Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-17
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words mind your business Inns must
have been democratic coin, for it was a
good specimen of "hard currency" and was
exactly such kind of money as Gen. Jack
son or Old Bullion would have gloried in
circulating, had they adopted the idea OF a
specie currency at so early day. If liv-
ing now, perhaps, though opposed to the
right of petition, they would consent to ask
the proper authorizes to withdraw that idol
atrous and ll-devised new ccnt-that upon
which the carniyorous crOC takes the perch
of the American eagle-and circulate in its
place something like tie old Massachusetts
coin.
If every body, and particularly those
crazy democratic Union-sayers and Union
sbiyerers who just now are making dcspeI-
ate efforts to create sectional hatred by con-
iinual misrepresentation and mendacious
assertions, acould mind their own business,
there would be much less individual trouble
and much less social, political and moral
evil TO combat. If people believed what
these democratic partisans assert in the
halls Of Congress and openly upon the stump
at home, it would seem that the salvation of
the country depended upon the damnable
doctrines promulgated by these deluded and
misguided tools of corrupt administration,
changeable and transient as they are.
Scarcely ever is any party wholly right;
perhaps, too, none is ever wholly devoted
to falsehood and injustice; otherwise Satan
himself would be its unquestioned chief
We believe, however, that true history of
the democratic party in this country since
the deail, ofzintrrew Jackson. would prove
that its pestilent fruits have been especially
fatal to republican freedom. 1t has been a
bold, aggressive, violent, persevering, pas
sionate party; unblushingly using any means
it could command 10 effect its ends never
hesitating to lower itself even to meanness,
equivocation, shutting, fattery and false
hood and at last it has become indifferent
TO law and justice, and insolent in its impu-
dence.
The democratic party is at present, and
for long time has been, controlled and
managed by Southern task-masters, whose
lash as idW for most Of the time for MANY
years, this party has managed to control
the government, 10 hold the sword, the
purse and the patronage; it claims to pos
sess the Executive, the laws, and the courts
claims superior mail facilities, needs and re-
ceives every day more protection than any
other party; and has become, of late, so
extravagant as to demand TO have things all
its own way, managed by its own men, and
conducted for its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT For
any variation from this marked course. the
pampered fanatics tell us they viii dissolve
the Union, "smasb der mersheen," step out.
withdraw, and leave the rest of mankind to
take care of themselves as they best can |.
This kind of talk sounds "kinder link
tum," and may be regarded by some people
as meaning something. We Northerners
might feel alarmed and ask 70 be spared in
the general "muss," but we have become
used to such threats, we have heard them
too often, they are but repetition of an
ancient and obsolete Garrison story Such
chaff' cannot catch many more birds. The
game of dissoi"tfon is about played out, and
the fre'ea,ers must get up some fresh
dodge, or they will he caught and laughed
at 10y the little niegers on their own planta.
iations.
1t is true that in this country the people
are free-or they ihink they are, and con-
sequently they take the liberty TO entertain.
express openly, and defend, very dfferen.
views respecting vast variety Of circum
stances. This freedom, this variety, is the
living principle OF every progr, ssive devel-
opnleni. When Scion required that every
citizen should embrace some par;y. il was
for the reason that he did OF wish TO have
IN the commonwealth any non-entries, IA
naiical partisans, unworthy demagogues, or
persons who did not take some interest in
public matters.
tir'a law-givers are not numerous The
soions, the Al'rcds, the Henry Iytas, and
the Washingtons, were scattered slowly aud
'hniy down the ngcs; but they have left
evidence thai great minds are never des-
poi'e-they never seek 10 govern hr arbd.
airy laws invented by themselves; on the
contrary they benefit their race by desei.
opins tie institutions hest adapted to their
lime IL requires great minds TO produce
the c'mbinaiions necessary to national sue
cess and renown, while it is in the power