Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-08

ternty, to lay your fingers upon single appropria-
ton which your own party opposed, or one which
every consideration Of honor or prudence did not
imperatvely demand. Such foul balderdash is
contemplate
But again:
"Perhaps they are alarmed when thew see our
State debt run up to some $4,000, and constantly
increasing Notwithstanding the annual ten cent
tax"
How was this debt originally incurred By the
erection Off State House, that has proved an or
nament and credit to our gallant State. Did you
oppose il Can you find the name of man in
your party recorded in the Legislative Journals
against the measures No sir, not one And here
you are, hypocrtcOlly exclamng against the con.
sequences of your own acts. Out upon such hol-
low hant
"Perhops they startled and alarmed when
they behold tax OF ten cents the dollar of the
Grand List annually assessed to deifay the expen-
SEES Of the government.
We have no doubt ofyour disposition TO rid your
selves the burden Of supporting government, and
of the payment Of either the interest or the prnci.
pal Of the State debt This horrid debt would be
legitimate subject, it, you could only get chance
to try ii, for reputation, the approved Democratic
pens, are troubled with a conscience, ard have the
misfortune 10 believe this an honest debt, and are
willing to pay in the way they shall think proper
Whether it is to be done by abolishing the school
fund, and thus balancing the debt and credit sides
of their books by stroke of the PEN or in other
nodes they can determine for themselves without
consulting Locofoco oraccs or this one thing be
assured, as long the debt subssis the people are
ready TO delray the expenses ofits continuance.
But still further:
"Perhaps they are startled when they sce that
not less than S3,4623o was paid 10 our neighbor
Walton S in one year-lS43.'
lift possible for the editor of the Patriot to
blush, his cheek must have been suffused with the
deepest crimson, when he penned the foregoing
sentence That sum paid out for printing was
it not That printing was let out by contract was
it not Jeremiah T. Marston bid for that contract.
did he not, and was uadeJbidden by the publishers
Of this papers And here you would convey the
idea that neighbor Waltons were the particular
favoriies of the State government when you your.
self by your act showed that you could not perform
the services required for the price at which they
did them There are some conscientious siicklers |
Tor truth who would unhesatugly term this the |
most abandoned mpudence your part, but for |
courtesys sake, will characterize it as nothing
worse than bareiaced, shameless effrontery. You |
are welcome to make the most Of our lenity.
And now for the conclusion of the whole matter.
owe can tell the people of this State, that I'm.
less ihey throw aside party prejudices and pred-
lecons and take this business earnestly in hand
they will continue 10 sink deeper and deeper in the
mlre Of insolvency until their cause is helpless -
They must arise and break the party shackes that
bind them like straw and now is the appropriate
time-the Presidential election having passed as
well as OF members OF CoDgfsss."
We wonder not that the editor Of the Patriot is
so very willing 10 cast national politics out Of the
field OF controversy. The damnng act Of annex
ing Texas TO this Union, for the avowed object OF
strengthening and perpetuating the most diabolica
institution that ever cursed the globe, it is not
strange he should wish Vermont freemcn 10 forget
The deadly designs of his political friends to pros.
trate the system of American Industry 10 the dust,
and thus bury the whole land in ruin, it is natural
enough he should be little anxious to have kent
il out Of view. But, nevertheless, the people have a
word TO say in regard TO this matter They have
got 10 manifest that they do not sanction such a.
bominabe outrages, such atrocious enormities.-
and they will not be diverted from their duty by all
the fasehood and scurrili,y that whole army,
And now few words in regard 10 the expires.
sions with which the article from the Patriot IS pre-
fixed, and we have done. II is true that language
similar TO that quoted, dspnraging the official con-
duct of our Treasurer, employed in our State
Convention by two individuals. But there was not
member of that Convention who did not thor.
oughly understand that these attacks were but the
miserable ebullitions Of personal spleen No one
Of the least dscernment attributed the taken
by the persons in question TO any earthly cause,
but the pitiful qualification Of private grudge. The
spirit which animated them was too apparent and
their motives too garng, to escape observation.
Acting in concert they both, in round unmeas.
ured language, made charges of the most sweeping
| character The Convention, after courteously lis
tenng, demanded something more than empty IL
rades; they asked for tangible averments, and spe-
cfc allegations. Whereupon they both forthwith
ransacked their memories and their maginatons
and the only thing that they could drag out their
dark recesses, by dnt of the most perseverng eff
FORTS bearing the rcmotest shape ola direct charge,
was pitiful lalsehood, that blushed as as it
was introduced to the light, at its own naked de-
formity. II affirmed that hundred dollars
had been drawn, few days previous, from the
Treasury, without warrant. The assertion at
once reluted, trlumphantly. II proved upon
the spot, that the money was paid by the Treasurer
| in pursuance of order from the Auditor, which
order was issued by the direction OF the Governor,
given in conformity to act passed at the last ses.
sion OF the Legislature, providing for the publica-
ton of dgested Index OF the Vermont Reports
The whole proceeding was shown to be perfectly
| legal and regular: md the charoe waa an CLEARLY