Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-06-17
A WORD TO THE WIGS.

1t is of the highest importance to the well
fare of the Wing party, amid the chagrin and
modification which have followed the defec-
ton of the President, not to lose sight of the
great landmarks which have so long separa-
ted them from their opponents, or of the
principles which they fondly hoped to estab-
lish by the gallant struggle of 1910. While
~" f~"' go -''e~'.'. relative to the conduct
of the man in whom we misplaced our con-
fidence, and who by tho judgment of Heaven
upon our revered chief, was called to sue
coed to the chair Of State, let us remember
that we have our old enemy still before us
still clinging to the hope of regainng their
baleful ascendancy, and rcinstaling in high
places the reckless parlizans who swayed the
"reign of terror"-let us remember that
neither John Tyler nor any other man can
change the issue between US and Locofoco-
ism, which the people have once tried and
found most signay in our favor-and that
though the establishment of our principles
may be for while retarded by treachery
and detection, yet that they still remain I'M
changed, and are as deserving of our support
now, as when we seized them like a banner,
and, dashng on through the thickest of the
fight, planted them in triumph on the summit
of the citadel. Let it not be forgotten by
the Wings of Vermont that, be the President
what he may, the same old foe whom they
have uniformly driven out of the field, since
the iar,hest backward date in the "memory
of the oldest Inhabitants" are still kicking
away, and wont stay whipped more than a
|. year at time-that their objects are I'M
changed, and the means made use of to attain
. them as reckless and unprinciplcd as ever
that if it has been worth while to come ont,
= (Which is all we ask the Wings to do nor
d and fog them soundy every by-gone year,
{. there is no cause growing out of any i'm
provemenl in their conduct, to exempt them
5 from a repetition of their old accustomed
fate this fall.
|. In short, we implore the Wings of Yer
h mont 10 take this matter into serious consid-
D, Grafton, and ask themselves these questions
Is it state of things which they like to think
;, Of that the glorious motto Of" Always faith.
l. full" which amid the occasional lapscs of al
\. our sisters, has yet chung with truthful APP
b plicabili,y to our noble State, shall be rub
ill bed out of our escutcheon, by their tame
n ness and apathy during only one day7 /
y there any good cause existing why the ole
accustomed Wing ascendancy in the Stat
o; should be changed TO the fierce yells of vic
Is. torious Locofocosm, when by just eavn
n; their business half an hour they can set thi
d. matter right, without throwing up their cap
TO for President Tyler9
Nll Let every real, true-hearted and generou
Ir. Vermont Wing, once set himself to thinkin
led in earnest about this matter, and our wor
md for it, whether he likes Tyler or not, he wi
g gO jump to his arms, and exclaim, Never
act never shall this glorious land, which alor
am has borne mistaken the brunt of the bait
# for true principles, be given over to the ru
70, of the spoier, by my atquiescence or n
No. sIpineness!"
ap, Let us have every town represented
'' Middlebury on the CITE of July, when Il
the State convention meets to chalk out the pill
OF the next campaign, and that once don
let every man take off his coat, roll up !
and sleeves, and 60 into the contest, determin
80 conquer