Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-08-11
BY VIM. E. RyTHER.
ADDRESS

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Uention, andcr the direction of the Stat
Central Committee.
Fellow CITIzENs,-
In declaration Of the principles and policy
Of the Wings of Vermont, there can be lit
,le which is either startling or attractive for
its novelty Deriving their political faith
from the wise aud Patriotic Fathers of the
Republic, the people Of this State have abb.
Died by it with steadlastness, only exceled
10y that of their own Green Mountains
They have been shaken--never broken they
have been severely tried-but have emerged
from the fiercest trials, purified and radiant
with brighter glory Their fearless at
Vachment to principles, and the irmness OF
their integrity, have won for them unver-
sal admiration and respect, and reputation
worth sacrifices to maintain. But they have
higher and nobler motvet to stand fast and
immoyable. Their principles have passed
the unerring test of experience, and the YER
dict is-THEY ARE RIGHT. The voice
Of past events, aud the louder voice of the
present, both proclaim them RIGHT.
With the Sd of March 1920, ceased the
administration of President, unsurpassed
for the splendor of his abilties-a statesman,
taught in the school of the Revolution, and
enriched with all the wisdom to be derived
from long experience and constant assoca-
ton with the most eminent men of the age
IA Man, honest, able, fearless, and thor
oughly patriotic. This President, who was
sustained by the people of Vermont with ve-
ny great unanimi,y statesman-this
man, in all the noblest attributes of man-
was John Quincy adams.
In his administration, Mr. Adams acted
mpon the principles, and adopted the policy,
which had grown out of the preceding ad-
ministrations, conducted by the wisest of
the founders of the Republic, and which.
under Monroe, had received the nearly
unanimous assent Of the people As well
by their own inherent excellence, as by the
approving verdict Of the people, those prin-
cpes and that policy were stamped RE-
PUBLICAN. The principles of that adj
ministration required an honest and eco
nomical government, using its constitution
al power for legitimate ends-to preserve
the Union, Establish justice, insure domes-
tic tranquility, provide for the common de-
fence, promote the general welfare, and Sc
cure the blessings Of Liberty to ourselves
and our posterity." Its policy embraced
among its main features a Protective Tariff
and a National Bank-naturaI adinncts;
without which every branch of Domestic
Industry must either be crushed by foreign
competition, or langush for the want of
sound aud stable currency. There was an
other feature, aiming to develope and i'm
prove the resources of the nation, which is
now less dependent upon the patronage of
the Federal Government, since these high
objects are, or may be, mainly accomplish
ed through individual enterprise and the
aid Of the several states. Still less will the
energies of that Government be taxed for
this purpose, when all the states shall have
their rights accorded TO them, by an annual
distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands. This is the natural substitute for
what was called the Internal improvement
System. and measure whose Justice never
was questioned by the statesmen who formed
The Union. They, indeed, offered the pub
lie domain, for Just division among the
several states, expressly ito facilitate the
completion of the articles Of confederation
and perpetual union among the United. States
OF America" The design, and the effect,
OF Distribution is but honestly 10 carry out
their intentions, according to the spirit and
letter of the deeds Of cession.
But to return from this DEPRESSION. John
Quincy Adams left the nation prosperous
and happy; with currency unrivalled in
any nation of the earth; and with every
branch of Labor and honest enterprize--
the producer ofthe raw material, the artizan,
the factor and the shipper--all progressing
steadily and successfully. The benign in
fuences of the republican policy had been
universally felt, and so universally were they
acknowledged, that in the political strug-
giles Of "a and %, both parties, in the main,
protested their entire adherence to it. An
other dynasty succeeded it departed from
The Republican policy with what results,
let the history of twelve years of political
mlsrule, and unmitigated misery, attest.
Assault after assault was made upon the
Tariff of 1923. Manfully, and for time
successfully, were these assaults repealed by
the Wings Of that day, aided, in part by the
members of the dominant party from the
free states But at last it fell, and the doc
trine Of Protection to American Industry
which came into existence coeval with the
Constitution and in the estimation of our
p1triotic fathers, was synonymous with A
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE-was a.
bandoned. At the same time, an equally
preserving aud ruthless war was made upon
the Bank of the United States; an inslitu-
ton which,-however widely it may have
erred under the goadings of its destroy
ers, and however widely it unquestion-
ably did err, underline charter subsequently
granted by the state of Pennsylvania-had
hitherto served both government and peo-