Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-07-01
The Vermont Democracy.

An anecdcte is told by friend Of ours
which may be of interest in the present
condition of the Vermont Democracy, and
as we presume the Argus eyes of High-'7on
will not discover the pertinency of the joke
with sufficient clearness to publish it, at the
risk of the charge of exposing '.prtodte
correspondence" as Maj. Eastman would
say, we print it.
At the time the leader of the "cow boys
1--WE beg pardon for using the term, but We
believe it is of Democratic origin, went on
to Washington, to twig the ear of the adj
ministration, and TO curry favor at the seat
of patronage and power, they had private
interview with the Department. The in
quiry was made as to the cause of the
small vote of the party in Vermont. What
could lie The reason that so few adheIents
We're found in the dem, cratic ranks in Old
Ethan Aliens State? Forgetful that YER
mont freemen did their own voting, that
Vermont soil could not, like Kansas-or
the Malamaskpr Settlement in Maine,-be
desecrated by Missouri, or fraudulent French
minions of power; the COW boys assigned
as reason, that the then Caden of the
party in VT, the men who held the offices
and pocketed the spoils incident TO the vic
tors, Eastman and his associates, had not
the confidence of the people, that only the
ignorant portion of even the Irish and of
the back-woods settlements would vote the
party ticket, unless some change was made
TO give a show, at least of responsibility to
the cause.
Gen. Cass, who was formerly acquainted
with the Democracy of his native State,
New Hampshire, on the borders of YER
mont, appeared not well to understand how
this state of things could exist, for he as
sured them he had done all he could &c
make the party respectable, and 10 give il
the confidence of the people. Had he moi
submitted to the Douglass doctrine o.
Squatter Sovereignty, so that the people
might do just rs they pleased, and where
there were not enough Democratic votes
could not the people make them, Gas in
Kansas and Maine, we suppose.) And
was not the Craftsmanship of the National
Democracy itself given 10 Vermont
What more could be done. Finally, as il
appears, under the potent and sapient in
fuence of -- those-(we don't like to
say "coo boys") the great .Michigander"
concluded BY rotating out the Eastman's Of
the Vermont Democracy, and filling their
places with other men, he could most effect
ually give confidence to their party, and
increase the Democratic vote even in Yer
mont, so that the yeomanry, like Paul Dill
lingham, for example, would be induced to
remain in The Green Mountain State, and
still support the party, no matter where it
went, or how often it changed its platform
of principles.
Vain conclusions. The old General for.
got the case Of the man in the town Of
who, when the people were about
to form a church there, and The objection
was made that there were not enough sober
men in town for that purpose, gravely
stated. that "if the Lord wanted church
in - he must take such as there be
for members" So with the Democracy Of
Vermont. If Gen. Cass, or James Blu
chanan want a Democratic Church in thi!
STATE. they must take such as there be here
to build it.