The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-07-31

used You, and cast you away! And what reason
have you TO think they will not do again what they
have done thousand times before .,
Once more, look about yourselves, like men,,
DO so, and you will see that the cry of hard times
did not originate in YOU 1t did not come from
you, Of you 1t came 10 you, for you. You had
no occasion to complain for yourselves. They had
occasion TO use you, and they complained for you.
lhey put complaints in your mouths that have no
place in your hearts. They tell you, you are OPP
pressed, and without stopping to inquire into the
truth of the assertion, you think you are.
But how does it happen, if the people are so ter
ribly oppressed, and no man can get dollar, that
these Hard Cider Conventions are carried ON at
such an enormous expenses Where does the
money come from if there is none in the country !?
" here do these men who are so awluy oppress-
ed who cannot get dollar to pay their honest
debts, find five, ten and twenty dollar bills in a.
bundance to travel from one end ofthe State to the
other, to attend Conventional These poor ruined
individuals are travelling all the time, at great ex-
pense. Where do they get the money? The CT
dcres claim that they had $4,000 people at their
Powow at Burlington. The expenses could not
have averaged less than $40 apiece. This would
make the small sum of S $50 ,0OO, spent at one con-
veniion, and that too, when the poor man is so OPP
pressed, so reduced, so beggared that he cannot
command money enough to procure the. necessarles
of life, Talk for one half hour with one of these
ruin has just spent his Y at Burlington
aud he will tell you in a most dOOrOus tone, g" don't
know what we shall do. | really believe we shall
starve There is no money in the country. The
poor people are awfuy Oppressed. There is no hope
of saving the country from utter ruin and starvation
except by turning out the present odous and awful
Administration, and clecting General HARRISON"
They neglect all business themselves. They Sc
duce the aboring man from his legitimate employ.
They induce him to spend the hard earnings he has
laid by to support his family, and be prepared for
sickness or accidents They induce the farmer to
neglect his farm, the mechanic his shop, the mer
chant his store, to 90 along with them to guzzle
hard cider and cry hard times Beautiful friends
of the laborng man these. These men claim to be
the exclusive and only friends of the poor man;
while the democratic party, who tell them to stick
to their callings faithfully and ndustrousy Till their
farms, tap the shoes, and iron the hats, shoe the
horses < mend the wagons of their customers, and
spend their time as the sober fathers of families
should is denounced ~ their bitter and nnconpron-
sing enemies, who are seeking to deprive them of
employ aud take the clothes from their backs and
The bread from the mouths of>lher children. No bet
ter evidence be adduced to prove the identity
have been endcavoring 10 establish, than the argu-
ment now used by the "whigs' to elect their can
ddac.
Federalism may always be known under what
ever guise, by her love of pomp and show, and her
horror of the change incident 10 the popular will.
Federalism loveth ornaments, stars, garters rib
bons, titles, cmoumenls, hereditary distinctions,
She reyercncch blood, birth. She thinkcth, that
because man hath the blood of a titled lord in his
veins, as n matter of course, his limbs are more
symetrcol, his poi, more noble. his features more
bcon,;r his mc;n lnGicr and bis nteIlcc, If n d.
,irer cost She lovch 70 deck herself in nurplc
and fine linen in rod and costly gems to sii upon
rringrd cushions and o(iv pln,rorms. and listen TO
the huz2os or,hc sopinr multitude. She hath holy
horror of the turmoil and dns, of every day, com
man sense lC, She ,olc,b not neither doth She spin
but orrovcd ike solomon in Ma glory she si,ir,h
in hch nloccs lool ing down like he father of men
and gods upon the sweating millions below Ever
since the first whg (according TO DIR. Iohnson) be-
gan his game Of hypocrisv & deception in the garden
Of Eden, that spirit Of the federal party has clothed
itself in beautiful appearances. The serpent as
suiGcd the form Of an angel. lie dare not appear
in his true colors. lie appealed to the weakness
of our nature lie appeared in gnrb of beauty.
lie dazacd the eye with glitter aud ornament. lie
concealed his true character, with shining wings,
with radiant countcnancc, with locks of light;
with honeyed words and ilallcring lips. II has al
ways been so, Every minon Of this spirit, that
has grouncd his heel into the vlias of the people,
has been careful to see that the iron that entered
their souls was covered with velvct and the blood
its former victim carefully wiped away The rod
that cut their backs To the quick have been wound
with sikcn cord; and the hand that has crushed
them in the dust, has never been rough and large
like the paw of the lion, but white, delicate and
,,ln al mad al, hoe