The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-03-07
TO OUR PATRONS.

Our habitual illhealth has at last so far
preycd upon our strength that it has become
necessary for us to to engage assistance in the
management of the Galaxy. For this purpose
we have employed Mr.. JOSEPH II. BARRETT,
gentleman who is said to have been among
the most distinguished of the class which grad
uated at Middlebury College three years since,
as a good scholar and especially as an excel
lent writer Besides, Mr. BARRETT is not
without considerable experience, having been
among the successful contributors Of several of
the periodicals of the day, among which may
be enumerated the american Wing Rerie,r &
the Ne,0 Englander With no other employ
ment to occupy his attention, Mr.. BARRETT
Will devote himself entirely to conducting the
paper. and the ACQUISITION of that sort Of intel
ligence which will enable him to do so in a
manner entirely satisfactory to our readers, &
indeed, we trust, with a vigor and ability which
will secure to US the continued and increasing
patronage of the public.
We shall probably hear no more complaints
from subscribers of the want Of punctuality in
the dispatch Of our papers, while those agree
able critics whose literary requirements are
Just equal to the discovery of tri1ing typo
graphical errors viii be deprived of employ
ment.
In the mean time, we shall continue our per-
sonal supervision of the paper twill be con-
Quoted upon the same plan, although We trust
more perfectly executed. 1t will breathe the
same spirit of attachment to the great interests
of the country, its constitution, liberty and
laws; and of opposition to Free Trade, that
bane of our national prosperity now so COM
pletely engrafted into the creed of the locofo-
co party; and likewise unremitting hostility to
the slave power, and that disgraceful war with
Mexico which can at best result in nothing but
intamy and the most fatal disasters to the coun-
try.
We must be INDUCED in making one other
remark, that our country is now in the mi Isl of
no imaginary crisis. The time has arrived
when the destinics of this nation are standing
upon pivot whose very next turn may fix the
fortunes not only of this but Of all future GEN.
erations. Should the wing party triumph at
the next Presidential election, those principles
of policy viii be adopted which will again place
our country on the great highway of national
prosperity. Should the so styled Democracy
prevail, the slave power will be forever pre-
dominant, the spirit of liberty will become
extinguishcd in the American bosom. the great
principles of public policy, upon which alone
the wealth and prosperity of the North so en-
tirely depend, will be abandoned and we shall
either sink into the Impoverished s. degraded
vassals of Southern domination, or be forced
% resort to dissolution of the Union, as the
only remedy. Under such circumstances we
feel, in common with every true hearted A
mercan, duty incumbent upon US to exer-
else all the powers with which heaven has en-
trusted US, and to enlist all the aid of others
which we can command, during the next Pres
idential canvass. Now is tie time for every
patriot, for every friend of religion, humanity
and OF impartial freedom, TO buckle On his ar
NOR. As for ourselves we have resolved that
no paper in the State during the approaching
political campaign shall surpass the Galaxy IN
zeal X energetic effort in deciding rightly the
great question whether this noble republic |
shall remain free, prosperous and united, or
sink 1nder the iron yoke of slaveocratic des-
potism. II. BELL.