Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-09-23

boro IL. V. are DESTROYS of getting up another
paper to be published in that village, for the
benefit of themselves and their neighbors-if
they pay for it-and that the immense sum of
500 dollars is to be raised by subscription TO
carry the thing into operation. And further
they have sent out runners in every direction
with subscription papers, dunning and coaxing
us of the "backwoods" to shell out the needfu
and assist in the good cause of rescuing the
country from the jaws of that monster, De-
MocRAcYl which is sitting down among us
with all the ease and non-chalence Of an old
acquaintance. l was accosted the other day
by one of these drill-ofiicers." Says he
"Friend, would you not like to subscribe for
few shares in the new paper we wings are get
ting up down in Brattleboro T.. V.--only 19
dollars share--a mere trihe-and altogether
probable you will get your money back and a
hundred per cent TO boot before the year comes
round. What say, shall set you down ten
shsres-only 90 dollars, eh1'
NO. said with solemn phiz.
"And why not' know you are of the right
way of thinking-so pray now if not ten, put
down five shares-only sixty dollars. Come
now, beg-what say!''
No! NEvERl sooner would take shares in
the original SIM
"Bless me-" said the begging hypocriie,
"you will take one share-only twelve dollars;
just nothing. Shall write your name''
! can write my own name when have
good occasion for it.
Sand pray sir, what reason have you for not
doing it now;''
Well, sir, you don't 'catch old birds with
chaf.' was once caught in just such trap
by fellow like you. He persuaded me to
subscribe ten dollars for a share in paper of
old blue-light federal Hartford Convention me-
mory, 'yclept "THE WAsHIseroSiAs." And
sir, instead Of getting back my ten dollars and
hundred per cent to boot, as | was promised,
had serenty.fve doiiTs to pay to back up
the concern! Catch weazel asleep t,ciee il
you can! And besides all this have another
objection: II you Brattlcboro characters want
new paper, let them douse the chnk on their
own hook, and not go whining about, like a
pack of chastiscd school boys, begging money
Of us up here in We woods. Let the D
shell OUTLET the Squire shell OUTLET the
honoraJies she'll out-and let all the nabobs
who feel so amazing patriotic about the bu-
siness, shell out. Why, sir, what would the
+" big ones" in Bratteboro f. V. do if we up
here in the city of " Cocksville" should send
down to them for few sinners to help start a
\ new paper TO be called the Coeksrilie Liiera-
| ~ Federal Wing .uagnei?' Don't you think
they would turn up their pretty nosesi Aye,
sir, that they woodland just SO turn up
mine to yours. We think, sir, of starting a
new paper with the above sonorous cognomeni
and be assured, sir, we shall not ask the citi-
zens of Brattleboro T.. V. for pecuniaTy assis-
lance in the matter. We shall go on our own
hook; we shall fight on our own hook; we
shall print on our own hook; we shall hang on
TO our hook, without bowling and scraping tc
any body to help foot the bills. And then, sir
have another objection: Because the propri-
etors Of the Phoenix were willing TO publish
''both sides of the question:" thereby giving
the people a chance to Judge for themselves
the lords of Brattleboro f. V. have sworn il
their wrath to be revenged: or in other words
they have set their horns together TO "breas
down the Phenix," thereby depriving the poo
publishers of that paper from obtaining an hon
j. est living! Now, sir, if the Bratteboro chaps
want another paper, | have no sort of obiec
ton; but let them unite their own purse-striDgs
| foot their own bills, do their own drudgery
and not ransack every nook and corner of th'
'back-woods'' in begging money 10 be applied
in gratifying their own appetites for revenge
upon their poor, yet praise-worthy neighbors
For my part, sir, shall support the PhGnix
and so will every other man in Windham coun
ty who desires the dissemination of truth an'
feels unwilling to stand tamely by and Sc
honest integrity brow-beat by set of hot
headed politicians, and all because the publish
ers of the Phoenix had nerve enough not to b
led about by the nose like couple of pack
horses. Depend upon it, sir, your iordiing
E or Brattleboro f. V. and other places will no
break the scings of the Phoenix so easily; bu
If peradventure they should deprive il Of a ieS
{ pl,tn,es, it will again appear in all its pristin
glory! These are some Of my reasons-yo
now understand me-so be off as was the a.
when it put its foot on hot shovel!
The "runner" bowed himself out with a
the grace of French dancing master, and ha
not been heard Of since.
Frightened 10 deaih.-The inconsiderai
! method to which roguish boys not unfrequcn
! ly resort of seeking amusement by frghtenin
. Younger and more timid children, is sometime
s attended with deplorabe, and even fatal cons'