Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-10-12

| llOn COnplclc aux cullTes tdCH bidtt Hdo
m organization within itself; and then, for
! the purpose of national action, we have a
national organization, and national wing
| principles; an intercourse between public
and private Wing men Of character and in
fuence; and then we have a code of honor
and fidelity nnwrittcn, yet binding upon the
heart, and conscience, and reason of every
member of the party
With this organization, fellow citizens, |
want to show you exactly in what position
we stand, when this address is made TO US
to dsband and organize. We are about
entering into the great political contest of
the United States. We have met the Rep
resentaiives of every Sta,o, in the National
Convention, and we have agreed upon cam
didates for President and Vice President
we have met representatives in Massachu-
sets, from every town, and agreed upon
candidates for Governor and Lieut.. Govern
or. Our army is formed from st. Johns to
the Rio Grande. 1t is Just forming into
line Of battle the drums are beatng, and
the music floats from rank to rank aud we
are just marching to win avictory Of peace.
In this moment Of transcendant interest,
there steps out of our ranks a man with
ooiiitll'I4 Which dllJCdiS W NC uiiloi VI
on, "parmula non bene relicta," and calls
out, " Gentlemen Of the Wing Guards, halt
Officers to the front" While we are look
ing and wondering what it is all to come to,
he says: " 1t is my opinion that we disband
and disappear; every man for HIMSELF and
the Lord for US all ; counsel you, We uni
versal Wing party, thatyour best method of
promoting the public good is by abandoning
all association of yourselves, instantly; by
deserving every one Of your friends, by a.
bandoning your.name, so glorious in the
history Of the New World and the Old by
abandoning your organization, your guides,
and every one of the great objects Of your
policy, and all the great incentives to your
hope. AS TO all those Of you who live south
of Mason and DiXon's line, one third or one
half of the whole area of the United States,
as to all of them | advise You to run away
and turn Democrats, nullihers manifest
destiny men, anything you please, only
clear ont and mind your business. And
then as to you who live on this side of the
+ line, | recommend that You abandon every
practical element of politics, and shut your
eyes and stop your cars to everything, eX-
ccpting only that one subject of keeping
slavery from California and New Mexico
all the rest, says he g is not worth a flip !;
and in order to effect that object, | advise
you not to seek to unite with a single other
, good thing, nor to seek to prevent single
other bad thing; and in order more eliec-
tually still to accomplish it," he goes on to
say, " advise you to dissolve every tic, and
to abandon your most cherished federal and
state politics; and to unite yourselves with
chat interesting and humble subdivision of
the democratic party called the Barnburn-
ers Of New YDrk, and denoted suppose,
! by that upward, Illuminated track, towards
| what is considered Philanthropy and hum
BILE progression throw overheard George
= N. Briggs, and John Reed, and take instead
f of the latter, JohpA ills, the friend of Mar
f Gus Morton, who is the advocate Of Thorn
, as ". Dorr for President take Mr.. Van
: Buren,, the selfsame Van Buren, of 1910,
t whom the people had borne till flesh and
/ blood could bear him no longer, and had
l then made as fine as dust, and scattered as
= chaf' before the equinoctial breeze-take
G bin, 90 it, blind as you are and desperate,
] for this one single idea, in which everything
= else is absorbed"
t Now fellow citizens, I rather think that
! he who comes to insult US with so much i'm
f prudence and nonsense, ought to be consid-
y cred as having the burden of the proof to
4 make ont the case himself. think he ought
e to establish one or the other of these two
d things: either the great objects for which
d our party was originally formed, have be.
S come obsolete in the lapse Of time, us will
L sometimes happen, SO that it is no longer Of
d national Importance, or else he ought tc
j. show that the politics of the democracy have
= become the true politics of America OF
: that some other object is to be attained
: which cannot be accomplished by the or
d ganization of the Wings, which can be ac
s compllshed only by the dissolution of thC
i party, and this at once SO high and so i'm
If portant, that we ought to abandon every
d other object Of national or local interest, fol
- the purpose of accomplishing it.
c do not intend to weary you by any yer,
" elaborate discussion of what ! regard Al
l. important political matter, most seasonablt
r and most applicable to the controversy ii
y which we are engaged. When this appea
l. is made we ask is it true! | appeal L
" your judgments and conscisnces have thu
!. great objects for which the Wing party wa
l. organized, and to the prosecution and at
r lallnleut OF winch III mas Deen ueFOteu 10
thirty years, grown obsolete aud valueless
f. Is it So fellow citizens, that the Democracy
l. of which James X Polk, Governor Cass
N Martin Van Buren,, and Benjamin f. Hallet
he are the defenders, is the true politics tina
l. should govern the nation or the State! o
lr on the other hand, is 1t exactly true, tina
le there has never been moment in the hsto
IL ry Of our time, III which there was so plai
ID Il conviction, with every wise and homes
lie man, that our wing politics alone constltut
,e the creed by winch we can be goyerne
a. now
= do not know how it is with you, but
" must confess have never met with any ma
or who, having been WING, has devoted aiu
m self TO this new organization, and yet who
es directly and in terms, has expressed ii as hi
r. opinion, that the objects of the Wing part
e. have ceased to be important and Of valu,
ne They say they thought that % the VIII
g, party was dead !" very much as the Re,
IL Ebenezcr Cruikshank, | believe, in tn
MS Pickwick Papers, being himself in gem;
lis condition, and his audience all sober, begil
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