Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1851-11-20

or has been caught in bad company but he has
tried all sorts, politically, and what else could
be expected.
GENERAL BANKING Bill PAssED.--The
House concurred in the Senate bill to author
izc the business of banking--l23 to 7l.-DajIy
Journal
SENTNIENl 5 OF A ROUSED WING
We do not know when we have been more
pleased on reading Wing leader than in pur-
suing the following editorial of the New York
Mirror issued on the 10th inst. The editor Is
greatly stirred up and pours out his sentiments
in heartfelt manner. He has seen the folly
of pushing the Wing creed before the intelligent
people of this Republic. He calls it the "anti-
quatcd political creed, " the "loss remains"
of past age. As to the foreign voters this ar
dent Wing does not appear to entertain an eX-
allied opinion. He says they arc ''more rotten
than ripc;" and it bothers him greatly that
young men should not vote as their mammas
would adyisc-Rs their conservative progcn-
tors would dictate. And then he feels like
ret blanket, the Democratic maorities having
Grained steadily upon his party for six success
i've months But the most novel idea is that
which he sets forth detcrmnedIy with regard
to the principles Oh which the next Wing Ma
t;,,,l (r,,ro,t;o, c,,ll Lo oo,d,atoJ IL T.,
clarcs that any delegate who shall oppose or
even dodge the Compromise question, shall be
turned out of doors waited upon by the door
keeper" OF course, that would be a haym0ni-
Gus Convention-thcre could be no action save
that which should squint one way entirely. 1T
would be great Wing development of princi-
pies, ,'a,,i,,o,'siy expressed, for the delegate
who should dare to raise his voice against any
part Of the budget introduced would be kicked
out Of doors in hurry Here is the article
from the ,ii,ror:- Hartford Times.
1852.
The local Elections being over, the thoughts
OF the people are now turned to the Presden-
tiaI contest Of le52-the great political Olym-
pad of the Republic. The State elections have
almost unanimously gone against the Wings,
from Maine to California; and the Opposition
partizan press is already claiming an easy vic
tory for their candidate whoever he may be. in
November next. iii were possible to rc-draw
the old party lines and restrict the action of the
people by the shackes of party tyrany, the j
Democrats, so called, could elect their candi-
date for the Presidency by two-thirds e.
That eternal tide Of Democracy which ''rises
higher than Egypts river" is powerful enough
to sweep all before it; and it will surely mum
date the land, ii not speedily damned by some
thing more substantial than the fossil remains
the "obsolcte ideas" Of antiquated political
crccds.
The Democrats, the Radicals, the go-ahead-
party, are largely in the ma
ority in this county; and it is no use to deny
or disguise the fact. America not only breeds
but imports Democrats, at the rate of half
million year. while three -lourths of our native
young men, though begotten by Wing fathers
and sucked by Wing mothers, become apos-
aes at the age oftwenty-one, and rush with the
'adica rabbe to the polls, in spite of the pray
.rs and precepts of their conservative progcni-
ors. Youth is ardent, lmpetuous, progressive,
democratic in its lmpuIscs-aII hope, all ambi- (
ion.
The young men of the country are always
'eady loI War and Conquest; and the Democ-
'acy is the party to lead them on to thuncr, {
blood and glory. While every emigrant who
seeks an asylum in the land of Liberty, drops
ike windlal often more rotten than ripe, into
ho lap of Democracy, and balances by his vote,
md more than balances by his activity and ,
loise on Election Day, the political influence {
VI the oldest and best native citizen of the Re- t
public.
In the election of General Taylorto the Pres {
dency, a new element was introduced, and {
'arty lines were broken up, never, as we de- s
outly trust, to be again re-establlshed. Gen
raj Taylor was spontaneously nominated in all
'arts OF the Union as the independent candidate {
If the people; and the New York Mirror was {
he first newspaper to raise the independent |
Taylor Banner When the Wing National /
Convention met at Philadelphia in 1915, we had i
list of some 200 independent newspapers. +
Wig, Democratic and Neutral, that had {
laced the name OF Zachary Taylor at the head q
t their columns. 1t was the external pressure c
'hich forced the Convention into the nomina- |
ion. The politicians fought hard against it a
&c have a very vivid recollection of their a
pcech, conversation and LOOKS, even now but t
ne PEOPLE insisted, aud the Convention Weld d
d. Yet General Taylor would have been t
lected, even without the nomination of the 4,
Wig party, and probably by large majority. I
thousand of Democrats abandoned his cause u
nc moment the Wings, as party, espouscd it. t
md had he been nominated by the Democratic
,onventnn nj Raltimnrn ne no emma moan L,,