The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-12-11
Tbe spirit OF Tbe age.
TO check Achilles and TO rescue Troy.
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. IL, 1910.
TIE OLD LANDMARKS,

N OIL JS-J. MT. MADISON h'poIt VIII IOOW
next week, unless the Message of the President
should crowd it out. If so, it will be published
=, the week after.
i We repeat our remarks of last week. when we
@ say, that it would seem proper now, that the old
, federal party have obtained the asrendancy once
more, that we refer 70 the great distinctive princ-
= pies of the two parties, rs laid down by JEFFER-
= SON, MADISON, and TAYLOR, the fathers of the
f democratic party.
We ask for the Resolutions and Report, when
, it appears, calm candid and thorough perusal
by all parties. The excitement of the election,
having, in great measure passed by, people may,
irthey will, read sobcrly, and Judge wisely
In publishing the Resolutions, the Richmond
Enquirer remarks
We raise our ilag-our beacon nag-to-day,
which is to guide us through the events of the next
four years, if gracious Providence should spare
us so long-lt is the State Rights flag of old Nr-
GINA, which she first displayed in 'Ys-99-which
conducted her 10 safety and glory in the civic Rev
olution of lsoO-and which has led her through
many battle and many breeze, since that epoch
! We raise it again, and call upon every Democratic
Republican State Rights to rally under the
banner, 1t is consecra,ed by the names of Mad-
son and Jefferson, of Taylor and PendIeton, of
Giles, and the Nicholascs and the other great men
who fought under il in $500
"Need we say, that we refer to the Resolutions
Of '9S-99-and the iustrions Report of 90 1900.
We lay the Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky
this day before ouf readers and shall follow them
up in our next No., with Madison's Report. They
ought to be read again and again by every Rcpub-
can in the land-re-p published in the Democratic
papers, recommended to their readers struck in
cheap Editions, and circulated through the L. ).
We begin again by having the Republican cause
on this inpcriShube foundation, aud invite every
man, who loves the true principles Of the Consli- |
tuition, to place himself upon them"
| We presume, as the Resolutions and Mr.. Madi- |
sons Report are rarely to belound, that the great
body C our readers have yer seen or read them,
and are not distinctly appriscd of their importance
or of the great principles which they embody and
are intended to elucdntc and sustain. They eul-
body the distinctive principles of the old democrat
c school, as opposed to the old federal school-lhe
republican construction of the constitution by the
fathers of that MISUNDERSTANDING its powers, and
detailing the opinions of its trainers, as to the en-
tent, strength and proper sphere of those powers
They declare explicitly the STATE RIGmTs
views of the democracy of '9S-9 and 1900, upon
party and their measures, by which they were en-
dcavoring TO form grand consolidated govern
mcnt.
Embracing these important, and to the pcrpeuiy
of the Union, vital subjects it becomes the impe-
rous duty of every sincere American, of whatever
party, to examine these documents carefully, can
didIv and thoroughly, not with the inundced Wis
ion of partisan, but with the heart of an qmeri-
can. II the doctrines of the federal school were
correct fairly deducibe from the constitutions and
for the best interest of the people, most certainly
we wish so TO understand them. If they are not ,,
50, we give our opponents equal credit when we
say, most certainly they wish TO know it. The
doctrines embodied in the Resolutions, with the
exception Of two terms of the Presidency, have "
'ecn approved and sustained by mn joriics that left
title doubt Of The opinion of the people as to then
correctness. But in the late contest, they have Il
'ecidcd against an Administration, cndea,orng 10 :,
AIRY out principles plainly emlodicl and ochnowl- -,
dgri though not explicitly dcfnsd, and deliberately -
'rann ont in the forms and iechncaalcs of law =,
The great principle of an INDEPENDENT, con- -,
TREASURY, as opposed to u
RATIONAL BANK, is, to Il reasonable and we'll
nformcd mind, ms plainly Swallowed forth in all
he writings Of Nlr Jefferson is the doctrine that Vt
II men are born free and equal Yet, as matter ~
course, the inrm of law, that should cmbod, '"
hat principle for distinct action, adapted to the
ANTS and circumstances Of the times is no more pr
nan "b'ocked out, to use common and sgnif- ''o
ant phrnse. That he had an idea of the plan ag
hch Mr.. Van Buren, has proposed, cannot be hi
uesioncd with the least show of reason lo'
AS we before remarked, the people have decided 1t
,alnst an Administration. cndeayorng, as its sup pa
'rers say to carry out the great principles of the liz"
d democratic party. And now, it is mos, fitting de-
I'd most important that they turn back the leaves pei
the volume of our political history and see if ST!
esc assertions be correct. When we ask them SUI
do this, we ask Of them nothing bu, that i, lei
nSlSieni with their judgment their reason, their ALI
ndor, their party predictions, their indcpen- OF
nee Now that the opponents of Mr.. Van by
ircn have wrenked their vengeance on him. now Jus
ut they have driven the ''cabhage pedler' back can
knderhook, they will doubtless be willing TO VIC
I'VE the man alone, and give the people time and
cason to examine his principles. lflhey could }
We been allowed 10 do this before he would h,ye OF
en reelected. The leaders of the opposition VI
ew this, and hence their noise, their midnight '''e
'eries, their log-cnbin carousals and their hard
Ter orgies. Hence their aim to debauch aud he Po'
INK the People,o paradise their faculties, cut of
lr reflection, and cloud their reason Hence 'he'
ir false (buc) lights, to bewilder ihem and d. Pefs
their enemies. If the people have now be- s'oc
ne soher If they have slept of the fumes of hard
err, If their faculties have recovered their won,ed
e: we beg Of them, while their unprncipled So nv,
ers, abandoning them, are pickering, quarreny mas
scrambling for the poor and petty bubbles of , '.'