Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-06-09

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nsccndancy Of the iaro,oro party ia Nss Y "a
hail bred in that party the rro--cs ourrufi.aa
The banking power Of the State, the puli.e priai.
inr aud all the immense patronage Of the Gov
eruor, was unscrupulously used to purchase or
is~af'i political partizans. This shameless cor
rariion di-gu.lsd the honest and patriotic por.
'.a n 'hs parry. and in the legislature and in
T a'eeiinrs. thcy began to demand reform.
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the general hanlinr iau. ~thh d.ararsf II.
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the State, aud vhirh vat trauati al.a,.i d. a.
whigs and disahceicd Dcuocrat. n.r iI.af
iccted portion q the party usrc thea called nai
icals, and the Others the Regency Tlss Raj
icas continued their war upon the Bcgoue, ai,h
increasing ,igor, aud as their motives uefe BE-
ter understood they received increased SUPPORT
and sympathy from the masses.
The next great victory gained by them va.
the creation and adoption Of the New Con.titn.
ton, in 1876, and which was achieved by the
joint action of the Wings and Radica. In the
mean time, the breach between the two sections
of the Locofoco party had resulted in an open,
bitter, irreconcilable warfare The Regency, by
way of derision, termed their opponents barn
burners" which the latter rctorted by dub ING
the Regency Old Ilunkcrs" In the late Bal.
timorc Convention, j. c. Smith. a Barnburncr
delegate, and an eloquent and talented Young
man, gave an amusing and correct account Of
the origin of the name applied to them by the
IIunkers. lie said the Old IIunkers, like rat !
in barn, had got possession Of al the patro nag =
and emoluments Of the State, and were O., in Z,
and wasting il as rats will do. that he and his
friends had burnt up the old barn, and div, IN
them all out OF their nests and hiding-placc,, and
had thus obtained the name Of BrrnJta. ger 81
There was striking significance in the con ila ri
son, for the adoption Of the New Constr ut on
completely demolished the system Of patr ,n' ,ge
and official bribery by which the Rcgcn, i, iAd
so long ruled the party and the State.
Among other questions ON which the Is IN
burners and llunkers differed, was the WI mot
Pro'iso principle--"a free soil for i,,c peo-
pie-ior' although when first brought for sar'l
the principle received the undivided suI 20 IT Of
the who'c Locoioco party Of the State, yet no
sooner did the slave drivers of the onih de-
nounee 1t, than the liunkers, whose political
principles are always made subscriber TO the
union and ascendancy Of the party, ia, ed right
about, and abandoned the free soil prl nciDle-