Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-28
ONT PMGNIx.
Friday Morning, June as, 1890.

An article appeared in the N. Y. Express,
suggesting as cause of the present high price
of beef that the number Of horned cattle had
decreased in the N. f.. States generally, and
especially in Vermont, while the Sumber Of
sheep had increased, and stating that increase
in this state TO have been in five years about
100000: this information the Express re-
ceived from Vermont gentleman. The article
was copied into various country papers and not
contradicted: we copied il also. The Demo-
Graf now asserts that the increase of sheep in
the time stated was but 100000. Very we'll,
be il SO we did not pledge ourselves tetthe
correctness of an article copied from distant
paper, and if the editor of the Democrat knows
better, and he does assume TO speak as of his
own knowledge, we are glad 10 be corrected ;
if political opponent will take The trouble 10
look through our selections, and point out TO
US any errors in statistics which we may
chance TO transfer to our columns. we can
thank him for his good offices. We wish to
be distinctly understood that we are glad 10
have any error in our paper corrected by friend
Gus epithets the latter may heap upon us, but
we pronounce the article in the Democrat on
this subject to be Infamous, infamous, and its
writer malignant slanderer. lie insinuates
that the error about The number Of sheep was
not a mistake, but LIE known 10 be such by
us, and propagated with some sinister design
against the interests of the farmers Of Vermont |!
We give the meaning, not the words. "Whop-
per-snopper," one term he uses, we never saw
before-doubtless TO be found in that democrat
ic classic, the Biiingsgate Dictionary. The
malice of the insinuaiion rs only to be equalled
by its absurdity. What! Because We, in
common with others, as an item of news, CO.
pied the speculations of a n. Y. Editor ii ae-
counting for the high price Of beet, and that
Editor CHANGED to be msinformed as TO one
circumstance in his calculation, we are 10 be
accused by this heart-cankered viper with a
design to cheat the Vermont farmers No
motive is, or could be assigned TO us for such
an attempt no possible good could result to
the Wings, nor injury to the Tories, in over
rating the number of Sheep in Vermont
When a political partizan shows a perverse
ingenuity in plausbly assigning bad motives
TO actions il is something; it exhibits talent,
though prosttuted, and semblance of virtue,
though the substance be wanting; but the ac-
cusation against US in The Democrat is a stupid
and barefaced as well as malicious lie.
BY the way, which in the Democrats opin-
ion shows the most 'baseness," TO perperate
the jest, for so it was regarded BY every one,
in the Bellows Falls Gazette touching the
spurious marriage, or to accuse US of design
TO cheat, without particle of proof probability,
or possibility We should like every fair
minded man Of every patty to compare the
burst Of virtuous wrath against the Gazette in
the Democrat, with its own practice exhibited
in the same number The discrepancy would
seem TO favour the popular belief that the edi-
tor Of the Democrat is not One, but monster
of many heads. OF the truth of this notion we
know nothing, and as we never deal in person
alites we care nothing.