Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-07-20

the Wings ought to have nominated Mr..
Clay--a man they had often defeated, and
could, he supposed, defeat again. This
would have been fair but to take up cold
Zack," a no-party man, the very man who
had fought their battles and gained their
victories, and saved their Administration
from Infamy and disgrace, how could the
Wings vote for him? Democrats could do
SO with proprety. Yes, (said MIR. s. and
that is exactly what they are going to do
Democrats would vote for him, because he
was an honest, true, patriotic, faithful old
man, who had risked his life in fighting the
battles of the country. The honest, I'M
sophisticated people, not the politicians, but
the patriotic people of the country, felt and
said, eve owe old lack a debt of graft
tude, and we are not like Mr.. Polk, Gen.
Cass, and the party in the House, who pay
him with kicks and cuffs a; we. are honest
men, we will pay our honest debts; VIC
have no money, but we will pay hin in pa
paper we have a little bit of ticket which
we will deposit at the polls for him in No
vcmber next. We don't care what you say,
Mr.. Richie, or what you politicians say to
the contrary; he has served his country
long and faithfully; and we are going to
thank him, and that, too, without Mr.. Cass's
disgracelul provso attached to his vote OF
thanks for his glorious victory at Monte
rev." You might as well attempt to stop
the Mississippi river as to stop these honest
men from voting for Gen. Taylor.
But prudence is the better part of valor
Mr.. Richie is not going to wait to be shot
he starts in time. He knows Old lack
and Capt. Bragg are sharp shooters, and he
no doubt feels a little like Crockett's coon,
who from the top of tree seeing we'll
known marksman raising his unerring rifle,
said Is that you, Capt. Scott If it is,
don't shoot PH come down." So said Mr.
Richie: is that you, Old lack +! If ii
is don't shoot I'll come down" Much
laughter
But, to make bad worse, the next day af.
ter this candid confession and surrender,
out comes his old friend Van Buren, against
Cass-"et tn E@ute" This rendered the
gentleman quite frantic, and in his next pa
per we may expect to see him address Mr.
Polk in the language of certain celebra.
ted song, lately applied to distinguished
Senator from New-York:
Oh! carry me back Old Virginia,
TO OLD Virgiuias shore.
and never, never, will come back to this
place any more Laughter. That was
the kind of music he expected soon to heal
on the organ, now so vllainouslv out o.
tune. But enough of this.
Sir, we have been repeatedly told, during
this debate, that the Democrats, in THEN
Convention at Baltimore had laid down a
platform, and they complained that the
Wings had adopted no platform whatever
But he would tell gentlenentht Wings had
platform, and they had it in General Tay'
lor's Allison letter, of the ODD of April ant
he could proudly contrast that broad, noble
American Platform, with the narrow. con
tracted, party platform adopted at Balti
more. Contrast, sir, these platforms. Ours
like its author great and national. Theirs
strictly in character, miserable party con-
cern. How did Mr.. Stevenson, the Pres
idcnt of the Baltimore Convention himsel
characterize this platform, in his letter con
veying to Gen. Cass the notice of his nom
nationl lie said "The platform we pre-
sent you is broad enough to hold all Demo
Gratis; but narrow enough to exclude al
Others" 1t was broad enough for the I.o
CO Focos-broad enough for the party. I
was party platform, and nothing else, ant
so represented and so accepted by Gen
Cass, who pledged himself to carry it out
But look at old lacks platform; it was
broad enough for the whole country. HI
nobly says: 9" | 90 for the whole country
for the whole people; l submit to no pledg.
es; make no bargains; submit to ne
party dictation if elected | will administer
the Government for the benefit of the whole
| American people" And sir, if he could bt
induced to come down from that high, no
bic, patriotic, and national platform, to this
contracted, degraded, miserable platform o
party, he would sink, greatly sink in my es
teem and would Justly forfeit the supper
of thousands and tens of thousands of tn,
patriotic and honest men of all parties, wht
were now rallyng to his standard. No
Gen. Taylor would never come down to sucl
miserable narrow platform of party as tina
laid down by the Baltimore Convention
but would honestly and faithfully administe
the Government for the benefit of the Who'll,
people, and according to the principles o
the Constitution, as construed and admins
tered by the early Presidents of the Repub
lie. The first thing they put forth in tn,
Baltimore platform was democracy )" the,
had the name, without one OF the principles
Gen. Cass and the whole of them talk abou
Jefiersonan democracy; and while the!
talked about democracy and about Thomas
Jerlierson-while they retained the name
they repudiated and trampled under foo
every principle of Jefferson, every princi
pie adopted and practiced upon by all the
early Presidents-every one of them, with
out an exception. They preach one thing
and practice the opposite. Their democra
cy the Jeffersonian democracy Why, the,
went for the veto power-the great conser
vatve power of putting down the will O
the people, and putting up the will of thu
President. This one man power-tha
which, as had been well said, was intended
as " the extreme medicine of the constitu
tion," had now become the daily bread the
President feeds upon. Thomas Jefferson
and his illustrious compeers never exercised
+ the veto he never exercised it in singl,
I instance in the eight years of his Admins
tration. During the first twenty years O
the administration of this Government ther,
never was veto except in one or two unim
portant cases by Gen Washington but We