The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-04-30
TDs Spirit OF Cbe @ge.
FRIDAY MORNING, ARpIL 80, ls4l,
THE ROBESPIERRE OF THE HARD
CIDER REVOLUTION.


OLlGARCUY that rules the deslincs Of the Ma
ton, without shudder, that man must be dead TO
all the feelings of humanity. Mr. Preston, for him,
in the Senate, and General Harrison for himself,
in his public addresses, promised the people tho,
there should be no prescription for opinions sake,
if he should be elected. There is no doubt but
that General Harrison, intended, from the bottom
Of his heart, to fulG his promises, lie commence
ed his Administration with Ibis intention he would
have carried it out but in an evil hour, he placed
at the head of his Cabinet the most tyrurical, cold
blooded tyrant that any country under heaven has
blushed TO acknowledge her offspring. That man,
soarod by long disappointment, cnbitlered by de
feat, and grown hlOod-thlrsy BY political hunger,
being placed nj the head of affairs, and finding an
opportunity to glut his savage vengeance upon
party that had exposed his troilorous dcsisoa, Und
condemned his reasonable purposes, during the
war; USURPED the powers orlhc Legitimate head
of the Government, the ChieiNa giiirac chosen ly
III, People, elected him from his proper authority,
seized the axe of Political Prescription, and tod
the kind hearted old man, the democracy should
g'ut its edge, whether he asSencd or not; SHOULD
s,arvc, PERISH and if he flied his voice in the faint
es, whisper of disopprovaI, his own neck should
feel its edsa-hS party be dsbanded, and he left in
minority The first year Of his administration, Day
after day. the old General struggled against this as
sumption Of power, the exercise of which was ar
raigning him before the bar of his couhrymen, TO
answer to the charg, Of being a hol!ow-heured
hypoclco or u bnse and wi,fnl liar. Day after day,
he tod the BLACK USURpLR, that the powers
he was exercising belonged to himself, and not to
his Cabinet that they were placing him in Il false
and disgrncefn position before the people making
him accountable for acts in which he Had pnrlici
patton for measures to which he was utterly OPP
posed, Blu, day after day, notwithstanding all his
protes,ations, was The Guiloliue kept in operation;
widows and orphans turned into the streets to be-
or starve; helpless children kicked into the ditch,
und old men bid begone from their last refuge in
this world, ill., in an agony of almost despcr-
alton he cried 81 CANNOT STAND IT
IT ALMOST KILLS ME- !" Even these bursts
of honest feeling, these eNclamutions, wrung from
heart outraged bleeding and insultcd, that would
have moved any hiaG, but the icy, and revenge
ful Dcsyot of the Cabinet, escaped from the lips Of
the prosecuted iecrcd and CALLED President, to as
little purpose rs the hollow wind murmurs at mid
night over the stagnnnt waters of the Dead Sea.
And when nj last driven by ONE man from The
Office to which he had been elected By the voice Of
MILLIONS finding That he was President bat in
name, that he was mere cypher worn and lcX-
cd by insults aud wrong he took his deajh-bcd,
the war Of blood ceased not for moment
Nightly did The minions Of Robcspierre 90 their
rounds among the cells of the condemned, indica-
ting,as in The days olanolher and Kindred Revo-
Luton, BY marks on their doors, those who were
the next dnyto feast the Unsuitable Guil'olinc, The
sound Of the hcadsman, sharpening hisuXe broke
ut midnight the feycrish sIuubcr of the worn old
President, and hall.uwakcncd by the noise to the
life Of chagrin and wounded feeling he had lived
for the last few weeks, the scenes of misery and
distress he had been compelled to witness passed
before his deIifous senses, aud his lips murmrrcd .
"MY DEAR MADAM, DID NOT DIRECT |
THAT YOUR HUSBAND SHOULD BE RN- |
Ed or. DID NOT KNOW #. TIRED /
TO PREVENT r." And when the nirht of
sleep!css anguish had slowly worn away, and the
blessed light Of morning dawned upon the world, |
its cheering and soothing influence brought no res,
to hinI: for ever and anon, Us the wind swept over
the Capitol, came the grull, hoarsc cry Of tire !
DEMON OF TIE CABINET of with hl4
heldn'--thc coarse, hearrIess auilaw Of Clay, and |
again, reused from his leyeri,h sleep, he nu,,ercd
cir IS wRoNG-l WONT coNsENr--'r RS Ur-
JUST"
The fact that the President had objected to this
helltless prescription, that he had protested against
this usnrpaion of his power, ITSELF suIcient,as any
man would suppose, still proved as unavaiiing us
did the certainty that the President lay upon his
death bed, 10 check Webster in his high-handed .
tyranny Thicker as the death dew gathered upon
bis brow, thicker gathered the blood upon the
hcadsnan's axe Fainter as grew his breath,
louder rose the voice Of Robcspiere; and ms the .
las, breath passed from his livid lips, the cdict
went forth from the Star Chamber, and the grey
headed Patriot, obadient to its DEGREES, hurried
into the street ,agrnnt and an outeast. This is
no felton, would that it were would that it were!
1t is truth, s,ern-eyed, severe truth: FACTS that
should brand upon the brow of the WEBSTER /
OLIGARCIii, u mark deeper and more enduring
than that with which the Almighty sealed the brow
of the first murderer. Instances are on record and
can be cited sufficient TO convince the mos, doubt
ing of the usurpations of Webster. More than one
instance can be cited, where the same mail that
brought an assurance from Gen. Harrison 10 an in
cumbsni, that he SHOULD not be removed, brought
notice from the Ogarchy that he ,ros removed.
Whoever heard of such an instance before, in the .
history Of our Government? 1t is the duty of the .
Cabinet 10 dirise, not dicicie the President much |
less usulp his prerogltiyes,. and make removals .
without his knowledge or consent, as this Cabinet
have done. II it has come to this, il this Osarchy
is to rule US. I'VE say, reverenty, God help Us! i,