Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-03-14
Dcrmortt 1)bornix.
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, MARCH n, 1916.
The Presidents Inaugural Address.

i The address of the President, which we Law be
fore our readers to day, derives It's chief ntcres
from its being his inaugural. II will be condemnet
or commended, less by its inherent merits or de
merits, than by the predictions OF its perusers -
II is not our design, much 10 pass sentence upor
1t, as TO call attention TO Of its pecularites
The first thing which strikes us prominently on
perusing it, is its falschoods Mr. Polk asserts tha
our Government is common protector "of every
man who lives upon our soil, whether of native OF
foreign BIRTH and that "all distinctions of birth oil
of rank have been abolished" The millions Of
bondmen in our country pronounce both these as
sertions false. Again, the President states that
"Texas was part OF our country state.
ment which public documents and facts pronounce
untrue
The next thing which strikes us on reading the
Inaugural is its inconsistency. Mr. Polk says that
it will be his first care to administer the govern
ment in the true spirit of the Constitution, 'and TO
assume no power not expressly granted, or clearly
implied in its terms !" and yet he congralula,es his
country that by act of the late Congress of the
United States, the assent of this government has
been given" TO the annexation of Texas, notwth-
standing il is regarded unconstitutional by many
of the best and wisest men Of the country
The next thing which attracts our attention in
the address is its canting hypocrisy In what Mr.
Polk says respecting the revenue laws he processes
great regard for the "toiling Millions In levying
duties he says, scare should be taken that il be
done in manner not TO benefit the wealthy few at
the expense of the tong Millions and yet this
same friend of the tOitng millions derives his wealth
and his luxuries from the unpaid toll of enslaved
md denffved 4, 800.
admirable aud wisest system Of well regulated self.
government among men, ever devised by human
minds Of their natural and inalenable rights
The next thing which we notice in the address is
its non commitasm in regard to the present tariff
Mr. Polk states his views in very general terms in
regard 10 the subject Of revenue laws but whether
he would alter, amend, abolish, or sustain. the
present laws the subject he has eit his readers
10 conjecture. Would this have been the case had
hts party expressed as unanimous an opinion on
this subject on the Texas villany? Another
thing which attracts the attention on reading the
Presidents address, is its assault on the rights of
the feemen Of the north at is a source Of deem re-
gret, says Mr. Polk, "lhat in some sections of the
country, misguided persons have occasionally in
dulged in schemes and agatons whose ubect is the
destruction OF domestic institutions existing in other
sections" In plain language "ihose people at the
North who declare slavery TO be moral, social
and political evil, and wish to have il abolished
must hold their tongues or they win destroy the
Union In his love for the ''gorious Union" why
has not MIR. Folk rebuked the outrages ON the con-
sttuiion OF those states which have seized and i'm
pr'soned The free citizens OF the north on coming
into their ports, for crime but that of color
which violations of the Constitution are doing more
than all things else 10 sunder this "glorious Union.
IL Is not the free speech of the NORTH but the uncon
stItuonal acts of the SOUTH that are weakening the
bonds of this Union. Such are some of the strik |
ing features of the Inaugural of the new President.
How far his youth is apology for these pec,Iiari
hes we leave others 10 decide. We have looked |
over the addfess again and again for the expression
oil some enlarged, generous, phlanlhropic views of
the nature and design of the government of free
people, but we have looked in vain. We have
looked for some manly and noble views of the
duties of the chief magistrate of this nation, and
with one exception-that where il is said that che
should not be the President of part only. but of
the whole people"-but we have looked in vain
And what right have we to expect anything from
man, who, by enslaving his brethren, every day
violates the first principles Of justice and morality
Mr.. DMLINGHAM-TExAs AND SLAvrRy-The
vote of this gentleman, deserves the severe and
hearty reprobation of every citizen Of the State-
In opposition to the well known and of expressed
opinion of the people of the State, in opposition as
we firmly believe to his own convictions, he has
voted to extend the area of Slavery and increase
the influence of the Slave power, and that too in
gross violation Of the Constitution. Oyer-awed by
the senseless rodomontade and noisy gasconade of
the save-drivers of the South, he has with mean
subservance basely bowed to the dark spirit of
Slavery and quietly performed its bidding
On the passage Of Milton Browns resolutions
through the House, Mr. Dillingham; voted against
them. Why this change On what Amsy pre-
text did he finally vote Tor them, as amended by |
the Senator Was it, that in the event the President
did not like Milton Browns resolutions, he was
clothed with the power of negotiating for the ad-
mission of Texas' The "hats' that were taken by
this miserable preext must feel their intelligence
and shrewdness greatly complimented, upon hear
ing that President Tyler in the expiring hours of
his corrupt and mbece administration, without
leaving the option 10 his successor immediately
transmitted the resolutions TO Texas so that i'll
Texas accept the terms, the door of negotiation is
closed
We hope those abolitionists who aided in elect
ing Mr. Dillingham;, may have their sins forgiven
in another world. In This, we opne, they will
stick to them like the poisoned shirt of Nessus.
WYMAS s CAsE.-Wyman, the embezzng Presi-
dent of the Phnnix Bank, is like to escape from
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