Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-10-31
Written for the AGE.
A New Political Era.

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permeating the deliberations of tina
august and honorable body-the U
S. Senate.
Forewarnod by the setting-agains,
them of the tide of popular sentiment
fully apprlsed by the proclamation
from Ohio-whose bugle-blasts still
linger in the valleys and reverberate
along the mountain tops-that their
bold, reckless and shameless deeds Of
fraud and violence, and crime, which
have so oft and for SO long profted
them in the past, and which culmina-
ted in that most egregious act of dar.
ing knavery and suicidal folly, the con-
temptible Ignoring or reversing of the
verdict of the people as clearly ex-
pressed at the polls, in the late Presi-
dental contest, aud the inauguration
Of the "S to Y President, do not meet
with approval from those who con-
stitutionally hold the "balance of
power" in this republic and clearly
experimenting that, with a Democratic
House, u Democratic country, and
a Democratic policy (Which :he de-
Jacto President has been morally COM
PEELED to adopt,) their last vestige of
power is on the decline The Repub
lican "sages" of that body, with the
same instinct of self preservation
which leads the drowning man to
grasp at the straw, seek to keep alive
that still Pickering, though we'll nigh
smothered flame, by the counting
out" and counting M processes. In
their mad faulty, not seeming to re.
gard the solemn words Of admonitioD,
written in characters of blazing light
all over the political armament, those
hoary.headed old "saints" do not
hesitate to resort TO those agencies
whose use they have acquired SO com.
plete mastery of in the past, but
which, indeed, seem, at last, to have
rung the death kne]l over their party.
With present majority of scarcely
halt dozen members, and with every
reasonable prospect of losing even
that, in the not distant future, it is,
perhaps, not to be wondered at that
those old chiefs Of corruption, THEY
ing and chicanery should "wax DIES
pera.e" in their efforts to counteract
the result so destructive 10 their prest-
age as an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
themselves individually, by Counting
OUT legally returned Senators from
some of the Southern States, and
counting in" others of their own
order. 1t was their apparent eager
ness to accomplish this, WITCH gave to
their deliberations, Immediately on
assembling, an air of grim humor,
rarely Witnessed. ovon in tho Capitol.
But, manifestly, they hope against
hope, against the dictates of reason
and common sense-aye, against the
dawning light of a more progressive,
just and enlightened political era,
qcho imagine themselves able longer
to sustain themselves by such prac.
tees. The time has evidently gone
by for such agencies to be potent as
political factors. The period has
manifestly come, thank God, when
torbearance, on the part of a long out,
ragged people, ceases to be regarded as
a yrtue and from behind the "ma-
jestlc throne" comes to-day ,an awful
voice OF warning for the ears of those
whose hands, so long lnbued with
every shade of political rascality,
chicane and abuse, are still uplitted for
renewed efforts voice which may
not be readily misunderstood I; voice
which speaks in tones of thunder, and
with an emphasis of unmistakable
authority a voice which has just
been heard from Ohio, which is soon
TO be echoed from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from Massachusetts to the
Gulf Of Mexico, voice which for all
time stamps its condemnation upon
knavish devices and rascally means in
politics. and which clearly, concisely
and fully enunciates, defines and as
serts the rights, the liberties and the
sovereignty of the people voice,
let it be remembered, from whose
decision there may be no appeal. 1t
says to the officials-"Ye are the
peoples servants: do We their bidding,
or step Immediately down and out. ,"
That man, or that party which shall
have the temerity to disregard or go
counter to its commands, may read
his or its fate in the political history
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