The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-03-05
Tbe Spirit OF Tbe Age,
TO check ACHILLES and to rescue Troy.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, ls4l.
COUNCIL CENsORs, &C.

COUNCIL OF CENsORS, sc.
Having gained, all we proposed to ourselves,
when we commenced speaking on the subject Of
Council of Censors we give the whole ticket, and
leave it to the people TO support it or not as they
please.
The plan which we adopted in relation to the
matter, was devised by several friends, of both po-
litical parties The wings in this section are in
favor of the proposed Reform, and were,wilh our
selves, anxious to know whether the candidates in
nomination would favor it OF not. We proposed
and adopted the only feasible plan for asceran'ng
We addressed note to the candidates, respect
fully asking their views, and proposing to them, as
the democratic party had seen fit to make no NOM
nation, to support so many of the candidates Sc
lec,ed by the wings as were in favor of the Reform.
The democratic party it would seem did not look
upon the matter as political business, neither did
we. The candidates, with single exception, have
treated US in gentlemany manner, demeaning
themselves as men are bound to do who are can
didates for the sutrages Of the people. One Of the
candidates handed our hasty note to the editor of
wing paper who has published it,witb many, and
to US it seems, foolish remarks about " oco-foco
tricks and hobbies" Tue people Of the State, we
are confident, are in favor of the Reform, and if
by any possible trick an entire Locoioco" ticket
could be elected, nothing that we can see would
be gained. The gentleman alluded to, and his friend
the editor, have already made themselves sutli-
GENTLY ridiculous in the eyes Of honorable people
by the boyish course they have taken. Let them
go.
We are inclined to think that a majority of the
men composing the ticket now in nomination will
favor the Reform, though we have reason to be-
licve some Of them will not. Those who choose
can of course support the ticket, and those who do
not can stay at home. The views we have given
on the subject are entertained in common with
large, very large majority of the people in this
county, who do not view the election in party
light and regret that we have class Of demagosues
who cannot live unless in hitter party strife, and
whose jaundiced eyes see tricks and contrlvances
in the waving Of the trees that happen TO grow by
the doors Of their neighbors. For ourselves, we
have to say, that, the goodly State of Vermont, is
cursed with n wretched set Of narrow minded,
bgotej, illi,eratc lazaroni. They must have party
feeling in every thing every question, so that they,
being by descent &c. tho only men that are fit,
can fill all the Offices. Slate Paupersi The State
feeds them the State clothes them, the State is
taxed 10 find the lazy, idle political vagabonds in
the air they breathe, and if she be not soon COM
PEELED to answer for them the ordinary calls of ma
ture, she may think herself free and happy
commonwealth. Ruled by this greedy grasp
ing, beggarly md unprinciped cabal, who clutch
every office, seize every emoument in her gilt,
with the CONCLUSIVE grippe Of starving mendican's
and the iron grasp of death itself, how can the State
ever move of with the freedom and power Of which
her giant energies are capable With the lean,
cold, palscd hands Of this breathing incubus lying
night and day upon her vials, who wonders that
her noble heart abors and staggers, and that her
pulse beats low and languidly' Goaded and CALLED
to frenzy, the State has mounted every spawned
and wind broken hobby that a band Of bankrupt
ockes could palm of upon her. They warp and
strain all her energies to advance their interests
they keep her in II continual race, from one end OF
the year to the other. Pray God she may not,
some time, in an uncomfortable fit Of madness, like
the man in the play, mount her shadow and ride it
to the devil.
No matter. The people can pamper and feed
these bood-suckers as long as they please. They
can, till they tired Of it, go through the ordi'
nary form of holding meetings to vote them into
Office They can submit to take their word foI
everything to he drilled and whipped into the traces
Of party, foI their benefit, till doons-day for augh
that pe care, but so long as we happen 10 breathe
the air Of Vermont, we shall raise our voice against
this shameless PROSTITUTION Of her energies and her
resources to supply her public begsars with the
Injuries which the white slaves of the State are
: ,oing to throw away upon them.
As there is but one ticket for Council Of Cen
sors, and we have given the public all the nfor-
, nation we can about that, /, would not seem to be
necessary that we should occupy our columns with
it after this week.