The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-08-27
From the Montpelier Watehman.
LOCO FOCO VERACITY AND DE
CENCY

We have not seen a particle ofthe stuff,
forming the ammunition Of our opponents
Tor the present campaign, that is not redolent
OF the Kennel They have expended all the
available contents oftheii magazines upon the
old impregnable Wing fortress, and it now
appears they are 70 try what virtue there may
be in the slime Of the gutter. Thus for no
one, not even the veteran Major of the Age,
has evinced such consummate aptitude for
this new plan corporations, as the dough-
ty Captain, our neishbor of the Patriot.
Whetherit comes by nature or by dint of long
continued practice, we know not; but we
are satisfied that he bids fair to signalze him.
self above all his competitors. One thing i:
certain-he is constantly improving. And
last week he clearly out-did himself, and dis
charged dirtier pelt than ever escaped his
hands before. Its nature is such that we are
constrained TO examine it. We should
shrink from meddling with it If duty did not
forbid. Ii contains several untruths and
misrepresentation calculated to deceive and
mislead; and they must be exposed, even il
our nostrils do take offence.
Reserving the commencement of the ar
ticle for subsequent consideration, we com
mence in medals res, and begin with the list
of editors charitable apprehensions.
Perhaps the people at large are startled
and alarmed when they look back and see
that the annual State expenses have risen
from $41 ,974 OF in 1926, 10 $I3O,176 Sc in
IS43.'
The State expenses in 1926 were S52,-
039 46, as it appears by the Auditors Report
of that year now before Us. For the pur-
pose of serving your despicabe object Mr..
Editor of The Patriot, you stated it over S10,-
900 less. The expenses of 1843, seventeen
years afterwards, were 1924 IS, as ap-
pears by the Report OF the same year; this
amount you increased nearly S31, 900, TO IA
vor your dishonest ends. But why did you
select the year '26 rather than '25 or 81 or
other years about that period and why 43
rather than IA or '42? Because your pur-
poses could be better suited by comparing
those two particular years, the expenses Of
the one being, for peculiar reasons, uncom-
monty low, and the other uncommonly high. |
And why did you not enlighten your readers |
a little respecting the items which went 10 |
accontlor this increased Why did you not /
say something OF The outlay in 43 for the de-
bentuTes of the Constitutional Convention, |
to sc. 800 81? and of the largely /
debentufes of the General Assem-
bly, consequent upon the establishment ofthe /
Stale Senate. which did not exist in '26 |
Why did not you mention the largely IN
creased sums appropriated for the relief of
the deal, dumb, blind and insane, against
which appropriation not man ofOur patty
dare wag his tongue2 And why not speak
of the extension Of the State Judiciary q? and
why not of the heavy payments of interest
upon the State debt, which you yourselves
helped contract? Not a syllable of all this,
and much more TO the same effect. Every
Thing tending TO an explanation is studiousy
kept out of view, for the sake OF hoodwinking
and gulling the dear people, Now we in
;ist upon it, that the most rigid and syste
netic economy was exercised in the year IS
10, and also in all other years since Wing
councils have prevailed; and we defy you
and your whole fraternity, TO lay your fingers
Upon a single opriation which your own
party opposed or one which every considera-
ion of honor or prudence did not impera-
lively demand Such foul baldredash is con-
emptible.
But again:
perhaps they are alarmed when they see
our State debt run up TO some S240000, and
increasing. Notwithstanding the
lBnudl ten cent ldX.
How was this debt originally incurred 2
BY the erection oil State House, thai has
proved an ornament and a credit TO our gal
ant State. Did you oppose it? Can you
ind the name of a man in your party rec
,rded in the Legislative Journals against
his measure? No sir, not one. And here
'ou are hypocritically exclaiming against
he consequences your own acts. Out up
u such hollow cant!
Perhaps they are startled and alarmed
When they behold tax OF ten cents on dol
ar of the Grand List annually assessed 10
efray the expenses of the government
We have no doubt Of your disposition 10 rid
'ourself of the burden of supporting the gov
rnment and Of the payment ofeither the in
crest or the principal of the State debt
This horrid debt would be a legitimate sub
ect if you could only get chance to try il,