Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-05-23
VERMONT PHOENIX.

GlOlVlO1N Il AANAI1NlAt
The events of the last few months are well cal
cuated to impress every American, who has the
least regard for the Union and the government I'M
der which he lives, with deep solictude for their
perpetuity. The question has often occurred to US,
whether the third party aboitionists, especially
that portion of them protesting wing principles,
would have thrown away their votes as they did at
the recent presidential election had the consequent
ces of such course been known, at the time, with
as much certainty, as they are now known and ad-
mted by every candid and well informed man.
The hasty passage through Congress of the annex.
alton resolutions, the accession of Mr. Polk 10 the
Presidency, the ratification by him and his party of
those resolutions, and the determined and shame.
ful system Of party tactics now kept up to secure,
at the hazard of all national reputation for integrity
the contamination Of the iniqutous scheme-coud
knowledge Of all this have induced that party to
give their support TO the man and the party who
alone could have arrested the foul Texas plot, we
might still indulge ourselves with hope that now
after witnessing all that has recently traspired
they would manifest some signs Of regret, and
disposition to cooperate with the wings, who as
body, are the true friends of legitimate emancipa-
ton-who are as much attached TO the Union and
to the perpetuity of our republican institutions, as
they are hostile to the barbarous system Of slavery
We once thought the third party leaders sincere in
their professionalism they really had at heart the
abolition of slavery in the United States. But the
course they have pursued for the last twelve
months has forced to the conviction that other
motives, less honorable, are at the bottom Of their
movements. The third party abolitionsts of New
N IN nj hat
consequently the election, to Mr. Clay. And can
any one be blind as not TO see that had Mr. Polk
and his party been defeated, there would not have
been the slightest chance for the admission of Tex
as, with her system of slavery with all her debts,
and with all the national disgrace that the violation
OF our pghted faith with Mexico will bring upon
US, and render US the scorn aud reproach Of the
civilized world Such are the fruits of Loco Foco
domination, and for which we are indebted to the
third party abolitioniss of New York! We are
aware that portion of the New York Loco Focos
protested, AID that few, Of their representatives
IN Congress voted, against annexation. That this
was rnse, and nothing but ruse, to operate with
the abotionists, subsequent events have clearly
confirmed. Is there of the least intelligence
who does not know, that had the votes Of the
few Locos in the House of Representatives, who
voted against the famous joint resolutions been
wanted to secure their passage through the House
they would have been readily gvens Did not Lo-
cofoco senators proclaim open hostility to what they
termed an ityaMOas soieme, aud them Just as soon
as it was ascertained that, with the aid, of every
senator of that party the resolutions could be carr-
ed through the senate, did not every man of them
come up boldly to the mark, and by their speeches
and votes, secure the contamination so devoutly
wished by their southern aHies' Such is the hy-
pocracy of the selfstylcd Democratic party. Nor
is the evidence of it confined to New york-i1 is
every where the In Massachusetts, Loco
Foco Legislature passed resolutions strongly con-
demning annexation, in which every wing joined
But after the Baltimore convention had nominated
Polk, and raised the signal of Texas and Oregon
then honest Loco Foco Legislators, orators and
newspapers in the old Bay State, wheeled right
about, and came 10 the rescue of the Texas party
Well, what confidence can the real friends of The
Union and Of national honor have ia such a party !?
What confidence can the rank and file, the hoaest
portion ofthe third party, have in who sport so
wantonly with their dearest interests, with princ
pies so vitality connected with our national honor
and existence? What confidence can they have
in their own leaders even, who at this moment are
seriously proposing dissolution Of our blessed
Union1 We answer, absolutely none. We pro-
pose TO show in future number of our paper, that
the Wings, the more than million of Wings, con-
stitute the only party in tkis country, on which the
friends Of the Union rely with any degree of
safety.