The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-04-02
TIE LAST HOAX!

The National Mtelligeacer may raise faint
shout in favor of the Inaugural but the enlightened
wings are ashamed of 1.-THE democrats blush for
their country when they read it, But the best OF
the joke is, that III some parts of the country, this
crude, outre production was considered not genu-
inc, but mere hoax. The ChiNicOthe .aRrCriiscr
says:
"Thc best of the joke was that the message
contained such confused mass Of disnrrangcd Gle
mcnls, that the wings of Columbus pronounced it Il
H0ar."
The Columbus (Oho) Journal, (whig) "sept
over it "a hours before it yentured to give it to lis
readers-satisied that it must be II hoax. The
editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, (dcmocrat)
was in as much dilemma as the wings. 1t says:
"We yesterday received document purporling
to be the Inaugural Address of the President of the
United States, but it being mere repetition Of the
Generals stump speeches throughout the country,
and scarcely containing new ideu we are inclined
to believe it is hoax, and therefore decline pub
fishing it, until better assured of its authenticity
1t is truly Il curious production, let the writer be
who he may. That it is tho Generals language
and many of his crude IDEAS there can be no doubt
but this might all be derived from his speeches, let
ters &c, and concocted in an address about two
or three times the length of any Inaugural we have
ever seen, and therefore, we think it best to defer
the publication for at least another day.
Tho Erie (Penn.) Observer states that the "In-
augural message of PreSideat Harrison arrived in
that place in the Globe almost twenty-lour hours
earlier than in any other puper--the .NatioaH In
ieligeacer, arriving the same day and of the same
date did not contain it. 1t was published in an
ErtrG Observer abou. six hours earlier than in
either of the why papers of the place. This ex-
cited some surprise, and the leading wings read it
over and over again, and at length pronounced it
an entire hoax, got up in ridicule of "Od Tip"
Our ncighbor, Mr. pcrey of the Chronicle, how
ever porsevercd in getting it out IN an extra, but,
Mr. Cochran OF the Ga:citc entirely declined (al-
ter putting almost two columns of it in typc,) de-
caring, as we understood to those who cnquired
of him the reason, that it was evidently hoax
most active leaders of the wing party called upon
the editor of the Chroaiclc and advised him to de-
sist, declaring their firm conviction that it was not
genuine"
This is amusing enough!-but the following pre-
diction from the ia1ia1a Bc',ocr@ is equally ger
name to the purpose;
"Wc expect in our next to give Mr. Wcbstcr's
inaugural for General Harrison, If Mr. Webster
writes the address, viii doubtless, be well wit.
ten paper. II Harrison writes it, we may expect
to find some pedantic attempt Mt classic uusion
Greece or Rome or some other ancient govern
ments, which are the sine qua non of every school
STRIPPING, will be alluded to. After showing of hi.
classic lore, he will descend to something dcma-
gogical 10 tickle and please, those whom the Fed
eraiisls dcnomlnae the rug tag and jOJ-iaW or
log cabin men"