The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-07-25
HERE'S YOUR POKEJUICEi
From the Vermont Patriot
70 Il II E FRFEMEN OF ORANGE
COIJNTY.

The undersigned citizens of Chelsea VT
voted for Wing electors of President an
Vice President, In 1910. Having since com
to the conclusion to vote with the OPPOSITE
party, this fall, we deem it proper, and du
to ourselves, to state few, of the man,
reasons, that have induced us so to do
Prior to the last presidential election, thu
wings told us that the administration wa
too expensive; that the wages OF labor wer,
too low; that all kinds of agriculture pro
ducts were selling much below what the,
| ought to bring, and much below what the,
would bring, if the wings obtained power.
1t is not our purpose, nor could we, if we
would, enuHerate all the fair, but ri1icu.
lousy false promises made us by the wbio
orators, and wing prints. "Two dollars q
day and roast beef' for the Mechanic and
laborer, "Sixty cents pound for the far.
mers wooP' are not the most glazing false
of wing promises. The election came on:
the democrats were defeated and the
wings triumphed. March 4, 1871, we saw
Gen, Harrison seated in the presidential
chair. Aud what did we behold? What
did we hear but "the roar of countless thou.
sands," rushing from every section of our
beloved, but degraded Union, to Washing
ton? Resplendent sight, no land e'cr saw
crowd of locusts numerous as Gen. liar
rison saw applicants for the most petty off.
ccS within his gift, and that of his cabinet
and party. Every lover of his country must
blush at the scene that was then aud there
presented.
The streets of the Capital orthese United
States were literally black, with duellists,
gamblers, black-legs, and political bucks.
tiers.
Mr. Clay, the big beast of this grand men.
agerie, was there, his hands fresh with, the
blood OF Cillev, gloating over this scene of
national and moral degradation, and so too
were thousands Of the second class of whig
office hunters.
"With hands less bloody, but with hearts
as black" rushing and scrambing for the
loves and fishes. GAS for the smaller fry.
who swarmed in shoales," for pelf and place
tits not worth while to mention them, Sur.
flee it to say, that the gathering at the CITY
of Washington, in March, 1871, was the first
of the kind manking ever saw, and It's de.
voutly to be hoped twill be the last.
As was the dawn, so has been the dav of
whlgsery. A bankrupt treasury, and
law that is a disgrace and plague.
spot TO the nation, are among the many
wounds, she has heaped on the republic
No single promise has been fulfilled: the tax
as on all East and West India groceries, 9th.
or than Tea and Coffee, have been iucreas
en-, from one to ten fold, under the spurious
name OF "protection to the wool grower.'-
No article, that the farmer raises, brings
near as much as it did in the days of Jack
son and Van Buren,; many articles not half
SO much. The wages Of labor are vastly
less, and the expenses ofgovernment more.
With all these facts and circumstances,
staring them full in the face, the wings, with
their characteristic effrontery, call upon us
to come forward and elevate them again TO
power and place; to vote for dueilists, a
iebauchee, and an apostate from the dem
Dcratic cause.
Fellow citizens, we cannot respond to the
call. We call on all, to unite with us, in ell
eva'ing Messrs Polk and Dallas, to the off.
,es OF President and Vice President of our
glorious country; to unite with us, heart and
soul, in sustaining sound republican princ.
pies, and honest men. We call upon all to
DIN us in Frustrating the prosecutors of Dorr
and in Frustrating the enemies of our repub
lean institutions.
HARRY BARNES,
OLIVER BUTTON,
ELI CAMP,
JOSEPH KINNSON,
JOSEPH KINNSON, Jn.,
Chelsea VT, July 10, 1914.