Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-01-19
Germ ont 2pDoeMtr.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1874.
ODD FEBRUARY.
TO THE WINGS OF VERMONT.

" L he w IllOiO VI En- NlO4N
The undersigned, your State Central
Committee, having met at Montpelier, for
purposes contemplated by their appointment,
embrace the occasion to make you briei
address. They are impeled to do so both
by their attachment to the principles OF
the party whom it is their pride to represent,
and by the near approach Of another period
when these principles, maintained with ex-
traordnary unanimty by the great Wing
party of the Union, are to be submitted for
the approval or rejection of the People OF
the United States.
Fellow citizens, another Presidential cleo
ton is at hand. Brief as has been the in
terval, since the stirring eXciements, and
the glorious triunphs, of 1910, it has been
long enough to render itself Infamous by the
most unparalleled treachery which ever dis
graced the political annals Of any country,
and, TO a very great extent, to defeat the
good results which those triumphs were de-
signed and adapted to secure. 1t cannot be
doubted that, at the close of the political
campaign of 1910, the people of the Unit
ed States expected long repose from r.
tr0OrdiHdry political excitement. Their eff
forts then, were calculated to produce this
desirable end and no one can doubt, if
those efforts, eminently successful as they
were, had met their expected reward, that
the condition Of the Country would have
rendered the maintenance of the Wing as
tendency in its councils easy. But it is
hardly necessary for us to say that we have
trumphed in vain. Comparatively we have
done nothing while so much remains to be
done. We have but exchanged the corrupt
and corrupting, the selfish and unpatriotic
administration of Van Buren,, for the equal
ly corrupt and corruptlng, and the more sci
fish, but weaker, administration Of Tyler
the lion, for the ass in the lions skin. With
the exception Of the Tariff, which the indig-
nant voice Of a suffering country rescued
from a ready veto, and which was carried
amid democratic" threatenings of ere
peal, nothing remains of our trumphs.-
Of nearly all else, the perfdy of one man
has deprived us. We have been most deep
ly wounded in the house of our iriends.-
When we looked for sympathy and efficient
aid in carrying out the prominent, distinct
i've, and conservative principles of the great
and glorious party 10 which we belong, we
have encountered hostility the more bitter
and proscriptive because it was undeserved
and unprovoked. We have seen The Offices.
at the disposal Of that Executive which
owes its power to confer them, to us, be-
with skilful discrimination, not up
on those best qualified to occupy them, ire
spective political opinion, but upon those
most distinguished for mendacious opposi-
ton 10 the principles and policy of the Wing
party. We have seen men removed from
office, for no cause but for their fidelity TO
their principles, and their places supplied by
traitors aud hypocrites; aud, in short, we
have seen for the past thirty months, the OK
Iraordinary and unworthy spectacle of
President of the United States, aided by the
immense patronage of his office, endeavor-
ing to hatter, and by Offices and honors ca
ole, the very men who most loudly, land we
might almost add prOphoticaiiy) proclaimed
his incapacily, and opposed his principles
and his election. We desire not to be mis-
understood The Wing party are hostile to
prescription for opinions sake This hos
liiy was inscribed on the banner under
which they triumphed in 1910, and under
hat banner will they hereafter march TO tri-
imph or defeat. The maxim that "to the {
'ictors belong the spoiIs," and lis author, {
hey equally despise The Wings of Yer I
mont at least supported and Unsupported. !
ne administration of JOHN QUINCY /
ADAMS; an administration which has al \
eady emerged from the clouds with which !
Interpretations had obscur- s
ID it, and has taken rank by the ability and A.,
'ure patriotism of its head, by the side Of !,
hat of WASHINGTON. Such an admin
stration as that of John Quincy Adams,
distinguished by ability in all its Depart
nents, by its unproscriptive character, and
" its living PATRIOTISM the Wing party de-
ire to restore.
We have, then fellow Wings, the battle to t.
ght again, and we invite you to the contest a
We believe another, and more decided a
riumph awaits US; but, by perseverng la 81
or II must be IRON. 1t is for us to take care p
f ourselves The Republican Wings of IL
'ermont have achieved for the past three
ears no triumph worthy their renown.- Il
hey have not been dcfc0ted, but have they il
Onqucred 1t need not be disguised that p
ur victories have been but partial. Our "
pponents are vigilant, active, perseverng "
ncouraged by the defections of our ranks,
hitch they have mainly promoted, and by Ii
refinement of malice, striving to profit by (,
he treachery and weakness of him whose of IL
ces they enjoy. We rely, and we may re- 81
Z, upon the invincibe soundness of our :,
rinciples; but not upon this alone Our OF
rinciples must be promulgated and explain W
i. We must promote discussion aud de- ST
ate We ask no blind adherence to party m
'e seek converts among those whose jndg- N ~
ents and patriotism may be convinced. - u'
he same purposes and ends which moved vi
ar efforts in 1910, animate our present en- so