The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-01-15
ODD FEBRUARY.
To the VVhigS OF Vermont.

| The undersigned, your State Central Committee,
having met at Montpelier, for pprpos contemplated
! by their appointment, embrace the occasion 10 make
| TO you n brief address. They are mpeCd TO do
80 both by their attachment to the principles Of the
party whom il is their pride to represent, and ny the
near nppronch Of another period when these princi
PIES, maintained with extraordinary unnnimity by
the grent Wing party Of the Union, 10 be submit.
ted for the approval rejection orthc People Of
the United States
Fellow citizens, another Presidential election is Mt
hand. Brief has been the interval since the stir
ring excitcmens, and the glorious trumphs of $780,
! It has been long enough to render itself infamous by
! the most unparalleled trearhery which ever dis
graced the political annals any country md to
very great extent To defeat the good results which
those trumphs were designed and adapted 10 secure
II cannot he doubted that, mt the close of the po-
cal campaign of ls4O, the people Of the United
States expected long repose rom extraordinary po-
| Inca excitement. Their efforts then, were calcua-
ted TO produce this desirable end; and no one can
doubt, if those efforts eminently successful rs they
were, had met their expected reward, that The con-
dition Of the Country would have rendered the MAIN
tenance Of the Wing ascendancy in its councils easy
But is hardly necessary for say that we have
triumphed in vain. Comparatively we have done no,
| thing while so much remains to he done. We have
but exchanged the corrupt and corrupting, the selfish
and unpariotic administration Of Van Buren,, Tor the
equally corrupt aud corupting, and the selfish.
hut weaker, administration ofTyler--,he lion for the
| ASS in the lions skin. With the exception Of the
Tariff, which the indignant voice of suffering coun-
try rescued from ready vcto.nnd which was carried
amid 'democratic' threaenings of Repeal ''no,hing
remains of our ,riumphs. Orncnry all ese the per-
fdy Of one has deprived u.s. We have been
most deeply wounded in the house Of our friends-
When we look for sympathy and efficient aid in car
wing ont the prominent distinctive and conservative
principles Of the great and glorious party which
we belong, we have encountered hostility the more
bitter and proscplive because it undeserved and
unprovoked. We have seen the Offices at the dspo-
sal Of that Executive which its power confer
them to u.s. bestowed 'vih skful discrimination, not
upon those best qualified TO occupy them, irespec-
tive Of political opinion, but upon those most distn-
gushed for merdacous opposition TO The principles &
policy Of the Wing party. We have seen men re-
moved from office, for cause but for their fidelity
to their principles and their places supplied by trail
tors and hypocries; and, in shot, have seen for
the past thirty months, the extraordinary and unwor-
thy spectacle OF President of the United States, al
oring to 1acr, and by offices and honors caJoe, the
very men who loudly, (and we might almost
add prophticaly) proclaimed his incapacty, and OPP
posed his principles and his election. We desire not
to be misunderstood The Wing party N e hostile TO
prescription Cor opinions sake. This hostility WINS
Inscribed the banner under which they triunphed
in 1910, and under that banner will they hereafter
| march to triumph defeat. The maxim that ssto
Al,
equally despise. The Wings Of Vermont at least,
supported and re-suPported, the administration Of
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS; an administration " hich
has already emerged from the clouds with which dis
honorable misrepresentation had obscured it, and
has taken rank. by the ability and pure patriotism Of
! its head, by the side Of that Of WASHlNGTON-
Such administration that Of John Quincy Adams
distinguished by ability in all its Departn ents, by its
unproscrptve character, and by its living patriotism
the Wing party desire 10 re>tore.
! We have then, fellow Wings the battle to fight a.
gain, and we invite You to tho contest. We believe
another, and decided triumph awaits us; but,
by perseverng labor it be 1t is for us to
take Of ourselves. The Republican Wings of
Vermont have achieved for the past three years no
triumph worthy their renown. They have not been
| defeated but have they conquered? II need not be
disguised that victories have been but partial
Our opponents yigiant, active, persevcrng;
couraged by the OBJECTIONS from our ranks, which
they have mainly promoted, and by refinement of
malice striving profit by the treachery s. weakness
of him whose offices they enjoy. We rely, and we
may rely, upon the invncible soundness ofour prn
cipes; but not upon this alone. Our principles must
be promulgated and explained. We must promote
! discussion and debate. We ask no blind adherence
| to party. We seek converts among those whose
| judgments and patriotism may be convinced.
! The same purposes and ends which moved ef-
forts in 1910, animate present endeavors The
The Wings Of Vermont not disturbed by factions
among themselves. Their potent bond Of union is to