Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-08
From the Vt. Patriot May 2.
evolves in Sleeps Clothing"

After having fought Jefferson and Madison,
to their hearts content, and finding the people
determined to sustain democratic policy, the old
Federalists in Vermont, attempted a new dodse.
Suddenly they came to the conclusion that JEFF
ferson was not so far wrong after all. Madison
nearly right; the war all right and the dem
ocratic party just the thing They laid down
yhcir arms and dispersed Soon they began to
meet democrats with very great cordially. They
shook their hands with the warmest pressure !;
they conversed in the kindest tones and bowed
with the blandest smiles.-A little later they
began to talk about " zoe democrats" were hap
Ply to admit that they had been very much decei-
we'd in relation to the men and measures of the
democratic party, and in fact, never had been
ultra federaiists. They abandoned their oppo-
sition and wished it understood that they were
converted to democracy From this, they crept
quietly into democratic meetings, associations
and caucuses, and in fact, by the cunning and
craft so natural to the race, obtained, during
Monroes administration, the entire control OF
democratic party so that, when John Quincy
Adams came to bea candidate, although Fed
eraist of the darkest sort, the democracy of the
State led by such democrats y US Horace Ever
EFT, E. P. Walton & Co., went almost unan-
luUuSly lUE Hlo OlCCOOu hHo WHuV Was bu6
argumen used in his favor by such democrats as
we have mentioned +! Why, that ADAMS was
democrat, and JACKSON II federaliSt!i Adams
was elected by the House. But, when the Sec
ond run came on, great proportion of the old
democracy, in the Union, saw through the Fed
eral trick, left Adams and went over to jackson.
But in Vermont, the old Federalists had so COM
pletey bewildered the old democracy that but
an Insignificant number found their way out of
the wilderness. In this election especially, W as
it urged upon the people that John Quincy
Adams was pure Jetfersonian, Madisonian
democrat, while Andrew jackson was FEEDER
alist, of the blacklist dye He, and his sup
porters, were said to have wandered from the
pure Jefferson Madisonian faith t.; had deser-
ted the true party, had abandoned the old plat
form, and the old Federalsts, who were every-
where present, dealing out their poisoned trash
and claiming to be the only pure democracyo the
State, nearly in body against that old Federal
list, Andrew Jackson Fortunately for the
country, this deception was not generally sue
cossful, and the Union was blessed, for eight
years, with an administration the most success
full the people have ever known.
In 1913, the Federal party, in Vermont hav.
ing, to an alarming extent tzzled out into the
Abolition party, it became necessary that an.
other new dodge be made to save them from de
struclion. The leaders of the Freesoi party
though apparent descrters from the wing ranks
were still in close communication with thei,
old associates, it being we'll and clearly under
stood that they had merely gone from home or
a speculation, and would return in due season
with all the gains they were.able to accumu.
late, When Gen. Cass was nominated, these
men suddenly became the warmest, and the
most devoted democrats SO much 80 that they
were sleeplessly anxious to support MARTIN VAN
BuREN-a man they had traduced and abused,
without stint and without measure in 1910
They succeeded in nominating Mr.. Van Buren,,
and then came the old cry, again. Gen. Cass
was u Federalist, a man who had deserted the
old democratic platform. Mr.. Van Buren, was
ao,o all correct and these men, with tears in
their eyes, ut the wrongs they had heretofore
done the f." Little Magician" were, day and
night, busy in urging old democrats to support
him. -The game succeeded perfectly. 1t defeat
ed Gen. Cass and seduced several thousand dom
ocrats in Vermont from their old party, who, in
1852, were held, in position, while these un-
principled leaders stepped out and voted for
Scott. These old democrats have, since, all
been transferred to Republicanism The whig
party, they have SO long opposed, they are told,
is abandoned. There is now no wing parry,
but new order Republican party which is
the true, pure democratic party with Law
renee Brainerd at the head As the Presiden-
tal contest approaches, the old game appears,
again Franklin Pierce, Stephen A. Douglas
James Buchanan indeed evefy man talked about
as candidate Of the dcmocracy--h wander
cd from Jeffcrsonian democracy, deserted the
pure faith and must not be trusted Such ma
pers as the Vermont WGtchman and its stool
pigeon the Burlington Free Press, the Yer.
NOM journal, or to step out of the State the
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