Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-06-26

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At the Liberal Republican Convon ion
held at Cincinnati on the LIST day of May
last, vote was passed by that body au-
thorizing the formation of State organi-
cations. The delegation from Vermont
having failed to act during the session Of
the convention uuder that authority. it
devolves upon the undersigned as MEM
Of the Liberal Republican National Com
mi,tee for Vern ont, TO appoint all nee
essary committees throughout the State
| deem it proper in view of the present
political condition of the country, and in
connection with the announcement of a
State Central Committee for the State. to
call the attention of the frcemen of the
State briefly to the political situation,
The Republican party, organized more
than III years and holding unbroken pow
er for the last twelve years is now III
danger Of being broken in pieces aud its
mission ended. No violence from out
side foes could have wrought this result,
but the executive of the nation. surround
ed by Hatterers, parasites aud corruption
lists, who have blinded his eyes TO the
real situation, and who see in his re-elec-
ton their only hope Of a continuance of
their hold upon the public Treasury, has
shown that he is equal to the task. 1t
is his blind determination, aided by the
whole power of an army of Office holders,
with the regular machinery of party ac-
ton in their hands, to force himself upon
an unwilling people for a second term,
which bids fair to disintegrate the party
to which he owes his present election.
Under his administration the public
morals have become debased Nepotisnl
aud gift.takiug. which were odious to
Washington and Jefferson, now find favor
in the eyes of his followers, and are pub
licly approved and defended by his mouth.
pieces in the United States Senate. De-
ialcations have occurred with startling
frequency among his chosen agents. Mil
itary rule is substituted for the reign OF
law, not TO secure protection to the lives,
liberties and property Of American citi'
zens, but the better to enable him to pro.
long his power, which does not rest III
the hearts of the people. The President
of the United States las lately assumed
the role of civil service reformcr while
his apologists in Congress, many of them
at least, do not hesitate to avow then
contempt for every measure looking to the
withdrawal of the vast engincry of public
employment from the debasing Influences
of partisan politics, Under the influences
which surround him, and which have en-.
abled him to secure denomination,
while a tried and trusted leader for the
second place on the ticket was supplanted
to make way tor another, it has come to
pass that promotion does not depend up.
on merit, but upon the ability and dlspo'
sition of the applicant to advance the
personal interests Of the President, sc
that at last public positions, which were
once posts of honor, are now regarded as
marks of servility. 1t is supposed that
Federal office holding and honest inde'
pendence are incompatible. 5ta
The ignorant and contemptuous dsre.
gard of the Chief Magistrate for the fun
damental laws of the land, and the ten.
dencv to centraIize all the powers ct the
Government in the hands of the President
and his advisers, obliterating the line be-
tween National Government aud the
power OF local self-government by the
people of the States, causes grave and
well founded apprehension, whether IN
escaping from the heresy of a new Con
fedsracy of separate and independent
States, bound together by a league which
any one Of them might dissolve at pleas
ure, we have not fallen into the opposite