Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-22

politicians of the extreme South demand that
the Executive shall fulfil the conditions of
his nomination, and satisfy the pledges inn
piled in his whole political life by exerting
his entire personal and official influence, and
expanding the energies ofhs administration,
in crusade against the rights and interests
OF the free laborer OF the North, and in the
mean time they looked askance at the Cabi-
net, and though thrice invited, kept aloof
from all participation in the concerns of the
national government. On the other hand,
the ingenious Northern casuists, who found
in the notorious letter to Kane professions of
great devotion to the interests of domestic
industry, require rescript confirming their
Interpretation Of that most lesuitical aud
most shallow epistle, while yet another great
section of the party, whose fortunes depend
upon the ascendancy of the Van Buren, influ-
ence, and who are alike Indifferent to all
measures of public concern except the dis
tribution of the good gifts at the disposal Of
the Executive, demand the control of all i'm
portant northern appointments, as an inds-
pensable condition of their support to the
measures of the administration. Ii is obvi-
Gus that such incongruous elements can
neither he harmonized nor controlled by an
executive. destitute alike Of manly and orig
NAL independence oGthought and action, and
all great aud imposing traits of character
We may therefore look forward 10 vascia-
ting and unstable administration, driven a.
bout by every wind ofdocirne, as the differ
ent rival factions shall from time TO time
Auctuate and predominant.
The Wing party, on the other hand,
though defeated, was never more harmoni-
Gus or more determined than at the present
moment 1t is entirely united as to meas
ures, entirely uupedged as to men. Though
represented by many of our wisest statesmen
and truest patriots in the National Legisa-
ture, it is yet both there, and in most of The
+ states in decided minority, and can of
course expect little share in guiding the
movements or directing the policy of the
National Government 1t must for the pres
ent, be content with exerting simply con-
servative influence, and if it shall succeed
. in preventing the abandonment of the emf
nently wise revenue policy devised and a
dopted by the twenty-seventh Congress, its
utmost labors will have been abundantly re-
warded At the accession ofGen. Harrison
in lS4l. almost every branch ofdomesic in
dustry was PROSTATE, the National Treasury
empty, the Government involved in debt,
!, aud almost without credit resources.-
The Wings, dishear,enod by tho sudden
Providential removal ofthe Chief Executive,
and disorganized by the detection of his
constitutional successors, were able to re-
tain their ascendancy for but single Con-
gress. To that brief period of wing power,
cramped and thwarted as it was by the meek
ness and perverseness of the new Executive,
our country owes its rescue from wide spread
ruin, and national bankruptcy and shame
First and foremost among the restorative and
remedial acts of that ever memorable Con-
gress, was the wise and salutary tariff of
1912, measure which in its tangible and
, demonstrate results stands wholly without
parallel in the history of American Legis-
aiion. Contrast the long night of embar-
rassment, depression and gloom, which fol-
, lowed the feverish excitement of 1886, en-
gendered and fostered by the policy of the
, Jackson and Van Buren, administrations,
with the life, and hope and prosperity TO
which the tariff of 1912 gave birth, and
, whose smiles, we still enjoy, (though some
what dimmed by the fear of change,) and
you will allow, that our estimate of its value
, is by no means extravaganza So far as any
union or concentration of opinion exists a.
mong our opponents, it is principally direct
6 ed against this one measure, and there can
be no doubt that a large majority at least of
the leaders of the administration party are
+, decidedly hostile to the general policy of en-
couraoing domestic industry, and particular
" to The Tariff Of 1912, aud they aim at its
repeal, both because pitts protective charac-
ter, aud because it is emphatically wing
/. . measure. 1t is matter of some doubt what
: precise course the administration, distracted
: as il is by so many conflicting Influences,
will pursue, but as far as can now he Judged,
: il may be considered certain that the Tariff
will he attacked and though considerations
a Of party policy may induce the majority to
o snare those branches of industry III which
: the Southern and Middle states are particu-
!, arly interested, there can be no question
that an indscriminate warfare will be COM
Z menced against all the peculiar interests oil
i New England In the first session of the
y last Congress, the Tariff of lS42 was saved
, in the House of Representatives, by ma
. iority of but FIVE only-every Wing member
y sustaining il, and nearly four-fiilhs OF our
n opponents voting for McKay's destructive
1t substitute. The administration will have
al nearly as large majority in the next Con
n gress as in the last, the Senate is notorious
D. " against us, the Democratic journals, with
Is scarcely dissenting voice, are calling upor
u the President TO carry out the will OF the
$ faction by whom and for whom he was nom
le mated aud the leaders of the party in pow
ID er are no longer restrained by the fear ofim'
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