The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-04-23
Tbe spirit Of Tbe Agf.
FRIDAY MORNING, ARPIL 23, ls4l.
THE CHANGE.

PIE, uey ueclaTcu lndt iHey sought cnaSc III tiic
Administration, because Mr. Van Buren, had prac-
tced unrelenting prescription, had removed men
from office for opinions sake, had gathered about
his throne an army of office holders who came and
went at his bidding. "Change the Administra-
tion," SAID the federal orators, "remove Mr. Van
Buren,, elect Old Tip, and you shall see no more
of all this No man shall be removed from office for
opinions sake; such a thing as an office seeker
shall not be known" The people heard and obey
ed, and what is the result Ay, what is the result
Never, since the organization oflhe Government,
has the nation seen such herd Of wolves rushing
to Washington to snatch at the spells of victory.
Railroad cars, steamboats,, stage coaches, high
ways and by-ways have been crowded. crammed
with lean and hungry wrelches, snarling for
crumb, however small, however insignificant
Beggars from Maine, jostle beggars from Louisiana,
beggars from Maryland, crowd begsars from Iowa,
in the lanes and public squares Of the Capitol
They swarmed about the poor old President by day
and by night They beset him in the streets; they
harrassed him upon the steps of his house as he
went in, and he found them lying at the threshold
of his private apartments as he come ont. They
followed him like his shadow: they haunted him
like an evil genius: they killed him! And while
this humilialng aud disgracefu scene was enacng
about the person of the poor old General the Gull
lotinc, under the direction of Webster was doing,
necessarily, its bloody work of relentless and bar
burous prescription. Neither age nor sex is
spared. Virtue, morality, fidelity to the cons,ira-
ton, find no favor in the eyes Of these modern
Dantons und Robespierres. The party that has so
loudly proessed to abhor rewnrdng parsans for
party services, which has manifested horror,
so great, for rewarding the vicors with the spoi.s
are removing from office the best and most unex-
cep,ionab'e men in the country, and giving their
places to brawling, po-house politicians Keeling and
staggering into the seats prepared for them still
heated and drunk with the great National federal
dcbauch. The old Jcilersonan question, is he
capable, is he honest, is he faithful to the consti-
tuition" never troubles their lips. Lid he vote for
Old Tip is all tina, is asked and if may, Off with his
head!-chug goes tho axe--,hc body of the VIC
tim quivers at the feet ofthc Godkc, while Clay
shouts, in his inebriac JOY and cries oh! "damn
ii, how he hicks 'em," The old and worn soldiers,
whose limbs have been hcwn away in the battles of
their country; the rey-headcd patriots Of the Re-
volution, whom Gen. Jackson had taken from poor
houses and jails, and given the charge of a post
office here, and light house there to shield their
grey locks from the winds and rains of heaven, and
the s,inted charities of the aims house, who re-
paid the old Hero with gratitude and blessings {;
driven by this kind, concating, humane and
christian Webster oligorchy, from their fire.
sides and homes, have felt in their old agc one hand
Of this brutal Administration dashed into their
Scared faces for their insolcncc in voting accord
ing to their oa,hs--or in some cases, where they
did not even vote-for thinking like freemen, and
the other, wollike tearing the last crust from their
mouths. Even the aged and inGrm ,cidom, the
WIDOW Of the dead soldier of the Revolution, who
toiled and suffered by the side of her husband
who bound up his wounds and checred his heart
in our long and doubtful struggle for liberty,
whom God has left behind the partner of her tolls,
waiting patiently for the rising and setting of few
more suns, to rejon him in heaven, is thrust from
her home into the street a beggar, to become "A
wandering mendcant, dependent for susenancc
upon the cold hearts and gripping hands of the pub
lie, or to starye like dog in the ditch, and the lit
tie pittance upon which she had lived given to a
brawling partisan, to remuneratc him for the time
and money he has spent in eectioneering and
drinking Old Tip into the Presidency. This is
what the people have gained by change! This
is whiggery. This is the fulfllmcn of the promises
made by the federalists! This is what the people
have gained by being bclooled and bedrunkened
out Of their Senses This is what the people have
brought upon themselves and their suffering and
disgracsd country by their vague and underlined
craving for change. Change yes it is change.
A change from comparatively easy and prosperous
times, TO the hardest and mos: cruel the country
has ever known. A change from high-mnded,
courteous, consdcrate Administration, to an Oil
garchy of the most barbarsus, unrclenng, revenge
ful, selfish tyrants that the world ever saw. A
change from course Of policy which was fast
bringing the country into an era Of unparalleled
prosperity, to Algicrene persecution for opnion's
sake, to crouchng, crawling mob-syco phancy, and
ron-hnnded. stecl-hearted despoiism. Pray IIeav-
EN- our conptry may be scorched scaded, black
ened, widowed with no more such changes. Let
the people set themselves to work to repair the
evil they have done, wipe out the disgrace of
triumph offedcralism from the pages of our history
and redeem the country from the hordes Of cor
morants and vampires into which it has fallen.
CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
The elections for members of the provincial
House Of Assembly have resulted in the choice Of
thirty-sx tories, who will support the government