Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-27
A SAMPLE OF CONSISTENCY.


torv;,le IS ~ D;nror n Hon IT orr 7.
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VIII oc rememoereu 'haeili 'hat letter MI Cush-
ing took occasion to speak OF the Republicans
as negrophHisfs. and as sectionalists. actuatcd
bv f,lso ,h;lan,hron, and so,,,od do.;.o q
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regulate the domestic concerns OF the Slave
States. The following extract will serve to show
how completelvthe Ex- Attorney General is sery
ed nm on n trencher.
MIR. Cushing claims thit the Democratic Par
ty has originated and carried through every
measure that has becom part of the settled
policy of the government This is not very re-
markable, if we consider that the marty has
becn in nover during he far III. create, nar, of
our national existorcc md tho, T1ndo. oi,r s,.s-
ton, tho Administrations q nroc,;oall, a d;c,o,,r
sb;r for four ,oars NJ Eraro,, l,, ,,o;,,
od nut the odvap,oon wn should g,;9 he having
a rcsnonsihln m;n;eirv A. i Tho ronresor'
tative branch of'our ;,ovrnmon, ;s nroc,;callva n
nullitv Wbo, w;,b L;s ;r,,,o,,sn ,,,,ro,a,,o ;ho
progress of events and ,bochanca of Iuring ,he
onnosing marty into bv-ouestions tho prcsiden.
tial Micawber of the mnment Is alnos, sure
that something will tnrn IN N extr;cote him
from tbc CONSEQUENCES of his ewn ;ncomneten.
cv mr. disbonestv Tho only cbe,l unon ,bis svs-
CnnnCp tlnt the fpmp-IfN pnUpnnnrpn
Inv IRRESPONSIBLE mower may leai The Executive
10 measures which. as in The case of Kansas
shall omen the eyes of thinking men IN tbp rcoi
DESIGNS and objects of those IN ,tico An an
noSit;on ;s ncccssar;lv trorstorv in ;,s nature
IF il be not founded ON som, nrinc;nle which
reaching below the shiftino sands of politics.
rests unon the urinary rock of morals and con.
science. In such n nrincinlc only is found the
nucleus of a Marty which tho adverse na,ronagc
of n corrunt cxecn,;ve can Inn strengthnn nv a.
troctino from il its bascr eemcnte Sucb an
opposition the Democratic Party seems lately
TO have devoted all its polic, TO build up. and
now. confronted with il. canipd no remedy but
in the establishment of morals and conscience al
together,
The Democratic Party. lik, the distinguished
ancestor of Jonathan Wild, has been impartial
iv on ho,h sides of cverv question of domestic
nolcy which has arisen since it came into polit.
icaI existence II has hcen ,,,o and ron in re.
gard TO n Navy. n National Hank. Internal I'm
nrovemopts Protec,ion UarI Money. and Mis-
souri Compromise. lis Leading doctrine was
STATE RIGHTS, lis whole corse Of action. cul-
mino,;ng in tho DrcJ SOFT 5acisio, has benn
In tho diroc,ion of Ccptroliz,tinn Durinc all
thesn char,ns Il has cor,r;yeJ ~ bave Tho 7'on.
stitution oiwavs nm ia side Inv tho simnlc annli.
co,ion NJ So;f,,s ,x;or, ..Or,to1oxv ;s u,, doxv
Uo,nrodox, IL H., Iov,. >, ,ha,,,,h /, has bod ne
,,or,. dox;oos ,s GouIo, Srr,o,;r,os !, hoe az
an lad t,yo ot onco as in r.f,.ing to the iron
If penpsylvon;a ,be nrotcction II cave 10 the
sugar of Louisiana. Pennsvlyonia avenged her
elf Lv tho f,tol c;r Of NJ Buchanan There
i onn cxrcn,;on 10 tho ar;,hle imnnr,;olitv of
,Lo 80. !, has Lan,, ai,,,s o,,d pnorro,;col-
lv nro.slayerv. In his resnect Mr., Cushing has
,Le ,dvanto:,e of II for be has hoep an no,h
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