Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-10-12

To-Day, is exactly TINS mat the people OF
this country have not only better right to
govern it than the President, but that they
can govern it better than any President -
And if you wish, feow-citizens, to effect
one great cause philanthropy or interest
to restrain slavery within its present limits
ample enough, God knows-il you wish to
promote internal improvement, or to afford
protection to American labor, if you wish
to let in on the darkest spots of our system
the sweet healing influences of the serene
and beautiful spirit of the age--there is but
one way to do it, and that is this that the
will Of the people, unchecked and unimpc-
ded by any veto, shall rule this country. In
| this view, how seasonable and how full of
comfort is the recorded creed Of our candi-
date, General Taylor, who says that the veto
shall never be exercised:
Except 10 cases of clear violation Of the Constitution or
manifest huso and want Of consideration by Congress In
opinou aud wishes Of the Executive have exercised
aud injurious Influence the legislative department Of the
dange Of Undergoing gfea change ON is vac the
ory Tho personal opinions of the niwduh who may hap
pen occupy the Executive Chair control the
action Of Congress upon questions OF domestic poicy
ought his objections 10 he ncpo'ed where questions Of
sutona power have been settled by tho various depart
menu OF Government, and acqriescod 10 by the people"
Look on this picture, and on this : az
shall veto," says the candidate of the Con-
! vention at Baltimore, the law of freedom,
Of improvement, of protection, of peace; )"
" and J." responds the plain old man of
Monterey and Bucna Vista, SHALL Exc
CUTE THEM ALL"
In this view, fellow citizens, permit me
to relieve the elaborate dryness of this dis
cussion, by asking you if you do not think
! 4 nh
or you heard of in the whole course of your
life, that we should be asked to commit ex-
ecutive power into the hands of Martin Van
Buren,. Why, fellow citizens, it was his a.
buse of executive power, more than anything
else, that led to the deep damnation of his
political life in 1910, and led directly to the
revolution of that day. The reform in that
particular is very much like sour ale in sum
mer, in my way of thinking
He says he will never veto the law of
freedom hope not. hope he will new
err have the chance. But here is question
want to PROFOUND to you, fellow citizens,
IN all gravity How long will it take HIM
to sign that bill! | should suppose about
three minutes and Il haiC But suppose it
takes him whole day; what will he do
during the rest of his four years! There
will be this old veteran of the Albany re-
gency and wire-puler of half a century's
training, with this tire mendous power placed
IN his hands, with a hundred thousand Off
ces to fill, and FIVE hundred thousand expec-
tants Of office, and all the country before
him to operate upon. ] ask you what pro-
vision they have made for him the rest Of
the four years. He certainly will not re-
main idle, for we all know who finds work
for idle hands to do. daughter and cheers.
q Twill tell YOU wha; lie will be doiag he
will be practising Van Burensm OH his own
hook, so far as the administration of execu-
tive power is concerned. What is Van Bu-
renism! What did you and | and these
gentlemen, Wing seceders, consider Van
Burenism to be in the campaign of 1910 ?
| take it that these gentlemen who have rome
out from US, believed, and | ask, did you
not at that time maintain, in speech, SER
mon, song, ballad, by torch-lght, daylight,
moonlight and candle-light, did you not
conscentlously maintain and believe and
did you not bring the old man of North
Bend TO the white house on that idea, that
this great abstraction, or this terrific reali-
ty, which we call Van Burensm meant, so
far as the manifestation of executive power
was concerned, the most corrupt and COR
4 fuP'ihg government ever witnessed or eXer-
= cised on the lace OF the earth
Did you not maintain and believe that il
? meant then aud there, an administration OF
e executive influence, IN which was BRIDE
ior the lawyer III ms seat, Tor the editor IN
: ms DESK Tor the member OF the executive
c department IN MS bureau, and Tor the seek
: or aiter once eVery,Where; winch babe tins
S man 40 tnis' ana he ana II, ana that man
: go 'here' ana ne went an executive III
r huehce whlch NOBODY was bclow the temp
C talioh OF "hich reached everybody, hoWeV-
er nigh; an influence that would meet an
k honest man somewhat as the supernatural
f beings OF the great tragedlan met hero,
IF returning from his victorious b-ttle;
"AIl hill, M,eee!h hail to thee, thono Of Glom;'
ali Iai, Macbeth! dat hall BE- Kaa a.0 AreeGer"
:. Was it not on this idea that the people were
= enraped against it. and beat out. as they
@ fondly supposed. once and for all IFS brain.
J. and its life 2 And now do they reproduce
c to lead the army of liberty, with twent,