Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-05-26

our Government, that vast :" corps dc re-
serve" who in common tines, and on ordi-
nary occasions are too Indifferent to the pct
~ struggles of men, and the scrambles Of tho
outs against the ms, to minglc at al! in polh-
ica strife, or even to exercise the preroga~
tive Of voters, but who, once aroused to q
sense of danger to the Constitution and laws
they revere, are seen rushing like "A vast ar
my TO the rescue of the right, and covering
the assailans with gnonIiny and defeat
Such was their high mission then, when the
corruption of the national government had
spread infection over the whole land, faint
ing its moral atmosphere with the miasma Of
broken pledges, violated public faith Off
cial peculaton and political traffic and it
needs not very keen eye to perceive, that
having accidentally failed Of accomplishing
their object, they are preparing to place its
final consummaton beyond pcradventure.
The same men who decided the battle Of 1910
wM decide that of 1914, and in the same
manner. The political outlaw who chances
at present TO stand as the target for the min
glcd hatred and scorn Of Il whole people,
with the few adhcrcnts whom an idiot in
! like circumstances could us sell have bought,
may f,rcv that his capital is daily increas-
mp,-thc sage Of Lmdenwald aud the States
man of Fort Hill may imagine, the former
that the people will permit him TO crawl back
again to poison the streams of public virtue
and the latter that his long looked for turn
has come at si,-but they are doomed to
certain defeat, i" in spite of lamentations"
And the reason is obvious. Either the Lo.
cofoco SANDER that the people we're drunk
in 1910, is true, or else they intended
change Of measures as well as men, by the
overwhelming vote of that year. They in.
tended 10 try the measures proposed by the
Whigs-and they intend it yet. No man be.
lieves, though many false demagoges affect
to believe, that we arc now living under the
f operation of the Wing policy. Al sensible
men know, whatever they will admit, that
, the present depression arises from the success
of the very doctrines now contended for by
Locofocoism, and is legacy left Us by the
Jackson and Van Buren, dynasty, as the re-
' suit of their mad experiments upon the cre-
dulity and endurance Of a generous people.
= The Wing policy, then, must be tried. The
: people are no, to be turned from the current
a of their humor, by such puppets as John Ty-
= Ter or John any body else, nor will the clam
= orS Of RadlcaliSm against the great statesman
o OF the west be potent enough to prevent them
from doing him the justice Which has been so
long withheld by the Vaccinations of the
$ ingrates who IN former years were proud to
It walk in his shadow. The free trade creed
t OF Calhoun cannot even carry the South,
h should he be nominated, while at the North
= we think of no State he could get except
It New Hampshire, and Gov. Hill IS making
= his chances dubious even there But should
n the eel Of kindrrhook I've beg pardon, OF
Il Lindenwald y wrgee himself into the
Il nomination, his point-no- poin, principles
d would lose both North and South, while
d Calhoun would bolt, and universal Locofoco-
ism be whelmed in undis,ingushable ruin.
confusion and defeat. 80 mote it be-"