The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-23

b lOTu ne suOWs up
of the Locofoco clanor about the State debt
in very satisfactory manner. We hope
oui friend will continue his communications.
STRANGE HALLUCINATION.
Mn. EDITOR I notice that one of the LO-
cofoco papers printed in Burlington, very
gravely inquiries sWhy are the Democracy
in the minority in the State of Vermont %
and then proceeds to assert, that Vermont is
not prosperous under her Wing adninistrn-
ton, s-whie her sister States have made
rapid advances in wealth, III prosperity, and
influence. He also says that ''her young
men ere compelled to emigrate to more ia
vored States, where their enterprise will be
encouraged and their industry rewarded
Vermont, embracing for the most part, a
sober, intelligent, and vrtuous people, it is
not strange that Loco Foco Democracy.
should be in the minoTity-and that minority
will grow less and less, as its principles and
purposes are criticised and known. A large
majority of the People of Vermont, are the
| advocates of Law and order while Loco
Focoism feeds upon broken Constitutions,
and violated Laws. 1t gorges ITSELF as it he's
opportunity, by devouring the rights of the
sober and intelligent classes. But it meets
! with too keen a jealousy, and too whitening
! a look, from the Wing Democracy of our
patriotic State, TO successfully make its in
roads upon us. Its disorganizing and des-
tructive doctrines are rebukcd the passes
among our mountains are fortified against
its encroachments and it is cast Off with its
herisies its free (aftas British monopoly
trade doctrines its Fanny Wrightism its
slave holding and anti tariff coalition. These
the Editor may learn, arc some of the plain
reasons, why his sort Of Democracy, is Gin
variably" in the minority in this Stale.
But 1t seems that the sage Editor of the
Democrat has made new and important
discovery. He has found out that Vermont,
under her Wing administration, and for
sooth by reason thereof, has been tumblng
into Bankruptcy, "while her sister States
in the West have made rapid advances in
wealth, prosperity and influence" do not,
the reader will understand, intend Ia insinu-
ate in the slightest manner, that the sharp
sighted Editor of the Democrat literally in
tended to coin a falsehood, with which to
feed his patrons but Father that he found it
more useful to his purpose, $50 be able to for
get,'' than tell the truth.
What are the facts In 1S40, under the
administration of Martin Van Buren,, the
Great Prototype, and God Father % Loco
Focoism, and consequently the highest au
thority to the Democrat, we get the follow
ing returns. comparing the prosperity Of YER
mont with these h ighly favored States of
the West, "where our young men have been
compelled to emigrate, that their industry
might be rewarded - Let it be remarked,
that Vermont is the only State in the Union,
that has been uniformly wha she has ache-
we'd for herself the name and fame, of ''the
star that never sets" She alone has es
capped soaring, at some period vi other,
from the niisrue of heI political opponents
while near every other state, has, either
been in the furnace, or burnt over, by the de-
vouring clement. But TO the returns and
first let US compare the indebtedness of Yer
mont, under her ''invariable" Wing rule,
with that of his highly favored Western
States which for the most part. have been
steadily pulling in the trades of SHE Party"
since the appointment of Andrew Jackson to
the Presidency in 1879 not overlooking the
State of Pennsylvania, the very backbone Of
Jacksonism.
amount Of Slate debts IN 1910.
Pennsylvania, S34,723, 26i
Alabama, 10S59 CSC
Mississippi, 12,4OO,O0O
Louisiana, %, 5S6, 900
Indiana, 1861, 4S3
illinois, 1886 1872
Missouri, It. Benton's own State} 2,929,5
Michigan, 6,O1l 600
Arkansas, 3,I65,S62
Vermont (the Wing Star that never sets.) /
nonel
Ii is well here to notice, thai our ears have /
been constantly filled by the Loco foco
presses and demagogues in this State, about
our enormous, State debt--that as a conse-
quence we are OIL the eve of bankruptcy
and that it has all grown out of Wing sxtrav
agance and prodisality-jeoPardlzing every
MANS farm in the State. in lis ultimate pay
ment: when in fact we have no State debt
AT all. This makes me think of the great
crv about "Wool." And now let me ask
the Editor of the Democrat whether he will
undertake to deny, that the above truly en-