Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-01-20
WHAT SHALL BE DONE.

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Our language has no terms of Reproduction
strong enough to express the feelings with
conduct of those selfish politicians, whose
experiments upon our currency, have bro't
such wide spread ruin and distress upon the
nation. With what emotions must the man
Of business reflect on the events of the last
fourteen years Folly, infatuation, mad
ness, are feeble words when applied TO the
projects which have produced the appalling
results we now see. Never in the history
of the world has such spectacle been wit
messed. 1t is unnecessary to recaptulate.
We need not remind our reader of curren-
cy las near perfection as any thing human
can beg destroyed-of speculation stimulated
to madness by wild expansion-of the crea-
ton Of nnumerable banks without substan-
tial basis of the new expedient, when all
others had failed, Of specie sub-treasury-
and finally, Of the confused and terror strck-
en- disgrace, in which the Van Burren Ad-
minlsiratinn came to an end. All these
things are fresh in the minds of every reader
and when duly reflected on, who can Won
der that spirit is aroused In the breasts of
our business men, far deeper and stronger
than any that has yet been exhibited. Is it
nothing that business has been tramelled and
made a profitless toi-that industry has
been rendered unavailing-that labor seeks
in vain its accustomed reward-that thous-
ands have been reduced TO absolute suffering
and want? Are all these, slig ht evils, which
men should look upon tamely and endure
without an effort to remove them? Are they
evils without cause-or the cause of which
is unknown? Every man who is capable of
tracing the connection between cause and
effect-and whose mental vision is not blind
cd by party prejudice, knows to what they
are to be attributed. Every Wing UNDER
stands it, and in the present state of things,
he finds the strongest confirmation of the
correctness of his political opinions. All
that the wise and patriotic leaders of our
party long since predicted, has come to pass.
And now are the hearts of the business COM
munity so tame-are their spirits so crushed
and broken-as to submit in craven despon-
dency, TO all that party wickedness has in
fictcd Is there a drop of blood, worthy of
their ancestors, still flowing in their veins, or
does the sluggish stream curde like a stag
nant pool, with lisless Indifference?
Nine-tenths of our business men think
with us on this subject. To them we speak.
We ask them to look at their business, as it
now appears-and to reflect on their pros
poets for the future. We ask them once
more, to consider the cause of the existing
condition of the country-to reflect on what
they have heard and read for years past-the
predictions of Wing statesmen-the Cassan-
dra.like warnings of Clay and Webster, war;
nings too true, yet not believed till they we're
fulfilled. We ask them TO consider these
things and then 10 say what shall be done.
Let us look at what the Van Burenites
propose. Hear their weak and miserable
attempts to escape the responsibility! "The
Wings" say they have been in power two
years, and we are no better off than before
Let US now return 10 the b-treasury.'
But who brought US to the condition in which
we were placed two years ago' The presen
state of the country is only continuation o
what we then experienced. Need we repea
the insurmountable obstacles which have
been in the way ofthe Whigs-the death o
our Leader-the failure of our measure
through the detection of his successor. |
there wing in the Union so blind as not Il
see and understand 1t all
What then shall be donel We answer
rensw the conflict! Another battle must b
fought, and every man whe loves his coun,r,
-who lores himself, his family, his freside
his home, MUST ENLIST DURING THE WAR !!
PoL1rIcs AT WAsHINGToN.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the T. S. (Phil.) Gazette
who signs himself SOLVER Odschool''-mak
the following remarks on some Of the aspect
of the times at the federal city.
\ Mr.. Calhoun looks cheerful, as if buoyar
with hope let him take care Of the norther
fox, with southern propensiies. The contest
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