Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-11-17

LYcEuMs.-Thele is no intellectual entertainment
Of higher order than that which is furnished at our
town Lyccums during the long winter evenings 1t is
somewhat remarkable that Brottleboro is deficient in
this respect though the deficiency is perhaps made
up by lectures.
At the Lyceum of Vernon several interesting pa
per, have been recently read, among which was an
able address by Mr. SAMUEL l.. PARSONS of that town.
the concluding part of which we think of sufficient
general interest to be reproduced in the columns Of
THE PHOENIX. This address was delivered shortly
previous the late Presidential elections anfthe sen.
tments of the concluding part are worthy of care
full consideration The subject of the address or essay
is "The Lspotions Of Political PARTIES" and it con-
cludes ma follows:-
The most deplOrable thing concerning political par
ties is, that party names and associations carry the
people with them long after they have rcnounced
cry principle that they once upheld, or which once
gave them their power and influence.
There is, however, in nation Ike ours where so
much liberty Of thought, of speech and Of the press
is recognised, one rcdeemng barrier against the final
and complete usurpation OF any one political organic
alton; and it consists in this That when PARTY has
become so far corrupted by long exercise of power
ms to become dangerous to liberty n new party is
formed by necessity, and charging down, as it were
upon the dominant one, hurs it from power and from
existence.
Like the gods of the Greeks, who according to their
myths held the sceptcs and thrones of gods still more
ancient whom they had subverted so the political par
ties which have come down to with ali their bnst-
ell inaibiity, obtained their power by subvert-
ing parties still more ancient than they.
by obtaining the confidence OF the people, by prom.
Using to renstae the ancient landmarks Of Liberty
and by exposing their corruptions and misrule new
party calling itself Republican has undermined all the
old parties and promises Mt distant day. to become
in its turn, "Sovercign Of the Ascendant"
But Republicans be not too jubant when wonder
cannon shall have doomed its deepest sound and Won
der bell shall have rung its merriest peal remember
that that party over whose defeat yon shall then have
rejoiced, once rejoced in the same principles over
which You may rejoice, and heralded their victories
with ms loud an anthem yours. Remember also
that the fate OF that party is the fate of every party,
unless time and experience shall teach the people TO
love party less and principle more.
The issue of the Republican party, as pronounced
by its great expounder is to the end that the rights
of all men shall be equal before the laws OF men, us
they equal before the laws of God"
This is not Rewi for it may be found in substance
in that Declaration where are penned these words,
"Al men are free and equal"
1t Is not ReUi but empires may moulder from the
face Of the earth political parties may vanish and ex-
plode, still it will never be DID, while there is tyrant
to WELD the lash or n slave to eroan.
The phrase is modest and unassuming; yet 1t has a
power which will sustain an "irrepressible conflict
until the morning of the millepnial age.