Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-10-30
NUMBER 10.

IEJsThe following article from the Hartford
Courant will doubtless be well appreciated by abont
"l25' persons in this town, who have been beating
the air the past summer for some tangible democ-
racy =
Mr.. Editor Having been Democrat from the
days of Jefferson, and having imbbed most Of my
political notions from the writings of that great
Apostle Of Democracy-l have recently been for
chilly struck with the contrast between the princi-
pies of Democracy as laid down by that great cham
pion and the recent acts ofthe Democratic Repeu-
cy in this State. Then Democracy meant the
greatest good Of the greatest number-it meant that
equal and exact justice should be dispensed to an
that all should have equal rights and privileges
that the sovereign people had right 10 express
their wishes TO the executive organ Of their gov
eminent in relation TO appointments and removals
by the right Of petition and those petitions were
heard aud answered in accordance with the num-
Der Of the petitioners. The doctrine was then in
culcated and very strictly adhered to, that the Ex-
ecutlye should make all appointments and removals
in strict accordance with the expressed wishes Of
majority of his friends interested How is il in
this State at the present dayl Exactly the reverse
Perhaps this may be considered q strong assertion
but let us look for moment at facts as a proof
Take the case Of the recently appointed Collector
at New Haven, where the voice Of Nine Hundred
Democrats Immediately connected with and inter-
ested in the appointment, were drowned to silence
and smothered by petition Of two hundred names
picked up in broken fragments throughout the diff
ferent paris of the State-having no more real in
tererest in the Colectorship than they have in who
should be Emperor of China. So. too, in the case
OF the Post Master at Norwich-there call was
given through the public press 10 all Democrats
terested to meet and express their wishes in rela-
ton 10 who should be appointed The result was,
gentleman every way deserving and qualified
who had conducted the Aurora, and fought the bat
tie well through the political campaign and election
o! Mr. Polk-receiyed handsome majority and was
recommended to the department for the appoint
ment But 10 and behold. secret wire was touch-
ed-and the voice Of the Democracy Of Norwich
died away upon the breeze long before il reached
Washlngton-and a gentleman. an old bunker to
use the modern phrase, who had held the Office
twelve years under General jackson and Mr. Van
Buren,, whom nobody in Norwich thought Of re-
ceiyed the appointment.
Also-ihe Democratic Post Master at Andover.
Holland County, has been removed against the ex-
pressed wishes Of at least three ourhs of all the
voters and large majority ofthe Democrats, mere
~ to crafty the personal malice of certain poIiti-
cal Demagogue, (of fishing notoriety,) and some
four or FIVE devotees of Bacchus who diddle around
him as their common center. Yes, man who is
one Of the Democratic Committee ofthe Town and
the Senatorial District in which he lives--the wish
es of large majority Of his Democratic friends
and the convenience Of the community-must all
be sacrificed to the wishes Of man who in "a Of
fered himself soul and body, politically, to the
Wings if they would retain him as Justice of the
Peace-whch can be proved by living Witnesses
then representatives-who has done more to throw
the Democratic majority in the 2lst Senatorial Dis
irict into minority than all other causes combined
by gagging and sending out Of the ranks every
Democrat of the party who chose to act for the
best interests Of Democracy rather than his own
personal interest-who is ready TO sacrifice every
man and every interest in the pursuit of certain
fat slice which has thus far eluded bis grasp
Thus we see that some few individuals who hover
about Central Row, and some one or two in each
Senatorial District, constitute Regency in this
State whose political edicts have about as much
claim to Democracy as have the edicts Of the Au-
tocra Of all the Russias the unfortunate Poles
The avenue from the Democrats of this State to the
ear of the President is through bat one solitary
mouth-piece, and that must be spoken through by
prompters and all petitions and expressions from
the people which are not in accordance with the
wishes Of the Regency, doomed TO die in the
hands that gave them birth.
Fellow Democrats, what encouragement is there
to labor in the under this state of things p
So long you let a certain class OF men think for
you, and speak for you, and lock the collar upon
your necks and pu, the key in their own pockets,
you are in their estimation good Democrats but
and the dictates of conscience, you are read out
and called Wings. AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
New Haven, Sept 10th, 1916.