Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-06-06
New York Loco FOcOs---LOcO FOcOs
every where.

that the Wings constituted the only party in this couu.
try which the friends of the Union and the pcrm,
nent existence Of our Government could rely with aDv
degree of safety. But before doing this we wish TO o.,
hbit still further the glarng inconsstences-he shamo.
less hypocrisy and frauds the total want of princ;.
pie, the abandonment OF all that inspires virtue ana
patriotic regard for the public veal which char,c.
terze the history, present and past Of the Loco e.
CO party in these United States. As 10 the ,b;,a
party, deem il useless to waste words about II a,
present-their chief, James G.. Brney, has don.
the work for In one of his letters which b,.
recently been made public, he admts that though
he would not hesitate in affirming to support III,
Constitution of Government he would at the sam.
time 'be prepared, indeed, consider himself bound
to disregard any immoral provisions that might h.
found in it,. This is the moral of Mr. Birney! In
the same breath in which he declares his WILLING.
ness, # elected President, TO swear, or affirm. ia
support the Constitution, he asserts his readiness IA
violate and trample under foot whatever of that in.
s,rument might conflict with his sense of right
Ii such declarations this together with the nro.
posed plan Of Mr. Jay for dissolution oflhc Union.
and the exultations Of Wendell Phillips and other
abolition leaders, in the prospect of speedy break.
ing up of the religious denominations, as well AZ
Of the overthrow of all present social oreanza.
tons precursor TO the destruction Of our Union
and Government, do not effect a beneficial result
then we confess our want of faith in the virtue and
intelligence Of the American people Iii TO the
leaders Of the Loco Foco party we now wish 10 di.
rect attention. The masses of this party, as We
have often said, we believe honest. But the destiny
Of the party, and at present, of the country, is in
other hands. With fair professions on their lips,
and the worst intentions in their hearts, what good
can be expected from those who now control the
Government of this great and growing Republic!
We have before us the address of the Wbp
members of the Legislature TO the People of the
State of New York 1t fully confirms all that we
have recently said in relation to Loco Foco leaders
Of the country. The address is mainly occupied
with the financial and other local affairs Of the En-.
Pre State But the two closing paragraphs are rel.
evant to oil the States of the Union they contain
warning voice which we wish to make heard A.
mong the Green Hills of Vermont. Locofocosm
is essentially the same every where;
"The great practical issues (says the Ad-
dress) which now divide the American peope.
are Tor the present virtually reduced to two
one relating to our Foreign, the other to our
Domestic policy. = While the great
mass of our countrymen, of all classes, regard
ed with favor the policy Of protecting our Home
Industry from depressing foreign competition,
and while even those who hesitaed and doubt
ed at the time our present Tariff was enacted,
have been convinced and assured, by the prac-
teal working OF that measure, and the magical
transformation from embarrassment and debt
TO solvency and plenty, we might naturally
look Tor season of tranquility and peace The
vast majority of those who live by their own
useful labor, whether Of the hand or the head,
are emphatcally satisfied with the Tariff Of
1912, with the principles on which it is found
ed, and the results by which it has been tested.
II the naked question were put tomorrow, TO
every voter throughout the Union, Shall the
| Tariff stand as it is, or be re-modelled on the
basis of horizontal duties for revenue only =
we cannot doubt but that the majority against
the proposed change would be immense. Yet
the administration now in power at Washing.
ton, has obtained that power by the help ofthe
entire anti-PTotectve strength of the country,
and that strength, though decided minority
of the whole people, forms q majority of the
dominant party, and especially of its leaders and
controllers. All the power Of Party, on that
side where Party is every thing, and of Pat
ronage, eXerted upon those with whom Patron
age is no trihe, will be brought to bear in the
next Congress on the Tariff question, with the
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How far this may succeed, will depend greatly
upon the intervening Elections, and the dis
thickness with which the public mind is brought
to contemplate, and the public sentiment 10
bear upon this vital subject
On that great question of Foreign policy The
Annexation of Texas, we have been mpelIed 10
act at this session, or rather TO solicit vanly
Of the majority in each House the privilege Of
acting. All Of you will bear testimony 10 the
fact that our opponents in this State, during the
late arduous Presidential canvass were general
ly careful TO bettle and obscure, so far as pos
sibIe, the Texas issue, when they did not abso-
lutely deny that it tcas an issue. Their State
Convention in its proceedings, address, and
resolutions, never lisped the word Texas
Their candidate for Governor was known as
anti-Annexation, and had so avowed himself 10
popular assemblies, in this State, on grounds
which are as pertinent and decisive to-day as
they we've when he took them. Their leading
Press in the great Commercial Emporium zeal
ously opposed Annexation through the canvass.
Their Herkimer Mass Convention proclaimed
that Annexation could not take place without
such adjustment OF the Slavery question as
should be satisfactory and just to the Free States
And yet, when the contest was over, and
meagre but decisive plurality of the votes oil
this State had made James X. Polk President
we found the place of our late anti Annexation
Senators suddenly filled by the Executive with
two Annexatonsts, and the main question
sprung upon the country ia Congress in shape
which not merely failed to guarantee the Free
States against the preponderence of Slavehold-
ing power in the territory to be annexed but
actually foreclosed the whole matter against US,
and expressly provided that the tchole of Tex
as should be admitted into the Union as Slave
State Against this binding of our State to &C.
quesce through uncounted future years in the
creation of more and more Slave States, we
deemed this Legislature imperativelYc called upon