The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-06-17

State Printing, and the Auditor reports it in the
same way, without explaining for wha, purposes
it was furnished, lest the pulgar people should
make noise abou, it. Verify, it is high time tina,
we had an Auditor of Accounts who will expose
smuggling, aud that Gen, Walton get his living
some other way than by spanging it out of the
State.
But h" the CALLED jade wnces," as soon as the
people assemble to discuss the ject of the fnan-
Co.'S, this pious General is thrown into spasms and
cries out the "old hobby again" and pounces upon
poor Capt Partridge as the author of all his fears
and troubles, and abuses him in a manner too
shameful for any man to adopt, except it be one of
the Generals own sort. What has Capt. Partridge
DONE Only began to expose the corruption Of
the federal leaders of Vermont, But the half has
not yet been told, Yet even the little hint that has
been given, the General would dssipate, by the
cry of taxation on the one hand, and by holding up
in prospective the bride of $4,000 IN the other,
which if the people of Vermont ever obtain, must
be at an expense of more than 100000.
But says the General, What does Capt, Par
fridge mean to do ! Is to Cypress the people with
taIatioR? What was the loco fOco plan in 1880"
| What the pious General means by loco fOco'
am unable to say, but if he intends to apply the
'pilhe to the democrats, it is only another evidence
of his old federalism, for part Of the old feiryai
creed, was, to apply ePilheis and cant phrases to
the democrats; and if we examine the old files Of
this trulh-ieng IVaichmaa, we shall find that
more than 25 yeats ago this General Valiant for
truth, was playing at the same game, weekly call
Ing the democrats JacoJips,' demos 'diSorydni-
GERS and 'murderers,' and holding up England as
the buIwark of our holy religion, But we hurl
back upon the awny editor the ephhet he would
apply 10 us, as one having its birth and education
in his own political brotherhood. But the federal
party, within the last twenty-five years, have so
often changed their owa name, that their General
seems nov 10 take it for granted, that he has a
perfect RICH, to change that Of their political oppo-
ncnts.
In relation to the taxation /, is true the demo-
cratic members have made several efforts TO arrest
the accumulation of the debt, and gradually 10
lessen II by adding one cent ON the dollar annually
10 the State tax. This has aroused the fears of
Gen. Walton and his party, and from time 10 time
| there has been a commo,ion in the camp and the
IVatchmaa has reiterated the same old lie, "The
State is not in debit" and the disposition now
seems to be- to rob the ckHirea Of the poor, Of
what has ever been considered the poor mans
fund" and thus cover up federal extravaganza and
The fisehoods the JVdichmaq. For if this i'm
mcnsc debt can be paid OF without appealing 10
the pockets Of the people. the General supposes he
will gull them TO believe he has toll The truth
But General i, is too late in the day-,h fumes Of
hard cider" have passed away, and the people
have wiped the pumice from their eyes, and humid
reds who have been deceived b, your tdlSehools
are prepared to rebuke you at the balot-box
But again, says the General--" We will only
add that, with the usual inconsistency tina, marks
locofjcoism, these stout slickcrs for settling the
State debt, say not word in favor Of having the
State receive some $4,000 year which is her
own" II the General will Just refer TO the Jour
nal Of the House for 1885, he will fad tina, this
same Capt. Partridge, who is so obnoxious TO the
pious editor, Cat u time when the National Treas
ury was oyerHOwing,) introduced Il resolution in
strucling our Senators and requesting our Repre-
sen,a,ives in Congress to use their exeItions to OBJ
tain for Vermont her proportion Of the public funds,
according to what had been appropriated 10 the
other States aud that the whole federal party in
the House voted 10 suspend that resolution beyond
the limits Of the session. But now, when the
Uaichman aud its coadutors have for the last IL
months proclaimed upon the house-lop the bank
rupicy Of the National Treasury, and when MIR.
Ewing had reported a national debt Of : ,OOO,-
900, this same Walton and his brother feds would
mounting to some three OF four millions, and to
supply its place borrow twelve millions; and for
WHAT That he may gull the people little Ion
ger by holding up this spectre bride of 1000
This i, indeed the usual consistency which marks
FEDERALISM
Having exposed the utter fhlsiiy Of the state
mens of the TTaichmdn in relation TO the State
Debt and the annual expenditures it may be profit
able to make some further remarks this subject,
which so senslbly effects the peoples n whom falls
the burden of jelraying the expenses of the State.
Gen Walton, in order to divert the public mind
from an enquiry into the condition of the finances
of the State, after clustering about Captain Pat
ridge and heapng upon him the viles; abuse, under-
takes 10 blind and dazzle the vision Of his readers
by the cry of 1000 per annum for Vermont,
from the division Of the Public Lands. This is wing
economy with vengeance. In the first place, in
order TO make good their filsehcod in relation TO
the bankruptcy Of the Treasury, they divert three
or four millions ofhe from its proper cham
mel, and then, under pretence of providing Tor the