Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-14

the country safe? Were not the t
President and his secretary jubilant f.? e
Was not each sure of his nomination /
to the presidency in 1852? "Let us i
arise, they say, "and go northward '
and westward, and receive the con-
gratulations of the people, and tread ;
out what sparks of principle yet re-
main in the general ash-heap our
Compromise has created So they
left Washington in great state-the
thick-brained ruler and his oratoric
subject and rival. They were wei
coined from city to city by military
and civil pomp. New York fastened
to approve their course as well as
their official station. The Secretary
made frequent little speeches, neat
and conciliatory, full of 1attering lies
about union, peace, and harmony
the South all calm and the North all
crushed. The President strove to
surpass his secretary in blandness OF
speech and manner, though he could
not prevent the attention OF the
country from being fixed upon his
subject superior.
Thus they rode and spoke and
smirked and lied, and plotted against
each other, and despised Seward ard
the 'nigger." The Secretary was
dined aud wined, and felt upon his
his brow the shadow of hingly
f crown.
To-day over almost the same route
| another president and his secretary
are travelling. He to was raised to
his seat from the vice-presidential
: chair-not by the votes OF the people,
but by the murderous act of Southern
+, Shareholders. His secretary, once
: their foremost foe, has swallowed all
+ principles and almost all his PROBES
|. sionS Of principle, and now strokes
the creStS Of the veG} c0pperheads
q and rattlesnakeS wiz he had but
lately Gagged, and not L few OF whose
# brood he has c0urage0usly killed
They have crushed out, not the rebel,
but the Unionist OF the South. They
l. have cast the white and black soldier
and citizen together into the arms OF
l. their heiliSh oppressors. They have
L made the South a desert full oi ray
If enous beasts, and call it peace. They
T have stamped into the dust all the
4. measures which the nation, through
II her representatives, has adobted tol
A. its permanent and righteous reOrgan
s ization. And now they march forth
lie on an electiOneering tour. New
York City, now as then, lays her8el
a. at their feet and endorses their trea
o son to God and the country. Sepeche:
% sweet as poisoned honey drop iron
their lips. The alton is united
IL peaceful, prosperous. The radicals
of not the rebels, are her chief foes, anC
)r they are of small value in the grea
s. account. The Secretary is dined anC
wined; smirks, bows, talks softly, an(
II, plots against his chief, as he ha
a. against his former associates and pro
fessions. His leader puts on hi
blandest air and tries hard to be
gentleman in speech and act. Fac
attended by admiring thousands, VIII,
turn and rend every advocate of tru
democracy or Of simple justice, an,
trample these pearls OF national beaut
% and safety beneath their swinish feet
he Thus they stride through the lane
no regardless of the cry Of the murdere
Mt whites and blacks whom their OW
.ss ambition has slain and whose bIooC
re yeU Wet upon Une streets OF SOuther
is cities and in the jungles OF Souther
no forests, cries to God against thes
he hollow hearted, selfish betrayers {
ad their brethren aud the country -
ne Strange parallel this. Two vice-prc
he dents are elevated by assassination
nd to the sovereign seat. They each b.
no tray the party which elected then
Each is accompanied in their Treason
ed nay, impeIlcd to it, 10y the acknow
he edged leader Of their party, who
;es they mad made their cnict sccrctar
.he Each secretary as well as presideI
so demands the presidency Us the +
dc ward of their treason. Each coupl
lot having done all they could 10 demo
tic aiize and destroy their party, fame
lit themselves master Of the situatio
nat and make a Northern tour to glol
en- over their victory and prepare Il
lis way for its future and desired co
of summation.
is Shall we persue t.. analogy a lit
lld further? So pcrfecy a parallel M
! a well be projected to its hasteni
ar conclusions. No prophetic vision
the required to see that, as it has begr
re- and continued, so will it end. Fl
the more and Webster were sure that Il
ties presidency of 1852 lay between thel
led No third rival could appear upon tt
of stage. Least of all did they fear Il
eri- Vaccinations of the little magician
Auburn. He had been annihilate
lei, His clan in the New York party W;
tic dissipated. Chase was equally hei
less in Ohio, and the MaSsachuset
Fic- governor had put Winthrop, an hun
he bic pupil of the seoretary's in h
de, chair senatorial. The coast was clea
in Only one general stood in their wa
i'll But the cOuqueror of Mexico won
ne. not claim their seat. Yet not tv
TIA years had passed when that crush'
esi- Seward and his exterminated clan hi
ind thrust both Of these traitors to the
lily, party and their principles from Il
nth field, and put the military chief
not their place. Fillmore retired to
the obscurity, bearing with him, for h
inc eternal shame, the sole memorial
ted which he will be known in history
av- the signer OF the Fugitive Slave bill
and the secretary, old, sick, and d
me appointed, retreated to his count