The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-12-24
Tte Spirit Of Tte Age.
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT:
FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMEERI24. 1871.
ALBANY ARGUS AND THE PREsIDEN-

ALBANY ARGUS AND The PhESlDEN.
CY.
A few days since, the Albany Argus published
an excellent article upon the retirement of Mr. VAN
BuREN.
The article is seized upon by the Cidercrac pa
pers, with the avdi,y of animals amiShed for food
and tortured into formal denomination of Mr.
VAN buren, for the Presidency.
Among the organs of the late "whig party" the
Clarcmont Eagle labors with the warnest zeal to
force this construction upon the article from the
Argus, and warp its obvious meaning.
That paper says;
'The Albany Argus of the Isl, instant has long
article in favor of Mr. Van Buren, for the next Pres
idency-in effect nominating him for reelection TO
that Office"
With how much truth and how much eliontery
this assertion is made, our readers may judge by
the following from the Argus, in relation to the
subject;
eve spoke, (says that paper,) Of his residence
his pursuits, his habits, his philosophic quiet and
contenmert, and his graceful acquiescence in re-
sults-lhe browning etiug ence Of II life Of eminent
slatesmanship,- topics not only agreeable in
themselves, but interesting, it might BIO supposed
TO the American people. All this was done, IN
the spirit which the contemplation Of such char
acter, and the events by which its return 10 private
life had been preceded, wero calculated TO inspire;
and with such freedom Of comment as become
democratic press, the subject, and the OCCASION
but with no motive beyond the simple record of
an example, the admiration Of friends and the praise
of all candid opponents"
But the Eagle says; "Indeed, his, (Mr Van Bu-
rons,) finger is already easily seen in the article
in the Albany Argus"
The editor of the Eagle seems to BIO as much
troubled about the "inger" of Mr. Van Burcn, as
William SIade Is about the "hand ofJoab, (which
lever and anon ohirpdes itself upon the honora-
bic gentleman's disordered vision, whether in his
meek and quic, submissions to the office of a spit
toon,Or in declanng against that horned horse the
"Sub-Treasury," to the public and candy boys at
Montpelier, on the day of election. 1t mus, be
II very remarkable finger" that ofMr Van Buren,,
1--WE should like to know whichD 1t has been
"easiy seen" in all human matters for the last
twelve years. from the China opium trade down TO
the raising of poultry. Not movement, has been
made in the political world, not Il change in the
religious, not u steamboat has burst lis boiler, not
railroad car run of the track but that "fn-
ger Of Mr. Van Barren has been easily seen in it
all.
five were to judge by the lugubrious wailings,
and ghos,ly countenances Of the federal party, ut
this time we should say that to their wild and star
ing vision, nothing was visible in the the heavens
above Or the earth beneath, but huge and threat
cnmg Finger" the slightest movement of the
least muscle of which Is sufficient to fill their dys-
pcptic Imagination, with visions ofgorgons md by
dra-headed monsters.
As to Mr. VAN BUREN's finger his expert
nenrs and his 'very name of which the Eagle
speaks so coniemptuously and with SO much acri-
mony, we arc perfectly content to leave them in
the hands of the people, satisfied, with orr senior
contemporary of the Argus, that 4" they cannot be
conlded to safer or more patriotic hands.
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