Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-05-12


barking for Europe, cannot write you so fuii
and lengthy a reply TO your letter, soliciting
my opinion on affairs in general, in reference 70
the Presidency, as ! would be happy to do. but
as have long been anticipating something Of
The kind, am quite prepared to give you what
you wish think you have manifested an ex-
celleni judgmcn, in pitching upon nc for Tie
office Of President some ricn might affect
doubt Of their ability or worthiness Tor such
post, but shant and as for declining the
Office, | shall do nothing Of the sort: As to
affairs in general, my opinion is the opposite Of
the poeI's-"whatevof is, is i,ong," according
to my view Of human affairs, but think if I
should be elected TO tho Presidency could soon
put things to rights ! AMI, as most OF you
know, in favor Of giving the largest liberty 10
eyerybody. and Of universal benovolence.
would tolerate everybody except those unmih-
gated scoundrcls, liars, miscreants, and little
villains who are oppbsed TO INC in politics ]
would conduct the government on an economi-
cal basis, and would form my cabinet Of one
half blacks and one half whites, the whites to
be taken from among our naturalized citizens
As | should give no dinner parties, nor hold
any levees, ! would hire furnished lodgings and
convert the Presidential Mansion into an emf
grant boarding-house the capital grounds shall
be planted with carrots and cabbage, and con-
siderable sum might be realized by selling OF
all the ships Of the navy, and dsposing of their
armament at the junk shops for old iron as 30
tariff my views are moderate, would not in
sist on more than an advalorem duty, of Eve
thousand per cent. by this means culee and
tea might be raised to great advantage n hot
houses, and by eating down tho useless trees
in our parks and planting morus mul,icaulis in
their stead, The United States might raise all
the silk needed by our wives and daughters
the Sabbath shall bs strictly observed no let.
iers shall be written or sent by mail on that
day, and | think that by the assistance Of Pro-
fessor Mapes and Solon Robinson some scienti-
hc method may be discovered whereby trees and
other vegetables may be prevented from grow
ing on that day, and good strong flood-gaies
erected OF the mouthS Of our harbors to prevent
the tide from flowing in and ou, on SUNDAYS.
whereby day Of absolute rest may be secur-
ed.
/ by passing law to prevent the use Of shoe
brushes, all the money now expended for such
i r.
may be saved, and by compelling every man to
wear an old white coat, the pride of personal
appearance may be completely eradicaied from
the heart, and much money saved; every man
and woman shall be paid fair days wages for
fair days work ! would abolish capital pun
shment for murder, and all other crimes, ex-
ccp, drinking and fornicaiion, those being sins
which am not inclined to; and, as to section
al disputes and difficulties and such yillauies as
the Nebraska iniquity, they might very easily
be avoided by summary process which no one
could call unreasonable; would have law
enacted forbidding the use of the word South,
a new mariners compass might be constructed
-i,i.e., tho Ds~sh rsi.s, ~ ,Lis sia.rI. .--..;
vance, and, setting all the slaves Of the South
ern States free, think that all sectional discus
sions might easily be avoided. II the slave
owners should pretend they had any claim for
compensation, they could easily be .senced by
an Offset of claim for damages by the laws for
past service,
considerable saving might be made By
abolishing the judiciary the anhassadorial hum
bug, and the per diem of members Of Congress.
BY getting rid Of the South there would no
longer be any need of the army, and lis cost
might be appropriated to the deepening Of all
the rivers, the levelling of all the mountains,
and the construction Of roads to the Pacific
As to the foreign policy Of my administration,
shall insist on the restoration Of the ndepen-
dence Of Poland, Hungary and Jerusalem the
Turks shall govern Turkey, the Italians Italy,
the Irish Ireland, and the Greeks Greece; but
our own country, gentlemen, shall be free to
tho whole world 20 cc:nc here snd do as .hey
- please, provided they don't drink.
! am, gentlemen,
Yours, simply,
i HoRAcE GREELEY