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Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont
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Whig editorial attacks Vermont Patriot for omitting Jackson's support for separating government from corporations and using treasury agents for revenue. Urges Whigs to expose Democratic deceptions on Treasury Bank scheme. Sarcastically critiques hard money's benefits to officials' salaries, explains economic effects, corrects a forged letter, and reports Whig gains in Michigan.
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Whigs of Vermont!—by such means is the Patriot waging war against our cause: and it behooves you, one and all, to do your utmost to meet this misrepresentation, wherever you find it spreading among your neighbors. We cannot speak thro' the press to the Van Buren men: it is for you, to disabuse them—to expose the deception and trickery played off on the honest and unsuspecting. Let this thing be exposed, far and wide, and the guilty cannot escape just retribution from the hands of the people.
Will some of our Van Buren friends inform us what is the price of wool this season? We think the object of the office holders in forcing upon the people an exclusive hard money currency, is to increase three fold the value of their salaries. They have succeeded so well in acquiring Executive and official power, that they are now determined to have the pecuniary means of supporting their increased consequence. So, Instead of asking to have their salaries raised, they design to effect the object without asking, by bringing about a state of things which will enable them to make one dollar of their present salaries worth as much as three are now. But recollect, gentlemen, that Waterloo succeeded a long series of splendid victories.
The people should ever recollect, that the value of money throughout the country, is increased by lessening the amount of the circulating medium, and that the value of labor and every species of property, is at the same time, proportionally decreased, excepting fixed salaries, obligations, and foreign commodities, and these rise in value with money.
The Vermont Patriot having copied (from the Middlebury Free Press,) a letter purporting to be written by the Sheriff of Addison county, in which he is made to express a fear that "I (he shall) not be Sheriff again!"—we deem it proper for us to say that the part of the letter above quoted is a FORGERY. The editor of the People's Press has obtained the original letter, and it is found that some personal or political enemy has added the expression with which the Free Press and Patriot find fault.
Michigan.—For the first time, the Whigs are thoroughly organized and zealously at work. In Detroit, recently, they elected their candidate for constable of the city, by a small majority. This looks well: nevertheless we consider the chances for the state strongly in favor of the Van Burenites.
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Criticism Of Democratic Treasury Bank Scheme And Press Misrepresentation
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Anti Van Buren Whig Advocacy Exposing Deception
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