The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-11-25
From the National lntelIigoncer.
OUR VICT ORY.

We ArC without words III Tor expressing
our sensations on this glorious event. AS
members ofthe great political party to which
il is our pride to belong, wC are naturally
and deeply graticd NJ the triumph ofits priu-
cipeS: but, five know ourselves, amy eNnl-
lation on this hend is subordinate To feel
ing ordevout lhnnkiulness To the Almighty
R,icr ofNations for his having guided the
minds and hearts Of the American People ~
n result which, we believe, Is the salvation
Of the country. We shudder when we think
of the ABYSS to the brink of which another
f,nr wears of misrule might have brought il
The fourth Of March, 1910, will revive The
heroic age Of the republic. At the head of
the Government will be 4 man with char
acier whose Dimensions are suited to the
office; and which, in its simple greatness, is
fit tvpe of the mujesly Of the American Peo-
nile Formed amid the hardest scenes ola
camp life, ard rcsplendent with military
glory. it is graced by moral md intellectual
Guniilies fitting its possessor for the high civ
ic station to which the voice of his country
has called him. History exhibits to us two
classes ofm;linry men. Ono clnSs is militia
ry mud nothing else. and unfit for any hut Il
military theatre of eXerton; and in this are
TO be Cound some of tho most distinguished
couuuerors-men at whose names "the world
ureH pale" The other and higher clngs is
that OF men who, in their military conduct.
dowments. To this latter class beIongs
ZACHARY TAYLoR. In the Interval ola long
and even,rll professional service, his active
mind has been enriched 10y study and disci
plined hy thought. Sagncous, well-inlorm-
ed. iunexihy honest, seli:relyiug yet modest,
moderate bnt firm. straightforward, mugnan-
inlous, kind hearted, republican IN his prn-
ciples and republican, in his habits, he is the
man for the place and the man for the times
His character and political creed assure his
country that he will administer the Consti-
tuition i'm the spirit of its founders, and in fur
thcraure of its declared objects. Untetered
by any sectional pledges, he will he the Pres
| ident of the nation; looking to the good and
to the right of aU its members; and ever
mindful of the temper of compromise in
which the Federal Constitution tCGS, and in
which only it could hare been framed; and thus
making the Executive policy the agent of ''a
more perfect UNION" of the States and of the
| People. His proverbn integrity guarantees
the ius,ice" Of his political conduct the "do-
mestic tranquility" ofthe country will he guar
ded by the iIlustrious warrior, who is devo-
ted "PEACE MANI the discipline of Washing
ton will so construe and act on the Constitu-
ton as TO 'promote the general welinre;" aud
u Chief Magistrate whose loyalty to the will
of,he People Inns been avowed, and is be-
yond suspicion, will never stretch Executive
power against puDIlc "nOerty.
Yes bright day is coming. A clear
headed and honest. hearted Chief Magistrate
will refuse the aid of The Executive to that
absurd system Of constituting the Constitution
which isat one moment splitting hairs, and
at another swallowing camels; which treats
that sacred instrument as q thing incapable
of good, but capable Of mischief rs not per
hitting the Improvement of territory already
possessed, but allowing new territory to be
acquired on any plea, however unjust or eX-
travagant, only to be consigned TO the same
neglect as being insufficient 10 protect home
industry against the pauper labor OF Europe
but as being quite sufficient to enable the
President to do what he pleases; as res.
trictiug the Legislature within the narrowest
, bounds, but leaving the Executive ''a char
tered libertine" TO make war, to found gov.
ernments, sc, and, in short, to exercise
kngly powers which it denies 10 the branch
es of the Government in the aggregate; ant
which subjects the Constitution itself to the
dictntion of Rump Conventions and partizar
platforms. BY their votes on Tuesday last
the People have rehukcd such irrational anC
anti-republicnn principles (ifthe word may
: he thus peryerted) of construction. And il
I SO doing,the People have set the seal ofcon
, demnatIon on tho arbitrary exercise of IN,
, one-man power, which was the prominent fea
ture ofthe fallen dynasty.No less emphnticall,
nave they renukcu me congenai abuses oi
= the interfe renee of Federal offce-holders i,
elections. The unprecedented extent of
this abnse, with its concomi;ani circumstan
! ces,nt the late Presidential election, disgust
ed the country, and so far had its share i,
producing the ever memorable result II
that result the People have indicated IN,
$ confidence oftheir real friends in their yirtu
! TO resist the seductive but fatal visions of
, conquesis, territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, "man
ilest destiny" "Anglo-Saxon supremacy.
&c., with which they have been tempted
that their intelligence can distinguish be