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July 10, 1840
The Spirit Of The Age
Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont
What is this article about?
Excerpt from Hon. C. P. Van Ness's speech at a Democratic Convention in Woodstock, Vt., revealing that in 1813, all Federalists in the Vermont Assembly opposed a resolution thanking God for Gen. Harrison's victory over British and Indian forces, and nearly all living ones later became modern Whigs.
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From the N. Y. New Era.
IMPORTANT FACT.
The Spirit of the Age, published at Woodstock, Vt., comes to us richly freighted with a most powerful address of the Hon. C. P. Van Ness, recently delivered before a Democratic Convention at that place. We copy from the speech the following important fact, showing the identity of modern British Whiggery and last-war Federalism.
"In the year 1813, the federalists obtained a majority in the House of Assembly of this State, but we still retained a greater number of the Council. A resolution was passed by the latter body and sent to the House for concurrence, which proposed that the members of both Houses should convene, on a day mentioned, to offer up their thanks to Almighty God for the victory obtained by the American Army, under Harrison, near the river Thames, over the combined forces of the British and Indians. On the question of concurring with the Council in passing the resolution, ninety-five, all the Republicans voted in favor of it, and every Federalist against it, there being one hundred and eighty war Federalists, (that is, for war with their own government,) and I affirm that but ONE of these has come over to our party. I also find that thirty three of them are dead BUT OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE LIVING ONES, EVERY MAN except the ONE already alluded to) IS A THOROUGH GOING MODERN WHIG."
IMPORTANT FACT.
The Spirit of the Age, published at Woodstock, Vt., comes to us richly freighted with a most powerful address of the Hon. C. P. Van Ness, recently delivered before a Democratic Convention at that place. We copy from the speech the following important fact, showing the identity of modern British Whiggery and last-war Federalism.
"In the year 1813, the federalists obtained a majority in the House of Assembly of this State, but we still retained a greater number of the Council. A resolution was passed by the latter body and sent to the House for concurrence, which proposed that the members of both Houses should convene, on a day mentioned, to offer up their thanks to Almighty God for the victory obtained by the American Army, under Harrison, near the river Thames, over the combined forces of the British and Indians. On the question of concurring with the Council in passing the resolution, ninety-five, all the Republicans voted in favor of it, and every Federalist against it, there being one hundred and eighty war Federalists, (that is, for war with their own government,) and I affirm that but ONE of these has come over to our party. I also find that thirty three of them are dead BUT OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE LIVING ONES, EVERY MAN except the ONE already alluded to) IS A THOROUGH GOING MODERN WHIG."
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Federalists
Whigs
1813
Harrison Victory
Political Parties
Vermont Assembly
What entities or persons were involved?
C. P. Van Ness
Harrison
Where did it happen?
Vermont
Story Details
Key Persons
C. P. Van Ness
Harrison
Location
Vermont
Event Date
1813
Story Details
In 1813, Federalists in the Vermont House opposed a Council resolution to thank God for Gen. Harrison's victory over British and Indian forces near the Thames River; all 95 Republicans supported it. Of 180 Federalists, 33 are dead, and of the 75 living, all but one became modern Whigs.