Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-05-23

1t would seem that the last veto III, ssage of
the President ought to show the people what
are the true issues between the Republican
and Democratic parties. Some Of the So
called independent press persist in charg-
ing the Republicans with revivng the animos-
tiles of the war, utterly ignoring the fact that
it is the Democratic party that has revived
the issues which led to the war. Some Of
these "indepcndent" journalists who under
take to lecture the Republican leaders who
helped to preserve the Union, had scarcely
mounted Jacket aud trousers, at the time of
the war, and have forgotten, If they ever
knew, for what it was fought through four
long years while others, out of dislike for
certain individuals in the Republican party
are preparing with talk about Cancellation"
to act as allies, if not out and-out members,
of the Democratic party, Us some of the old
Wing leaders, out of sheer hatred of such
men as Sumner and Wilson, became Bour-
bons.
The Republicans in Congress and out, are
not contcnding against the South or the late
Confederate leaders, as such, but against the
revival by the Democratic party Of the issues
which it was supposed were forever settled by
the war. The Democratic party is undertak-
ing to establish the extreme doctrine of State
sovereignty, which it advocated before the
war, and which led to secession; to curtail
and break down the authority of tho Federal
government, secured to it by the original
constitution Ms well as the more recent amend
mcnts. The ina jority of that party in Con
gress is from the South, and its policy is such
as will satisfy the South. More than one of
the late Confederates has said, in lamenting
the ''lost cause" that their mistake was in
not trying to maintain what they called their
rights within the Union instead of resorting
to secession. And that is what they now
propose to do. They seek to destroy the
sovereignty of the United States, to make the
Union a mere cOnfederacy whose only func-
tions are to conduct affairs with foreign ma
tions and to supply means to improve rivers
and harbors and build railroads for the bene-
fit of communities that have not enterprise
enough to do it themselves The pernicOus
doctrines of Calhoun which resulted in multi
ticatiOn and secession, are still rife among
the Democrats of the South, and the Demo-
cratic leaders of the North adopt and advo-
cate those doctrines as far as they dare to,
not so much because they believe in them as
for the sake of securing the support of a
solid South" In the Democratic States of
the South the execution of the laws of the
United States is resisted with violence and
murder. and the State governments have
adopted measures TO embarrass and perse-
cute the Federal officers and to secure i'm
munity for the violators of the Federal laws,
while the Democratic majority in Congress
seek to curtail the constitutional powers of
the President to execute the laws, deny the
right of the United States to regulate the ma
tional elections, and exalt State sovereignty
above that of the nation wherever a conflict
can be raised between them. 1t is against
this Democratic party which is actuated by
the spirit of Calhounism, and not against the
South, or simply ex-Confederates, that the
Republican party contends, seeking to main
tain the legitimate supremacy of the Union,
to establish which the loyal people expended
so much of blood and treasure. The Repub-
Leans may safely appeal again TO the loyal
people ON the issues raised by the Democratic
Bourbons. ~ Boston Journal