Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-04-06
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MEssRs. Edltors:-I noticed several columns
OF names purportng to be young men OF WASH
lngton County, calling fer a Convention at Mont
peler for the purpose of responding to the nomi-
nations of The Harrsburgh Convention W ithout
saying any thing about the remarkable longevity
OF some OF those young men, wish Just to say,
mat THINK the time spent here might he employ
ed to much better advantage. will tell YOU how,
Mr.. Editor; know Of a great many poor people
in this county who have to struggle very hard to
obtain livelihood. Let us make use of a little
arithmetic and see if we can't help them trihe
"Time is money" Allowing, then, 600 young
men to have met at Montpelier, 600 at Wate rbu-
ry, 300 ut Mortified, 300 at Worcester, we have
the round number of 1900 days, which consider
ing the time and expenses cannot be reckoned
less than one dollar per day; and we have tie
clever little sum Of eighteen hundred dollars 10 be
distributed among the poor people of Washington
county. Would not this sum dry up the tears Of
the widow, and hush the wailings of the orphan
Would it not cause plenty to smile in the cottage
of want
Here you have it, young Wings of
Washington County, allsset down in dol
lars and cents, how much you have vast
ed in attending to that which is none of
YOUR business What think We of it p
When the leaders of the Van Buren, party
called their serfs together, and they assem-
bled in hundreds in this village on the 18th
of February last, and then and there, in
solemn form, by resolution, adopted, as the
principles of their party, the odious and
abominable doctrines Buchanan's speech
by which the price of the poor mans labor
would be reduced one half, and the price
of wool and butter and cheese SO low. as
to cause the death of every sheep and
cow on our mountains-yea, by which
every young farmer who has paid only
half for his farm, would have the whole
wrested from him for his discharge from
the other half-THEY forsooth, were at
tending to their legitimate business, were
guilty of no waste of time But when
YOU, catching the alarm from their doings,
arose en- masse, and rushed on foot and
horseback, on sleds and sleighs, Wagons
and carts, into primary assemblies, to re-
Duke their unhallowed designs and devise
measures for the rescue of your country
from the ruin which overshadows her
yes, when you, throwing by for single
day, your fail and your axe, your handsaw
and hammer-gathered yourselves togeth-
er to consult how you can save the past
earnings of years and secure to future la
Dor fair reward-the day you thus spend
is set down as lost, and the value of it
summed up and thrown in your teeth as
so much money wasted, which ought to
have been bestowed "to cause plenty to
smile in the cottage ofwant." o misera-
BILE, miserable calculators Yes, many a
cottage of want is there indeed in this
land, in which plenty has been accustomed
to smile; and many more are there yet
smiling which are threatened with want, by
the madness ofthose in power and thanks
TO the young Wings of Washington coun-
ty,-thanks to the true democracy of the
Union, they are awake and willing to
spend not only a day, and consider it no
sacrifice, but year, if need be, to ward
off from our cottages, the blow aimed at
Etheir comforts, then security and their
homes