Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-08-11

| and its administrators burdened with debt
of24 millions of dollars
These disasters were Justly regarded as
the legitimate fruits of departing from the
old republican principles ard policy. Such
was the deliberate verdict ofthe people, rem.
dered in the presidential election of 1910
The wisdom ofthat policy, which had been
unanimously affirmed in the days Of Mon
roe, was again stamped with the verdict OF
popular approval, by the most brilliant polti-
cal revolution ever recorded in the annals
of our country or the world
The people required substitution ofths
policy for that, which had brought upon the
country such wretchedness and shame and
to effect this change, they demanded and en-
forced change of the administration
Between the President elect and the repre-
sentatives Of the majority, there was perfect
harmony; and the first act of his admins
iration was, TO call an extra session of Con-
gress--tC bring the several branches into
eifectual play, in order to grant the neces-
sary reliefto the public distress, aud remove
the embarrassments which were pressing
upon the government
The representatives of the people at once
entered upon the task committed to them.
Among their first efforts, they attempted TO
reform and regulate the currency. Seeking
wisdom from past experience, the endeav-
ored to frame system combining the ex-
cellencies, and avoiding the evils, of those
which had already stood the test of time
and trial. The result of their anxious la
bors was sent to the Executive: but alas !
it was not TO the chosen and well-beloved
President of the people In one brief month
from the inauguration, by an inscrntable
act of providence the venerated HARRI-
SON had been gathered to his fathers, and
in the Executive chair sat--a Traitor
The first bill was strangled by the veto.-
A second was promptly framed, and with
a most liberal spirit Of concession to the
views of the Accidental President. His
signature, indeed, had been actually pledged ::
but through treachery, alike to the princi.
piles Of the party which had elevated him,
andto his own plighted faith, that sigma
ture was withheld.
Though embarrassed by the pressure of
reckless opposition, and the treachery of
the Executive and his followers, the Wings
were not faithess. True to the country and
to their own pledges, they sought that coun-
try's veal in all the modes left TO them. Hay-
ing failed in one point, they turned their en-
ergies into other channels. Abiding the time
unayoidably necessary to mature a Protect
i've Tariff, they sought TO relieve the pres
sing necessities of the government by tenn
porary Tariff. Ii was based purely on rev.
enue principles; but even this fell under the
Veto power. An act was passed, based up
on the only just and true principle of repre-
sentaiion in the House of Representative
the representation ofthe people, not of state
eignities-requiring the election of
members Of Congress by districts and e.
ven this was met by qualified Veto, which
has stimulated portion Of the states to de-
feat the law by disobedlence, amounting 10
practical Notification. The knife of re-
trenchment was applied TO the expenditures
OF the government; fortunately, with sue
cess, Topping off the monsirous sum which
had annually been wasted upon a most dis
graceful and wicked war upon a handful of
savages, and introducing more Just princi-
pies of economy into all the branches of the
government. The majority of Wings also
sought, in common with portion Of their
opponents, and not in vain, TO afford relief
to the multitudes, whom the errors of the
government had plunged into irremedible
embarrassments. 1t was done by bank
rupt act, which, however differently It NAV
be regarded by those whose interests were
differently affected by it, was founded in the
purest principles of mercy and humanity
the very principles, indeed, now recognized
by every state in the Union, through either
its non-imprsonment or relief laws In
part through the accomplishment of its own
purposes, and in part by the efforts of oppo-
sers, that act is now at an end. The great
question of the Public Lands was also Crap
pied, and Distribution bill was passed, in
accordance with the deeds of cession. and
for the first time carrying out the long
plighted faith of the government to the seye.
raj states. 1t fortunately received the sane
ton of the executive, and the results Of its
temporary existence, even when but a 1.-THE
of the ordinary sales Of the public lands
could be made, conclusively proved the
wisdom of the measure. Finally, through
unwearied labors and amid all the embar-
easements of conflicting interests-of the
persevering and all but unanimous opposi-
ton of the Locofoco party. from the North,
the West, the centre, and the South, as well
as Of a large portion Of the Southern Wings
"a ProtectiUe Tariff was passed. and re-
ceived the approval Of the President An
approval, however, which could be secured
only by sacrifice of the Distribution act.
From this hurried survey of the course of
the Wings since the election OF 1910, two
things are evident: first, that they honestly
and faithfully sought to redeem their pledg-
es, and thus to restore the old republican
policy; and second, that, in all points save
one, they were prevented by the President.
The Tariff forms the only material excep-