Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-09-01
sour Parties and onr Politics"

ticlc ON " our parties and our politics. givcs
us dashing outline sketches of the earlier
political parties of our national republic.
Thry are too incomplete to be taken for
exact portraits; but they are not exactly
cnricatures either. The principles Of the
Fcdcralists and Anti Fcderatists entered more
or less, as he indicates, into parties of later
dates They were however more or less
blended and intcrchangcd, and not rarely
were the avowed principles of the one carried
out really in the practice Of the other.
More or less of the original principles,
however, still remain, and of necessity always
must remain, in existence, working in one
form or another.
lie considers the Wings as party pretty
much dcfunct,' that is to say /" SO far as
particular measures which they have favored
once are concerned, and the "real Democrats
| like the Wings, are IN state Of comparative
dissolution though the Fundamental doe
trines of both parties are still alive, in the
bosoms of multtudcs scattered throughout
mainly in the hands of - another set, whom
he calls,
| Machine Democrats.
The other class of Democrnts. whom we
denominate the official or machine-dcmocrats
because they move and talk as they are
wound mn. mean AS tbnv onncnr. vet consti-
.ute III reality' u dlstinct ana powerful pVuy
I;.,s .at ,,rt;os s,,nL j.; AMI coi
lcct about them large squads of speculatinr
| nnlit hn ilrf fr mr.
lien.eousncSs, WINE .hey nave ra'crpus
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they sometimes Grht in the lines but their
interest in the contest is determined rather
~ 'nc prospect o' po?,y, tian ~ any con'ie-
I;Ln r,n;,o!" ,'"' py-onds ,,bo c,IInycJ Rnli
gon for the silver slippers she wore, they are
patriots because it profitable to be patriots.
III o'ncr "orus' tncy are ?chorr'.s oconusc
which means in Office sometimes thev sin
round to the wings, when the wings have a
sure look for success but they ind 1t safer.
III the long run to be ON the other SIDE no
"'cn more noisy thah they III shoutiiS ,nc
usual rallying cries, none more gib III the
commoh-raccs OF electlonccrlnS, ana none 80
apparently earnest ana sincere But at heart
thcy are among the grecdlcst ana shappicst oi
scouhureis III rs upon thclr shoulders that
incompetent and bad men are borne to their
p aces of high trust, and from them that
the Pretorian guards OF republics are selected
III the hour oil their eclipse ana lastchlhS
decay
In roI,t;np r., tho Sl,vcrv ouest;on thcrn
III reiatioh W 'ne slavery locs.'oh' '"crc
are many men oil the South who simply WISH
their own duties and troubles about it to be
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Sood OF Il nhal'y Oh inc coh'rary' they
feel that it is Il burden at best, and II sad and
dreadful inheritance, who are anxious to
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extinction ana consequently would dreau TO
see it strengthened or extended These the
writer distinguishes by "A broad line from the
ro.l s,,,.or,. :, uh, oro ..,ror,o
'''i p"i';
ahulsts ol slavery ana mot 10 ne uistihSuish-
ed from their Northern co-adJutors-dough-
faces are they highland their superservicea-
bic Instruments
by lar the most desplcahle branch oi the
- ~" uny,h Sdor al H., ,Lo onri,l ;nsr;r,
| tions Of a free condition of existence. and
| without the necessity Of AN embarrassing in
sun >o'u'''aii,y custS i'cei. AZ ''ic
,ou,.s ,'J III, tho sorns an ;,s T,nhs H.
the first class of Shareholders. we cherish not
only profound sympathy, but genuine
admiration ana esteem we have friends
"ra'3 ,3on v"o' C,r n'ed;ta,;on .nd .a,;t'da
and IN tho nrorarators of the svsfrm even
we can attribute an entire honesty of purpose
though a mistaken one but, for its cring'ng
anu ci;.t. "Iu,l'p. noa'"Ii" sstoPnansS ". navy
| contcmpt Could they he transferred for n
time ta the exneriepce of the noor creatures
whose lcttcrs thew helm To hind the most
generous mind could hardly regard tn,
Change as less than lust and huppy rctribu.
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