Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-07-31


SEES OF the government"
| We have no doubt of your disposition to rid your
selves of the burden of supporting government, and
of the payment of either the interest or the princ
| pal of the State debt This horrid debt would be
Legitimate subject, if you could only get chance
to try it. for reputation, the approved Democratic
arrearage-extinguisher But the people, it so hap
pens are troubled with q conscience, and have the
misfortune to believe this an honest debt and are
willing to pay it in the way they shall think proper.
Whether it is to be done by aboshing the school
fund, and thus balancing the debit and credit sides
of their books by stroke of the pen in other
modes, they can determine for themselves without
consulting Locofoco oracles. OF this one thing be
assured, long the debt subsiss, the people are
ready to defroy the expenses of its continuance.
But still further:
"Perhaps they startled when they see that
not less than S3,4e2 80 was paid to our neighbor
Waltons in one year-lSi3."
If it was 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 7. Marston bid for that contract
did he not, and was underbidden by the publishers
of this paperP And here you would convey the
idea that "neighbor Watons" were the particular
favorites 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 sticklers
for truth who would unhesitatingy term this the
most abandoned impudence on your part, but for
courtesy's sake, we will characterize it as nothing
worse than barefaced, shameless effrontery. You
are welcome to make the most of our enity.
And now for the conclusion of the whole matters
ave can tell the people of this State that I'M
less they throw aside party prejudices and predi-
lections and take this business earnestly in hand
they will continue to sink deeper and deeper in the
mlrc of insolvency until their cause is helpless
They must arise and break the party shackles that
bind them like straw and now is the appropriate
time-the Presidential election having passed, as
well as of members of Congress-"
We wonder not that the editor of the Patriot is
so very willing to cast national politics out of the
field of controversy. The damning act of annex
ing Texas to this Union, for the avowed object of
Strengthening and perpctuating the most diabolica
institution that ever cursed the globe, it is not
The deadly designs of his political friends to pros
trate the system of American Industry to the dust,
and thus bury the whole land in RUM it is natural
enough he should be little anxious to have kept
out of view. But, nevertheless, the people have
word to say in regard to this matter They have
got to manifest that they do not sanction such abom-
Unable outrages, such atrocious enormites And
they will not be diverted from their duty by all the
falseheod and scurrility that whole army, like him
OF the Patriot, can scatter over the land.
And now few words in regard to the express
sions with which the article from the Patriot is pre-
fixed, and we have done. 1t is true that language.
similar to that quoted, disparaging 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 tho
roughly understand that these attacks were but the
miserable ebullitions of personal spleen. No one
of the least discernment attributed the course TAX
en- by the persons in question to any earthly cause
but the pltlful qualification of private grudge. The
spirit which animated them was too apparent, and
their motives too glazing, to escape observation.
Acting in concert, they both, in round unmeas-
ured language, made charges ofthe most sweeping
character. The Convention, after cautiously lis
tening, demanded something more than empty IL
rades; they asked for tangible averments and spe-
citic allegations. Whereupon they both forthwith
ransacked their memories and their imaginatons;
and the only thing that they could drag out of their
dark recesses, by dint of the most perseverng eff
forts, bearing the remoest shape of direct Charge
was ptiful falsehood, that blushed, as soon as it
was introduced to the light, at its own naked de-
formity. 1t affirmed that hundred dollars had
been drawn, few days previous from the Treasu-
ry, without warrant. The assertion was at once re-
iuted, triumphantly. 1t was proved upon the spot
that the money was paid by the Treasurer, in pur-
suance of an order from the Auditor, which order
was issued by the direction of the Governor given
IN conformity to an act passed at the last session
OF the Legislature, providing for the publication
of digested Index of the Vermont Reports
The whole proceeding was shown to be perfectly
egal and regular; and the charge was so clearly
proved to be utterly false and preposerous that one
of the accusers arose and apologized, aney enough
it is true, but with good grace as was possible
under the circumstances, for his ridiculous folly:
while the other did not attempt reply of any char
acer whatever but sat sulkily silent, Just as you
might expect a convicted calumnator would; and
when the final vote was taken, he was the only in.
diydual in the room that had the hardihood, after
what had transpired, to vote in opposition 10 the
nomination. Our opponents must be reduced TO
ptiful extremity indeed if they are forced to avail
themselves of the help of such auxiliaries. Let
them make the most of the succor they can derive
from such IA source!
No man in community is more universally re-
spected where he is known, none has fewer enc.
mics, than john SPALDTNG, the present Treasurer
Of this State. He has resided amongst us from his
boYhood. and by his nnifnrm nnrinhtnnss and in