[....] [....] Just think of it can we not picture to ourselves the severe dignity seated in the [brow] of the elder Adams as he would turn from this abomination as from a 'serpent in his path.' Can one man see the lip of Webster curling with a sove- -reign contempt too bitter for language & the eagle eye of Henry Clay withering these knaves and [hooters] with a glance. And [ok], if [she] askes if those- generations that have gone- who once bore the old whig banner thro triumph & defeat answering with bold shouts to the rallying cries of educated wise & mag- nanimous statesmen could again be clothed with the living [raiment] of mortality how they would hold back & shudder with disgust & shrink away from the contamination of sach a presence. Now let us sum up & make a practical appreciation of what we have written. We do not address numerous particularly to Democrats. Every man who have a substantial stake in the Institutions of the Country - who [would] wish to sneak all demoralizing tendencies in the community - & who above all things would desire to see the blessings of the [?] transmit- ted to their posterity- [we] between them are many such men who belonged to the old Whig Party but who are disposed to turn their backs on the vagabondes & fanati- cisim of those Private associa- tions that now [discuss] the title of Whiggery. And it is to such as [that] we would now [amply] speak a few words. 1st can any man of intelligence affect to be believed to the fact that in a National point of view the present [Whig] Party is a men [...] almost altogether [...] Free states [...] essentially [] for [...] two the [...] [... but [...]