The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-11-27
From the ". Y. Standard,
STAND TO YOUR ARMS.

81 AN - ~ w H. <ANIhSs
We are told that there is to be Il re-orga nzation
of parties, sitting of the wheat from the chufR
This may pc so, but the principles which lie at the
foundation of this Republic, are immu,able, and
no new parties can be formed that can successfully
exclude the democratic party-which is now, by
fraud and by that Only, not in the ascendant in
this Statc-no durable combination of parties can
be projected, which can curb the democratic spirit,
That spirit, in all its activity strength, and cryor,
is alive to-day in more true hearts than have ever
been known to lhrob since the adoption of the Fed
eral Constitution; and if there is thing, more
than another, to cheer and gladden. the democracy
of the country, it is the astonishing devotion ofhc
masses to the whole creed Of their party.
We believe, not only that the grossest and NEST
corrupt frauds have been perpetratcd, but that they
We're deliberately planned by the leaders of our OPP
ponents, upon their sure conviction that they never
could wrest from the people their right of selrgoy-
eminent, except by fraud-by moncy-or by force:
OF by the joint influence of fraud and money. That
money and office would be lavished to purchase
over influential men from the democratic ranks, we
never stopped to questioned for we knew what
had been, would be. That petty frauds would be
committed, on the preience that both sides resoted
10 them, there was full belief by almost every man
of our party; but that such monsrous frauds as
those practiced in Philadelphia, could ever be ex-
tended throughout mhole States, as system Of party
tactics, and be attempted in all their extent and
enormty in this city and State we are free to con-
fess for ourselves, and to proclaim in behalf Of the
charitable opinions of the democracy, never enter
ed into their or our imaglnatiOns, until alter the
Harrisburgh Convenlion-un,il the gamblers had
packed the cards-until the.juggers had so far per-
fectcd their system of swndliug, as TO bet any a.
nj h,, Ma, la III la
be elevated bu the rote OF EVERY STATE hut
EVE; in other words, that the friends of Mr. Van
Buren, could not name Sir States which would
vote for him. There u0s not Mca--ihere is not
nor, any eriaepce OfSHch a charge IN the honest
and tue cote of the country. The late triumph OF
the wings show themselves to us and TO the people
as nothing less than the results of sTUPENDous
WHOLESALE FRAUDS, deliberately planned and
as Deliberately carried out, ''wihout scrupe and
without delay !"
We conlnc ourselves to-day to the astounding
fact Of an increased vote in PENNSYLVANIA, Of
FIVE THOUSAND teiuccn The 1911
and 3lst Of October last. There is nothing false,
If such increase is ether iuc or honest ;and there
is hut one way to account for the returns, viz that
voters, of the Glcntworlh tribe, voted
throughout the State, by preconcert, and prc-or-
ganzalion, from three to ten times each, as they
did in the third Congressional district of Pcnnsyl-
vania when Nay Tor was declared to be elected.
These things being SO. in our behalf, and in that
of every honest man Of every party who will en-
amin The facts and compare the votes, what is the
duty of the democratic party? Surely mot to coaccc
with any of the men who have planned or ubclled
such an outrage upon the popular right of free SUI
Irage-not to belong to any new party-not to
let rogucs get under the cloaks of honest men, and
tI,,s hi ,t al
to turn the democratic party into vast crowd,
into which these worse than highwuymun can slide
with impunity-and, above all, not to go into any
of their assemblies. No no no
LET US STAND TO OUR ARMS.
We have been defeated but NOT CONQUERED.
Let u.s. under no circumstances, dlsband That
there has been more than one Glen,worih, Hcrc
cannot be a doujt; and sooner or later, they will
reveal the truth. Such deep and fnr-sprcadIng
corruption cannot 20 undcycopcd,, and must not
90 unpnnished. The guilty plotters must be kept
at distance. The whig party has, in its ranks,
and honorable men, who will aid in
bringing this whole matter to light If there were
none such among them, all addresses 10 their rcn-
son would be in vain; and the only way in which
an honest minority can ever be in the ma ori,y, is
to conrince honest men of their error. The APP
parent ma orily in this State is one which has no
existance, in our opinion, any more than the ol-
parent majority in nsylvania, on the apparently
increased vote; and any appeal TO the mGrWac-
turcrs Of such mqjoriics, arouid lie in ruin.
Beware of the Greeks and their presents. Have
no fellowship with those who talk new pares'
but to all such say
Each rruc mans hand Is yet his o,rn,
And never shall, in friendly grasp,
The hand of such Ms JsgtrS clasp.
STAND TO YOUR ARMS;
And, in the words of Jefferson,
"WARN THE COMMITTEES TO III ON THEIR
GUARD"