The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-07-03
SCANDALUM MAGNATUM.

SCANDALUM MAGNATUM.
A few weeks since we ventured few par
agraphs exposing the sinuosities, inconsisten-
cies and exclusive devotion to party which
have ever characterized the public life of ST.
las Wright. This awful irreverence threw
the numerous dcyotees of this idol of the par
ty il this region almost into cataniptics, and
several times since, in the meetings of the
Democratic Cleb so called, one or two of tho
leaders have show cred down upon our devo-
ted head profusion Of such gems of abusive
rhetoric as they supposed would be most like
ly to excruciate our sensbilities, and destroy
the influence Of our paper. According to
these very reliable and courteous expounders
of ' The Democracy" so pure, so honest, SO
frank, so every thing enobling in human IA.
ture and so lofty in the pitch Of his patriotism
is Silas Wright that all mouths should be
shut and we poor housing owls of the cou7-
try press Knight as treu hack at the falcon
to,7eriag IN the pride Of place" as to pluck
single laurel from his brow, or afix singh
suspicion upon the motives which guide hi,
political career We trust We have too high
sense Of our duties as the conductor Of
public journal thus to be enjoined from
speaking out boldly the sentiments OF our
sslves, and we doubt not OF the whole whig
party in relation to men or measures by the
menaces of the best of our opponents, and
least of all of the spouters Of the Middlebury
Democratic Association.
Mr.. Wright has never been so canon;zed
in our estimation as to be entitled TO exemp-
ton from that frank and unrestricted canvass
to which all politicians should willingly sub
NIT, and which the clamorers against US in
this respect SO freely exercise towards his op-
ponents- We are told that in the very Same
Club in which we were so severely censurei
for speaking out our impious views of Sins
Wright, extracts from that prince of libelers
and blacklist Of liars Amos Kendall were read
in many of which tracts we well know Nj.
Clay is accused Of every offence moral, politi-
cal and social of which the vilest miscreaut
alone could be guilty. The whole whig par
ty is arraigned as fraudulent, drunken, clam
Orous robbers and public plunderers, and ali
this with an acerbity of temper and brutality
of language which the veriest adept in BiI-
lngsgate could coin for the special occasion.
We have never cast a shade of imputa;iol
upon Mr.. Wright as citizen. II is true thar
in the relations of social life he is man OF
amiable and gentlemauly bearing. 1t is trua
Vermont, and has layed his limbs in the stream
which flows at our feet. But it is equally
true that as public man he has proved rec
reant TO all the interests aud wishes of the
state which save him birth. He has banded
himself with political party whose mott1
should be to tie riciors belong the spells, and
who in their scramble for power and emou-
ment have tramplcd upon the dearest interests
Of the country, and now upon the eve ofre-
covery, threaten US with a repetition of tho
same wretched experiments which brought
us to the brink of ruin. Silas Wright there
fare is the last man to claim immunities in
Vermont not granted to others of this clan of
politicians. The man who has discovered no
for his State can claim none in ref
turn. The man who has identified hinseI-
with the enemies of protection, and i. =: d
waging an implacable war with
Tariff upon whose maipiainauce upon It's
present liberal basis rests all hopes of future
to the industrial classes Of ,hs
man who has recently cody
given in his adhesion TO the presidential nom
ina ton combined for the prostratiOn of the
tariff, the annexation of Texas and the perpet-
uation of the overbearing influence Of South
ern slaveocracy-such man, although nur-
ured among us, deserves nothing from tbs
republican freemen of Vermont. whom
his whole political life he has 50
,ruelly and unnaturally betrayed.
When not whisper of remonstrance has
reached Congress from single individual Of
all the indstrial classes of community.
be buOyant with prosperity, and even those lib
eral hearted Southeruers, Berrian, Rives and
Archer are conceding so many blessings and
benefits to the policy protection, il was TO be
hoped that even Silas Wright would have
relaxed his warfare against policy which he
knew was so dear to his native New England,
md to the noble state of his adoption. In
his however our hopes have been deemed to
he-severest disappointments. Silas Wrigh.
las ever been the same. His last speech
'vinces that he has not RENTED that impla-
liable hostility to the tariff which he discover
I'd at its passage. more thorough going
rec trade speech has not been delivered bya
Southern man than that of Silas Wright in the
Senate on the tariff. Revenue IS the only
legitimate ground of duty, and incidental or
accidental protection is all that Slas Wright
,orld vouchsafe TO the great interests of tho