Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-04-07

uses up all that was heretofore left of the squat
ter sovereignty delusion as expounded by Doug
las and his disciples. Read it attentively.
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WHO IS TO be 7HE NEXT PRESIDENTl
The political question of chief interest at the
present moment is who will be the nominee of
the Chicago Convention The. administration
in power has become so evidently corrupt, even
to the perceptions of its own party, that
change of some kind is felt to be needed. 1t
is only the Stakeholder himself, whose policy
like the eggs of the scarabacus, has need Of
corruption for its vitality, should be opposed to
the change. 1t is the nature of power to be-
come corrupt and it can be purified only by
an occasional transftnence from the party to
which it inheres. From long fxedness of
position it becomes foul like the Augcan Sta
bes, and requires floods of wholesome public
sentiment to be ccnsed The transferrencc of
power even in England is more frequent and
less troublesome than it is with us. 1hrocs of
dissolution torment us every time that it threat
ems to take place.
1t is vain to deny that under the rule of the
slaye-democratic party bribery and corruption
have extended from the seat of the general gov
eminent until they affect more or less every men,
Der of the Union and almost every community of
the country. It's to the head authority in every
government, and especially in a republican one,
that the individual subject looks for response
l;l;,, nd r,r vnrnt,ln II notinnal
eminent sanctions crime or depravity of any
sort, it is strong inducement to politicians to
practice it. If it offers brides which are treas
enable to the principle of sef-government and
popular sovereignty, it does all that it possibly
can towards destroying those vitalties upon
which popular government depends.
The present incumbent of presidential power
has been formally accused of offering brides.
The head of the slave-dcmocratic party has
been caught at those tricks which have been
the chief resource of the slavc-power during the
last ten Yeas. 1t has been resolved by Con-
gress-"1hat Il committee of five members be
appointed by the speaker for the purpose, first,
of investigating whether the president of the
United States or any officer of the government
has, by money patronage,"or other improper
means, sought to influence the passage of any
law appertaining to the rights Of any state or
territory; and, second, also to inquire into and
investigate whether any officer or officers of the
government have by combination or otherwise
prevented or defeated, or attempted to prevent
or defeat, the execution of any law or laws now
upon the statuet book, and whether the presi-
don't hoe s-:i-L refused to compel the execu-
ton of any law therefor
And against this Resolution the president has
made long and urgent protest in the shape of
a special message. lie complains that the ex-
ecution of such a resolution would impair the
dignity of his office, or, TO use his own words.
this reputation might possibly be furnished"
1t would be, he says, to make the accusers his
judges, for it is member of Congress who ac-
cuses him and the accusation is not sufficient
ly particular, not specifying the particular act
to which guilt is imputed, etc etc. In short,
the whole tenure Of the protest shows that the
president feels that the resolution, in striking
at bribery and improper influences, strikes at
the chief power of his party. Lay open and
expose to the view of the country the dark re-
cesses of brides and criminal incentives by which
the slave power has sought to gain favor and
support, and that power will soon come to an
end.
The resolution will at all events have one
good result. 1t will show our future presidents
that they cannot consent, as our presidents have
done of late years, to be the mere tools of n
party, without running some risks of mourning
the disapproval Of the coordinate branches of
the government If they yield to party dicta-
ton on the one hard, they may incur the dam
ger of impeachment on the other; and this
should teach them that their proper and most
dignifed course is, to pursue that independent
line of action, which is essential to their func-
tons and which is prescribed by the constitu-
tion-to be president of the whole United States
and not merely of party.
To return to the subject of the Nominee of
the Chicago Convention, it is evident that the
country needs man of undoubted honesty and
integrity. When every thing has become de-
ptoNNNi nhSh al ulllCltS Nl consumption
have become drugged and adul,erated, how
should we protect ourselves and procure whole
some food? 1t is evident that we must be
governed by the characters of the men with
whom we deal. We must trust only those who
have established good characters for honesty and
veracty. And so it is with our dealers in pol
itics, which have become poisonously drugged
and adulteratsd we must trust only men of
good, reliable characters. Honesty, integrity
and independence of character should be look
ed to as the leading, essential qualities for our
next president; believing that he who possess
es these qualities cannot fail to be quite as
broadly national and conservative as he who is
detected in the Infamous practice of offering
brides and covert inducements.
BATllING.-Some one recommends bathing
and the drinking of cold water as a remedy
against fever; and we have no doubt but that
if they were habitually practced we should have
many very many less fevers than we now have.
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