Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-11-22
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. %, 1914.
OUR POSITION.


1t is now evident that Mr.. Polk has secu-
rcd votes enough in the Electoral Colleges to
elect HIM President of the United States for
four years from the fourth of March next
lie will be elected with popular majority
against hun of from thirty 10 sixty thousand
votes, and upon the strength of doctrines,
and by the use Of means which cannot fail
to give tremendous power to the opposition
to his administration. He comes into power
without personal weight with any portion Of
his constituency, and Invested Of any strength
except what arises out of the mere Fictitious
position into which he has been Unexpectedly
thrown. His course will necessarily be sl,a-
ped by the Southern clique who caused his
nomination for their own purposes, and TO
them and their pernicious political heresics,
the north owes an undertaking, hearty oppo-
silion, which we opine, i, will never be slow
TO pay in full.
1t is only by industriously blinking the real
issues involved, and pretending TO occupy
Wing ground, that Locofocoism has made a
show of fight in any Of the northern States
except Maine, New Hampshire and Illinois.
which are slave states in all but the holding
Of slaves. That vast majority of the peo-
pie Of the free states are opposed to the doc
trines which seem to have triuuphcd with
Polk, and in favor Of those apparently de-
feated with Clay, we have no manner Of
doubt, and yet we have heard Of few men
who talk of the dissolution of the Wing party
and of still others who entertain the chimer-
cal idea Of merging in Naiveism, and giving
color 10 the base Locofoco he that the Wings
their principles! Conceal their principles
forsoolh As if there ever existed a party
fom the beginning downward to this day,
that ever so fairly, so clearly and so unninch-
ngly spread out their principles to the public
gaze as the Wings have done during the can
vass Of 1914! And now, by base fraud and
Illegal voting, and by the still baser moral
frauds of claiming protective doctrines for the
free trade Polk, and myslifying Mr.. Clay's
position on the subject Enumeration, to make
i, seem as vile as Folks, the Locos have
squeezed out about five thousand majority
each in New York and Pennsy lvania. which
being reversed would have elected Clay, and
upon this supendous result, men talk of "A
decision against the principles Of the Wing
party, and seem prepared 10 lie down and
acquiesce in this false decision as the real
expression Of the popular will Away with
such pusillanimily! Is protection worth
no,hingl Has it suddenly become an " OBJ
soeie idea," not worth conlending forl Are
any of the Wing doctrines rendered hereses
by such votes as Polkery gets in New York
and Pcnnsy lvania2 Have men been honest
in conlendng that there was something more
in the doctrine of Protection than shift to
catch votes? Are the lies of the enemy on
this head to be verifed7 Or is the SYSTEM
attic opposition of the North to Calhoun and
his set, nothing but fnme and vapor. wh,ch.a
pal,ry majority of 5000 illegal votes in Ne"
York can transform into love and admiration
Men must have given themselves over to
strange halncination when they talk of dis
solving the Wing party, bound and cemened
together as it is by community Of sentiment
on great and enduring questions of public
interest.
! Oar opponents expect no such good luck
as dissolution, and we can assure our friend.
that they are making up their faces to wines.
5 an opposition TO their Mister Polk. which
will find no parallel either in Numbers Of
/ moral power, in the history of parties. lie
: no one then, give himself over to inglorou
despair upon the strength of such defeat
y The principles we contend for are indestruc
}. lible, and they will sooner or later be adopt
= ed by the American people, as those only OF
. which our Government can successfully ad
e vance in the long career Of usefulness an
:, glory which lies before it.