Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-01-10
STATE OF VERMONT.
As.p'esf S fssg Gsps,oFs Ofo,.
Huiisnd, 1th Ian8afv. lss1.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. No /.

- ACi ~ ff.aitnn go SIC uf'liiat having rAAsco
ths I~rislscfe 81 ~ las, session. revising snd ma
isnsilv s',erinr ihe system. becomes necessary
ihs, .srn. iuiormaiioa 10 promulgated IN regard to
ns dutie, ani responsibilities. fof The Observance Of
ibo-e roaming within ~ Jurisdiction
Tn revision ~ tho system called Tor by the
nscessucs Of III. public. wheiher - citirens or
men s8l3eei 60 ts duties The large, sud IN some
cases snrrssonaic demand claimrd hy ihcn from
p.s usssuiy.--ths want 81 ssh',icnt responsibility
and ofFan,xa'ioa 81 separate d'p,r mrnis 10 order
81 fenssr frashle tie proper an1 lcsiiiml'e dis
charge ~ their duiies-the neglect In tho making
and iin,c, transmission Of al The required returns.
tho inshiiy oisia and preserve the fUll and per
feet records and of the STATE, owing % ncgl-
genre and the urfsponsIbi,uY felt by officers IN
evsry grade snd the discharge sf officers without
tufIicien, discretion ~ 10 times aud circumstances
and wlhoai am records Of such discaarcos nr even
-rclsfn Of Them when made,the system Of fines re-
laTtd and made imperative by csrelcssness IN col
iccune and grooming in business like manner
and, Ia fine, the inscntinn. neglect and want OF
spon.'bihiy n officers ia all The departments, de-
noted either the inetliccenry Of the laws or the
wan, Of spirit and energy to carry them into effect
TIA, system approtlmsiing in any jus, degree
20 perfect corfcrtnn 20 existing evils, or supply
of actual Deficiencies. the last have been er.
p-c,ed !, presents vide field Tor inquiry and in.
vcs'irsunn--a field on which have commended doubt,
M policy, tie crecnccS Of the times the an hiiinn
and vanity Of men and the wants Of government ahl
each ~ ihcir tufn has sicnally failed. --on which
pioneers 10 military sense, have uo, alone made
oppro7caes. TIE heads Of government, the chiefs
Of departments, Legislators. statesmen and tie militia.
~ mcE. have extended the investigation, ard have
tuccossively failed to furnish develupsments
other than ihose which tie republics Of other day,
have long sine presented us. No system had been
matUted Sufficiently feasible to be adopted by the
general government willie cnheI embarrassed Ly
the difficulties Of, the subject, or doubtful as 10 The
powers granted By the constitution they have apain
and again referred it to the action Of the s,a,es-
but al tie same time tie views and Considerations
there elected End presented have found their way
through the Community and rt0du,en cnanre up
on the public mind. And the committee of revision
whose reported bill has become the law under which
We now act, could no, disregard tho voice Of the
public, claiming i, docs 10, have tor its support
The wisdom Of experience tie dict1tes Justice and
sound sense, and the wants Of the stale And il
may be proper perhaps in justice to the views and
opinions of that committee. TO remark that no sub.
iect Of statutory law could be presented for inquiry
and remedial provisions, iraught with more Difficult.
~ resulting from eyperience,--mote uncertainty
arising, on the one hand rom disrus, ofiudpmen,
as to what is most slutary and necessary, and on
The other, from wan, OF confidence in that popol,r
opinion which has sometimes heretofore condemned
before II has faithfully ,ued,-mnre inlrjcacv from
the preIudces which have invested 1t by the mass
at those hostile 10 the exsctious of duties in which
they detect no benefit, and by those impa,ien, oC
that restraint, The wholesnmness Of which they doom
doObiol, and the saluary effects Of which ,bev do
not perceive. There arc those whose claims
Tor all the duties which a military system ran
impose and all the principles which it can con-
"' "hh""i reference 10 time. number, or ex.
pehse' seem paramount 10 the necesSiries ofcommo-
my The requirements Of the constitution or u,ilty
70 NE state 1t should in Justice to itself perhaps.
ne s'l1' tha lis Importance is thus exiravarantly es
"m'tfd am is claims thus inconsderaiely URGED
upon community, from a sense Of the unjust neglect
" in which - has often met and the eNtreme with
N"'oh " has been undcrvalued. Upon this subject
NE progress NJ opinion has been such that the ne
oess''F Tor trimming the Of the militia between
me ages which the laws require cannot be impress
81 Upon lhe minds uf community reduction Of
we hiH''' For this purpose is imperously demanded
oy We Necessity AZ the case. The training IL such
a number. thrown together by compulsion. wirhou,
taste or oci hss been ,sntlS ,ried IN ms Cas,
lis utter shsutdly. Few ofits officers are adequate
by informed 10 teach any system, sud the citizens
themselves cannot Ice sufficiently impressed with its
Importance to learn events frs, rudiments Could
The time even ofihc many days or weeks, necessa.
~ % the discipline Of good soldier be afforded hv
tie ci'Iren TIE expense, which m such case
should he borne hy the public, would never he de.
trs,ed hy The states To meet these objections.
reduction 81 the militia has been made. and IL 70.
mains 10 he determined whether II he wisely made
II miiisry dTy he dofe Al II were better tha, a.
IL vsH dpns And Il there are those who seek IT,.
duties and So privileges, who are emulous o. .is
hono1 snd attractions, aud have cor,ec, taste for
us discipline ne beauty 81 Us evo'u,inns and use
iuioess o'hs study, D, Is implicitly believed ,he,o
are many such 70 them ne ,sw throws on, IN. d,
dB0fmsnis and invites thom. ty voluntary assoc,
'fr's, 10 unlie iu ss'ab'isi ine f7rce ihatwi
he ciseraoeiul 10 themselves. hui hoeorstl. ana
Sfr'eeaole 20 he s'',s Upon tie ro-opera,,,- =,
sofh' We 1"miaandeT-iu-ohef relies. corGls,,l,
H''' " ''H, ne present laws into fsll, eompelen,
and rs'tset eIec,
ne report "i the C0uuci q Ceuso,s "a a.. =.
fe'''"'ei ~ 1871. N vhieh thew 8.c,3. ,h,, 81 l..
o ''or' "s'i''l sre unconstitutional Ia. c,.,,,s
ho'h eiHoui'r IN ths cnertion n fses s,s ,,,,..s
YEA sifToss 70 tie state. ami wers il M, ,h.,
s' 81 NE jo''ioes ~ she peace N ,hi. snioh,eoe4
sN1'''s'' shsf permitting their uuos, pteiua,ee,
L o'sfs0aas shsig beusr judgment. or po....,,o,