Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-07-07
From The Neto York Tribune.
THE MEMORY OF 1910.


thew do lust what you wccld have them. The
noble People have they not decided for our
marty. and given one OF us n rich Collectorshib,
and another an Embassy, third fat Post
Office, and so oni Who dare 'hint donbp of
their virtue, probity, intelligence and indepen.
dencei Have they not proved all clearly by
he act which put US into such nice places -
But let them happen to prefer other aspranfs
for their favor and then what do we think Of
it? What ignorant rascals they have become
all al once! W hat farce, iniquity and corrup>
ton are their elections! What nonsense il
what is called their 'verdcip What folly or
hypocrisy in surprising that they had any def
mite purpose in the business
The ribaldry and denunciairon INDUCED in
reference To the election Of 1910 by those who
boast of their Democracy is at once amusing
and instructive. For years they had been
pfai,nr the People, their nvncible Virtue and
clear sighted Patriotism, and taking their nav
in oily salaries and generous jobbing. There
was nothing so wise, so Just, so incofuplibe,
in their eyes-or rather, in their mouihs-as
the People. But at last they catch tremen-
dous flogging, and now what Of the Peopei--
Why, they are debauched, be0olcd, unihnk.
ing mob and their verdict but now so con.
elusive, has become jest--a swinde-the
fiothy rawlings of hard cider dclirum.
This was not unnatural in the FIRST moment
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thing as carrying a Joke too lar. After two
years and half of varing fortunes, it is time
that so emphatic an expression of the Peoples
will should be treated with some show of de-
cency. Yet what do we heari On every hand,
we have the Van Buren, press and politicians
abusing and decrying the verdict Of $780,.
They denounce il as the result of fraud and
corruption, of debauchery and madness, of Log
Cabin looeres and Hard Cider drunkenness.
Some Of the smaller fly Of the Loco Foco press
are accustomed Ia speak of our own little pa
per, The Log Cabin as though we might
wish 10 blot il from the public remembrance;
and even their master dcmagogue, the involun-
tary Hermit of Lindcnwuld, with gross viola
ton orgood taste as well as truth, has the ie-
meriiy To speak, in his ten column letter 10 In
diana, Of "ihe disreputaJIe scenes of ls4O,"
aud "the elect which those scenes necessarily
had in sinking The confidence of mankind in the
fitness of the American People for free insIiu-
tons"
'The disreputable scenes of lS40r-When
American citizens used To gather by hundreds
Ia sing and dance around Hickory Poles, with
barrels OF whisky rolled out and heads of beer
casks stove in-when right here, in the heart
of this enlightened emporium, men we've seem
after cask of beer had been poured into The
hole where the pole was 10 be set in front Of
Tammany Hall, TO lie down and diink il from
the ground like hogs-ihe kndelhooker saw
nothing 'disrepuiuhle' then. When American
citizens have been swept away from the Polls
Of our City with clubs by bands Of misguided
and excited Immigrants, half civilized and mad
dened with liquor furnished them BY party lib
crafty, we had no hint from Mr. Van Buren,
that such scenes were 'disreputabe,' or calcu-
lated 10 impair 'ihe confidence oi mankind ip
our fitness fer free insltuiions.' When men
who felt il their duty 10 bear testimony against
: Slavery were mobbed and bludgeoned for
peacefully so doing, and The owner of free
press was shot down in his own tenement for
guarding his press from destruction by band
Of ruiiians who chose 10 suspect that it rould
be used against slavery, this dcmagogue could
, see in il nothing Gale uaed 10 shake confidence
in our fitness Tor free institutions, but cody re-
: marked in his Inaugural that "a reckless disre-
) gard of the consequences of their conduct has
: exposed individuals In popular indignaon;'
: but when the people uprise in their strength
: and defying the mighty influence of office and
| power, of successive tIiumphs and aluring par
~ names, without violence or injury 10 any
man, declare by majority Of $4,000 on lar
the heaviest vote ever poled, that he shall he
: no longer President, then our kirdeihook
Statesman prnnounces the whole business dis
| cIedtable' and calculated to shake faith in our
! capacity for seli-goveTnmeni! Sir, il this were
true, you are moi The man TO proclaim it,
: There is dry old dislilch which runs
;. mo rogue eer felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law,
which should have counseed you 10 modesiyir
this connection.
J But the assertion Of Mr. Van Buren, is as
! false as indccorous. There never was poiil-
cal contest in which the great mass of The peo-
+, Pile were better informed as 10 what was hed
! and proposed by each party than in thai OF
! $780, Every where pamphlets and papers OF
I each were distributed with prolusion never
before known, and generally read. Every
$ where The best orators of either party were IN
: The field and the people gathered day aller day
D 10 hear them--first on one side and then on
S the other. lf they did not understand on what
:, The two parties differed, then we may despair
OF their ever doing so. Probably few men now
: living will ever see another contest or vote
more universal that that of 1910. As TO cuff
rupiion, the thing was downright impossible
We did not know one voter, among the thou
! sands of differing Politics, we did know whose
: vote could have been bought at any price, ORC
l whom it wonld have been safe 10 offer bnoe
: Of any sort. The people were quite too much
in earnest for any Thing of that SORT.
= But 'illegal voling.' Well, sirs, wherei We
{ have not vet heard where the first illegal yoIe
was poed 10 make Gen. Harrison President
: Doubtless there were few on each slde-w
are sure tewest on ours, because the raw maze
= rial for illegal voters IS ten to one against US
= but both parties were too active TO prevent !,
legal voting, ana ours too confident TO think Q.
: resorling TO il, The only evidence in supPol.
! OF The charge Of illegal voting is the fact lha'
the vote was very heavy. But did not e'eI!
u one know IL would be so, months before i've
Election' That was inevitable; still the Voe
was in no State equal TO the number OF lsea
y voters, and il was highest in New HamlPsans
J. and in The Loco Foeo portion Of that sag ST,
/ nert highest IN Minois, also Loco Foeo Wv
a need say nothing more on this head. II lnem