Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-05
FREEMAN, MONTPELIER, VERMONT, 1s49.

"locofoco" forgery The North American, in |
Philadelphia, (once the organ OF Henry Clay,
and now the northern organ of the Secretary OF
State, seized upon the word " PrUate" and mi
weary columns assaulted the person to whom the
letter was addressed as the betrayer OF your con-
fdence. Other journals, however, which clrcu-
lated among the masses, hailed this letter with
unqualified approval, and placed it at the head OF
their columns as "the great creed and watch
word of the Taylor party"
I must frankly tell you that, had you not
made the declaration embraced in this letter,
for one could not have advocated your election,
nor given you my vote. Certain it is, that with
out this declaration (soon followed by your Char
lesion letter. You could not have gained the vote
of Pennsylvania, famous for her old democratic
majority of twenty-five thousand"
What was the result of this letter, and the ex-
citement Immediately consequent upon its publica-
ton! The wing party III Pennsylvania forth
with dropped the very name OF wing. They stor-
ed it away-perchance under the sepulchre OF
Girards sQuandered bequest-may be under the
ruins of some broken bank-but you well know,
and every reader Of the papers knows, that in the
late campaign, the battle was fought not under
tne name OF Wnlg DuI ullucI tlc ullllVu hdlllO vi
Taylor and Fillmore"
The Democrats were asked to vote for you as
the independent candidate-the candidate of the
people-as the man who had no friends to reward,
no enemies to punish-in fact as Zachary lay
lor, who i'll case of his election would not be the
President of party, but the President OF the
whole people.
And with your letter in my hand, address,
| i Al of IN oft
and on the security of your unbroken faith, stat
ed that you could not in any event, become the
President, much less the creature, of party
Upon your own declaration, l honestly advocated
YOU as the President of the whole people. | did
not for a moment indulge the thought that you
could ever become the centre of party admins
traton. Had been told by you, that you would
ever become the head of an administration made
up of wing politicians, could not in amy case
have advocated your claims, nor would you have
received the votes of hundred Democrats Ii
Pennsylvania.
Now, General, the smoke of the contest has
cleared away. You are the President. Elected
upon the faith of your solemn pledges, you ar
the head of the government.
Have you fulfilled these pledges! Ask you
own heart-ca back that iron purpose, that clea
souled integrity which bore you through the car
mage of Buena Vista-survey the faces of you
cabinet, and the faces of those partsans of tn
Cabinet, who now storm the white house for tn
spoils of office. Answer me | have a RICH
to ask an answer. You pledged your faith t
me, an humble citizen, and believed you, an
told my fellow citizens that you had never broke
your word and could not forget tomorrow wha
you pledged to-day.
Was that letter of July 81, which | Dor
through Pennsylvania, only cunningly devils
ed fablel Was it your intention to send m
forth to the masses of the people with lie in m
mouth To vouch for your Z" independence {
party" in October, in order to find you in Ma
at the head of mere cabal of party Di
you make dupe of me, so that might becom
your agent in duping and swindling my felo'
citizens into the trammels of the wing party
You know that the wing party of itself, or b
It's own issues, could never have accompllshe
your election. You know that the whig Leaf
ers fresh from the slaughter of Henry Clay
that man who has for twenty-tOur years sacr
feed to whigism the best instinct God mplan
ed in his naturc-could never elevated you 10 Il
Presidential chair.
You were elected by Democratic votes. The
votes were secured to you by the force of yo'
independent position They were not boug
with silver or gold, or with the hope of Office, b.
won to you by your pledges.
And now sir will you allow me to ask you OF
or two questions
In what part of your administration are thes
Democratic votes representedf
Among the army of ohice-seekers who now b.
seige the doors of the white house, how man
of your democratic supporters can you discover
Your election has been fruitful only in discOn
Il. e. - al,
the people YOU are surrounded by advisers cho
en- not even from the manhood of the wing part,
but from its verriest hacks and trimmers. Thes
; advisers seek to entail upon the country on
colossal scale, system of error and msrule sue
as dsgraCed the age in the shameless expend
= ture of the Girard bequest by the wing corpor
, ton of Philadelphia.
Had you been elected as a wing, and upon Il
: strength of any known wing creed, would n
| complain Is it not a painful thought that yo
! the man of the people should sit there in Was
= ington as the leader of a mere fragment of pa
5 ty-as the embodiment not of whigism lii
t that of Henry Clay, which states its princpl
= and fights its battles in the sun, but of viii
= ism which works in darkness, gathers streng
1 by unholy coalitions, and builds its power upt
= broken pledges?
And now, sir, as | wash my hands of the Ia
: traces of political Taylorism, rs state my regr
that ever acted the part which your pledg
made me act, you at least must admit that ne
a er served with the hope of office, that have
Il ways been among that humble band who wor
O ing well and long for you, under the impress
that they also worked for the good of their cou
v try, could neither ask nor accept office at yo
E hands; for those hands which were free at Bue
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