The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-11-07

uouIs, that ioTel9h capitalists nave mtcIlcltu Ill
this election, and no doubt advanced funds TO over
throw our free institutions by corruption.
1t is the corruption fund that has sustained and
kept up that disgraceful practice of attempting to
influence public opinion by Dragging and betting on
the results of elections
1t is thus seen that MONEY is truly the root of
all evil in politics. But it is the life and soul of
modern British whigery. Take that away, and
the whole complicated machinery of British wing
eleclionoering would at once stop. The log cab
ms would not have been ereced-the carousals and
drunken revels would cause.-the Tippecanoe songs
would lose their music--the wing agents and CO.
horts would lose their employment and their wages
the infamous traffic in votes would cease, if
there was no money raised to pay for them, and
reward the guilty agents who purchase them; and
the new wing import trade in pater pipes would
be discontinued.
Were the British wings to succeed by means
such as these, it would BIZ the triumph of the COR
RUpT INFLUENCE OF MONEY over the intelH-
gence and ririue Of The people. That is the real
Issue now before the country. 1t is lightlul and
appalling issue. The credit system party have adj
versed the government for sale, and are now at
tempting to purchase it, with domestic rags and
foreign gold--wh Looney 'waier pipes and Bodg-
er 'yarn, purchased at thirty dollars per foot, and
consigned to James b. Glentworh and X. C. Wet
more, wing factors and brokers in New York, and
James Young, Robert Miller, and George Riston,
men brokers in Philadelphia.
And has our country come TO this Is the Pre-
sidency to be bought with money! In the corrupt
age of fallen Rome, the imperial purple was often
put up at auction, and struck of to the highest bid
der, and he who could command the most money
became Emperor, Are we not approaching this
state of degradation, and suffering the Chief Ma
gstracy of the Republic to be controlled and Sirtu-
ally bought up with money!
1t is horrible to contemplate the state of things
now existing in our country. The traffic in votes,
the scenes of fraud, corruption, and perjury, which
have just been developed in New York, are OPEN
LY DEFENDED and JUSTIFIED by the leaders of
the British wing party. The yiola'ors of the laws,
the perpetrators of crime tending to subyert our
Institutions, and involving with also the addition
al crime of peCjury, are openly justified and even
nominated for high and responsible offices.
VIVA, bold and audacous defiance of the NJ o.
RAJ SENSE Of the community! Who can witness
these things without the most fearful orebching Of
u,ii to our beloved county; Can Poorf, ftoe,ry
be maintained in open disregard and even defiance
of public morqls' Let history answer. 1t is in
consistent not only with the laws of society, but
the laws of God.
Unless the moral sense of the nation, which mo-
menlarily seems to be torpid, can be terminated,
and its energy restored, SO AS to arrest the career
of fraud and corruption, which are now polluting
the very fountains of liberty, our free constitutions
wiW be OrerthrOWR, and our country "uiaGi. AT
so alarming crisis, threatening not only the liber-
ties, but the morals of the country, will the senti-
nels of freedom sleep? Let them arouse thcmsel-
YES before it is too late Let every true American
every honest friend of our popular institutions, SOL
EMMY swear upon the altar OF his country that
these enormilies shall be arrested, and that The
Republic shall be Sdrei'-GlOJe