Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-13
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BRATTLEBORO, VT;
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1868.



democratic party, and in the national admins
traton when contronedby the democracy, scarce
ly exceeded by that of the oldest and largest
States in the confederacy; an influence that was
potent from the st. Croix to the Sabin and from
the Atlantic to regions beyond the Father of
waters. All this period the control of affairs in
that State, with the single exception of one year,
was in the hands of the democratic party. That
party was consolidated and disciplined more fully
and efectually than in any other State. 1t was
to the democratic party of the country what the
Old Guard was to the army of the Empire in
the days of Napoleon the Uncle,-always ready
and always reliable.
But once only in this period Of twenty-five
years did this party suffer check. In 1916 it
undertook to read John p Hale, who, up to that
time was one its most prominent MEMBERS
out Of the party for refusing to give his influ
ence in favor Of the acquisition eff Texas, and
the consequent extension of Slavery This eff
fort cost them the loss of the State government
one year and one of the seats in the United
States Senate for six years But the difficulty
was soon healed, and how? The very next year
the democratic party took strong anti-slavery
ground. At its conventions then and in sue
ceeding years resolutions were adopted unan-
imousy, which were as strongly ant-slayery in
expression, sentiment and tendency, as is the
Republican platform adopted in Philadelphia in
1856. In this way only, by recognizing North
ern sentiment and Northern principles, did the
democrats regain and maintain their ascendency
Upon their reformed platform, constructed of
what they would now term abolition" and
"back republican" planks, the democrats stood
firm and strong. They marched from victory to
victory until in 1862, they gave one oftheir own
fellow citizens fourteen thousand majority, as a
testimony of their estimation of the value of
New Hampshire democracy. Occupying such
position it would seem to the casual observer
as if the party was impregnable. 1t was point
ed to with pride and satisfaction by their polit-
cal brethren from one end of the Union to the
other. 1t bid fair to defy the assaults of time
and the opposition, and endure as lasting
memorial of the wisdom of those who had thus
laid broadly and deeply its foundations.
Three years later and this triumphant party
was eQmpleteE nrosrqtrds KIM nj" baNj"fh
the destruction of the Missouri Compromise and
in the opening of free territory to the introduce
ton of Slavery. Through the influence of those
who believe in the divine right ofenslaving Z" mig
gers another turn given to the pro-slavery
screw and the party in New Hampshire, deaf
to the circumstances Of some Gifts leading men,
bers and obtuse on the recollections of the past
urhel1 thp 1en1 From, that dovits nowar van
ished 1t has sustained four successive defeats
each one more bitter than the preceding With
out representative in either branch of Con-
gress, without voice in the executive councils
at home, without any effective influence in the
Legislature, it is PROSTATE and powerless. Its
fourteen thousand majority has vanished and it
is in hopeless minority.
The plain and obvious cause of this disinte-
grafton of the democratic party in New Hamp-
shire is its utilization with the slavery propa-
gandism of the country. Since the advent of
the Pierce administration the slave power has
grown more bold and exacting. II has obtain
ed paramount influence in the councils of the
democracy, and has used its advantage to pro-
motr its own schemes nf aggrandi2ement. From
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the
presentation of the Lecompton Constitution in
Congress, it has held the party in bondage as
close as that of its own immediate chattels, UNI
til the term democracy, as interpreted by the
present administration is nearly synonymous
with slavery extension Each succeeding year
is witnessing the hegira Of many Northern dem
ocrats who find that nothing but political death
awaits their continued subserviency to Southern
interests so detrimental to their true represen-
tation of free constituency.
Many of our Northern democratic papers af-
feet to despise the continued illusions that are
made by the opposition to slavery and freedom
They have become sick of "nigger, Niger" as
their own choice dialect expresseth it Well
they may be. They have virtually incorporated
Slavery into their creed, and like the man who
drew the elephant in a rattle, they now are ex-
ceedingly troubled to know what to do with it.
1t has already cost them ten of the sixteen free
States, and from present indications the re-
naming four that they carried in 1852, will de-
sert their standard. The people have become
heartily disguised with this democracy which is
so thoroughly devoted to the perpetuation of
one of the wosrt aristocracies in the world
They find it tinkling brass, without any SEM
blance of the genuine article.
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RELIGIOUS REyIyALs.-Al of the religious
and many of the secular papers contain accounts
of the rise and progress of revivals of religion
within the immediate range of their several cir
culations This revival is confined to no one
sect nor limited to no one section of the Union.
1t extends from Maine to Texas and from the
Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains and includes
within the circle of its influence all denomina-