The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-06-19


and their country While their candidate is shut
up from the people, what rational motives are ey-
cry where or any where held out to induce them
III Ignorance Of his principles or designs TO give him
their support! What feast for monarchsis Of
Europe will these foohes afford How will the
character of an American citizen suffer in the eyes
of all mankind.
| CUnceanent Is necessary 10 The success OF Fed
eralism in Inc United States. No sooner does it
raise lis true colors than il is put down by the
people. The nonarchists aud arslocrats in the
days of John Adams, let out their true principles
IA private circles, but not TO the public and II Is
/ ren ark;be that while volumes of letters written
/ bv such Republicans as Franklin aud jetlersOn
have been given to the world, the private cores
pondence of such men as Hamilton and Governor
Morris has been permitted to see the light
To say one thing and intend another, is one of the
arts by which mankind are subjected to monarch
ical and arisiocralical dominion But from pccu-
liar circumstances, Harrison can not speak truth or
ialshood without destroying all his chances of sue
cess In the north he is represented ms an abo-
toms III the south as the advocate Of Slavery
| To say he is one or the other would lose him so
much Strengths to destroy l!hope. lie has not,
therefore, the usual resort of Federalism, to say
only IN silence. His condition is much the same
in relation to the abuses Of the banking system, the
tariff, internal improvements, and the public lands.
Once saddled upon the backs of IA people who have
taken him upon faith, or in the language of his COM
mittee, "wiih something akin to generous conf
dcnce," which is in plain English ''ior better or
for worse, "he may ride us he PIeases, without Vi
olang a declaration or pledge ! But will free
people consent 10 be thus hoodwinked, sadded,
bridIed and mounted? Whenever they do, they
may beware of the whip and the spur.
ELEcTIoNEERING by FEEDER All NUMBERS OIL
CONGRESS
There is another enormous engine at work TO
mislead The people and induce them blindy to give
their suilrages to the chosen candidate of FEEDER
alisn.-Reccnt Developments have disclosed the
fact, that the OPPOSITION members of congress- in
stead OF dov0ting their time TO the business Of leg
isaton, have constituted themselves into an cleo
pioneering association, with their executive COM
nitee, who are engaged in appointing county
committees throughout the Union for mere cleo
pioneering purposes. With the con pensalion al
lowed them for doing the peoples business, they
create fund TO pay for printing all sorts of docu-
mcns, disappearing the principles, acts and de-
signs of the administration, and with the aid of
the franking privilege conferred OH them for pub
lie purposes, they Distribute these papers to their
county committees and Others throughout the L.
Mon. No, content with this monsrous abuse of
that privilege, they do not hesitate, when conve-
nience requires it TO transcend It's legal limits and
commit pnipab!e breaches On the laws Of the coun-
try. In addition to the application of part of
their secret fund to the support of the Aiudisonian
newspaper printed iu Washington, they have I'M
detakcn 10 raise subscribers for it, in various parts
Of the couiry and to send it under their franks
And as it would be ncoWenient TO frank them in
packets Of. two ounces only, viii h is the legal linz
il of members ordinary privilege, and as they
have the nigh, to frank ptbllc documents printed by
congress, without limitation Of weight, they en-
dorSe public Documents, IN llese newspaper
bundles, and frank them AS such. a member
may, by filling the mails with all sorts of trash, a.
hUse the trankng privilege without violating the
law hut here is a pnlpahe breach of law, and
fraud on the post-o!lice revenue, in irunkng
newspaper from n printer 10 his subscribers, and
covering and facilitating the fraud.
What a spectacle is here presented by the OPP
position m congress, Instead Of being the honest
and faithful Representatives Of the peop.e, devoted
TO the duty of making the necessary laws for their
country, they have converted themselves iNioa
pririlegei committee Of cIec'ioEeereys. by oh
structng the public business, and protrac,ing the
the means to print or hay their c'crlionccring pa
pers, and by an abuse Of tic ranking privilege and
violations Of the law, they make the post office
department convey them, without charge, to the
extremes of the Union. h,s the people are made
to pay for the abuse and open violation of their
own laws and institutions, aud at the same time
for the means of delrsion which ere intended TO
induce them to vote for the mute candidate of
North Bend. in opposition to the frank democrat
nov at the head of tile administration.
Nor should it be forgotten that while these men
promptly voted for an act Of appropriation proyi- !
ding, through their pay, for the means of car
rying on this political warfare, they have SO OBJ
the progress Of business Us not only to |
bring to n stand many objects of great importance
IN the civil and military service of the country, but
that since the iirstl Of January last, every exccu-
tive and judicial officer of the government has been
without pay, not because there was no money in |
the treasury, but because there was no apprcmi-
alton.
viii not the people ask themselves, in all Sc
robustness, what patty, who thus abuse their priv
Ieges and violate the laws To acquire power, would
not do TO retain ii, il once placed in their hands
FEDERAL ELrcTIor FRAuDs or 1888 AND
1889
We haze alluded to the vain attempt Of the
Fcderalists of the John Adams school TO defeat
he will Of the people after it had been distinctly
given in favor Of Mr. Jefferson.
Eut we have stronger and more recent case oc-
'uring since that party assumed tie name of Hhig
Some years ago the discussions Of the democratic
'arty threw the governor aud majority Of! the as
embly Of Pennsylvania, into the hands of the
federal Wings and the Bank of the Uni,cd States,
wanting charter from the state, found means TO
'rins over u majority Of the senate. The high
landed measures adopted by the state government
constituted by governor and ma oritics so obtain
ID, produced strong re,usion in the public mind.
measures were necessary 10 defeat
he wishes OF the people for change of rulers
md keep the power Of the state in the hands of
he wing party. There is conclusive evidence that
PREVIOUS TO the election of 1898 IN that state, a
cheme was concerted 10 accomplish this object by
he most enormous frauds in the elections. The !
tate administration were making heavy eApendi- J
ures upon internal improvements, and recent egis-
rii,c Investigations have shown, that the money
# the state was employed TO concentrate great Z
numbers of persons from other states, and foreign
RS not naturazed, at particular points, with
10 tn cauufprprt hy thar ;InoaI C,,,l