The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-07-25

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tally exnuncllied, and the places that once
knew them, shall know them no more for
ever. SIC transit gtori0 mund.
Such is the retrlbutivc justice that rest
less and hopeless insanity deals out upon
lis victims. But the terrible storm did
not stop here. 1t has overwhelmed, not
only the men who were engaged in this
reasonable business Of getting up demo-
cratic supper, and making speech, but the
dumb beasts and the mute earth have
shared in the general ruin; for, as we are
credlbly informed, not onl has the dricer
con the Sherburne road" disappeared body
soul and breaches, Except the buttons)
but the horses, the harnesses and the big
wheeled, and new-varnished coach that was
wont to rattle into our village so gaily have
gone out of existence like the snuff of a
candle in the fingers OF the kitchen maid.
And the "Sherburne road' itself, alright
ed and awed at the tremendous and ire
sistibc power OF this mighty man of Gath,
was suddenly taken with the most oycru-
tiating commissions, which it was able to
survive only few hours, and what was
once beautiful and wel-trodden highway,
now lies shrunken twisted thing, along
the river, resembling nothing but crisp
ed and shapeless burnt shoe-string. Not
only has the daring stump-speaker been
whlsked out of existence without leaving
even dose of ipecac, or an old cud of TO-
bacco to indicate the spot where he used
to stood, but his types have melted away
in the lcrvent heat Of the consuming wrath
that has overtaken him, his Office has fall
en- into heap of smoulderlng and black
ening ruins and even his name and his
memory have been blotted from the recol-
lections of men, So perish the enemies
of King Coon!
Alas! and alackl has this moral and in
telectual God no bowels of compassion,
Must he be so stern in his justice as to
eXterminatc from the face of the earth the
wltcss offenders against his laws! Can
he look upon the general devastation with
out shedding one sympathetic tear over the
hopeless and irreparable ruin in which his
DEGREES have plunged the poor, half-slarved
and miserable locoiocos of Woodstock
Oh! most high and puissant, beloved, ador-
ed and adorable disciple Of Esculapius;
whose breath is more deadly to the peace,
the quiet and the order of community than
the cShal.tions of the poisonous Bohon
Upas! whose mighty intellect sways the
rock-ribbed hills to-and.lro, as the whirl-
wind sways the slender willow; thou the
eye of whose transcendant and heavcn.born
genius sports with the orbs that glitter in
he iarlhesl vaults of the llimitable heav-
ems, gaaos upon The sun like the eagle and
!lances down into the depths of ethereal
space farther than sunbeam could pene-
rate in myriad Of ages; spare, we bcsccch
hee! On our knees we confess and acknowl-
,dge our impotence and our temerity. We
DOW down to thee-we veil our faces in the
lust-wc wrap ourselves in sackcloih and
it in ashes, and we beg, we implorc that
vc may be forgiven this once, only this
'hcc, for having presumed to attend dem
'cratic supper and make a democratic
peech in face and eyes of thy high author
ty and within this, thy kingdom. We
we're not fully aware of the tcmerity and
normity Of our transgressons. We should
lave implored thy leavc-but alas! we did
lot, and bitterly do we repent of our RASH
less and sincerely do we implore thy par
lon. Broken in spirit, conriie in heart,
III! hear us, all immutablc, all pure, all
,uilclcss as thou art Forgive us and thine
liars shall darkcn the heavens with the
mokc of burnt offerings, To thee we
will offer up on affairs impershablc as
lacksmith's anvils, carloads of brown
read pills, hogshcads of rain-watcr drops,
nd Gcncscc flour powders. We will
trip from the statues of Peace, Quiet
css, Law, Religion, Morality ,Brotherly-
.ovc and Kindness, the robes that have so
Ong hung inappropriatcly about them,
nd wrap them about thee, thou great
of all the virtues of these
ivinitics.
All this will we do, yea, more, if it be
within the compass Of our poor locoloco
bility if we may be this once forgiven
Or the great sins we have committed in
ttepting to enjoy ourselves, in little r
ulct party, without thy leave and with a
ut thy license, while the coons, and the a