Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-12-08

DEMOCRACY AND DIsUNION.


Mr. EDToR:--The political aspect of Penn
sylvana is like that of a battle field before
the smoke has cleared off, and while men
are yet rocking from the fight. The old Dem
ocrats voted for old Democratic notions still,
although these notions have become very I'M
suited for our present state of affairs. The
great political excitement that has prevailed
here is of itself an evidence Of a want of thought
and reflection for people who think do not
usually become excited. There is not one
Democrat in a hundred here, who can give
you rational account of what he voted for at
the last election. Loyalty to party, consistency,
independence of office, fear of disunion etc, are
the reasons that they give.
The truth is, Democracy has had nothing to
sustain it but brute force for many years 1t
has been possessed of no more weight or dig
nifty, nothing but the rampancy of success.
The South who profess it, are not only arsto-
cratic but arrogantly autocraic, and the for
cigncrs who have voted for it, did so from Il
mere spirit of resentfulness against the aristoc-
racy of Europe, not from an enlightened sense
of the true policy of :he United States. Hence
we see, Democracy with us contains a double
ialschood, or untruthfuness to its nature, LIST,
the aris,ocracy of the South, and 2nd, the pas
siohate resentment of foreign voters, which,
like most other reSen,ments is blind, and,
while dctesting oppression in the old world,
has been voting for it here. Such has been
the character of Democracy with US of late
years; and consequently when it falls to pieces
as it has done in the late election, it shews not
one single principle of moral dignity or vital-
ty. Success has been its rule and its plea for
proceeding from extravaganza to extravaganza,
until it declares from its own mouth that we
are on the brink of revolution and ruin.
The Republicans on the contrary, declare
simply that they voted for liberty and freedom,
and that they shall stick to it though the heav-
ems fall. Neither the crash of banks, real or
pretended, nor the clamors of South Carolina,
shall frighten them from their position. South
o"'"''''" so"tans not so many white inhabitants
as the city Of Philadelphia, and shall she die
tate to the rest o: the Union? Ifshe were where
Cuba now is. the vote would probably be unan-
imous that she should go out of the: Union and
remain out but unfortunately the United States
has an inalienable interest in her SOIL and we want
IT for the purpose free institutions. New Eng
land blood has been shed upon her soil to re-
deem it from Monarchy and We cannot let it
go without proving dsloyal TO the form gov
eminent which we have adopted and with
which our sacred interests are inscparably al
lied. South Carolina has done her worst to
keep Kansas out of the Union and subject her
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more unjust in us to reduce her to the same
condition in case she attempts to seceede.-
This We shall have TO do in sef-defence, for
tn form of government that has been set up
within the United States, viz-the government
Of the majority, will assert its claims, and has
the power to vindicate its rights, however anX-
ions shareholders may be to fall on the battle
field in defence of the noble cause of human
slavery.
The sympathies Of the few misguided people
who constitute the State of South Carolina.
never were very strongly addicted to freedom,
and their slave labor naturally leads them to
sympathize with the cheap labor policy of Eng
land In short, our independence OF the monar-
chical system of England has never been
fully achieved, and it still remains to be
accomplished. 1t remains to be seen wheth-
or the tory spirit of South Carolina will
submit. or whether it will rccede as it
was compelled to do at an early period of the
revolutionary struggle from the New England
and other States. Revolutions seldom turn
backwards; and there can be 20 doubt that
that one by which we of the United States Sc
ceeded from the Manarchy of England will 90
on and be consummated, and the government
of the majority, or, rather Republicansm be
fully and indisputably established.
10 show how ignorant some of our people
are respecting this form of government. / may
say that have heard them attribute the origin
of the Republican party to Wendell Phillips p
This party which was the growth of our colo
NAL existence the achieyer OF our political iden-
tity, and the architect IF our institutions and
form of government-this party is the work of
Wendell Phillips why republicansm, which is
the politics of the Republican party. is. and al
ways has been, the policy Of the United States
of America; while Federalism, the Republican
ism If Jefferson, Whiggery, Democracy and
Locofocoism are but mere clements of its cxis-
tence. The Republican party advocates those
sentiments which lay at the very foundations of