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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
RESTORATION.

"If the Democracy gain the ascendency, tho
work of 'unaettling' is to commence, and the
country is to be restored to it's normal condition
before the war;"
Just so Exactly We are exceed
ingly obliged to the Times for honestly
expressing its opinion of what the Dem
ocracy are to do when they gain the as
tendency. Dana of the San, stigma
tises the Times as "disreputable p We
think that its case is not so hopeless. 1t
tells the truth now and then, which
"disreputable' organs do not, aud we
are pleased that it processes to believe
that "the country is to be restored to its
condition before the war;" as soon as
the Democracy are once more in power.
What was the condition of the country
before the war? We need not ask what
it has been since that terrible calamity
was brought upon us by the party of
which the Times is an organ. Prosper
ity North and South. Low taxation.
An economical government. Honesty
and integrity marked the public servants
all over the land. An interrupted
Congress, composed of men who revered
the Constitution of the fathers. An in'
dustrious people, white and black. Ne
gro insubordination, negro insoleuce,
negro vice and debauchery and idleness
were unknown. The wealth of the
South, which was the basis Of the
wealth Of the whole country, steadily
increased under one of the most perfect
institutions of labor the world ever saw
No public debt, millions of acres of pub
lie lands ready for poor men al next TO
nothing as price, who would take the
trorble to pre-empt the same. An
increase If the growth of cotton yearly,
which, in half century, would have
brought the aggregate of that produc-
ton per anuum to fifty million bales,
and the balance Of the universe would
have been our customers, with a flood
Of gold pouring into the country which
would have carried our national wealth
to higher figure than England ever as
pred to. Peace, prosperity, and happi-
ness were universal before the war. As
the Times says, "the Democracy is tn
unsettIe" the hell of to-day, drive out
the vagabonds who have ravished this
once fair land, put good men in their
places, in fact restore the country to lis
old condition. Reader, the Times is
right for once tits just what we mean
to do. First we "unselle' and then we
"restore. ~. Y Day-Bo0h.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

Mr.. Wells, the political economist,
computes that the taxation of the
American people is equal to one-ftth Of
the entire products Of their industry.
This means that every producer must
give one and quarter days wages cv
cry week to the Government. When
taxation thus eats up the substance of
the people there is little wonder that
business is dull. Our greatest wonder
is that the people who are thus SO heavi-
ly taxed do not rise in their power and
strength, and hurl these extravagant and
corrupt rulers from place and power
Should they do so taxes wouldbe light
er, and the government better and
more honestly administered We hope
however for a change of "administra-
ton and "policy soon.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
The San Domingo Commissioners
ReDOrt.


On the 9Th inst. President Grant
transmitted to the Senate, with mes
sage, the report of his San Domingo
Commissioners. The report is quite
lengthy and recommends, rs everybody
expected it would, the immediate an
nexation of that undesirable territory
to the United States. The document
in question fatty misrepresents the
country, people and other Characters
tics Of San Domingo; that is to say if
other testimony upon these selfsame
points is reliable and trustworthy.
In the message Grant says
"And now
MY TASK IS FINISHED,
and with it ends all personal solicitude
on the subject. My duty being done,
yours begins, and ! gladly hand over
the whole matter to the Judgment Of
American people, and Of their represen-
tatiyes in Congress assembled.
''No POLICY" AGAIN.
The facts will now be spread before
the country, and decision rendered by
that tribunal whose convictions so sell
dom err and against whose will | have
no policy to enforce.
STILL PERSISTENT.
My opinion remains unchanged, in
deed it is confirmed by the report, that
the interest of our country and Of San
Domingo alike invite the annexation Of
that republic.
A LONG RESPITE ASKED.
In view of the difference of opinion
upon this subject, | suggest that no ac-
ton be taken at the present session, be-
You'd the printing and general disSem.
nation ot the report.
THE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO SPEAK.
Before the next session OF Congress
the people will have considered the sub
ject and formed an intelligent opinion
concerning it, to which opinion, delb.
erately made up, it will be the duty of
every department of the Government to
give heed, and no one will more cheer.
fully conform TO it than myself 1t is
not only the theory Of our Constitution
that the will Of the people constitutions
ally expressed is the supreme law, but |
have ever believed that "all men are
wiser than one man. and if the people
upon full presentation of the facts
shall decide that the annexation of the
Republic is not desirable, every depart
ment Of the Government ought to &C
quiesce in that decision.'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

"a The Hon. John p. c. Shanks, a
Radical member of Congress, from the
lNth District of Indiana made the other
day in the House of Representatives the
startling assertion that the war had set
tied that the National Government is
superior to the State Government. y
Radicals who seek to make this cen
tral2ed Government, may really believe
this, but it will take long while to
make thinking person believe that any
principle of Government can be settled
by the sword. We believe in the doct
rine Of SUITE Rights as defined by the
Constitution Of the United States as it
was originality framed by the founders
Of our Government. If We ouIy will
follow the rules laid down in that instru-
ment, we shall not be annoyed with
treason, secession di,loyalty, or any
thing troublesome resulting therefrom
The administration at Washington is
infringing good deal more on State
Rights than our Constitution allows. II
we don't LOOK out, ere we ARE aware of
it, our liberties as people will be taken
away from us, and in a manner too that
will leave no chance for redress.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

Mr.. Sumner says it will not do to SIM
ply abandon the San Domingo project
that it must be thrown overheard as
well. "To retreat now," he says,
speaking of the president, "af'er having
gotten his party in such fix, would
ruin the party and himself. He has
drawn his party into swamp, and the
question now is how to get out of it.
The only way is to dispose of the mat
ter now. 1t is too great load for the
party to carry. He had better give up
his efforts to secure his denomination,
and secure the confidence of the people.
He has no Secretary Stanton to back
him mp now with as much money, as
many men aud guns, and as much pow
der aud shot as he may desire, That
day has gone by
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
How to CONQUER the South.

Neither the administration nor the
republican leaders in Congress seem to
appreciate the value Of connecting with
the proposed legislation for the South, a
declaration of general amnesty for all
past political offences in that section.
But away from Washington, aud espec-
tally with the republican press, the con-
viction is very strong that the repressive
legislation will be doubly valuable with
this addition, and is of doubtful utility
without it. Mr.. Curtis in Harper's
Weekly, and the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser, both representing decided rapubl-
can convictions, as well as the most
conservative course of movement, join
this week in positive expressions of this
feeling.
The republicans, undoubtedly, have
great advantage, in a partisan view,
over the democrats, because of the man
ifest sympathy OF the latter with the or
gained outrages and threatened anarchy
in the South. But this advantage is al.
most wholly balanced by their adher,
eace to the policy of political punish
ment, Of exclusion from the ballot box
and from ofice-holding, of large por-
tious Ct the southern people. Nothing
is really gained by the continuance of
this policy, while much is lost, both
North and South. Such legislation in
the way of enlarging and defining the
federal power for maintaining loca!
peace, as now seems probable at Wash
iugton, will not only be doubly justified
but be douoly useful, if it caa be coupled
with the abandonment of this exclusion
policy, and go hand in hand both with
the disposition and the declaration to re
store 10 every citizen of the Sonth every
political right. Such justice, such gen.
crosby will make our cause twice armed,
and will give the party that adopts it
great advantage in the general political
contest with their opponents. Spring
field Republican,.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Thursday, April 18th, 1871.
Elections.

CoNNEoTIcUT THE result of the cleo
ton in this State is as announced last
week, the radicals carrying everything
but one member of Congress. "The
colored troops fought nobly,' and saved
the State to the GRANTEES. Had it not
been for the negro vote the democracy
would have carried the State by 1900
or 1000 majority. Never mind! We
count the State as sure for the democra.
cy next year.
RHODE IsLAND-This little. State
voted on Wednesday of last week. A
very light vote was polled. Paddelford,
republican, is reelected Governor by
about 5000 majority, There will be a
majority in the Legislature in favor Of
the Constitutional Amendment abolish
ing the property qualifications for cleo
tors.
OTHER ELEcroNs,-St. Louis, April
5. The result of the voting to-day is
the election of Brown (dem,) for Mayor
The returns from all the districts Of the
city give him a majority Of 2,053. The
majorities for the other candidates on
the ticket range from 1875 to 1925.
T. w. Matthias, (dem.) for County
Treasurer probably has 5000 majority.
Wilson Premin, for Judge Of the Grim
inal Court, had no competitor Of the
twelve Aldermen elected, ten are demo
Gratis who, with two holding over, will
make the city council tie, The school
board will remain republican.
For the first time in over ten years
the city of St. Louis, lately DISTINGUISHED
and dishonored, elects democratic
Mayor. The home of President Grant
repudiates, by a signal majority, the
policy of his administration, The great
principles which he has abandoned and
betrayed have been triumphantly yindi-
Gated in the chief city Of the west, The
voice of st. Louis is the voice Of Mis-
souri,.
At the city election in st, Paul, MINI.
last week, William E. Lee, (Dem.) was
reelected Mayor by 200 majority, The
balance of the ticket was elected by
about the same majority.
The democrats of Sedalia, Mo- have
elected their entire ticket by from 70 to
100 majority,
The democrats Of Clinton, Mo. car
lied the election by three to one.
The democrats Of Chillicothe carried
their entire ticket.
The democratic majority in Spring
field, Mo-, ranged from 1928 to 200
The democrats in Wawensbrg, for
the first time in ten years, won a victo
ny, by electing their entire ticket.
These figures give the democrats no
cause for dependency, but rather should
cheer them to bring out their whole
forces for the great battle next year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

"Cleausing the Blood" upon which
charlatans have harped so much is not
a mere catch word aud delusion, The
microscope shows that some diseases
exist like parasitic growlhs upon the
globules of the bload, and it is further
known that some subtle substances de-
stroy or expel them. These substances
have been combined to make Ayr
Sarsaparilla, which does ehectually ex-
pei the disorders that breed and rankle
10 the blood to rot out as it were the
machinery of life Mercer Pa. Wing
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
New Publications.

Woop's Household MAGAzINE.-
This magazine for April is on our table,
and it is we'll filled with choice reading
matter for the iiresidc, the farm, and
the garden. Address S 5. Wood pub
Usher, Newburgh, N. Y.
ARTHUR's HOME MAGAZINE, for April
has been out sometime, but those who
have not seen it can get copy at
Knapp's. 1t is an excellent ladies mag
aziue.
The CnILDRENs Hour, by the Ar
thurs, u publication hailed with delight
by the young, is for sale also. T. S.
Arthur e. Sons Publishers, Philadelphia,
Pa,
The NURSERY, an excellent pubica-
ton for aoee ,folhs is for sale at Kuapps,
All should have it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
The " GATHER ON MOUNT WASHING

The WEATHER on MOUNT WASHING
roN.-A private letter to the Boston
Journal, from the summit of Mount
Washington, describes the weather to
have been very mild aud spriug like up
to the oath ult. The neighboring mount
aims were bare, the pale green of the
lichens giving them the appearance of
summer, the houses upon the summit
were entirely clear of ice, and the sur
roundings were very different from what
they had been during the winter months.
Since the oath there has been snow,
rain and ice, and the frost work has been
quite equal to that seen in the early
stage of the winter. Only few days
ago the telegraph reported another terri
BILE wind storm with the wind at the
fearful velocity of one hundred miles
per hour.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

The Star, published al Marion, S. c.,
says -
1--WE accepted the situation We
have since the war offered every COM
promise that proud people could make.
We at one time, and that not very far
back, proposed to abandon, in part our
principles to forget, in full, our preju-
dices and to aliude never more to the
past. This offer was rejected by the
adherents of Radicaism."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
Progress of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.

The energy with which the building
of this great thoroughfare is being
pushed forward is an added guaranty of
its early completion and its wise man
agement. We learn from the financial
agents of the Road, Messrs. Jay Cooke
& Co., that, at the present. date, the
grading is nearly finished for 266 miles,
from Lake superior, through Central
Minnesota, to the eastern border of Da
kota; trains are running over 1870 miles
of completed track; the Mississippi
river is bridged at Brainerd and once
more Joined to the Lakes by rail, and
track-layiug is rapidly progressing west
ward. By September next, trains will
run to the Red river, and the grading
will probably be far advanced toward
the Great Bend of the Missouri river in
Central Dakotah.
In the meantime work has been COM
menced the present season on the Pacific
coast; a large force of men is already
employed in the valley of the Columbia
river, in Washington Territory, and
hereafter the work of construction will
he pushed both eastward aud westward
toward the centre with such rapidly as
the best interests of the road may justify.
Including its purchase of the St Paul
aud Pacific Road, the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has 4l3 miles of
road now in operation, and before the
close of the present season the length Of
finished track will be at least $50 miles
The new highway to the Pacific is being
constructed at the lowest cost compata-
BILE with first class work.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

The corrected history of what are
known az the Alabama claims has been
prepared aud published by Charles G..
Beaman, Jr. 1t forms thick octave
volume of 357 pages, and gives all the
details and documents necessary to an
exact comprehension of the case, not
only of the Alabama, but of the Florida,
Shenandoah, and other rebel cruisers
built and seut out from British ports.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-Weed, Parsons
DC Co., proprielors of the Albany, N.
Y Evening Journal and an extensive
job office, were burned out recently.
The aggregate loss will reach half a
million. The remains of an unknown
man was found in the ruins. The prop,
erty in the vaults of w. P & Co. was
found uuinjured.
The western Female college at Ok
ford, Ohio, was completely destroyed by
fire on the 9th inst. There we're 175
persons in the building at the time.
Several young ladies were injured in
jumping from the windows, and many
lost their personal effects.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

AT the banquet of the Army of the
Tennessee in Cincinnati, on Friday,
Gen. Sherman was called on to respond
to the toast of "The Army" which he
described as "a body national in charac-
ter, devoted to the whole country, and
ever faithful to it. | know that in their
distant homes it is a source of pride and
pleasure to them, sitting round their
bivouac fires, on the dusty roads or in
the far. off Alaska, to realize that their
memories are as precious now as in the
days when the whole country was up
turned by civil war Their tasks did
not end with that war, but continue now
that it is ended. 1t affords them pleas
ure, know, to feel they are associated
in your minds with the events of the
late war, even though they may be in
countries far away" He alluded to the
seeming thoughtessuess Of meeting
around q festive board on Good Friday,
and added :-"God knows l would not
injure or offend the most delicate sense
Of religious man. But this is the an
nivers.ry Of an occasion upon which we
were engaged in holy cause. Nine
years ago to-day, as holy prayers as
ceudcd to the throne Of grace as ever
went up from your cathedral spire. or
any other church.. Every Que who was
at Shiloh must feel like offering mp his
prayers of thankfulness for delverence
from death that day" The brief but
pithy speech of the General was loudly
applauded.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

@T The venerable ~. Y. EVening
Post, Il highly respected radical paper,
printed list Of tify-one leading repubIi
can journals, representing the party in
eighteen states which have repudated
President Grant.
tbs list embraces, with three or four
exceptions, all the most respectable re-
Publican papers ia the United States,
Even the negroes, who have heretofore
been Grants most sure and reliable
supporters, Missed at his name in Coop
er's Institute the other night while hold
ing au anniversary there. ULYSSES"
has surely "gone up"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

BeB@ Secret'r Boutwell, visited Wall
Street, New York City, one day last
week His appearance there caused IL
great excitement. Boutwell, was prob
ably among the gold spectators OF that
rny for the purpose of 'cuddling" with
them to make some more money upon
the gold which he is to put into the
market the present moalh. It he and
they don't do so we shall be mistaken.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

1t requires a gam OF less than twenty
members next year to give The Democ
racy the next Congress. There are
more than fifty districts where the vote
is SO close that by public and judicious
management the Democrats can carry
at least thirty Of them. If the Democ.
racy will begin the work of perfecting
their organization now they will inhict
au overwhelming defeat upon the Radi-
Gals in 1872. 1t is not too soon to be-
gin the work of organization.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
~ Senator FranX p. Blair, of Mis-

90 Senator FranY p. Blair, of Mis-.
souri,, delivered most able speech last
week in Congress lasting some two
days. Mr.. Blair made a clear aud
earnest Democratic argument in behalf
OF the States, exposing fully the alleged
corrupt practices of Republican officials
in the reconstructed states, etc. We
shall probably refer 10 this speech again
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

The Connecticut election is a badly
mixed up affair. 1t is as difficult tell.
ing who is elected Governor, as it was
for Mike Mallory to tell how many there
was at the party. The latest is that the
legislature will have to settle the mud
die, which is equivalent to Jewels cleo
ton.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

A clergyman writing to friend says;
my voyage to Europe is indefinitely
postponed. | have discovered the 'fount-
ain of health on this side of the Allan.
tic. Three bottles Of the Peruvian Syr-
up have rescued me from the fangs of
the fieud Dyspepsia" Dyspoplics should
drink from this fountain.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

Fred. Douglass pronounces Sumner
an enemy of the black-race, because he
does not 90 for Grants San Domingo
swindle. We had no idea that Fred.
would make so good dog as his bark
ing for Grant proves him to be.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
BENJAMIN r. Butler & Co.. 7,

Benjamin r. Butler e. Co., repre-
sentative in Congress from the With
District OF Mass, by his brazen-faced,
overbearing insolence in Congress re-
Gently, has hown himself to be man
of no principle and an infamous dis,
grace to his constituents and himself.
Were he democratic member and be-
haved as now he would be expelled.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13

Gov. Hoffman has signed the bill
establishing board for the examina-
ton aud licensing of drug clerks in
New York city.