Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-07-19
polititaI.
Address to the Wings ofVermont.


bed on an suspicious day, and under hap
by omens. We at once commemorate the
glorious past celebrate our emancipation
from the dominion of party whose rule
has been scarcely less CALLING than colonial
servitude, and rejoice in our hopes of Il
prosperous and honorable future. The
thrones and dynasties which gave law to
Christendom at the period of our separation
from England, and which even outved the
commissions that followed the French Revo-
luton, are crumbing. All Europe is suf-
fering dire distress, or agitated with fearful
forebodngs Famine and intestine war
have spread desolatlon and terror over wide
regions of the old world, and those portions
of Europe which have yet escaped these
scourges, are trembling with well grounded
apprehensions of like visitations, while our
own Republic, strong in the equality of her
institutions, and in the patriotism and intel
ligence of her people, has resisted the
shocks of faction and ambition, and under
wise and just head is now redoubling her
energies, aud promising soon to rise to ac-
knowledgcd supremacy of influence (though
she aspires not to authority among chris
tlan nations.
But we are met for no mere purpose of
idle triumph and mutual congratulations,
On the contrary, the day is to be regarded
as the commencement of new and vigor-
Gus series of efforts to aid the Wings of the
Union in retaining their ancient and long
lost position, which il has cost them cam
paign of twenty years to recover. We are
now to organize, with reference to certain
hostile movements of character utterly
unprecedented in American political histo-
ry. The dlsCordant Client nts of faction, so
triumphantly scattered in the election of
IS4S, have rallied their discounted squad
rons, made common surrender of every
principle to the maintenance of which the
honor of each was pledged, and united all
indictments in coalition as incongruous
aud as corrupt as that memorable league Of
old, when the Triumvrs conspired to quench
the last sparks of Roman liberty, and each
agreed to sacrifice his peculiar principles
and his private friends to the interests or
the hatred of either Of the others. With
like prof1igacy, the pro-slavery, pro-Texas,
anti-tarlf Democrats on the one hand the
ultra-a6olitionlsts on the other, and the mer-
cenaries who fight for pay indifferently on
all sides, have joined in an unholy combi-
nation, agreed to bury their mutual just an
imosites, and to sacrifice every object they
have hitherto sought to accomplish, for the
one end of securing the spoils of office, by
the defeat Of the ancient Wing party, and
that honorable remnant Of the Democracy,
which, In the conviction that politics are
something more than struggle for plum
der, still retains its integrity. That the
originators Of this movement have none but
narrow and selfish aims, is too palpable to
require proof; and who are they, who, in
the desperate chance of success, ARE to prof
it by the victory! Free Democrats look
at your leaders, and ask yourselves whether
these are the men we love to honor wheth-
er your conscientious estimate of their DO
htical integrity, their claims to preferment,
is elevated by the part they take in the new
and shallow Jugge, with which they are
now seeking to delude you Have you for
given their participation, yet unrepented of,
in the election of James X. Polk, and the
extension Of slavery by the annexation OF
Texas Have you forgotten that they
were the sturdlest champions Of the notori-
GUS gag-rule? DO you not know that they
are, at this hour, as stify opposed to pro-
tective and discriminating duties as everl
What has friend of freedom to gain by
associating his political fortunes with those
of that northern Democracy, which the ul.
ira pro-slavery South claims as the "natur.
al allies" of the enemies of emancipation
What can the American producer hope
from victory under leaders, who repudiatt
discrimination in the Tariff, and the pro
lection of domestic industry ?--who have
withdrawn from circulation, by means O
the specle-clause IN the sub-treasury scheme
the whole solid basis of our currency. anc
h1 ha,, laI = a II
TO choose his own moment for flooding ou
markets and depressing our industry, thro
the operation OF the ware-houslng system
What confidence can any sane man enter
tain IN the professions Of those new con
verts to the cause of freedom, who, scare
SIX months since, strained every nerve to sc
cure the election Of Lewis Cass, and VIII
have never, to this day, professed contrito
for their past political offences
What are now the great questions whic
agitate and divide the American people 2
The protection of domestic ndustry-th
extension of African slavery. And what
the past and present position of the tw
great parties this subject Let them
judged by their acts. Has not the Viii
party aiIoays supported the doctrine of Pre-
lection The Tariff of 1912 was passe
WIN the concurrence Oh TIE entlre VIM
party, and against the votes of every Ne,
England Democrat in Congress, SAFE on
The Tariff of 1916 was enacted by ID,
mocratic House and Senate, in spite of tn
opposition Of every wing in Congress, sa,
one, in each branch of the national Legi
lature. Every wing state, every Wing col
vention in the Union,is VIGOROUSLY pledge
to the overthrow of the Tariff of 1916, b
sed upon the principle of mere revenue
discriminating, if at all, AGAINST America
industry, and the restoration of the grei
principle which characterized the Tariff
lS42-PRoTEcTioN, namely, by DIsoRIM
NATION. But where are our opponents 2
The coalition convention of the preseI
year substantially repeats the financial re
olution OF the Buffalo convention of 1874
"a resolution so decidedly hostile to pr
lection as to meet the approval Of tn
sworn foe to American industry and huma
liberty, Martin Van Buren-which declar,
substantially, that duties ought to be imp