The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-07
From the Augusta Me. Age.
"PuSii ON THE COLUMN!"

The South and West had not daun,ed ia sDri,s nor
disturbed lis arrangements. II tanned encoura-
gingly to Tie No'h--to New England where its
iavoriie hobby Of the Tariff had been hardest lid.
den, as The point al which tide of sweeping VIC
torres was 10 commence. Maine gave in her VET
diet The cheers that had come up from the GAL
ianl democrats from the South and West were
numbered back-and federalism, routed, ryen
ana aslmst, was driven TO other quarters Cor pro-
lection Maine has strengthened the hands other
lrPnCs-and filled the hearts of democrats in eve
ry State with enthusiasm and joy. The news of
her Victory startled where 'er it spread The mails
from our iarihers borders have not ceased TO bear
back the echo, ",Nohe wly for .Miae!"
This is well But we can tell our friends tina,
they have something else to do than TO sit idly
down and listen 10 The paudits Of their grateful
brethren IN other States. They must not be con,cn,
10 watch the fight rs it is contested by other Sec
lions Of The democratic army, They have again
10 do hattie Ill vindcatlon of their principles and
the rights of man. They have an enemy watch
tai, willy, energeic--never abandoning its hvOrtc
objects They are led on by Il man of iron will
whose ambition is the master passion of his soul
whose energies nave been twenty years con-
cenirued upon the atanmen. of the Presidency
with force which no succession of dscomGturcs
can aba'e, lie is supported in his feyerish pur
sui by swarm Of furnished expecans on the one
side, and crowd Of dcvolecs 10 mammon on the
other. Ambition and Wan, and Wealth ore sworn
allies against the spirit Of Freedom, and she has
righ, to all the honest efforts of her friends.
With the DucIlisr and The Priest yoked loge.h,
er us standard bearers, we have, within few
wecks,s seen wings appealing with affected sincerity
to the intelligence and judgments of men, and a.
s1n denounclng them as "the dupes of knayish
polIlIcans"-as game for the keepers Of ,himbe
rigs Inyng claim to all the deccncy, morality
and religion singing ribaId songs and worship
Ing Coon; affecting disdain in view of the denun-
claon against the public and private morals of
then leader, and perpelrung the crosses, forser-
les ognnst the ancestry and character of his oppo-
nenI' accusing democrats Of plotting with aboll.
uonl,t', while forming alliances with third parties
themselves; prescribing rules of honorable com.
bat and violating the maxim Of ''honor among
thieves, by bcrayng native" allies; claiming to
he'he peculiar friends OF law and order and enact
Ing scenes Of Violence and murder
W It'll an enemy capable Of Tesorlins to any OK.
Padent that may promise advantage ard with
principles which tend exclusively 10 personal az
grandzement and individual gain, we can never
safely lay aside OIL arms, We do not expect TO
witness here the bloody leroc,y of Baltimore
WHY'S, but what federalism has done in Philajhl-
phia with The native Americans it may do in
Maine with aboiilionisis; what it has done IN Pa.
and New York. by way of pipe laying and colo
nizniion, it may do here
Nor should democrats dcspso the honest num-
hers of their opponents even in Maine. At the
late election hcy polled $500 votes, and the
abononiss G,25o-in all l4,75O. Now this num-
her is greater than that of any vote thrown by the
democracy in either oilhe elections Of 1871 1872,
or 1913. The federal vote alorc is 5000 larger
Than ours was in 1912, and G 900 larger than the
vote Of Gov. Anderson last year 1t is plain then,
that if our friends perni, the election to pass.
without putting forth an effort, and the wings ex-
ct, all their strength, as, under the influences we
have named, they may be expected TO do.--wl,h-
out the exercise Of fraud or violence on the other
side, our ascendency even in Maine may be en-
gcGdered,
Our friends have then a duty TO perform. Let tho
organization Of the September election be revised
and perfected Let information be circulated. Let
information he circulated. Let our friends out do
the eycriOns Of Federalism. Let alsentees be re-
lcrned. Let democratic voters ALL 20 to the
polls. In this way only can we MAINTAIN our as
tendency. In this way only we can add TO The sur
prising victory of September. and verify the proud
motto on The CsculcheOn Of our state
Then brethren, "PUSli ON TIE COLUMN"
The Democracy Of other States, ns will be seen
by the election news we prcsen, to-day are fight.
ng like lions under the wntchword of the old hero
president and with The spirit which but recently
animated you, Pcnnsy vanin, Georgia and Della.
WdIt HNNC loNuNtu NIdlHc WIFI lIleH % eIeCWTS
in her abandonment Of a wing candidate Tor Pres-
dent, Maryland and New Jersey and Ohio are
poised between the two parties. Now, having
fought good rgh, will YOU give back before the
contest il ended:
Once more to the breach-onca morc!" Re-
cve he suspense Of wings who, WYATT FOR No
vEMUaR," and crown a succession Of democrat
ic riumphs by arnhilaling the last hopes of fedcr-
alism in the Union.
TIE FRIENps OF LIBERrY.--Re I'd this all
cho are oPposri 10 Slarrry.-1he Emancipa,or
says; -"in the year 1919, bill passed the house
Of Representatives IN Congress, providing that all
slaves who should hereafter be born in Arkansas
should become free on arrival at the age twenty
FIVE The vote, however, was reconsldered, and
the provision finally rejected nv the casting vote Of
The speaker, Henry Clay, Had the bill become a
law. the first slaves born under ils provisions in
1919. would have become free in 1874 Those
men and womeii, native born Americans, who are
this year arriving al the age Of twenty-five, and
looking forward TO intermediate ser,itude, both
for themselves anil for their posieriiy, are slaves
forever by the sole vote of Henry Clay. And the
very ven, that his vote first becomes thus diaboli.