The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-08-30
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Buren,, the rejected and distrustcd of all par
ties.
For our part we wish to see an end o
Platform Candidates for the Presidency
We mean to support for that office, when We
can, MAN, "honcst capable and faithful,
who like Washington stands pledged to moth
ing except to confnc himself to the discharge
of his lofty Executive duties, disdainfully ig
norant Of all party or sectional considerations
and ties, and content to trust the People witt
their own Constitutional Office of Legislation
untrammellcd by his interference. Such q
man is Gen. Taylor; and as he proposes tc
be no Legislator, no Autocrat, but simply
the Great Executive Officer of the Nation
whose duty it is, (not at his option but in
general, ai,cays) as being the emblem and
embodiment of the sovereign authority Of the
American People, to aflix his signature in
token of that authority, to their DEGREES, and
to fulfil them in their namc,-he needs no
Legislative platform, nor can any such plat
form be erected for him, with the slightest
appearance Of proprcty or relevancy. Mar
tin Van Buren's position and pledges have,
it is true, tied him hand and foot to subscrve
the mainly unobjectionablc principles of his
new party and though they contradict and
stultify all that he has hitherto said and done,
we cannot see how even his mastery cum
ming can slip out Of those thongs. But if
any man can prefer for the highest oxoo"tivo
office, q mere machine like this the puppct Of
a platform" to the strong-minded, brave
hearted, independent and incorruptible TAY-
LoR,-we must go separate ways. Almost
any Connecticut clock maker will white
you out a machine capable of doing Mr.. Van
Buren's platform-work in obedience to the
touch Of concealed intriguers, at a clear say
ing of at least 200 year. We think
that the dignity of the American People would
be at the same time, decidedly better repre-
sented by such machine, than by Hring
automaton, degraded in unspeakabe degrees
by his past life and present attitude, proppcd
up and pushed forward by q set of not very
respectable plaJorm-JuadcrS! But we reject
all puppets, and on the other hand reject all
candidates pre-pledged to treason by tramp
ling upon the just authority Of Congress with
the Veto, in any case whatever We believe
that according to true rcpublicanism, an op-
portunity for the Constitutional exercise of
that power can scarcely be looked for in fifty
years of the history of such nation as ours
has hitherto been. 1t is altogether an extra
ordinary power, intended only for seasons of
imminent danger, when the President must
throw his shield before the Constitution, to
preserve it from destruction by party mad
ness the Constitution, the tt.ndamentallaw, !
which before all others he is bound as the |
embodiment of the national sovereignty, to
see executed.
These are some Of our reasons for abhor-
ring platform nominations and pledged
candidates for the Presidency. In regard to !
all political principles, the Wing party stands
where it ever has done, and we defy any man
to show that it has abandoned or will aban-
don one of its great positions JI'e have not
heard of the first Wing, or body of Wings,
who have, Oike Van Buren, and every one
of the monstrous medley of unkindly mixed
political elements amidst which he nounders)
retracted or need now to apologize for sin
gle part CT their past political career But
on the contrary, the Wing party has by
a practical method set forth anew its con-
si5tent adherence to the most glorious
and in these times the most important,
of all its tried array of principles-thc re-
stricton of the gross abuse ofthe Veto power,
and of the interference of the President in
legislation. While its Legislative platform t
is simply just what it has always been, its
Presidential platform is as broad as the vast
and for every one of whose citizens and
sections it cares alike, and invites true men g..
If every sect and name to place them ,
selves upon it. We boldly avow that the
Wing party support Gen. Taylor in no parti-
IAN capacity at all, except as they are pledged
ike him to restore the Presidency to its true, I
simplicity as purely executive v
Gice. This is the ONLY distinctive princi- \
lie upon which we fight the presidential
ampaign. The Wings mean to govern the
ountry through CoEGREss, upon their we'll \
lnown principles, if they can fairly obtain