Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-16
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. l6, 1910.
EYCITEMENTS.

on the great and absorbing excitement OF a
the times, as being altogether out Of proper '
tion-when the importance Of lis causes r
and objects are compared with other things t
and every way unhealthy and pernicious, I
in its tendencies.
then gave il as my opinion that the dol
lars and cents are at the bottom OF It, |
have seen nothing 10 change that opinion
but, on the contrary, everything to con-
firm it. If the true history of the political
campaign just gone through with in Yer
mont-where there is as good a state Of
morals, allowing Vermonter to be a judge,
faithfully written out, it would disclose a
scene Of bribery and mercenary corruption,
worthy Of the darkest ages and the most !
barbarous nations. have just travelled /
i through one half the length Of the State =
and everywhere | was made acquainted |
with facts confirming this view. Here, |
was told Of a poor man who was called 10
the window Of the rich and presented with
money to buy Hquor-it being manifest that
the liquor was to boy his oote. Tf~ae,
rents were given, TO call in or detan voters
Al one place, suits at law were bro't against
several voters, and executions taken Just in
season to have the debtors committed so
that they should be confined during cleo
ton. At another, money was deposited at
taverns aud groceries, to be expended in Ii
quor TO buy votes. was told, by those who
ought TO know whereof they affirmed, that
in two different towns it was we'll ascer-
tanned that upwards of thousand dollars
was expended in each for electioneering
: purposes, aud large sums of it in direct
briheries.
: As further proof that money is at the
, foundation of the excitement, take the Ian
guage used on both sides in politics, in
speeches and newspapers. The currency
j of the countryside currency Of the country
f has been the cry. Whatever else has been
$ said has been secondary or incidental. II
! has been the sound Of the dollars and cents
that has been the efficient agent On either
+ side, and on both sides, those who are grasp
3 ing for the spols have contrived TO convince
: the people, very extensively, that all their
+ temporal interests would, in the nature and
= necessity of the case, turn with the election.
| appeal 10 the observation of all the cam
did, if this has not been the great moving
cause Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that has
+ devastated the morals and religion Of the
If State and the nation for months past, and
t that is TO continue its ravages and desola-
] tons for months to come
= have said thus much on this point al
this time, because some have taken excep-
: lions TO my former views in relation to its
j being venal, mercenarY matter.
t It has occurred To me, since the foregoing
a was IN my mind, and while have been
! getting it on paper, that may be | ought to
have set down the lust Of porer, by the
side of the lust Of gain. | now more think
, | ought to have done so. make The cor
! recIion with all cheerfulness. II was an
e oversight in me in the haste Of writing. If
. this correction be worth anything 10 those
, who have taken exceptions, they are well
! come 10 lis benefits. The purse ard the
: sword have always gone hand in hand
r They who covet the one generally covet the
other. Al any rate, the latter can do very
/ little without the former. So that the dol
: lars and cents are the thing, after ALL in
any and every aspect OF The case.
Let US now for a moment look at the per-
nicious tendencies Of this unhealthy, raging
excitement. By intimation, have already
likened il TO the sweeping tempest that
prostrates all before il. With one contin-
ued desolating blast, it spreads wretched-
8. ness and ruin wherever il goes. Il is an
: overlooking fountain Of most deadly narcot
, ics-exhilarating at first, but ending in an
: awful lethargy-fnding its way into every
house and hamlet, every shop and sanctua-
ry In the land. When the crisis is past
in other words, when election is over, its
victims will rise from The stupefying, and
estulIlfying, AMI brutilying effects Of lis poi
? sonous drafts, as from having been stepped
in alcohol, or opium, or hemloc Ii is a
5 contagious, malignant plague, filing the
: whole moral atmosphere with masma and
: death. Where now are Temperance, An
! tizSlayery, Peace and Religion Tramp
e led under feet of men-not only BY their.
enemies, bur by their own professed vota-