The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-09-11
DODGING THE QUESTION.

The opposition to the present Administration, ex
hbts its true character, in the efforts in which it il
engaged, to evade the true issue before the people
That issue is whether we will have currency based
on gold and silver, or currency of irredeemable
paper-whether the banks or the people shall gov
ern the country. On this great issue, the Admin
lsratlOn has taken sides with the people. 1t has es-
tabIished AN Independent Treasury, for the coec-
ton and disbursement ithe peoples revenue without
the aid OF corporations, 1t has decided that the
banks shall longer have the use of the public rev.
enue, free OF interest, for their own private emolu-
ment 1t has decided that the banks shall nolong-
have the power of controlling the government,
which necessarily follows the entire control of the
revenues, with which the affairs of the government
are conducted
The wing presses and wing orators, have denoun-
ced this measure in the severest terms in advance
They have declared that the passage of the indie
pendent Treasury Bill, would ruin the country, IL
mite the purse and the sword in the hands of the
President and make Martin Van Buren, A MON
their denuncatons, thay dare not join issue upon it.
Their presses dare not do it, Their orators dare
not lay it before the people. Though irthey are to
be believed, the passage ofthe Independent Treas
government, broken down commerce and credit
shaken our republican institutions to their lounda-
tons and erected a monarchy upon their ruins
they dare not rest the present Presdntal contest
upon the merits of that very measure.
The expenditures of the general government,
are now the subject of their slanderous attacks
instead of stalking the result of the great contest,
upon question of liberty against tyranny-of
republican government against monarchy-they
are aborng to make it depend upon "a mere ques-
ton of dollars and cents.
why all these cups and saucers'' was the pa
thetic interrogation of Ogle, after enumera,ing the
various articles Of cookery ware to be found upon
the Presidents table. His political associates,
have taken up the same noble topic of discussion
1t is not because he has passed the Independent
Treasury Bill, that the wings affect to oppose him
now. Oh no. 1t is because he has too many plates
and knives and forks, and dishcoths-too much
furniture in the With House, and too many cook
Ing utensils in the " he House kitchen.
they had believed all their clamors about the
Independent Treasury, would the wings have shift
ted the contest, upon matters so trling and frivo-
lous as these? Would they have devoted twenty
four columns in each ofther six hundred papers, to
an exposition of an expenditure of $4,000 fom
the lips of such an infamous BLACKBOARD as Charles
Ogle' Would they eXpend their breath, in an e.
enumeration ofthe very plates upon the Presidents
table and the stew pans in his kitchen, if they ac-
tuay believed that the Independent Treasury Bill
had, in he language oflheir Presidential candidate,
made Martin Van Rnren a monarch as absolute =
the Autocrat of Russia? We leave ii to men of
sense and candor, to furnish their own answers.
IVindham Co. Democrat.