Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-04-24

D1ucfitQ anu IEptoCl IL bHdb lOhA lttAis
later, in its platform, it surrendered all it.
manliness and nobility, and, like the humsr
form Dante saw in his vision, crawled and
licked the dust at the feet OF the slave power
emulating its old antagonist in its prostrati0u
and abasement. Many of its great men, its
chiefs and statesmen shared in its humIlia
ton, and the party which had often in it,
history uttered grand words in behalf Of lib
erty was defeated having sold its birth
right for mess of pOttage, 1T was cheated
out Of It's pay; and it died, as Webster died,
broken. disappointed, and with It's fame
su lied BIZ the dlshonor which the love OF
caice brought upon It.
And what OF the Democratic party? Arc
/ the administrations OF Pierce aud Buchanan
] fgrg 1tten, and the prostitution of the party
through every agency it could command and
by the most uublushng use of the spOis q
its work Of making slavery national an1
lrCel0m sectional? The business was com
pletelv understood and thoroughly system
atizsd, and more generally subsidized and
well drilled army than this Democratic party
never charged q breastwOrk or stornCd a
lort until the issue betw,e en- freedom aud
slavery was sharply joinei on the soil OF
Kansas From that time forward the Re
publican party, formed % the better element
Of the Wing party and Of the Democrat,
whose love Of freedom overc1me their dcyO-
ton to their old organization, begun It's
:t'uLgle against every iJrm OF corruption,
against every unwlrrant.d use ot power
against tho tyranny o- party discipline and
the di.tation of party !cli-rs, aud at last
won the grand triumph oi 1860. Aud then
came the rebellion, rebellion that could
never have been quickcucI into life in sim
gle S-a.e tad ItuJt been thought by is chief
t3at lhe Democratic party at the North was
q.
ei by the spJIls that II would welcome JET
ers3n DAVIS OF any other usurpcr who
w0u restore II It's lenders once more share
of the public plumber. Tlen the ID Democratic
party ell, and, 1 trust, fell, like LIclier,
never 10 hope again. It's siEtnti, crIms-
against liberty wJuIi never have been pJ~~i-
bic had It not debLsci itself and IebtuclcI
the people through Mr. Nlrcy's Infamous
doctrine. s. thoroughly had the p)I-Jn 1t
that demoraiiziny creed gone through its
whole body AMI saturated It's organization.
that the discipline and the regimen and the
medicines of the last ciZh6 years have not
purified It's system. It stIl henkcrs for the
Iesl-pJts of Egypt. To-day il get, no credit
Tor Its prJtes,atiJus of reform. We smile in
d3risiJn at It's denunc.atJns ot corruption.
We laugh AZ its .' passive policy, and call
j. :. p0ssum' trick In q Dem cratic
newspaper owned in part by member Of
thls House. | read the other day an earnest
plea that the good men should unite agdin-t
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