Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-14
For The Fireman.
NAMES AND TITLES OF rTr!N

Messrs. Editors of the Vermont Freeman
Please give me place in your paper to answer
the request of an old Bunker Hill Free Demo.
crat Of the last seventy-six.
My good old friend Let US consider that cv.
cry creature and thing in heaven, on earth, OF
under the earth, has got natne;-and when
the name given corroborates the thing named
then the name is proper and rightly applied.
The first living creature that was created was
called Man" And why? Because he is the
only thing that car stand erect, and turf. on the
ground that he stands on, and can look pcrpep,
dicular into heaven Thus his quoifcatioas
makes the name Man proper for him. IN
same man called .lddDs. Why becan#A
,ba,axas.s sa6c ..itsse 4,dIheB are fupfcPef s ay
ing heavy charge to his Maker. And Adar
called tile name of his wife Eve, which signfe
the smother of all living"
Moses OF old was properly so called because
Pharaoh's daughter drew him out of the water
Drapn forth, then. is the true meaning of the
name Moses"
A divine m ther once named her child Iha.
bod because the glory had just departed from
Israel. In the beginning of New Testament
times there was certain child called "JeSus,r
which signifies a Savior. The same child was
called "Chnst," which means anointed; and
the name Emmanuel" which means God viih
as. These, and thousands Of others, are all
true n,ules, which were given to represent thu
true character of those TO whom the names were
given.
We make these remarks simply to prepare
the why for political names, which brings Us on
to the subject Of your request. In the trouble
which our foreflihers had with England, which
terminated in seven years war, our people were
called Wigs. Now as the name Wing means
man of popular, or free government, and at
the same time opposed to despolc or kngly
government, of course the name Wing was put
on them with great propriety. But there were
Tories also in the land. And now for the mean
ing of the name and the word Terry. The
name Tory is exact in opposition to the word or
name Whig. And according to their name 50
were their natures and their works. They were
properly and rightly named. They were inter-
nal enemies to the wings, and eternal friends 10
our enemies.
So here you have the Tory,
And here you have the Wing;
The latter rose to glory,
The former hit twig.
Then as the war increased md more signs Of
victory appeared on our side, all the head tories
were obliged to run away TO Upper Canada,
where England gave them land, to pay them for
their opposition to the Wings of the New. Enc.
land territories, and the more moderate lora,
coil d up in a heap like caterpillar and tooL
shelter under ths wings of the Wings, and sv
: still.
Now begins new era with the United St,tos
} They whipped Old England inc peace. .ob
tanned their liberties and independence, and be
come one combined happy Republic. And a,
, there were no more tories to betray, and M
more conflicts for freedom, the name Of WIZ.
died natural, honorable and ylctorions ao.n
, and the name Republican took its place M.
= change of name with the same people bsc,m.
proper on the change of circumstances soa,s
like the name Of Jacob of old whilo b.
1 known as suppanter, Jacob was bis n,o,.,
name. But when he was found so sm...
/ wrestling, his name WIS changed to tb,, of =
roel Jacob means suppIantel, Israel ma,"
preValer,-both suitable names in djfgr,on, os
. dItlons 80 we may say of our count,v,, ns
u pie: Wings in battle or war, and RoorhI;l ps''
IN peace under free government,
But it was not long before our baOrv ...,
lie became two factions - Wasbinvtonii.a sr10,
o Jeiiersonians. The former as might ba ov.s WV
: ed, were much the most numerous and s'''
the name of Republican, and took on ,bo.s.', Wy
0 the name of Fedenlist. Whether this s.
|were right or wrong they were strie.l.. 1 p''E