The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-04-30
CONFIDENCE! CONFIDENCE!

:" Hard times, backward spring." SAYS the far
mer Very well DON'T complain, You would
have n change and now grin and bear the conse-
quences, # YOU could only succeed in defeating
that awful man, the little Magician, and elect Old
Tip, all would be well. Times would be 50 easy
money would be as plenty! Oh, dear. confidence
would he restored and the millennium would come,
for Il dead certainty. Well, Mr. Van Buren, is ut
Undertook, and Won have your own way ut Wash
ington. Under Mr. Van Burcn's Administration,
money was getting plenty; your produce brought
fair price; you were in good condition, better
than you had ever been before. You have sough,
and effected change. Your cattle are starving
about your empty barns; you can get no money;
wages of labor IRE falling; in short, the whole
country has gone down, down. down, since the
election of General Harrison. Are you satisfied
stick To it, Mr. Farmer, we reckon YOU get from
three 10 four cents pound, for your pork another
year, Stick to 1t! Fodder out few iorksful of
your malchess cogG3cace to your starving cattle
Fodder II out. II was TO be your great Panacea;
it was to do every thing, 1t is rcstored you are
all safe, well, prosperous and happy, with your
arms full of that. Pay Off your merchants bills
with it; they take it of course; better than cash
Under Mr Van Buren, YOU could buy corn for
seyeny.live cents a bushol it costs dollar now
No mat,cr-pay sevenly-fvc cents in cash, if YOU
can find it, and the remainder in confidence; better
than cash, we say. Scatter the s,u,r about on the
snow: it will melt it away. Sow it upon your
fields, wet and cold with II late SPRING it will warm
the bosom of the earth better than noon-dav sun.
Sprinkle it upon the leailess trees; it will make
them bud and blossom like a May shower, Feed
it out to your hoeks and herds: it will 0ten them
Lay it about your water courses: it will be more
marvellous in it, effects than Jacobs pcard sticks
Your Young kline will come iato the world with
physical powers adapted to abstraction of susie.
nanccs, and will be able to subsis upon such fod-
der Of federalism They viii require nothing to
eat, nothing to drink, bu, wisp and duught Of
conf IcHct Oh, glorious era Of coon.skins and
Thou, that, in wonderful discoveries
and mighty, long sought reallzaions, art to thy
" ilustrious predecessors" like the noon day sun
to The ines, spark of the lightning hug on the bog
meadow. Oh, wonderful nineteenth century! Thou
that dosl coin money, regulate commerce, agrcul-
ture, manufactures and cash payments with the
lernented juice Of apples. Thou that tcachch
mankind to congregatc together, and suck cider
TAP, the grand realization of all That is great and
GOOD inprowess social and progress national, Thou
that has discovered that men, women and children,
cattle and horses, geese and turlics, flies and bugs
can subslst upon grand chymcra. Thou that hast
discovered ancnrary substances in an abstraction
Oh, iilustrious confidence! genius rccupeta,iye,
genius almighty! Thou, the, roosle,l, ,h. I""5,,,
,'olhsth the naked, hcnlclh the scl:--,hon world
covering pas,er. thou universal stomach regulator!
like the principle of life, developing thy SET TO the
eye in wondcous forms ard ways, thysclf unseen,
undiscoverabc; a wonder aud marvel
10 the children Of men: the nations of the earth
pow down to thee; we give it up.