Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-08-26
MR. SAKE ON THE STUMP.

MIR. SAKE ON THE STUMP
We have had quite desire to know what
topics the Democratic nominee for Governor,
John g. SAKE, Esq, is handling in his
present mission round the State. From the
Democratic papers we have learned nothing.
They are loud in praise of his eloquent expo
sitions of Democratic principles; but what
those principles are from all that they say no
body can guess. Seeing however IN the
Cdledon,an, a Republican paper, some account
of a late discourse delivered by Mr.. SAKE to
the assembled D Democracy of Caledonia Coun-
ty, we naturally expected to get more light
on the subject there, if 1t was to be got any
where. But the Caledonian leaves US as
much in the dark as ever. The Editor says
a." Having often enjoyed his wit we felt
willing for once TO endure hls wisdom as a
man keeping a peacock for his plumage
ought patiently to bear his song. " We
were anxious to see whether he would regard
it This Nomination. as poetic license or take
It in earnest and talk serious about the des-
tiny and the star of empire.
But we were not left long In doubt. He
had swallowed the bait The eagle that had
poised his wing SO gracefully in the upper
air. and had satirized with 50 keen an eve
all parties, had found a carcass, and come
down to gorge himself with the buzzards
He went through with pleasant ex-parte
history of democratic measures, till he came
within reach of the memory of man, but up
on the vital questions of the day he was as
dumb as the silence that broods over Baby
Ion.
He pronounced the usual eulogy upon the
admission of Louisiana, and that general, in
discriminate and greedy spirit Of annexation
and plumber which has ever characterized
the party.
The poet next unkenneled the United
States bank, and demanded of the ghostly
cashier some small coin of praise-say about
thirty pieces-for having cut off its head
From first to last he never touched upon
the great issues of the day. He sailed over
the sea of politics carrying all his guns in
the stern. He fired roundlv into Tyre and
Sidon, and raised ancient sinners from the
grave to torment them once more before the
time. He praised Lot and remembered Lots
wife but not one word Of the present"
All, Mr.. SAKE You do not keep the real
questions of the present day out of sight be-
cause you do not knOto what they are. You
know, as well as any body, that practical
question of tremendous moment to the future
character and prosperity of our country, and
TO the progress of humanity itself, is now ii
process of solution IN our country. That
question is, Shall those great declarations o.
the Rights Of Man, and the Relations o
Governments 10 The Governed, which, in July
I776, the great men in Continental Congress
assembled, proclaimed to the World as tho
ground of political action for themselves and
their constituents,-to support which they
pledged their "Lives, their Fortunes and theil
Sacred Honor, which were read aloud t.
the armies of the newborn Nation for then
encouragement and support under the peril;
before them believing in which ,gray-haired
fathers, beardless sons, loving brothers and
husbands, poured out their life-blood on the
field, suffered from hunger and nakedness on
the wintry march land wasted away their live.
in the enemies prison-ships which mighty
truths were the guiding-star of that host Of
statesmen, unequalled in the world history
who directed the affairs of the Nation for the
first generation of its existence and towards
which the whole nation believed its course was
to be always directed; Shall these great truths
$50 noble, so patriotic, so humane, so christian
cease to be household words to the people of
this great nation, become the scott of little
place-men and grovelling seekers of office,
and by-words of reproach in connection with
the American name In every despotic coun-
try on the earth? Shall the doctrine of the
"Diyine right" Of one part Of the human race