The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-10-17

We have had 10 contend with opposition
10 Wing principles for twenty years. Ih'
constant and practical value Of these prlncl
pies has not changed, and the opinion o
our opponents has not changed with regart
10 them. The Constitution Of the unHec
States stands al the head Of these. we take
our notions of Constitutional interpretation
from Gen. Washington and the pracuce o.
the country for half a century past-thev laRe
theirs from Gen. Jackson. Laughter ano
chee,s.l In the next place, there IS a lend
encv 10 increase Executive authority, oy IN
discriminate patronage and reward Tor polit-
ical support and in a too free use oil The We
to power The Wings hold that this power
should be limited-that the Veto should only
be used in extreme cases. when me good OF
The country may be advanced thereby, moi tc
CRAFTY political hostility.
Another great question, which has been
kent ont of SIGHT, but which must be meI
before long, and perhaps in not very salts
factory stale, is that OF Protection 10 Labor,
and giving encouragement 10 Domestic In
dustry. This is Almost vital question. With
out the revision Of the laws regulating the
duiies at our Custom Houses, the prosperity
Of this country for many years 10 come, the
success of men of business, and the protec-
restored 10 their former state. Cheers. ]
Not one of these measures would be success
fuI If Cass is elected. And any other idea
Than that either Gen. Taylor or Gen. Cass
must be chosen, is idle. care not how any
persons may be drawn away from this con-
clusion by new parties or new names. They
will find such names, whether Christian or
surnames, cognomens or nomcnclaiures, 10
be nothing but sounding brass and tinklng
cymbals." Laughter and applause.
Another topic also forces itself on our at
tention. In what spirit are the foreign rela>
lions OF the country hereafter 10 be conduct
ed2 Are they 10 be pacific in their nature
looking 10 the maintenance of peace, on
jnst and honorable terms, with all nations,
aud 10 mutually beneficial regulations Of
trade and intercourse? Or shall they he
conducted in spirit Of querulousness and
readiness 10 quarrel? Aspirt OF aggrandze-
mcni and war-a spirit disposed TO yield it.
self up 10 what it is now fashionable 10 call the
manifest destiny of the country-which is
to carry the institutions (which we have es-
fabshed into all neghhoring lands, willing
or unwilling TO receive them, and TO make by
conquest and acquisition, still mighIler ter
ritory of our Republic?
Gentlemen, have said before, that Gene
raj Cass was one ofthe most dangerous men
-and The most dangerous man-of all our
pubic men, who could he elected toihe Pres
idency. repeat it. know nothing in his
history that would lead him TO be DESTROYS
Of honorable peace. Nothing at ALL | do
not say that he would wantony plunge Us in
TO war without any cause at al but DO say
that The whole tendency OF his policy is to-
war! var, invasion, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and tile
acnlISlfInn ri a nnlanEa
And now the question is, shall we aban-
don NIL these great Wing principles of which
have spOken2 And il is a matter OF regret
to me that the attention Of the Wing party
and OF the Wing press has been drawn too
mnch away from the consideration OF these
things, by disputes about men. am sorry
thar IN their disputes on the question whcth
or G+n. Taylor Is a Whig-of which con
celvc there IS 40 doubt-or whether Mr.. Van
buren, Is and always has bsen true LIber-
ty man-ui which there is ust as little doubt
-(laughrer) -they should have left this vi
TAI question almost unspoken OF. Were il
not now Too lale should invite the whole
party, both of tho North and Of the South,
10 atiemptto rally upon this matter Of so
deep interest
Now, gentlemen. some Gavorers of this
new light of tho Free Snil sun, insruc! US
not to look backward. trust al leas: we
may lonk forward. | hare we are not 10 be
placed III the situation OF him OF whom il " as
once said
10 ne'rr looks bnckwari-rnwari still he GOES
Yet nc'cT looks ward farther than his nose"
pray You, gentlemen, TO look forward and
See what viii be she condition of tho country,
il General Cass is elected. have given you
summary of tho principles for which the
Wings have been contending for twenty years
principles which ] deem highly important
and essential to tho prosperity Of the country
-aad ask you 10 look forward and see what
will become of them if Mr. Cass is chosen the
next President. | will tell YOU exactly what
will happen. Gen. Cass will say that every
one Of them was repudiated, put down and
condemned by the very majority which made
him President.
Who, in the next Congress, can venture to
stand up and say that the public voice requires
an alteration in the Tariff of 1916, when he
may turn round and say that the public voice
has expressly demanded that it shall be left
where IT IS? Who can complain of the Sub
Treasury, which now, in this very hour of fl
nancial pressure, has millions of specie locked
mp in its vauts-when the President may saw
that the institution existed in November, As,
when he was chosen by a majority of the peo-
pie, they knowing him to be for, and his antag-
oniSt against the system?
And just so it will be with every thing else:
will not say that the argument would be a
fair one. Under the existing state of things,
it would be unfair. But it would oe plausi-
ble-and he would put it forth, would stand
upon it. Depend upon it, gentlemen, that
would be his course.
So much, fellow-citizens, respecting the gen
era question of the approaching election of a
president of the United States
But recent events have raised another ques-
ton, which has come to affect very materially
the domestic government of the State Of Mas
sachusetts. party has arisen and has been
organized in this State. which calls itself the
free soil party. l think there is joke by
Swift o. some writer of his time, who wished
TO rldicule some man who was making no We
r.. tasteful use Of the words natalie soiu,n,' in
this wise
@Natale solum--dulce ct natalie .olur,--