The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-05-29

| OF SIMILAR ID, aTilS iIauc Ill the N. l. CUf anu
other federal papers.
| Disguise it as they may, the Federal party, the
Federal Republican party, the National Republican
party. the Wing party, the Democratic Wing party
are all the same. The blood of old federalism runs
in the veins ofthe present federal party, as warmly
and as freely as it did in the days OF Col Hamilton
And though it may change lis name as Often as The
snake doe, his skin, yet its NIPPLES are the same
The stain of llamiltonian, alien and sedllion law
Federalism is on its brow, and, nor blood OF bull
nor hyssOp branch can wash the stain away mere
it is-"deeply darkly beautifully tlHe,' and there
it will be forever.
Having said thus much in relation to the orlslI
and destructive principles Of The two prominent
parties of the day. We procede to examine Tor
few moments some of the objections raised against
the Independent Treasury Bill.
The opposition, having exhausted every argu-
ment against the Independent treasury, whlOL
desperation and sophistry could invent and al'
more than two thirds of the States in the unlo''
have, by declareng for that plan, blown those agI-
ments to the winds, in their de.peIaie need HAY,
found another, in their opinion, most terrible dcc
sive and compared with which, all the rest are by
peron to satyr. 7 his last most appalling argu-
ent in their opinion will decide the contest against
this "ruinous measure" And what is this new cat
apulia that the federal army has brougt TO bear
upon the walls of the devoted city Why, the pas
sage of the Independent Treasury Bill WILL RE
pUCE THE WAGES of labor to the standard of
the hard money countries of Europe.
Take up an opposition paper and yeu will see
long array of figures showing the price of labor
in Spain and Hungary. hard countries. Appended
YOU will find the assertion that the action Of the
Sub Treasury will be to bring down the price Of
labor in this country to the same low standard.
In the lrovidce of Pergord ,Picardy, Limousin,
Crlsse and other Provinces IN France, the peasant
ny are reduced to an almost Sarage stuie. Trance
is a hard money country, and of course, say the
opposition, if the Independent Treasury ELL pass,
the farmers of this country will be reduced to the
same condition of wretchedness and degradation
Then, here, as there, the woman will be little bet
ter than beasts of burden-,he doors Of our Gotta
yea will be open upon dunghill, aud we shall eat
our food from the managers of our cattle and the
troughs of our swine. spain is also a hard money
country, AID if the Independent Treasury Bill
shall become a law, the same misery and squalid-
ness, the AFFECT disposition and abandonment OF
social order, which cIaracrerHeS lkc lower class in
that country, will follow upon us, iasiaaicr lronl
the most free and powerful people ON the globe
with millions of acres Of unsettled lands, with a
most productive soil, we shall become the most e.
norant, barbarous and degraded people the sun
shines upon and that too, from the passage of a
bill, which simply proposes that the moneys of the
United States shall be collected kept, and discussed
Drec, ely III" .".ri'- - H. A., H.,
of the Independent Treasury Bill, the sun would
cease to shine, the moon be sick, and the slares be
blo,ted ont forever
Take up another opposition paper, aud you wi
find narrowing description of the condition OF
the laboring classes in England appended to them
lion Of ,ho ,v,ncs If I,bor
m, Pnu,anj nnC,r,nnotelv Gor this ,roumcnt.
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ohta Laaaas, crawl. ,Iona tho streets sool;n
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,L,.;,n a,as'ns INIT, onulnnce and ,,e,l,h ,hn
~ ,.o ra,,, hoaJ ono,ors Of ,he ,,nn
c credi, s,sicm the poor man is little better than
dou. poor. degraded pack horse, the vile 'scarre
Of The yilcst burden that the yiest masters can la
upon him." How does i, happen, that the sons
the Door man, begins life in ditch, begs. starve-
skulks from den TO den. steals the bread that h
must have or die, and ends il on the gallows =
n How happens il that the daughters OF the poo
n man begins her life in howell, and, shel,erles.
; without protection, half furnished, hafnaked, beg.
!, prays in vain for bread until n, last hopeless
i bondoned. she obtains the BY prostitution the mean
;, Of sus,enance-aud end. i, ON the marble steps ,
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