ornio.
rical tcrrour to give an impress Of the sublime
are the stuff now in request for the Legislative
hall. REASON has had minority of black
beans cast against her, aud is oslraci,ed. AS she
looks back,
"--het scarce hollis The oad uproa,."
Society is corrupted by high examples. II pub
lie servants eau turn money truors-can take for
their own what was meant for whole people
surely an insignificant by-way individual may
plumber his neighbours in any way which the
Johr Laws and Tobias WdtkinseS have not made
too bare fuced, too notorious, to he successfully
practised. The bloody spirit OF mobs has been
but too faithfully muistered unto by those who
ought to have been teachers of wisdom, of peace,
and all the combinations OF virtue, which go
/" To giee the porid assurance Of a man."
! Il is far from the truth 10 say every man (iu
] OOnRTessl UOus COnUDeu WIliln MN u muuMuH
our censure is chiefly deserved South and South
West. Did We say more, some Mr. SdHpetre might
send us a congressional gilt edged hlllet-doux,
with the inquiry he was meant 'par-tic-n arly.'
| We cannol say less in justice our own delegn-
lion, while we acquit New England members
generally of giving us stones when the cry is for
bread.
Are we contented ?-When our monetary af-
! fairs all awry,
fWhen ferers burn, n ague freezes
Rheumdties gadc, or chOi,e Squeeses,'
every pocket in the Iand--he u. S. 1rensurers
not excepted, lis that time to listen 10 the feuds
of the cock robins, and the killers of cock robin ?
When an influx of imports threatens to absorb
not the surplus corn, pork, beet wool or cotton
all that remains of the gold and silver in our coun-
try, and leave us BentonS rags and lampblackn
only, is that time TO preach the sophism of Free
Trade? When all agricultural produce goes to
market only at ruinous rates, in adjusting the Tar
iff as to protect the whole country, is that the
time TO search as with n microscope to fence out
a vulgar fraction of protection from the pocket OF
an American wool grower, or iron manufacturer
When the country from extravaganza, aud NAL
versation of officers, has got stripped OF ready
means, aud considerably in debt, is that time to
argue an abstraction, whether loan OIL time, or
on demand, notes, OF stock, is the panacea least
liable to constitutional qualms and quidGities p
When the "Termngant of the seas" threatens
hail of iron globes" in the east, west, north,
south-on Maine, on the Oregon, on the northern
Lakes, and on The "peculiar' South, is that a
time for our IL, sators to gyrate at Levees by night
and enact the part of cutlhroats and rosterers by
day ?-When tho INDUSTRY ofthe Nation is dam
med up, when the energies of the whole people
are becoming stagnant, is it enough that the Slut
ces OF Billingsgate have capacious vent hoes and
the muddy stream of debate more mouths than
water the delta of the Danube or The Ganges?
GUS cuslodict ipSos cusiodes! Our keepers
nave proved false. They, the guard ans of Lib
| eriy, must themselves be guarded. The work is
graceless thankess but must be undertaken.-
The Augean stable had never more filthy set of
occupants beasts shall | say ?-than our Con-
gressional Capitol daily discloses. Put on cool,
such one would use TO view the 'ronfuent small
pox.' or some eprous disease, and behold iIr. ID.
telling MIR. A. he will cM his throat from ear 10 ear
See Mr.. w. calling MIR. A. black liar! Look !
Mr.. G. is striving to gouge an eye from The head of
Mr.. B.-EI pede Herculem! When can we say
the blackguard's occupation is gone? Every vo-
ter should pour out his Indignation upon the heads
of these responsible individuals, who have brought
such dnnnng disgrace on our beloved Republic,
either as limb OF the corpus dehcii, or parties by
connivance and sufferauce. Let these atrocou
brawers who have no pulse in unison with the
peace, glory, or prosperity of their country, feel
the consuming fire of fierce constituency with
hands uplifted which no skill in fence can parry.
Let the whole press come out and lash them as
with g whip of scorpions Aud, il there should
he no sense Of shame left in the honourabLe mem
bers, we may at least put sting in the conscience
of their supporters against The possibility of their
again asking to be sent where they have polluted
the most sacred trust. Not ill then
shall the winter of discontent
Be made glorious summer
A BLACK SMITH