Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-23

mere party fidelity are but rope of sand,'
when the principles upon which they are
based are no longer regarded.
The late coalition in this State, formed
as IT is, cannot fail to suggest to rejecting
men the sole purpose and aim by which all
democratic action has been directed for the
last twenty proscrptive years Of their pow
err. They are hungry for ofiices,-they
have always fought for and obtained them,
and having lost them for once, they exhibit
themselves by their rawlings untitled, both
by inclination and confirmed habit, for any
other, occupation. Such spectacle pre-
sents in itself to us reasons sufficient for
giving them an occasional opportunity to
try their hands at something else. If it has
come to this that man virtually confesses
his inability to live by his own business,
how long, we ask, should he be entrusted
with that of the public.
There are rising so, 600 Office holders in
the country. or these Offices the wing par
ty have occupied few or none for over TWEEN
ty years. They were thus, by the practice
ola most tyranHcal and ant-democratic Dr.
scrptlon, excluded from their influence in
the councils and Offices of the nation for
nearly quarter of a century. Yet they
formed large, intelligent and powerful
proportion of our population. Studiously
Keeping them out of every important and
dlgnlGed Office was what might in all cam
dor and truth be termed prescription. But
now when this great Wing party have come
into power after so long an expatriaton al
most, and few necessary removals are
made in order to enable the new admins
tration to depnrt itself in conformity with
the principles upon which it was organized,
terrible cry is raised and even vengeance
Is threatened. The new President is de-
nounced and viltied even before his magis-
terlal character and capacity are known.
NO eplthets come amiss that may be en-
ployed against him.
We tell the opposition that this course
VIII end Itself. 1t is unjust, unfair, and
destitute of the first particle of manliness
Every one can see it has its origin in dis
appointment, selishness and chagrin. There
lore the better mode would be for them to
wait the event." resting assured that JUS
tlce will be done, even though some Of them
are deprived of few offices in the expert
ment.
In this State, always Wing, nearly every
office from Collector down to the penny
post, has been put in the hands of the de-
mocracy; and now, after twenty years of
this plumber, when the Administration makes
few removals, our opponents raise the cry
of prescription, and talk about the guillo-
tine, and the butcher knife and the axe -
Mr.. Collamer, our talented Postmaster Cen
era, has made but comparatively few re-
movals, as yet, and scarcely any in his own
department 1t is supposed aud confidently
believed that he will yet make many and
after he shall have gone through the States,
| hope he will turn his attention to his own
household, and cleanse it thoroughly.
have no faith in the new converts to
free soil doctrines, for ] see evidence that
all they want is place and plumber You say
they have repented, and having done so,
ought to be pardoned. If they have repen.
ted, | am willing to forgive them. Mr.. Van
Buren, prolessed 10 have repented, and his
friends, without waiting for any evidence of
such repentance, were at once in favor DINA
king him President. | am not so fond of free
sill pentents as that: | had rather wait
and see whether they are likely to fall from
grace. As the methodist Elder said eve
are always ready to receive penitents that
is doctrine of the Church but we are uu-
der no obligations to Immediately make
Bishops Of them" When these new con-
verts give evidence that they are sincere,
then 1t will be soon enough to trust them
with office at present we shall find it more
safe to trust tried known friends, which |
hope will be the case on the first Tuesday
of next September.