The Northern Galaxy

CITIZENS!!

IT often happens in a government like ours that the cry of a CRISIS

Momentous Crisis

has been raised by politicians to incite the fears and arouse the energies of the people to secure a mere party triumph and the spoils of office.

But you are not now to debate at the ballot-boxes a mere change of masters. It is indeed not a question of good or bad policy whose results are indecisive and transitory. But it is a question which to the last degree, and for generations to come involves the immediate well-being of every man, of every woman, of every family, every lover of his country and his kind, of every friend to human rights and impartial freedom in the land. There can be no greater outrage perpetrated upon the nation than the attempt of our opponents to lull the people into the fatal belief that the government has little to do with the success of their occupations. Such are the arguments of demagogues and tyrants who would reign forever undisturbed over a prostrate, pillaged and spiritless people.

The great measure of policy maintained by the Whigs as indispensable to the independence and public and private prosperity of the people of this nation is Protection to Domestic Industry. This indeed "involves a question of bread," of the value of every acre of land, of every bushel of wheat, of every pound of wool, butter, cheese, beef and pork, of every production of the workshop and manufactory, and of every day's wages of every laboring man in the nation.

It is unnecessary for us to show Vermonters the intimate connection between these results, and the existence of an efficient Tariff for Protection. We cannot dwell upon the oft repeated demonstrations made of the truth of our remarks by the ablest Statesmen of this or any other country, yea by the full blaze of experience. Two years since the business of the country was nearly prostrate, commerce crippled, agriculture thriftless and manufacturers eking out a profitless and almost breathless existence. The Whig Tariff of 1842 was passed in spite of the deadly opposition of nine tenths of the Loco party.

In a single year the whole scene is reversed. Every active man in every department of industry is now exulting in prosperity, and even in the hope of more halcyon days when a permanent Protective Tariff shall have become the settled policy of the government.

And who is it that would put out the brilliant bow of promise which encircles the nation. The same party who have fought protection from that fatal moment in 1832 when Gen Jackson yielded up the Union to a regency of Slaveholders, backed up by Northern dough-faced Loco Focos. Indeed so determined and desperate has this party grown that even the supple Martin Van Buren must be sacrificed for a more subservient tool of Free-Trade Loco-Focoism. A Northern man with Southern principles could no longer be tolerated. He must be a pure unhesitating free-trader born south of Mason's and Dixon's line to carry out the desperate designs of the Calhouns and McDuffies of the South against the protective policy. A man who would tread the wine press of the South against the Tariff till the very blood of the North was pressed out. But the Northern section of the Loco-Foco party swallow this embodiment of free-trade principles without a throe of disgust, with their accustomed servility, and within a single month a comparatively obscure political adventurer of Tennessee is enthroned on the affections of the great Loco party throughout the Union. Even in Vermont where not a Loco dare wag his tongue directly against a Protective Tariff, the Democracy regard Polk with free-trade stamped upon his forehead as a candidate without a blemish, and meekly take up the cross which the South have compelled them to carry.

But Fellow Citizens, there is another baleful project which must be discussed at the ballot-boxes which gives the approaching election a thrilling interest.

It is the settled and reckless determination of the Loco-Foco party to annex Texas. For years have we witnessed the withering influence of southern domination over the policy of the country. For years has the North been humbled at the feet of the slaveocratic power which has usurped all the important offices of the government, and been guilty of oft repeated assaults upon northern rights. The purchase of Louisiana and Florida has tended to perpetuate that power. But are you in favor of annexing another foreign territory whose soil is polluted with Slavery recognized and protected by law? Can any man doubt that the States there formed will be slave States, when the undisguised objects avowed by the South who advocate annexation is the extension and perpetuation of Slavery, and its power in the government of the country?

Why, Fellow Citizens, have you not heard the cry coming up from the South, Texas or Disunion, or what is the same in substance,

reign or ruin.

We pity the man who has so little regard or is so profoundly ignorant of the true interests of the country, as not to feel a tide of patriotic indignation bursting through his heart in view of the blighting consequences of the success of this abominable project of annexation. And yet it is truly alarming to see with how little trembling the mass of our population appreciate this awful subject as if it were one of those measures of bad policy which a revolution in the political wheel might cure. NO, FELLOW CITIZENS. The evil can never be cured. It must stand be it for good or evil. The slave power is to rule the country with a rod of Iron, or the Union is to be broken into fragments. Here again we see the nominee of the Baltimore Convention doing the will of his masters.

JAMES K. POLK

is here again the confident of the abettors of the execrable scheme. He has boldly advocated the Tyler treaty. He is pledged to immediate annexation. In a letter dated April 23d, 1844, at Columbia Tennessee. He says, "I have no hesitation in declaring that I am for immediate re-annexation. I have no doubt of the power and expediency of the measure." Here then stands the Loco-Foco party and its Representative. With one foot he crushes the Tariff, while he waves the black banner of slavery over the hold prostrate Union, with an ambidextrous power. In the name of this Union, in the name of patriotism, in the name of humanity, religion and impartial freedom may we not urge you our fellow citizens to come forward, and with an united effort cleave down a party whose success would be as fatal to the peace prosperity, and happiness of the country, and every man in it as the BOHUN UPAS to animal existence. And you WHIG ABOLITIONISTS, we call upon you to come up to the help of the Whigs against a party who have identified themselves with Slavery. Every vote you cast for Birney, even were he ever so worthy of your suffrages increases the chances of success to Polk and his party, and brings ruin upon the country.

But is Birney faithful and true to the noble cause which he represents. Is there not a strong effort making by the Liberty party leaders with Birney at their head to have your support transferred to Mr. Polk? We earnestly entreat you to be on your guard against any such desperate scheme let it come from what quarter it may. And should it come from some of your own men, reject it with scorn and indignation. If you vote for the so called democracy you vote for Slavery. They are identified.

But now stands the Whig party and Henry Clay upon the two great measures of protection and annexation? The Whig party at least in and out of Congress presents an almost unbroken front upon these subjects. Nor is there any probable combination of circumstances in which Mr. Clay would consent to the annexation of Texas. The last explanation of his views upon this momentous subject is contained in a letter to the editors of the National Intelligencer dated Sept. 23d, 1844, in which he reiterates his individual views on the subject:

"I wish now distinctly to say that there is not a feeling, a sentiment, or an opinion expressed in my Raleigh letter to which I do not adhere. I AM DECIDEDLY OPPOSED TO THE IMMEDIATE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS TO THE U. STATES. I think it would be dishonorable, might involve them in war, would be dangerous to the integrity and harmony of the Union, and, if all these objections were removed, could not be effected, according to any information I possess, upon just and admissible conditions."

"It was not my intention, in either of the two letters which I addressed to Alabama, to express any contrary opinion."

But we will not re-exhibit the proof of the attachment of the Whig party and its leaders to Protection and opposition to annexation which for six months past we have daily presented.

WHIGS.

will you be active, vigilant, and spare no honorable means to defeat the enemies of your country's prosperity? A few days only remain to show your patriotism by your zeal and activity in urging upon your friends and neighbors the immense importance of the election, and the solemn obligation to vote for the man in whose hands the honor, the prosperity, the peace and perpetuation of the Union is safe, the noble champion of American Industry, the friend of the Union as it is, the unrivalled Statesman, the spotless Politician and the only barrier you can erect against the immediate annexation of Texas.

You have already achieved one glorious victory.

The work however is not complete.

Another battle is to be fought; and now

Whig Brethren,

once more to the breach. Once more to the rescue of your country from the grasp of a mercenary party, who can revel upon the spoils of office though the country were oppressed and ruined.

WHIGS

COME OUT.

Although there can be no reasonable doubt of the repetition of the victory of September, yet the magnitude of the stake creates some degree of solicitude. The possibility of defeat and above all the glory and advantage of an overwhelming victory should decide every true Whig to be at the polls next Tuesday. Indeed apathy may work wonders even in Vermont. Aided by supineness on our part, and a tremendous effort on their own connected with a coalition with the Third party which from the course of Birney may be possible, and believed by many to be in contemplation, Locofocoism has a chance of success.

We are persuaded there will be no remissness on the part of Locofocoism. Their journals crow, riot obstreperously. "The tide (says the Age) is in our favor. The election of Polk is as certain as that he lives, and if we will we can wheel Vermont into the Democratic line. At the worst we can come so near it as to make our triumph in '45 a matter of certainty." Do you hear that Whigs? And will you suffer such gasconading to pass unrebuked by casting anything less than the overwhelming majority which you are capable of giving.

Will you hazard even the possibility of defeat, or loose the glory and future advantage of a triumphant majority by staying a single one of you at home, or ceasing to use every effort in your power between this and the 12th, to convince the waverers, to multiply converts, and array the whole Whig army at the ballot boxes.

Now or Never

is the time to crown your country and yourselves with blessings and benefits, and avert the withering sirocco of Locofoco rule? You should labour as you never laboured before? You must canvass every town and school district, and address every voter? You must head the scoundrels who are endeavoring to swindle the People into the belief that Polk is in favor of a Protective Tariff, and opposed to the immediate annexation of Texas with her debts her wars and her slavery, and that Henry Clay is not, or is indifferent upon these subjects?

You must remember that

"DOWN WITH THE TARIFF!"

watchword of Locofocoism along the whole line wherever their leaders dare raise it. Let every Whig in Vermont do his whole duty. Henry Clay wants every vote, and the strength of the party and the glory of the cause demand that Locofocoism should be exterminated and should speak in thunder tones throughout the Union.

To your Posts then, WHIGS

To your Posts,

and when in future years the glory which crowned his administration shall be celebrated you can say

"I VOTED FOR HENRY CLAY

In the

Great

Struggle of

1844."