The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1844-01-24
22d February.
TO THE WINGS OF VERMONT.

DIV lueT dttdCHiHcut " tuc principles Oh the
party whom it is their pride to represent, and
by the near approach of another period when
these principles, maintained with extraordi-
nary unanimity by the great Wing party of
the Union, are TO be submitted for The appro-
val or rejection of the People of the United
States.
Fellow citizens, another Presidential cleo
ton is at hand. Brief as has been the inter-
val since the stirring excitements, and the
glorious triumphs, of 1870, it has been long
enough to render instantaneous by the most
unparalleled treachery which ever disgraced
the political annals of any country, and, to
very great extent, to defeat the good results
which those triumphs were designed and
adapted to secure. 1t cannot be doubted
that, at the close of the political campaign of
1910, the people Of the United States expec-
ted long repose from extraordinary political
excitement. Their efforts then, were calcu-
lated to produce this desirable end; and no
one can doubt, if those efforts eminently sue
cessful as they were, had met their expected
reward, that the condition of the Countru
would have rendered the maintenance of the
Wing ascendancy IN its councils easy. But
it is hardly necessary for US TO say that we
have triumphed in vain. Comparatively we
have done nothing while so much remains to
be done. We have but exchanged the cor
rupt and corrupting, the selfish, and unpatri-
otto administration Of Van Buren,, for the
equally corrupt and corrupting, and the more
selfish, but weaker, administration of Tyler
the lion for an ass in the lions skin. With
the exception Of the Tariff, which the indig-
nant voice of suffering country rescued from
a ready veto, and which was carried amid
" democratic" tbreatnings of Repeal" no.
thing remains of our triumphs. Ofnearly all
else, the perfdy of one man has deprived us.
We have been most deeply wounded in the
house of our friends. Where we look for
sympathy and efficient aid in carrying out the
prominent, distinctive, and conservative prin-
ciples of the great aud glorious party to which
we belong, we have encountered hostility the
more bitter and proscriptive because it was
undeserved and unprovoked. We have seen
the Offices, at the disposal of that Executive
which owes its power to confer them to
US, bestowed with skilful discrimination, not
upon those best qualified to occupy them, IT.
ofpolitical opinion, but upon those
most distinguished for meudacious opposition
to the principles and policy of the Wing par
ty. We have seen men removed from Office
for no cause but for their fidelity to their prn-
ciples, and their places supplied by traitors
and hypocrites; and, in short, we have seen
for the thirty months, the extraordinary and
unworthy spectacle of a President of the Uni
ted States, aided by the immense patronage
Of his Office, endeavoring to fatter, and by
Offices and honors cajole, the very men who
most loudly, land we might almost add pro-
proclaimed his incapacity, and OPP
posed his principles and his election. We
desire not TO be misunderstood. The Wing
party are hostile to prescription for opinions
sake. This hostility was inscribed on the
banner under which they triumphed in 1910,
and under that banner will they hereafter
march to triumph or defeat. The maxim
that - to the victOrs belong the spoils," and
It's author they equally despise. The Wings
Of Vermont at least, supported and re-sup-
ported, the administration Of JOHN QUIN-
CY ADAMS; an administration which has
already emerged from the clouds with which
misrepresentation had obscur-
ID it, and has taken rank, by the ability and
Drfre patriotism of its head, by the side of
that OF WASHINGTON. Such an admin
stration as that Of John Quincy Adams dis
tinguished by ability in all its Departments,
BY its unproscriptive character, and by its
living patriotism, the Wing party desire to re-
store.
We have, then, fellow Wings, the battle !
to fight again, and we invite you to the con-
test. We believe another, and a more deci-
led triumph awaits us but, by persevering
labor it must be icon. 1t is for us to take
care yourselves 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 con-
yuered? 1t need not be disguised that our
have been but partial. Our oppo-
nents are vigilant, active, persevering; en-
rouraged by the OBJECTIONS from our ranks, |
which they have mainly promoted, and, by a /
refinement of malice, taunting us with the 4
treachery and weakness of him whose Offices /
they enjoy. We rely, and we may rely, up |
On the invincible soundness of our principles; 1
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 patriot ,
sm may be convinced.
The same purposes and ends which nerv-
ed our efforts in 1910, animate our present /
endeavors. The Wings Of Vermont are not /
disturbed among themselves. Their potent
bond of union is to be found in the PRINCI- /
PIES they advocate, and referring to them,
hey present an unbroken array. They are
dot, like the harmonious democracy" of a
sister state, subdNided into barn burners" /
and "Old Hunkers," appellations which, /
however descriptive they may be of the pro-
pensities, or grateful to the tastes, of those
who bear them, we hope never to hear ap-
Piled to any portion of the party to which
we belong. We are WHIGs in the true sense
Of the word-opponents of Executive en-
and friends of constitutional re-
publicanism. Now, as in 1910, we contend
ior :
A stable tariff for revenue and protection:
4 sound and uniform currency, by whatever ,
means it may be best attained, by bank |
or otherwise, which shall possess more than |
" an odour of nationality:''
A just administration of the public lands, and /
a fair and equitable distribution of the pro- |
ceeds Of their sales among the States:
4 curtailment Of Exucitive power and nat