Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-08-08
PROSPECTUS,

The AGE will aim to represent aud
combine the labors and the votes of
All those who find best insurance of the
peoples prosperity, peace, and progress in
government administered on the princi-
pes and in the pure practice of Jefferson
and jackson, and who descry the fount and
origin of the present corruptions, extrava-
Sance, misgovernment, subyersion of pub
lie liberties, and insecurity Of private rights
IN our rulers lawies' usurpaton of inter-
dicted and undelegated powers-usurpation
that to-day marches deliberately on to the
Subjugation of popular rule and the posses
sion of dictatorial power--for by acts of
Congress General Grant may even now de-
stroy the freedom of State elections. invade
the States at his pleasure, and declare mar
ta law Of his own mere will.
All those who would maintain the honor
OF republics, and would preserve public
credit by punctaal payments of public debts.
All those who would cut down to fewer
and fit objects all appropriations of the PEG.
pies money (to.day more than double,
nearly treble, the appropriations of DEM
ocratic Congress eleven years ago. not count
ing annuitics to Indians, pensions to sold
lers, and interest on debit, and who would
oblise all spending of the peoples money
got by taxes to be with honesty and thrift;
likewise all those who would spare little
the peoples landed estate for the landless
millions hereafter and stop its squanderine
dominions in day upon those who already
own too much.
All those who would reduce the number
of commodities taxed by our tariff from
thousands to few dozens, and so empty
our custom houses of half their officials.
rid the statute-books of half their odious
snares for honesty or brlbes to fraud, and
unfetter scores of our native industries.
all those who would lower the rates also
of our tariff taxes to the point of most easily
yielding the largest revenue-who would
abandon the proteclionist system of reduc-
ing the public revenue whilst increasing the
extortionate profits of few at the expense
of all other industries.
All those who would abolish every I'M
lawful tax, like that on incomes every un.
just tax like that which gives banks the
peoples profits ona national currency;
every unequal and indetcrminate tax, like
that levied most cruelty upon tie poor-the
tax OF our irredeemable paper money.
The AGE will aim-as the recognized
md only organ of the Democratic party in
II Windsor and Orange Counties by unwa.
erlnS attention to the diffusion of generalin in
fulfil this it $ mission Ind du
y with steadtast boldness and fidelity to in
pre- in the ranks of those who think the
anne things concerning the Republic an unit
d. organized, determined, and persIsten.
zeal; to win new recruits from among those
Who have been enemies to the Democracy in
he conflicts of dead past and to marshal
N unbroken phalanx to the triumph at the
alot-box [true battlefield of republics) of
liberty, Equality, and Law.
The AGE will take the most advanced
round on all great questions, state and ma
ional. Seeking to avoid no issues, it will
ardidly discuss them, and at all times advo-
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mission 10 nothing that is wrong. Its lead
ng aims and ends will be the int rests of the
'hole country, circumscrlbed by no State
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J intended to be a reliable paper, and while
all times keeping within the limits of can
OF and veracity, we shall give the Radicals
'dusty hunt" from now forward.
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