Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-08-20

TO THE WINGS OF VERMONT.
AT period of unusual interest in the political
affairs of the country, you are again called upon 10
perform one of your most responsible political du-
ties, in selecting whom you would have to rule over
you. The undersigned, your Central Committee,
deem the occasion an appropriate one to make
few suggestions for your consideration.
The Wing State Convention has placed befrre
you the names of Horace EATON, LEONARD SAR-
eEANr and ELISHA p. JEwETT as candidates for
the highest State Offices within your gift. TO rep
resent you in Congress, your District Conventions
have nominated WILLIAM HENaY, JACOB COLA
MER, GEoRGE p MARSH and GEORGE u. CHAN.
DLER.
1t is hardly necessary for us 10 say that these
gentlemen arc fully entitled 10 your confidence aud
support. You who to vote for them, knop them.
They are sound, patriotic, enlightened Wines.
But worthy as these gentlemen all nre of our
highest respect and commentator, it is not Of them
especially, that we now propose to speak. Our OBJ
ject is briefly TO call your attention 10 the PRINc1-
PIES which lie at the foundation of the political
contest that is to be determined on the LIST day Of
September next.
1t is scarcely eighteen months since the Access
sion of James X. Polk to the Presidency. But
bret as this period has been, Vt has nevertheless
been sufficient to develope systematic and consls-
tent purpose, the part Of the President and his
subservIcnt followers, to bring the North into COM
pete political lection 10 the South substitute
SOUTHERN PoIIcr in the management of the Cen
eral Government in lieu OF that great and benicen
"AMERIcAN SYSTEM under whose operation the
whole country has reached its present condition of
almost unexanpled prosperity.
In pursuance OF this purpose, the existence Of
which recent events leave us no room to doubt -
TEXAS has been annexed to this Union in a mar
ner not authorized by, and in violation of the Con-
stituion;
The STATE of Texas has been admitted into
vth 10,
terms PROHIBITING FOREVER the emancipation of
Slaves; and by an unjust and unwarrantable exer-
else of power, FOUR VOTES have been given 10 her
IN the Congress of the United States
A WAR for the preservation of the Territory and
influence thus unlawfully acquired, has been forced
upon the country by the act OF the President alone,
without the Constitutional Authority of Congress-
The TARIFF of 1912 has been REPEALED and
tariff, framed on the avowed principle and policy
of FREE TRADE, has been enacted in its stead
thereby eDsurlng widespread disaster and ruin up
on the great industrial interests of the Free States
The benehcent plan of distributing among the
several states, the Proceeds of the sales of the pub
tic lands has been repudated, and policy avowed
by the administration which effectively divests the
old states of all their rights and interests in this
vast property;
The odious Sub-Treasury scheme, based upon
the impractcabe theory ola literally exclusive me-
tac currency, and conferlng upon the President, in
erect t1e control, always dangerous TO Liberty, OF
the Purse and the Sword" has been re-enacted !;
and finally,
The doctrine and policy of Internal Improve
ments, which has the authoritative sanction of
Washington, and Adams, and Jefferson, and Madi-
son, and Monroe, has received the emphatic con-
Lemnation of an executive veto.
Wings of Vermont! To all these schemes and
measures, and the Principles and Policy in which
they originate, you have been consistently
and honestly opposed. The danger OF their perma-
nent adoption by our National Government was
never so great 1t is now. The necessity of
firm and resolute resistance of them, by the potent
agency of the Ballot Box, is instant and imperative
The predicted results OF the mighty receptions and
frauds which defeated the will of the People, and
placed james X. Polk in the Char which he has
already converted into THRoNE, before you !
For the first time since those predicted results have
assumed The form of substantial and practical real
tiles, you have an opportunity to give utterance to
your long-cherished hostility TO them.
We appeal to you, then, IN behalf Of the Prn-
ciples oi the Wing Parry under whose banner you
have So often conquered in behalf Of the interests
of the Free North and of her Free Labor in be-
half of Vermont IN whose mistaken political iide-
ity you feel just pride, to come 10 the plols on
the first Tuesday in September, and stamp the seal
of your reprobaton upon the destructive Free Trade
Policy of an Administration that, having obtained
Power by Fraud seeks to perpetuate it by Oppres-