The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-07

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WIDOW TO THE GRAVE, A MA
MAC!
Brother Democrats, PUSH ON THE
COLUMN! Remember that it is not on
Iy against the enemies Of political TRuTn,
but against the enemies of COPS LAWS,
in which he says, Thou shalt not KILL, -
that you are fighting,
Then, Democrats-tru Christians and
moral Men!-"PRAY TO G o ID FOR
SUCCESS AND PUSH ON THE COL
UMNr'
THE MORAL OF THE CONTEST.
The Presidential election is to decide, in a
great measure, the condition of this conn-
try in moral point of view,-morals as
connected with the political institutions OF
the United States, morals, as connected
with social, private and public life.
Henry Clay stands condemned before
the people of the Union as an immoral,
corrupt man,-We grant that he has tai
ents, we grant that he has experience as a
politician; but the proof of his immortality
is even stronger than the proof Of his a.
bility.
HENRY CLAY
Stands concicted as PROFANE
SWEARER.
He stands conricied as a NOTORIOUS
GAMBLER,
He stands conp,cted as a DUELLIST
AND MURDERER.
And stands before the people as can
didate for the highest Office in their gift
Can moral and RELIGIOUS men vote tor
such a mani
Can any one who believes that the per-
mnnency of our Republican Institutions
depends upon the "rirtue and intelligence
of the people" vote for such a MANI
And what would be the influence upon
the young men of the conulry-the rising
generation, if man so stepped in the very
dregs of immortality, were placed in the
highest office of the land, and clothed with
its highes. honours!
Some of the men who support Mr. Clay
express great fears, on account Of the
spread of the Catholic religion, and profess
TO entertain fears that the Bible will be
kept from the beople, Now we would
ask this class, what is to be gained BY the
circulation oflhe Bible, if its holy pre-
cepis are to be trampIed upon, by the eIc-
walton Of man to The highest Office in the
Union, who has violated every one oflhc
holy commandments, and in his public and
private life set the laws of God and man
at defiance! Does not the good Book
which you profess TO reverence, evident.
" point to such man as Hcmy Clay,
when it says, through the prophet Isaiah:
"Yom hands are DEFILED WITH
MOOD, and yonr fingers with iniquity;
yom lips hare spOkcn LIES, your tongues
have mutlered peryerseness, Your feet
run to evil aud YOU make haste to SHED
INNOCENT BLOOD; wasting and de-
Struction are IN yoHr paths. As for your
lnQuilics, You know them in lransgressing
and LYING, speaking oppression and re-
volt, conceIvlng and ullering, from The hart
WORDS or FALsEHooD;"
Had the inspired man have had Henry
Clay in his mind he could not have paint
ed his character more correctly. And we
appeal to the men who profess to believe
the book of books" and regard its sa-
cred injunclions, if they can consistently
consienclously give their votes for Henry
Clay. HIS election would be the triumph
or vice over virtue
The man who sits in the Presidential
chair should be one that our young men
can look up 10 os a model and our old
men praise. Is Henry Clay such a man!
Fathers, would yoa like to have your sons
pro(ane swearers, gamblers, debauchees,
ducllists, murderersl And can yon eau
ton your sons agains, these mons,rous vices
while you are virtually sancloning them
by giving yourvo,c for Henry Clay!
Every man who votes for Henry Clay
will virtually give counenancc to the i'm
morallitles and crimes Of which he stands
charged. And what claim can we, as a
nation, make for morality and Christianity,
if we elect man who has been guilty du-
ring long life, of setting the salutary
rules of civilized society at defiance, and
and Of trampling the precep,s of Chris
tianity in the dnst
Let the sober men, the moral men, the
religious men of,his country reflect upon
these things. Are they ready to abolish
the forms and ceremonies of Christianity