The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-08-20
TO THE WINGS OF vERMONT

htcal affairs ofthe country, you are aga in
called upon to perform one of your most re-
sponsibe political duties in selecting whom
you would have to rule over you The IN.
dersigned, your Central Committee, deem tbs
occasion an appropriate one to make a few
sugges tons for your Considerations
The Wing State Convention has placed b.
fore you the names of HORACE EATON, LEON
ARD SARGEANT, and ELISHA P. JEwGTr,
as candidates for the highest State Offices
within your gift To represent you in Con.
gress your District Conventions have nomi-
mated WILLIAM HENRY, JACOB COLA
MER, GEoRGEP. MARSH, and GEORGE 3.
CHANDLER.
1t Is hardly necessary for us TO say thst
these gentlemen are fully entitled to your
confidence and support. You, who are to
vote for them, ln0,U them. They arc sound,
patriotic, enlightend WINGS.
But worthy as these gentlemen all are Of
our highest respect and commendation, it Is
not Of them especially, that we now propose
to speak. Our object is briefly to call your
attention to the PRINCIPLES which lie at tho
foundation of the political contest that ia TO
be determined on the first day Of September
next.
1t is scarcely eighteen months since tho 49,
cession of James X. Polk to the Presidency.
But brief as this period has been, it has new
ertheless been sufficient TO develop o Eye
tematic and consistent purpose, on the part of
the President and his subservient followers,
to bring the North into complete political
subsection to the South-to sustitute Souri,
ERN PoLIcY in the management of the Gen.
eral Government in lieu of that great and
benefcent "AMEKICAN SYSTEM" under
whose operation the whole Country has reach
ed its present condition of almost unexars-
pied prosperity.
In pursuance Of this purpose, the existence
of which recent events leave us 10 room to
doubt -
TEXAS has been annexed to this Union In
manner not authorized by, and in violstion
Of the Constitution;
The STATE of Texas las teen admit cd IL
to the Confederacy, with a Constitution ia
express terms PROHIBITING FOREVER the
emancipation Of Slaves; and by On unjust G.
understandable exercise ofpower,FoUE VOTES
have been given her in tho Congress- Of the
United States;
A WAR for the preservation Of the Terl3.
tory and influence thus unlswfully acquired
has been forced upon the country by the act
of the President alone, without the Cops!itu-
tional Authority of Congress.
The TARIFF of 1912 has been REPEALED,
and a tariff, framed on the avowed principle
and policy of FREE TRADE, has been enacted
in its stead, thereby ensuring widespread
disaster and ruin upon the great industrial In
terests of the FREE STATES;
The benofcent plan of DISTRIBUTING g.
mong the several states, the Proceeds Of the
sales of the Public Lands has been repudiat-
ed, and policy avowed by the administra-
ton which eaectual!y divests the old states of
all their rights and interests in this vast prop
erty;
The odius SuB-TREAsURY scheme, based
upon the impracticable theory Of a literally
exclusive metallic currency, and comforting
upon the President in effect, the control, OIL
ways dangerous to Liberty, of the Purse
and the Sword, has been re-enacted; and
finally
The doctrine and policy of INTERNAL I'M
PR ovEMENTs, which has the authorize tive
sanction of WASHINGTON, and ADAMS, and
JEFFERSON, and MADISON, and MUNRoE,
has received the emphatic condemnation Of
an executive Veto.
Wings of Vermont To all these schemes
and measures, and to the Principles and Pol
icy in which they originate, you have ever
been, consistently and honestly OPPOSED
The danger of their permanent adoption BY
our National Government was never so great
as it is now. The necessity of firm and
resolute resistance Of them, by them, by the
potent agency of the BALLOT Box, is instant
and imperitive. The predicted results ofthe
mighty receptions and frauds which defeated
the will of the People, and placed James Il.
Polk, in the Chair which he has already con-
verted into THRONE are before you For
he first time since those predicted results
nave assumed the form of substantial and
practical realities, you have an opportunity
o give utterance to your long-chcrished hos.
ilty to them.
We appeal to you, then, in behalf of the
PRINCIPLES OF THE WING PARTY under
whose banner you have so often conquered