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EARLY DEMOCRATIC PAPERS. 29 them the name and prize. But while one man is sup- ported in nieasures, 'whether right or wrong,' and no law but his will be the rule of their consciences, while the powers lodged by the Constitution in other branches of the government are usurped from them, one by one, and the lawful authority of the Senate of their representa- tion is contemned, — to men who advocate such principles, we say — ^You are Tories, and though you may disclaim it, it is still your title. "The people will not be long deceived. They will look from the window before they admit the wolves to their confidence, and notwithstanding you call yourselves lambs, it will require but a glance to perceive the im- position. "Fellow Citizens — read — examine — suffer not your- selves to be lead and duped by an array of office-holders and office-seekers — who regard nothing but the patronage of the government, and have the audacity to avow it. Divest yourselves of the delusions of party, and let the intelligence of American citizens astonish, and their virtue contemn their deceivers." There is no record showing how long the "Gazette" was published. The failure to secure the "Republican" was doubtless a great disappoiatment to the "Gazette," and the presence of both in the same political field, hastened their death and both fell by the way about the same time. The last reference to the "Gazette" in the "Argus" was May 3, 1834, and it is probable it died in the latter part of 1834, or early in 1835. The "Argus" in its issue of May 6, 1835, in comment- ing on the death of the "Republican," said: "We have now the whole field to ourselves; and as long as this is the case, we are willing to extend to our Jackson friends liberties and acts of courtesy, that under other circum- stances could not be asked. Calls for meetings, together