The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-05-30

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moment ofhis arrived IN that city,
In the City of Washington, fire after fire
by night and by day, had kept the people
in constant agitation; storms of unusual
violence ravaged city and country, LAND
and sea- Thu night proceeding his arrival
three alarms of fire had broken their slum
bers he entered the city amid violent
snow storm and was scarcely in his quar-
tiers before another alarm of fire rang
through the streets,
Office seekers, numerous as the frogs Of
Egypt, beset him in his walks and his
house. by day and by night; his Cabinet
heartless and ungrateful, commenced the
work of prescription in direct violation Of
his public pledges and private wishes; and
in one short month"; the kind hearted old
man, worn down by numbcrless excite
ments and vexaions, sunk in the arms
of death, with his last words, as if in dim
and delirious recollection of some real
scene, admonishing his erring friends
to carry ont the true principles Of the gor-
eminent.
The Ste President had sailed for
England with news of Harrisons inaugu-
ration, having the eloquent Goodman
on boaid whose last sermon had been
preached in his presence; and the gallant
ship has never been heard of since.
The Brave Macomb who led the Presi-
dents Funeral escort, was, in less than 90
days, by stroke of apoplexy, semitic &C
company the Chief he had so recently
committed to the tomb.
Fire sized the residence of Gen. Har-
rison at North Bend and it was partially
consumed and the tomb which had been
constructed for his last resting place, fell
in and crushed a man who was plastering
niche for his coffin.
The editor of the Boston Atlas, one OF
the first 10 suggest the protligate course OF
Wing electioneering in 1910, had received
his reward by foreign appointment, had
prepared to enter upon its enjoyment and
in few hours was about to embark, when
he was struck dead in an instant,
Among the first BUSINESS Of Congress
when it met in Extra Session, on the LIST
June 1871, were the announcement and
proceedings consequent upon the death OF
Charles Ogie, whose atrocous ialsehoods
in relation to the furniture of the Presl-
dents House, had signaizcd the contest
of 1910.
1t was in the Capitol on whose Portico
Justice stood with broken arm and the
Constitution at her feet, in the Senate
Chamber where the American Eagle
stretched his wings as if in vain looking
tor the glorious motto which he was COM
missioned to uphold, with mourning weeds
upon their arms and the nsi gnla of their
Chambers covered with black, that the
Wings met, as the people thought, to per-
form the promises made to them in 1910.
Instead of taking warning from the signs
around, that party in Congress proceeded
deliberately and systematic ally, under the
lead of Mr. Clay, to falsify every promise
they had made and reverse in their acts
every profession they had uttered.
They had promised to reduce the public
expenditures and pay off the Public Debt
Instead of doing they enlarged the eSpen-
dtures, increased the Debt, gave away the
land money, laid additional burlhens ON
the people, and in few months after their
accession to power, had destroyed the cred
it of the government so efleclualy that not
dollar could be borrowed; its obligations
were dishonored and protested, and
mutitudes of public creditors remained
unpaid.
They passed a Bankrupt Law so odious
to the people that they were obliged to re-
peal it themselves, not however, until after
millions ofdcbt had been wiped ont as mith
aSpongc.
Although they had repudiated Bank in
the contest, they passed Bill establish
inc one, maintaining that it was the lead
ing Wing measures, and denounced Mr.
Tyler as renegade and traitor, because
he refused to faIsily the professions OF his
whole life by anixlng his approval to The
Act
Instead OF the revival Of confidence and
the increase of wages predicted and prom
ised as the immediate result of Wing
measures, whatever, of confidence was
left disappeared wages fell still lower,
the country was strewed with the ruins of
broken banks, and never, since the adup-
ton of the Constitution, WINS commerce
so PROSTATE and labor so i'll rcqnlled.
Crimes unprecedented in number and
unequalled in atrociiy, filed every section
of our country with horrors exhibiting
hardned barbarity in their details, only to
be exceeded in the bosoms of demons from
the burning pit.
President Tyler had been the willing
associate aud beneficiary Of the profgate
band who sought power by the conceal
ment ofprincipe and the prostralion of or
der and morals in 1910. 1t was but the or
der of Providence, tina, those who had OBJ
tanned elevation by wicked means should
become the instruments of punishment TO
each other Their INITIAL elimination, and
recrmination, unjust and malignant on the
part of the Wings as they were, are to be
attributed to law Of the moral world
which make pro6igacy the victim of its
own instruments.
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