The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-08-07
TO THE RALLY-BE AWAKE.

The Wings carry all before them, on all sides,
but the Office Holders die hard. They have
rs many lives as cat, and all the recuperatve
power of Polypus. We beat them, and hang
them, and defeat and rout them, but they die
hard Lord Brougham, in late article in the
Edinburgh Review, has written in substance,
that there is nothing an Office Holder SO clngs
to, as to Place, Honor and Principle even being
surrendered for its possession, Hence, the Poll
tican that clings to his place, he adds, will as
rf5 yane f9 9 o ne &c a asa lis "
change of worlds is for better, whereas if he
looses his place, he lives in world but made the
worse for hlm,.-a ghost among men--a nonenti-
~ made melancholy by what he was,-and as
for Honor ond Principle lost@no matter he rea-
sons for that as Power will buy Honors, and
Principle is not necessary with Power.
The Wings are in contest with Hundred
Thousand or more of those blinded, drilled, Of
flee Holders who value office as much as life q
more than Principle or Honor. The Wing Mi
litia are under numerous disadvantages in such
II contest with such a host of Regulars. We
have the Numbers, and the Physical Power, but
they have the deciplne, and the machinery, and
the pay. We are Volunteers, and they are en-
listed during the We work and find our
selves, and they are on salaries, and daily pay.
A Hundred Thousand Regulars stationed in all
the commanding points of the United States,
under the lead Of the Federal Head in Washing
ton, is quite as much as the Wing Militia can
take care of.
In this point Of view, the Wings mus, not he
content with Sortie in Louisiana, even a
Waterloo rout as in New York. These Office
Holders will not die as long as they can hold a
Treasury dug in their mouths. This pap acts
upon them Ambrosa or Nectar upon the ia
bled gods,-and though we pierce them through,
and through and cut them down, their blood is
only water, and they come again all armed to-
gether. 1t is seven year war, we are in, =
such as that of the Wings Of the old Revolution
The Tories have for long time pent us up at
Valley Forge,--but we have been to Saratoga
and are now bound to Yorktown. Not for u
day. nor for an hour must relax our efforts
for if we do, we lose all we have gained Alread-
these Regulars OH their feet again in Maine
with stout array in the field. They are ma
nevvering in Rhode Island. They not dead
in Connecticut, only making believe, so as to save
life, as the Militia men stand cooked and primet.
In New York. they as busy and as blzzng
as ever. They say Pennsylvania is theirs. N.
Jersey they are burroa0ing in, in every part as
sappers at the seige of Antwerp to spring mine
upon the fortified within. In Ohio they pa
trolling the State Shannon, their candidate for
from the river to the lake. That new Recruit,
that new Lieut., General of theirs, John c. Cal
houn. has taken the southern wing of the Loco
Foco Empire, under his Multiplying flag He
promises to make many States jump Jim Crow,
with all the' precision of II like evolution in
South Carolina. Benton is actively marshan O
his troops in the North West and West The
Wings, it seems, have made an onset even upon
his domain, and M issouri and Illinois are in dan
ger. But the fact is, there was never moment
when the 100000 Office Holder were so active,
and SO earnest as they are now. They will fight
as hard as Napoleon's troops at Waterloo But
the Wings must remember, we have not yet got
them to Waterloo That will come at the next
Presidential Election, and that over two years
from now, up to which time. every hour, we
must keep the Wing Star-Spanged Banner a
flying. Pence, quiet, sleep, is for slaves or
would be slaves. Liberty is the boon OF MEN,-
active, viligant, WArcH.MEN.--M Y. Express
GTThere is strong reason to hope for the election
of a Wing Rep. to Congress from Arkansas this