Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-28
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character which Vermont is to bear in the future.
1t cannot be disguised that two or three important
issues concerning our national policy are now prom
inent, not only with the American people, but
with the people of every civilized nation on the
globe. Never, we believe, since the days of
the Revolution, have the people of this country had
SO much at stake as at the present moment. The
struggle now going on between LIBERTY and SLAVE
ny Is, perhaps, the most prominent and important.
On this question, there but two sides and two
parties. We state what we know to be true, and
without lear of successful contradiction, when we
say that the great mass Of the Wing party are on
the side OF Liberty and that the governing and con-
trolling portion Of the democratic" or Loco Fo-
coparty, are now struggling with all the power and
patronage OF Office to extend the Southern limits
OF the Union, with the express purpose of increas-
ing and perpetuatng the slave-holding power of
the South and placing it forever beyond the reach
and control of Northern influence This was the
real ground OF the Texan annexation movement,
as emphatlcally proclaimed by Mr. Calhoun, in his
official correspondence, while Secretary of State,
and Mr. Holmes, of Charleston, S. c., and other
Southern Loco-Foco members, on the floor of the
late Congress. When this vile project was
officially made known at Washington, with its long,
black accompaniment Of slavery extending into the
future, without limit as TO time or space and exhib-
Ting on its very face the fragrant violation Of
our Constitution of Government, and the most
wanton disregard Of our solemn treaties with Mex
ico the entire North, without distinction Of party
was hlled with amazement and alarm. Even the
Wings of the South, the mass of them. with their
most distinguished leaders, denounced the project
as unconstitutional and unjust. The Loco Foco
Legislature of Massachusetts, with Gov Morton
denounced it-Ex-President Van Buren, argued
against it-nearly all the Loco Foco press of the
North denounced it, and none more fiercely than
'he New Hampshire organs of the party.
Such was the state of parties when the Loco Fo-
co National Convention assembled in Baltimore in
May. 1874 Van Buren, and Cass, the two most
prominent of the Northern candidates for the Pres
idency-the former having decided majority, and
the Two together having nine-tenths of the votes Of
the Convention, were forced to yield, and give place
10 one JAMES X. Polk, who was brought forth
from the land Davy Crockett, as the champion of
Texan annexation. The Convention forthwith
confirmed the nomination unanimously. and the
whole Northern democracy" not only submitted
to this dlctation of a small Texan clique, but be-
came all at once sturdy annexationists Even in
Vermont, where every man was supposed TO be hog
tile to the project, and where Democrats united
with Wings in the Legislature, in voting resolutions
against any attempt for the annexation of Texas
10 se enion. as unconstitutional and dangerous to
the stability ofthe Union tseG"-even here in YER
mont, famous for her enthusiastic devotion to the
cause oil Liberty, the Constitution and Laws. the
van Buren,, anti-Texas democrats were suddenly
transformed into Polk, Texas annexationists. and
z. their late State Convention at Mddlebury.
they resolved that they felt ito rejoice exceedingly
and to congratulate the democracy of the country"
on the final consummation of what these same Lo-
co Focos one or two years previous denounced "as
unconstitutional and dangerous to the stability of
the Union ITSELF" Yes, the LOeO-Eocos of Yer
mont hare given their sanction to the uneonsitu-
tional and dangerous" Ierian policy Of President
Polk. And yet these same Loco Focos, many of
them, profess to be Aboltonis.s
Another question. and one which is nowhere
more vitality important to the prosperity of the peo-
pie than in Vermont, is that of Protection to our
domestic industry The Tariff of 1912 has brought
this country out of embarrassment and general
prostration, and filled it with the spirit of enter
prise and prosperity. Notwithstanding this, the
entire democracy of the South denounced it from
the first as ''odious Wing Tariff" and in the last
Congress, Mr. Mckay, a prominent Loco Foco
member from North Carolina, brought in Bill
which, had it become law, would have essentially
overturned the whole protective policy of the coun-
try But this destructive substitute for the protect
i've Tariff of 1912 was defeated, erery Wing vot-
ing against it, and four-fhs Of the Democrats vot-
ing for it. But the war against the Wing policy of
Protection is not abandoned. The official organ
Of Mr. Polk. at Washington, is daily firing its
broad-sides against it, The Secretary of the Trea-
sury has written letter in which he declares that
he is toilng every day to form plan for bringing
il down to his Free-Trade revenue standard The
whole Democratic press Of the North have opened
their batteries against the Oppressive Wing Ia
r,fn The recent State Convention at Mddlebury
voted resolutions rgainst it, and the Loco EoeOs of
Vermont haze openly arrdysd themselves against the
present Tariff, and against the protective policy of
f1 Wigs!
Here, then, we have two direct issues presented
people Of Vermont, and which they are TO
IS far as they relate to this State NEXT
One is the annexation Of Texas in
nentation aud perpeluaton of me-
means which violate the spirit and
a sacred instrument, known as our
Constitution, and which trampe under
most solemn treaties with neghboring
n Kar,.