The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-05-28
POST-OFFICE AT WINDSOR.--MORE
WATCH-DOGS--ANO SPECIMEN
OF THE EAVORITES OF THE OLE
GARCuX!

| POSI.OFFlCE Al WlNDSOhsss TNOH IL
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SPECIMEN
OF THE FAVoRITEs OF THE OIL
GARCHY!
.SARGEANr, Esq. has been walked out Of this
Office and Mr. w. r. Gilkey walked in. So fur as
the mere removal of Mr. Sergeant is concerned, we
care very little about the matter and he cares less
but his removal shows the consistency Of the Oil
garchy, us he is obnoxious to charge except that
of democracy, and the appointment of Mr. Gilkey
serves, somewhat to show the people of Windsor
of how much worth were the professions ofIoye for
the voice of the people, so loudly made by Web
ster and his laborers
Att meeting of the Wing citizens of Windsor,
holden sometime in April, notice Of which was
duly given in the Times, the wing newspaper pub
lished in that place, PREsToN MERRIFIELD, Esq
received Sc, and Mr. GiIkey So votes; giving Mr.
NJ. majority of SO votes. The proceedings of the
meeting were duly signed by the Chairman and
Secretary of the meeting and sent on to Washing
ton. Presuming upon these facts and such une-
quivocal manifestations of public opinion, Mr. Mer-
rield should have received the appointment.
There are some things connected with the APP
pointment of Deacon Gilkey that show the char
acer of Horace Everett and Charles Hopkins in its
true and baeru light. The latter gentleman re-
psatsdly assured Mr. Mortified that whoever re-
ceived u majority of the votes cast at a regularly
called meeting oil the wings of Windsor, would be
sure Of getting the appointment lie also assured
him that he would do nothing TO interfere with the
fairly expressed will of the people, while, at the
same time, he was doing all in his power to defeat
Mr. Merrifeld's appointment and procure that of
Mr. GiIkey! Mr. Everett, also, assured Mr. NJ that
he would not oppose him, while he was at the same
time assisting Gilkey. This, we suppose, is what
Everett calls Difference to the will of the people
Everett detained loudly against Mr. Van Buren,,
during the late election, that he had disregarded the
will of the majority in pushing the Independent,
Treasury System, &c. By what name does he
call his conduct in the case of Mr. MemiGeld? But
it may be asked what business of ours it is who the
Oligarchy place in power? Have they not right
to do us they please in this case' Certainly, they
have. They have an undoub!ed right TO turn out
such men as Mr. Sergeant, after having pledged
themselves to remove no man for opinions sake,
They have an undoub,ed right to disregard the
claims of such worthy men as Mr. Mortified, back
ed by a large majority of the people of Windsor,
and take up this Gilkey, who-ah! we beg pardon,
we were going to say something, is per-
fecily fit and proper man to hold office under the
Oligarchy; perfectly fit so he is. 1t is true, that
common report says, while he lived in Caseton
and Middlebury he was, VIGOROUSLY, one Of the
most open, bare-faced and shameless prongates
that the earth ever bore up, 1t is true, the aiore-
said common report says, that he broke the hear,
of his first wife by his shameless limitations of the
Godlike Daniel, the head and front of the Oligar-
chy, TO wit, running after strange women and it
is also true, that tho same common report says he
was expelled the Office Of Deacon, in the Ortho-
dox church ut Windsor, for suntry impropriGtics
while his frs, wifs was on her death bed, which
improprielies he humbly confessed at meeting of
the church. 1t is true, all these things are in the
mouth of common report; but who does not know
that, that same common report has very foul
mouth. Nobody can believe what is said: never
Now, if these things acre true, we say, if they
WE'RE true, ahem! the Deacon would not, oh no!
would not be fit and proper person, as we have
said he is, to hold Office under the Ogarchy; be-
cause, dye see, such debauchecs us Daniel Web
s,er, and James Wilson, such immaculate, honest,
'aw-lovng, and aw-regarding gentlemen as Bella
Badger, Chester Baxter John L. Hunt, &C. can find
no shelter or protection or favor under this Admin
isration. Such men arc secuted fom the good
graces of the GodIikc with holy horror. Aye, their
very breath is stencil in his nostrils; and he lifts
his pure hands with the utmost repugnancc and
disgust at the very mention of their names All
these things not being true of Deacon Gilkey, as
how can they be- he is, most certainly, and most
truly, fit, rery fit, proper, rery proper person
10 ascend the walls of this our political Zion, and
play the watchdog for the Olga'chy and its pure
republican, democratic interest; which interest,
you know is the interest of morality, law, religion,
temperance, order, decency, &c. &c. &C. &c.
Shade of Washington, into wha, hands has the
Republic fallen!