The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-08-14
worthy people find employment and good wages,


worthy people find employment and good wages,
as they always have done Cannot they command
all they ask I? Why then, do they listen one mo-
ment 10 the outcries of these pampered and paid
political denagogues. Let the uboring men look
about themselves and see if they are not AZ well to
do in the world as they have been, as well oil as
they can r0usonabl, ask; and then answer to their
own good sense why it is that they suffer them
selves 10 be led from their legitimate business, the
support of themselves and their families, by bank
rupis. and paid spouters, who have every thing to
Gain & nothing to lose in their unjust & wicked wal
mon the Administration. Before this, these same
men cIanorcd fora change. They appealed to the
people in the same way TO put off Gen. Jackson and
elect John Quincy Adams. The Greemcn OF this
State heard the call aud obcyed Mr. Adams was
elected. But were the mechanics in this State,
benefited a whit by the result Did they become
rich without labor: Did the blacksmith become OPP
pulent without hamnering his iron, the shoemaker
without driving his peg, and the farmer without
sowing his seed? No, no such thing. They were
obliged to work then, They are obliged to work
now They will be obliged to work if Gen. llar-
rson should be elected. We ask them again, can
didlv and calmly TO look about themselves, and
see if their worldly condition is not such that they
have reason to thank God, rather than curse the
Administration. Let them find out that 1t Is not
they Of their own household it is not the men OF
their calling and station in life who cry out about
this opposition to which they are subjected. 1t is
different class of men, who TO carry out their
schemes of political ACKNOWLEDGEMENT must have the
votes of the ahorer 80 sensible are they of this,
that in order to get Dlore direct and sure hold
upon your sympathies, they hire Lynn Shoe ma
ker, and Cincinnati blacksmith put speeches in
their mouths and send them about the country TO
address you and appeal to your sympalhes. They
themselves cannot do it. They never had any
sympathy for you. They never will have. They
never can have. But you must be brought into
their support in some way. They only wish to
use You. I hat is all they ever have wanted ofyou.
1t is all they want of you now Fall i'll with
them Iielp them change the administration of the
general government. Help them send the man
they stgmatize as the " Kindcrhook cabbage ped
lar " back to his fire side in the town that gave him
birth. Lii his place with Gen. Harrison, and see
what you will gain by the change. In the name Of
justice we beg of You, refer one moment TO your
own experience. What have you ever gained by
following in their tram What will You gain now:
VIII they ask Won to their secret counsels Will
they consult you about their plans; Will they e.
lect you to sit in the Hall of Representatives VIII
they elect YOU to sit in the Chamber of the Senate:
VIII they place YOU on the bcnchi Will they call
upon You to speak at their public meetings Will
they shake hands with you in the strcets' VIII
their wives visit your wives their daughters your
daughters viii their sons associate with your
sons Did they ever do it Think, now Have
they not always used YOU and cast you away And
what reason have YOU TO think they will not do a
gain what they have done thousand times before:
Once more, look about your selves 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 to you, for you. You had
no occasion TO complain for yourselves. They had
occasion to use YOU and they complained for you.
They 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
that these Hard Cider Conventions are carried on at
such an enormous eNpense' Where does the money
come from if there is none in the country Where
do these men who are so awiuy oppressed who
cannot get dollar TO pay their honest debts, find
five, ten and twenty dollar bills in a bundance, to
travel from one end of the State to the other, to at
tend Conventions, These poor, ruined indy iduals
are travelling all the time at Il great eypense.-
" here do they get the money The Ciderlics claim
that they had $4,000 people at their Powow at
Burlington. The expenses could not have averaged
less than & 10 apiece. This would make the small
sum Of 100000, spent at one conventions and
ilottoo, when the poor man is so oppressed, so ie-
ducud, so beg.ord that he cannot command money
enough 10 procure the necessaries of life. Talk
for one alfhour with one of these ruin-criers, who
has just spent his 30 at Burlington, and he will
tell YOU in u most dolorous tone, " don't know
what we shall do. really believe we shall s,arve.
There is 10 money in the country. There is no
hope of saving the country from utter ruin and
starvation except by turning out the present cdlous
and awful Administration, ind clecting General
Harrison" They neglect all business themselves,
They seduce the laboring man from his legitimate
employ. They induce him 10 spend the hard earn
ngs he has laid by 10 support his family, and be
prepared for sickness or accidents They induce
the farmer 10 neglect his farm, the mechanic his
shop and the merchant bis store, TO 20 along with
them to guzze hard cider and cry hard tines
Beautiful fiiends 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 cangs faithfully and
indus,riously, till their iarms tap the shoes, and
iron the hats, shoe the horses and mend the wag-
ons Of their customers, and spend their time as the
sober fathers Of families should are denounced as
seeking 10 deprive them of employ, take the
clothes from their backs and the bread from the
mouths Of their children.
have further evidence at hand to show the
deniiy of the old federal and present whig parties.
"Out Of their own mouths" take the evidence
ANCIENT FEDERAL MAXIMS.
1.-THE people IN all nations arc naturally divided into
two sortsthc gentleman and the s,aBieHan-thc latter
signify ing the common people, such farmers, mechanics
and uboers and the former the richer portions and those
born of more noted f.ncs."-lJonN ADAMS.
contend that the English government is the stu
pendoIs fabric ofhumun wisdom.,-JonN ADAMS.
1.-THE POOR destined to labor and the RICH are
qualified for superior staOns."-JonE ADAMS.
" have well considered the subject, and am well
WINGED that no amendments the articles OF confederation
can answer the purpose OF good government long
the state governments do in any shape, eAs-ALExAN
DER HAMILTON.
% despair thai any republican form of government
remove the difficulties that Greece and Rome encountered
Il ALAyAsDER HAMILTON.
believe the British government forms the best model
the world ever prctuced"-I ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
All political communities ought to he divided into the
FEW and the MANI-thc first are the RICH and the |
WE'LL BORN, the other TIE MASS OF THE PEOPLE"
= ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
- The people turbulent and changing; they seldom
judge or determine ght."-lALENANDER IiAuLros.