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

sense of their danger. They rallied under JEFF.
.erscn and the Administration of John Adams, his
alien aud sedon law and his standing army were
swept To destruction This reign Of terror stand,
ont, black, scowling, desecrated and alone in this
country warning To all who may dare TO trample
under foot the freedom of enquiry, aud the power
Of the people
The disastrous defeat that had fallen upon the
old federal party had so completely overwhelmed
them that il was long, very long before they could
collect together their scattered forces for fresh
conflict A few still maintained the citadel, Ma
tional Bank. To that tower Of strength, the wound
ed and cEest-iaen struggerS of the federal army
gathered, They began 10 look upon this as their
last hope The people had taught them the dan
ger of attempting to engral into our statute books
,hcir odious doctrine, !r,hcy could not coutrothcn
by the power of the law, they determined TO do il
by the power Of money. Every effort was made
to lortiiy this, as they thought it, federal Gbrator,
Branches were acknowledgements We're feed
editors were brihed, runners were employed and a
whole army Of clerks, cashiers, presidents, direct
ors dedependans borrowers penslond presses were
enlisted during life, Under the captain general COM
mandcr IN chief Nichalos Hiddc. Ile.sent their
parasites into every corner of the union. He accom-
modated every miserable Iouier who would stand at
the corners Of The streets and The highways praisng
this macuate institution. 1t controlled the elections,
it controed the currency oithe country, controlled
through its defendants the state banks the prices
Of the farmers wool and his wheat. it controlled
the aborcr and the mechanic and the nrtizan.--
But the day of lis destruction drew nigh. The
people elected the Hero of New Orleans to the
Presidential chair With the same energy and in
domintable perseverance with which he attacked
the British in the war of his country he with all
his mighty strength grapped with theirgiant of the
land The people stood aghast. The monster
laughed to scom the lool-hardmcss of the oulland-
ish old man. His own friends We're in fear. Blu,
he triumphed. The people came to his aid as they
did 10 that of Jefferson. They sustained him,
and that Bchcmoh Of federalism lies mass of M
trelcjon, with no signs OF life about it, except the
crawling worms that prey upon It's fostering aud
rotten carcass.
The old ftdarasts showed themselves again
during the last war. The hatred If our Governor
which they had so long nurscd, they now took oc-
casion to manifest, under the blind and vain hope
shat our arms would be defeated aud we might pos
siby be brought back to our former vassuage to
the British throne. The leaders Of the party form
ed WNShilgtonlan Benevolent Societies, and did
all in their power TO defeat the patriotic measures
OF the democratic party and bring reproach upon
our common Country. But The democracy of the
country tr0mphed again and the country was saw
ed, After sustaining defeats that would have com-
peteIy amihiated any other party, after having
been humbled and depressed and iramplcd upon
for Yeas, once more the old federal party are in
the field, as gay as ever, aud as ever sure Of sue
cess and the defeat of the democracy. Since the
days of John Adams, the old lrdcralists have ney-
or had candidate in the field for whom they could
give their undivided strength till the nomination of
Gen. Harrison. John Quincy Adams they could
not cordially support, because he had denounced
them as band Of reasonable consprators, besides
he had shown cOunlcnanCe TO their old enemy,
Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Clay they could not sup.
port, because he hud been democrat. They
could not even support an upostale and fallen dem
ocrat, Hnt now they have before them Il candid
ate, one Of their own number. One, who with
them, supported John Adams and his Alien and Sc
dton Laws, and his standing army One who like
them wore black cccDadc in lis hat and fought
their arch enemy Thomas Jefferson with the same
yirucncc and abuse, and for the same reason,
namely, his hatred of Il popular Government, MS
they did, Now then, they rally around the BAN
ner OF Gen. Harrison, with the same enthusiasm
with which they rallied around the standard of
John Adams. Now they can feel perfect unison
of ioo'ing Now they can feel no doubts of the
true character Of their candidate. Now they have
no fears that drop Of democratic blood runs in his
veins, They cannot accuse him of having support
cd Mr. Jefferson. They cannot accuse him oi'hav-
Ing denounced them They cannot accuse him of
leaning in the slightest degree TO democratic form
of Government. They are all united now. He
man Allen who made ont the warrant to arrest
Com. McDonough after the victory ON hike Cham
plain, Charles Marsh, the prosecutor Of Matthew
Lyon under the Sedition law, Bcnmmin Swift,
Samuel Frentss, William I'pham and James Bell
old torres, Horace Everett the co-laborcr Of Josiah
Durham and the rosiler and opposcr of the last
war, Thomas NJ. romroy, publisher of the Wash
iDgOnian, David Pierce, Norman Williams, Oel
Billings, Thos. i. Hammond, Darius Jones, Jesse
Cove, John Mattocks, Charles Adams of Buriing-
ton, who helped burn Jefferson IN oigy on the
very spot where hclatcy addressed the Cider Com
ventlon at Burlington, are all At work with zeal
and crcrgy never before cqualcd since the days of
John Adams; using the same arguments TO elect an
old Iedcrast aow that were used to elect m old fed
craIi5t then. Money, time, means, appliances ure all
put III requlsiOn 20 secure the election Of an old
frdcralilt. Let me ask, what is the meaning ofa
these old lcdcrallss assuming the name Of wing,
and, OF Il sudden rOusing themselves and COM
ing into the front rank Of the battle, the grey
head and palscd by age as they are, Why do
we see these old m5n, trembling under the weight
of long liit spent in rcyiug every democratic
Administration under which they have lived. op-
posing every democratic measure that has been in
stltutcd since the organization Of the Government
pow, hObbImg about with their canes and their
crutches TO swell the numbers who parade our
state all the time with raree shows and skunl, skin
exhibitions; Why do we see these men on sud-
den Iorsake the quiet of the fire side. to which
they have long since retired and frequent bar-rooms
and pot houses 10 extol the virtues of Cen Uarri-
and i'm snirp hil will, hnnos -