Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-09-13

1911 tnOuRH W utuy that MI. v an DuTen was
cast overheard, and Mr.. Polk nominated,
expressly and solely that the candidate
might be, as they exquisitely express it,
Texas to the backbone And how can
you suppose that, nominated for this very
purpose, he will do nothing TO accomplish |
it? Why, if he should be disposed TO do |
nothing, do you think that party, or a fac
ton, strong enough to go into a National
Convention, aud there trampe instructions
under foot; strong enough TO force upon
the body an audacious not very democratic
rule of proceeding, which put il out of the
power of majority to nominate the choice
of majority; strong enough to launch Col.
Benton and Mr.. Wright in the face strong
enough, not merely to divide Mr.. Buffers
crust with him, but to snach the whole of it
strong enough to ejectulate Mr.. Van Buren,
out of the wlndow---under whom they had
once triumphed-on whom they rallied
again in six months after the defeat of 1910,
and who had been their candidate-as no
torously and avowedIy as Mr. Clay had
been ours-and Of whom no man of any
party will deny, that in point of accomplish.
ment, and talent, and experience of public
affairs, he is UNNECESSARILY Mr. Folks su-
perior; strong enough to have dissolved
that Convention in half an hour, had il not
conceded their utmost Misunderstanding if
they could not rule If Mr. Polk should be
disposed TO do nothing. do you believe such
party, or such faction as this would per-
NIT him 10 do nothing? No. No. Des-
perately, weakly, fatally does he deceive
himself who will not see that everything
which an Executive, elected expressly to do
this deed, can do, will be done, and done at
oncel He will put it forward in his
very first message. He will put it forward
as the one grand measure of his party, and
of his administration. Nothing will be left
unstrred to effect it, The farewell words
of General Jackson will be rung in admirng
and snbservient ears Aye, that drum shall
be beaten, which might call the dead of all
his battles TO the midnight review" in
shadowy hles The measure will not be
attempted again, as in the first instance, in
the form Of treaty, requiring two-thirds Of
the Senate, but in the form Of law, requiring
majority of only one. Do you say such
. majority cannot be commanded? Do not
be too sure of that. / pray you give no
vote, withhold no vote, on such specula-
ton as that Do not, because President
Tyler has not been able TO command ma
U%a Whole dSstn T u ehgs b0Ht
with Col Benton and Mr. Wright at its head,
against him with the Southern Wings, I'M
der the seasonable and important lead Of
Mr. Clay, against him to man; do not, be-
cause under these special and temporary cir
cumstances, he has not been able to obtain
| lao al Hattortnr
ton to your soul that when President who
has party, and that party majority of the
I people, flushed with recent victory won
on the precise issue, shall try his hand at
the business; when Col Benton-the tenn
porary and special circumstances of his re-
recen; resistance having subsided--shall
| resume his natural and earlier position and
La Sale and Americans shall be himself
again when Southern Wings, no longer
rallying to the lead Of Mr.. Clay, shall re.
sumo their natural position, or shall divide
on the question; when the whole tactics Of
4 party, the united or general strength of the
South, the vast and mniiiorm influence Of
strong Executive shall be combined
when the measure comes TO be pressed
under every specious topic of patriotism and
r agrandisement; when, if any one, or two
or ten, or twenty members Of Congress
/ should manifest symptoms of recusancy, oil
r should try the effect of a little "sweet, re-
luctant, amorous delay" the weird sister:
{ of ambitious hearts shall play before theil
0 eyes images of foreign missions, and de
: apartments, and beaches of justice-do MOI
e deceive yourselves into the belief, that the
t majority of one will not be secured.
/, speak now of the admission of Texas as
e mere territory The erection of that ter
o ritory into States will be very differen
y undertaking-later, less promising a ia
G more dreadful trial of the ties Of the Union
r OF that have something to say hereafter
G but have no doubt whatever, and | feel j
It to be an urgent duty to declare it, that III,
e territory, as territory, will be admitted il
e twelve months after Mr.. Folks election, un
: less some extraordinary interposition of tn
u people, on which dare not speculate, shall
Il prevent 1t.
d Mr.. Choate then proceeded to observ
e upon a letter, which he read in the Nationa
o Intelligencer, signed by seven prominen
"a members of the Democratic party in Ne'
h York, including the accomplished editor q
is the Evening Post in which the writer's dc
clare their purpose of supporting Mr.. Polk
D. but recommend the election of members c
n Congress "who will reject the unwarrant;
rs BILE scheme now pressed on the country
lie He remarked on the concessions of the lie
u ter, to wit "thatthe Baltimore Conventio
e. had placed the Democratic party at III
~ North, in position of great difficuliy-th'
y, it exposed the party to the constant taui
e. "that the Convention rejected Mr.. Va
* Buren, and nominated Mr., Polk, for reason