Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-09
ror Me Green .'fodnIdin freeman.
THE WING PARTY; IT'S CHAR.
ACTER; ITS DESTINY.
M. L.

It's now but few days since the Wtsterrs
hon." iretted and aroused, by the continued in
science of the crawling sycophants that hang
about this administration TOR the crumbs Of eff |
clal patronage, ana who are ever croakiug upon !
the wisdom OF this non nteryention-non com.
mittal--non- ity-- Zachary Taylor admins
trallon, very significantly enqured, "i leaving
territories to take care of themselves--cast
aHoat like Moses in the PUSHES without aid
without protection without law-without gov
eminent, save the arbitrary caprice of military
authority, acas whig doclr1ne?" "Are We" said
the gallant Senator from Kentucky, pointing
across the Senate chamber to that most obse
qulous scavenger from Connecticut, who ESSAYS
to be the organ of the Executive in the Senate y
care we, who have denounced the adminstru-
ton of Col. Polk, for having extended, in time of
war, military government over this same terri
tory, as having done so without due warrant
from the Constitution, yet confessedly within the
laws of war, and Of nations are we, in time of
profound peace, when the territory is not held in
the grasp of war, but is ours by consent and by
treaty, to subject it to the arbitrary tyranny of
military rule. without any warrant from The con
stituon, without precedent and al time when
neither the law Of natIous, nor the laws of war
can give us pretext?
Are we to swallow down the doctrines which
we have so recently denounced, and yet call
ourselves tchigs? Such sentiments, | know
have been avowed by the Executive, but thea
belong not 10 the Wing creed? They are apoc
ryphal and cannot be engrafted there.
We have ever admired the bold ntrepidty of
the Western statesman. He will not allow an
inferior mind to check, cramp, or guide him.
He will not brook il. He seeks the enemy in
the open field--in manly combat. He would
vanquish them in the gallant charge; and not by
strategem or ambush.
Whether we look upon him as the leader OF
the whig party in the Senate--speaking to the
Senate and through the Senate 10 the nation. 10
that mastery eloquence which rung up The val
eys, and to the hill tops of the nation and gath
cred about him as chivilrous, faithful, and deyo.
ted followers as ever hung about Napoleon in
the palmest days of the emperor whether
we see him the candidate of the same Uhig par.
ty-himself the embodynent"-- the high
est Office in the gift of free people his coiors
are nailed to the mast, and prominently in
scribed there are his Notwithstanding is
Ind. See his faithful partizans gather around
him with elastic ardor, and waving pun,es.-
See them throw up their caps, and shout will,
all the devotion OF soldiers for their chief. The
battle ground is the nation: there is staked in
that confic: the principles by which it shall be
governed,
The day is fxed--and now the battle begins.
And foremost-in tho front rank--towerng a.
bove all like Saul, is the impetuons Knight Of
the West. The field is to be lost or won-
These Paixlan guns, manned by the popular
will, Is doing for him a fearful work one post
after another is dislodged and capitulates: ono
battement after another falls; the magazines ex-
plode the TANKS give way: he is surrounded
and summoned to surrender. Still the Kentuck
ian stands erect and undaunted. He summons
the Old Guard" and like the noble Ney, leads
them in person to the last fatal charge, He
dashes down upon those serried and terrible
columns of the American democracy; and us
the wave breaks across some promonitory Of co.
ossal rock in the sea, and, throwing up its spray
quivers and subsidies so the followers of that
gallant leader broke across no less impregna.
Bile barrier--reeled-an staggered back--and
dispersed. "The field is lost. But all 10 moi
lost.
"There stands the old man; his hairs are white
But his veteran arm is full ofmight"
His honor is saved his principles are moi
compromised. Still we admire him; aye, VIC
should admire him, had that manly courage, and
mighty eloquence but reached that higher cord
whose reverbrations would have nationallzed
freedom. Had his pet "American system
have been; not banks and tariffs, but truth