Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-08-30
THE QUESTIONS TO BE TRIED.

eleconan election for state officers, senators and
legslators but 1t is in its consequences, emphati-
cally national Whatever the result may be, it
will have an influence upon the decision Of the
great national questions which are to be defnltive
ly settled in November. Let us strive to have that
influence as good and as strong as may be. But in
another and more important sense this election is
national in its consequences. Upon the State Sen
ators and the members of the Legislature to be
elected on Tuesday, will dovolve the duty of cleo
ting member of The United STATES Senate. So near
ly is that body balanced, and so peculiarly unfavor-
able for the Wings are the vacancies which are to
be filled, (l3 Wing to only Locofoco,) That upon
the Uotc Of VermonfS Senator, to be elected in Oct
next, may depend The balance Of poper in The U. S.
Senate, and the decision Of most important National
questions. When to this we add, that four Mem
bers of Congress to be elected, it will be seen
that in every point, this election directly involves
all The national questions chich 10 be tried Cihin
the nert ttco gears. Surely this is exceedingly
important election Let us look at the great ques-
tons on which every freeman will actually vote,
whether he intends to DO or not, when he casts
his ballot for member of Congress, County Sena-
tors and town representatives. We shall present
these questions they are actually TO be tried as
the two great parties in the nation have themselves
presented them; as they have soemnly pledged
themselves to act, by their accredited organs, the
national conventions. This, indeed is the only true
and fair mode of stating these questions; the dec
arations of this or that candidate, of this that
newspaper, or this that speechmaker, nothing
except so far as they concur with the majority Of
the party to which each belongs. The measures
to which the parties have pledged themselves, By
their organs, in the most solemn and public man
ner are the measures which the people will expect
them to carry out. What then, are the measures
to which the great conending parties are pledged
We give you the
WING MEASURES
in the plain but pithy language of resolution a.
dopted unanimously by the Wing National Con-
vention:
"Resolrcd, That these [Whigl principles may
be summed up as comprising
A WELL REGULATED NATIONAL CUR
RENCY-
A TARIFF for revenue to defray the necessary
expenses of the government AND DlSCRIMIN-
ATING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
THEPROTECTTON OF THE DOMESTIC La
Dor OF THE COUNTRY
The DISTRIBUTION of the proceeds from the
sales of the Public LANDS
a SINGLE TERM FOR THE PRESIDEN-
A REFORM OF EXECUTIVE UsURPA.
TON
And generally, such an administration of the af-
fairs of the country shall nipart to every branch
Of the public service the greatest practicable eff
cheney, controlled by a well regulated and wise c.
economy"
These, freemen of Vermont, the positive
measures which the Wings of the nation have
solemnly pledged themselves to carry out; and we
barely say Of them, they truly Democratic, if the
administrations Of our wisest Presidents were dem
ocratic they are wisely adapted to maintain
the honor, the glory and the prosperity of the ma
tion if the fruits of these measures in all past time
are to be the pledges for the future. Nearly all Of
them have been honored with the support of Wash
ington, Jefferson Madison, Monroe and the Adams
es; need you fear to support them? Nearly all
have been long tried and well proved; is it not
wise to try them again?
And what are the measures to which the locofo-
CO party is pledged with equal solcmnity and equal
unannity, by their National Convention} 1t is
more ullnCuu 10 deHne tne
LOCOFOCO MEASURES
from their resolutions, than those of the Wings,
inasmuch as nearly al the declarations of the TO-
cofoco convention were negatiue-pedging the
party mol to do this thing that, and thus leaving
the door open for doing many things of which the
people now have no warning. But all of their res
outions are not of this character, and upon some,
which are, we have the benefit of a cotemporane.
GUS construction made by the other organs of the
party at Washington. With the aid of their rcso-
lutions, and the cotemporancous action of the
party at Washington, We set forth their measures
as follows =
The locofoco party is again a general system
of internal improvements by the general govern
ment-
Against assuming State debts
AGAINST PRoTEcTIvE TARIFrs-
Against a National Bank
Against interfering with Slavery in the States,
and against all efforts of the abolitoniss or 9TH
ers to induce Congress to interfere with questions
of slavery
Against taking fran the President the veto pow
err
against distributing The proceeds Of The Public
Lands among The Stdtes-
And against interfering with the Naturalization
Laws
The locofoco party is in favor of the SuBTREAs-
URY scheme
In favor of swallowing up the public lands in the
federal treasury
In favor of the immediate occupation of Orc
gon-
And in favor of the IMMEDIATE ANNEXATION or
TEXAS.
Several of these measures are not considered oil
treated by the Wings as party questions, and are
not, therefore, really in issue but in all the lead
ing features which are to characterize the succeed
ing administration, and to determine the fate of the
land for veal for woe, they are decidedly at
issue-such as the questions of Protection or No
Protection; Distribution or No Distribution; the
Infamous Sub Treasury or No Sub Treasury; a
sound currency, or ruthless and destructive wal
upon the currency; the Limitation of slavery or its
extension and perpetuation; Annexation or Nc