Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-27

Nothing can be more amusing than the per-
sistence, and impotence, with whichthe North
ern and Southern Democrats Of our times, praise
themselves for their devotion to the Union
They lose no opportunity for this sclflaudation,
and make it particularly conspicuous about
election time, IL some Chinaman who didn't
take the papers, and Of course wasn't properly
posted in American politics, could step into any
spcechifyng assembly of Democratic tendencies,
and have the bomblst there uttered interpreted
TO him, he would be at once persuaded that our
glorious Union had been saved, in the vicinity
OF twice year, siuce its origin, from being rent
and torn, and scattered into a hundred thousand
dismembered and Gisjointed and miserable frag-
ments, by the patriotism and self sacrificing
spirit of the Democratic party,-and that
that party We're always ready to do any thing,
and particularly ready to undergo and take
upon themselves, the burden of engineering
aud managing the government, to save the
country from such an inglorious, disgraceful and
somewhat unpleasant catastrophe. And it would
take some time. after listening tosuch a demon
stration, to persuade our simple Jack China
man that the Democrats were not the true. blue,
self-sacrfcing, patriotic, devoted Union men.
upon whose success, politically, the solution of
the problem of human freedom, as connected
with self government, was mainly dependent j;
convenient, Jack, with his heart full of the love
Of liberty, would go off at once, and vote for
some such self-abnegatins old patriot as tho
present ancient, and more venerable than venc-
rated, Chief Magistrate of this great Republic
We have been led to the foregoing reflections
by perusing the report of II banquet recently
prepared and partakeu of at the Revere House,
Boston, Mass. The occasion of the banquet
was the anniversary of the birth of Daniel Web
| STEFAN individual Of whom our readers have
no doubt heard, and who was distinguished
during his lifetime, more than for anything else
for having given the Democratic party, and es
pocially the Southern portion thereof, some par
ticuarly hard knocks.
The tables at this symposium were surrounded
by those who take their liquor regularly
and vote the Democra tic ticket occasionally, and
those who vote the Democratic ticket regularly
and take their liqnor with the same degree o.
panctuality. 1t was an asselnbiagc Of defunct
polticians-thc individuals of that respectable
class IN active life having very prudently KEEP
themselves away and there We're some Englisl
lords present, who had lived to put their knees
beneath the mahogany of the Revere House
notwithstanding the report of their having gon'
to pot, and bcen cooked and eaten by savages
Caleb Gushing, who has about as much vene
ration for an African as he has for any man liv
ing or dead, was master of the festivities, and
to use his own very modest comparison, wa
0nly the miraculous man " to touch the rock 0
Horeb, and unlock its gushing waters, - tho
when he set them running, they proved rathe
strong waters,--in short something like New
Jersey cider.
Rufus Choate, who, in Caleb's still highl
fgurativc diction, was streaming over befor
their eyer" with the " top sparkle to the goh
let Of champagne spoke with mournful ca
dcnce and great eloquenco, of the mighty ma
whom he loved with 60 love passing that
= woman" Other men, small men, pigmies i
comparison, brought the feeble torches of thei
eloquenee to ilunine the gigantic, world film
glory and splendor of Websters intellect
holding up their penny candles, that by thel
we might better see the great, full-orled SUI
Among these was Ex-Gov. Gardner, who too
occasion to glorify thOAngl o-Saxon race for' i
possessions of civil liberty which it will, Il
doubt, manage to continue to possess, in spi
OF his ex-Excellency, and such as he;-ar
Fletcher Webster, who seized upon this occasic
to admit, what every body knew before, that h
father left him nothing but that much-abus(
motto, :" Liberty and Union, one and insepe
able. now and forever, AN inheritance whit
he has never appropriated to his own use, b.
in perversion OF its original significance.
The letters of regret were mainly from pol
ticnns who never, IN Mr.. Webster's life-tim
held political principles in common with hin
his enemies, whom he had Overland over aga
vanquished in his great forensic struggles, al
who would have more occasion to celebrate
. death than his birthday.
Lewis Cass, jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Dou
; las and Henry A. Wise, among others, Sc
their regrets, and it was such as these that |
: ter Harvey, ESQ.,, invited to celebrate this AMI
/, versary. Senator Hammond, of that exceeding
patriotic, Union-loving State--South Carolir
wrote letter in which he inquiries why Mas
,, chusetts and South Carolina do not now sta
! - shoulder to shoulder, and he thinks one
/, these States "must have erred much to ha
/. brought about their present relations" lh'
Y isn't bit of doubt on this point. Dan
Webster, during his lifetime, made two speech
that pretty much settled that question, at LEI
r SO far as Hayne and Calhoun were concern'
}, and demonstrated, to the entire satisfaction
9 every body out of the Palmetto State, viii
II State of the two then followed the flag, a
:. kept step to the music Of the Union
Caleb Gushing is no believer in ghosts
!, anything else in particular, except the infall
bility of Caleb,--but if he had in his mind
least touch Of superstition, me would have b.
more terrified than Macbeth, as he presided