Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-24


who is said to have made out Of his
official position, the snug little sum OF
seven and half millions of dollars in
presents and in sab rosa speculations
in Wall Street, in San Domingo, and
elsewhere, the whole official mass OF
the party, from President down to
Postmastevs and Revenue officials, have
caught the infection from their party
headship, and every "iclIcr" is grasping
and cutching at Uncle Sans wealth,
with INSCRIPTIONS hands. The spec
tac,c presented, is that of nest of I'M
scrupulous money-grabbing mono
m0njacS bent on the mahe at all haz-
yards, including the hazard Of running
the country. Without cXagseration,
aud without controversy, about the
only thing left in the government, I'M
corrupted and reliable is the judiciary.
The judiciary still stands, the beacon
light Of safety, and the break-woter
against corruption and tyranny. And
there is left to the people, when fully
awake to danger, the power Of politi-
cal revolution at the ballotboX The
blood-sucking Administration of U. S.
Grant, has become an intolcrable stencil
in the nosrils Of all honest ana decent
people, and the necessities Of an over
taxed and oppressed land, cry to heaven
for II change of administration. The
blood. suckers seem bound to hold on
to their leeching work, till beaten off
by the death dealing blows Of an out
ragged people at the ballot.boX.
1t may be that majority Of the voters
of the Northern States, are still dcceiv-
ed by the song Of the Republican siren,
to a degree beyond Democratic trans
formation, but we don't believe it.
We are confident, beyond reasonable
doubt, that with an open field and u
tair fight, with free and untrammeed
voters, North and South, at the next
Presidential contest, the Republican
party will 90 to the wall Its official
patronage, its thread-barc sing song
cry Of "copper-hcad," its thumb-screw
Tyranny upon the South, its roofing
and-smclling-Ku KluX Committee "
ing, its carpet-bag- MISUNDERSTANDING
Unionism will not do, us heretofore, TO
stavc off defeat. The people are getting
their puppy eyes open. They are more
than nine days old in the "ways that
are dark, and the tricks that are vain
of the Republican party, aud in which
they are "pcculiar." They see the
official sleeves of this Heather Chince,'
stuffed with political cards for the next
Presidential game; and we hear Re-
publicaus saying, give us another
chance, and we will reverse our vote on
U. Grant" They think that seven
and a half millions, will do for Grant !;
he can get along with that for pocket
change the balance Of his days, and
will not need any farther support from
them that if he should, by any kind
of i'll luck get short in the future, his
many rich friends can contribute few
more millions to help him out, and
give him a smooth golden way to the
dark bourne,
TIE denial Of sincerity in the Demo-
cratic parts, in the new stand it has
taken--not an abandonment Of old
time principles, by any means, but as
to policy and measurcs-comc with an
i'll grace from the Republican party
party, who since the close of the war,
not from any innate love OF political or
official righteousness, but by public
sontimeut-have been forced to keep
an argus-cyed police, upon each other
constantly, to regulate the system OF
grab game among themselves, SO that
one should not become overloaded with
riches at the expense of another. Let
not such II party attempt the plouS
work of exhortiug their Democratic
neighbors to weed out their garden
while standing to their necks i'll the
weeds of political wickedncss them
selves We say to the honest rank and
file of the Republican party, come out
from among them, and come with us
and we will do you good, for the future
spcaketh good concerning the Israel OF
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