Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-08-17

These were their arguments in Congress, nj icas,
IS where matters had to DO brought TO locus
am not sure that the wings bad even as many
definite plans as these during the campaign OF ~
The charges sgains, the opposition were many
b and grievous but the plans were lew ana Ia
!. between. Where, then, are the alsehoods =
). Docs the Herald man say tina, the tract speak'
0 falsely when it says that the Wings have succeed
. ID in their plans because they have not csab
lished everything that may have crept into the ad
s die brains OF some few members Of the party!
,. reply, that no candid and honest mind would I'm
dersisnd the sentence quoted from the tract--they
r have succeeded IN their plans'-to mean anything
more than than the plans there previously speci
fed, viz a bankrupt, distribution, and tariff act
But take it in its broades possible meaning
think it has been sufficiently shown that these
three acts were the main plans of the wings
and Lhai hey hare succeeded in them no one riii
deny With regard 10 the rest of the extract
. the sS month and low prices Of wool and cattle
1.-THE experience Of almost every one will attest
to its truth Where, then, I repeat, is the false.
hood leave ii for honest men to Judge wheth'
or in the extract or at the door Of the Rutland
Herald"
Now as this erudite writer says that mo one wii
deny that The wings hare succeeded in carrying
these three measures, viz the tariff, bankrupt and
io'S''OuHoH ats, we Will MOI DC so unCNll as 10
lay him in the lie by 50 doing. But really friend
'Pho', there seems to DO some mistake about this
matter and the people generally are laborng under
very different impression. However, we presume
you are right and they still in ignorance of the
true fate of the distribution act. Whether almost
erery one will attest to the truth Tor no of the as
serion that cattle will sell for scarcely enough to
pay the taxes on them, we do not know, though we
Imagine that it would require considerable testimony
to that effect to induce Rutland county farmer TO
sell his cattle for any such sum. We therefore feel
bound to re-assert that the quotation alluded too
contains, las does the whole tracD unbnshing open
and barefacsd (alsehoods arifuiiy interviewer with
occasional pointless shafts at locofocoism nd all
designed the moro success fully to delude and win
the wing abotoniss from the support of the whip
party the only party to which right min ded aboli-
tlonsts can look with any degree of confidence as
being able to sustain their principles of abolition
against the slaveocracy of the South, and the poli,
icai Ducrows Of the North, who clad in the habili
ments OF liberty men, 'oiH 60 masquerading play
ing such fantastic tricks in the garb of holy mem
andin the cause Of human freedom, as wou Id make
the angels weep'-or smile we know not which
But again.--This amable gentlemen utterly de-
MES that the condemnation of the leaders of the
third party expressed last year by the freemen,
was an 'un-mstakeable condemnation at all-and
adds, what we think is decidedly unprety, that i'll
zoe hno,0 any thing, we know BETTER Well, as the
decision OF this question depends entirely upon the
temperamens Of those judging we will not dispute |
The question: Though we certainly did so regard |
the matter at the time and If we recoect rightly |
some gentlemen who know enough to be candidates
for high offices in the liberty party Mcn felt
As we do not consider that we have the best rea-
sons for believing that the ocofocos have majority
in the Union, Philo will us for not answer
ing his uery pertinent question in connection with
that assumption And as for the supposition of our
living in New HdmpShire it is all of the ques
ton. IL IS not supposajle case We wouldn't
live in such a state of locofocoism for all the world
But the gentleman proceeds to moralize hus
"The fact is, Mr.. Herald, Truth and Righteous
ness have been unpopular since the fall of Adam !;
they have fallen in the streets and been oddsn IN
der foot of men; the multitude have gone on to do
evil; on the side Of the oppressor there has been
power; and it ever will be so, until people come to
be possessed Of more rejecting, independent minds
and honest hearts than appear to have fallen to your
lot"
Well, its the opinion Of our Devil that in the
above remarks we caught few We recollect
that we have always heard it stated as fact, that
truth and righteousness ,oere unpopular, and have
always wondered at il. In meditaing upon this la
menable fact, we have ever been lost in attempting
to account for it, We knou that quacks in medicine
bring disgrace oien upon the highest of all profess
sons, earthy-and the pr,udest devotee to the
genius and the warmest advocate for the honor and
resPec,ability of the Vaw, often hangs his head in
shame, as he witnesses the elevation of some dapper
bile nhorney,-who by his tricks and his auibblnp.
brings pence into his pocket, and by bestridinp this
hobby and that, receives honor OF mem and is placed
IN position which the more modest and far more
worthy votary of the science would not aspire 10
Noio II IS possible. 1--WE only make the suggestion)
that the same causes may be operating in regard to
truth and rghfeousness.' 1t may be that base hyp-
ocrltes and over jealous madmen who arropa,e TO
themselves all the purity and the Goodness, and
while they condemn all o,hers.-yet are Themselves.
materially retarding the cause of truth and right
eousness, occasoning their fall in the Streets be-
ing frodden under foot Of men, and causing mul-
titade to go astray.'
As 'Philo' IS undoubtedly possessed OF a reflect.
ing mind we hope he will take into his serious
consideration this nice question of chicks and in
me mean time we mus, for the present take our
leave Of him time allows we hope to be able to
make few dottings in reference to the finale of his
pery lengthy article next week
III IL was rather amusing (and certainly surpris-