Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-07
Hunkerism in Trouble.

Hunkersm, last year SO rampant and vauntful,
is now freighting the four winds OF heaven with
the groans of disappointment and despair Her
arrogant priesthood, who. few months ago,
confidently expected to have egegytkiHg and
control everything, are now finding themselves
without Office or influence. Tho Presiden',
whom they brought forward as the purest en-
Indictment Of their abhorrent creed, and through
whom they counted on mounting to place and
power, has found himself compelled, for the sal
yation Of his party, to pass over them in silence
and give their expected places to men OF more
liberal principles, and they now begin to see,
With chagrin and alarm, the Hannah gallows
trees which they planted for others, plainly
looming up in the distance for themselves.
In New Hampshire, the Burkes and Bar'ons,
leading off for their kindred pack of unfed Hun
kers, arc making the granite hills vocal with
their howlings of rage and disappointment over
sighted claims for office, and consequent loss of
influence and respect. The bunker organs
of Massachusetts howl in response. The Cour-
Ter. the cheNest and bluest of them all, last
week, after having been, for months, chating,
like a toothiess tiger, at the visible advances of
freedom, shouted forth its distress and alarm to
the nation, as follows:-'
"It is time therefore, that the people of the
United States North, South, East. ana west
should be apprsed of the fact that the Demo
cratic party of Massachusetts has become .abol,-
tionized Ii has united itself with the Free SOIL
Abolition party by league offensive and Ne,
fensive, and is now to all significant and practical
purposes, combined, amalgansted, and Identified
with that party in all its mischief, malice, and
treason against the principles OF the Constitu'
ton
In New York, if Free Soiiism Is down, It's
opponent is PROSTATE also. Dickinson the
arch priest of Hunkerlsn, is laid on the shelf,
the Tammany He'll conclaves have broken up IN
rows, and the sceptre of Castle Garden has de-
psred, In Missouri, Hunkersm has been driven
to the wall, and is now fighting for her life
against the daily increasing forces of Benton
and Freedom. In Wisconsin, Indiana and Hi
nois, she is taking her last desperate stand
against the Free Democracy, whom she sees
mastering, as never before, for her destruction
In Ohio, the Denoc racy have nobly joined the
Free Democracy in the work of banishing her
from their State, which is no longer polluted BY
her presence. And even in our own Vermont,
she had to be tucked away Behind the door in
the late Wing State Convention; and in the
succeeding Democratic Convention, she came go
near being suffocatcd by the free element by
which she unexpectedly found herself surround
ed, that she has not been able, in Washington
County, at oas, to hold up her head since.
Now, in view of this yielding Of the bunker
element in the Old Line Democracy, and in
view of the weakened and dlspirted condition
Of the Wing party, have the Free Democracy
no encouragement for exertion?
What better auspices do they ever expect to
see, under which 10 press home the truth or their
wagering and already half-convinced neghbors
of the old parties? "Your party lack earnest
ness" said an intelligent Wing to US the other
days" "they don't act as if they had any faith
in their own principles"
Friends of Freedom have you given, by your
apathy, no cause for such a charge? If you
have, do so no longer, shake off your apathy
and, from this day, go to work like men and
freemen sworn to the rescue of their endangered
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