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

We have not seen particle of the stuff, forming
Inc ammunition Of our opponents for the present
campaign, that is not redolent of the kernel They
have expended all the available contents of their
magazines upon the old impregnable Wing fortress,
and now II appears they to try what virtue
there may be in the slime Of the gutter. Thus far
no one, not even the veteran Major ofthe Age, has
evInced such consummate aptitude for this new
plan OF operations, as the doughty Captain our
neighbor of the Patriot. Whether il comes bv
nature, or by dint of long continued practice, we
know not; but we satisfied that he bids fair to
signallze himself above all his competitors. One
thing is certan-he is constantly improving. And
last week he clearly outdd himself and discharged
dirtier pellet than ever escaped his hands before
It's nature is such that we constrained TO exam
inc 1t. We should shrink from meddIing with il,
IT duty did not forbid. II contains several uniruths
and misrepresentation calculated to deceive and
mislead; and they must be exposed, even if our
noslrils do take offence.
Reserving the commencement of the article for
subsequent consideration we commence in nedias
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 an
nual State expenses have risen from sal ,s74 Oh in
1876, to $l3O,l77 Sc in is43."
The State expenses in 1926 were $50, O39 46, as
appears by the Auditors Report Of that year now
before us. For the purpose Of serving your des.
picablc object, Mr. Editor of the Patriot you stated
1t over $4,000 less The expenses for s43, seven
teen years afterwards, were 800, 2l079, as appears
by the report of the same year this amount you
increased nearly 1874 900, to favor your dishonest
ends. But why did you select the year '26 rather
than 20 or ~, or other years about that period
and why AZ rather than "A or 42' Because your
purposes could be better suited by comparing those
two particular years. the expenses of the one being
for peculiar reasons, uncommonly low, and those
ofIh other uncommOnly high. And why did you
not eniighen your readers little respecting the
items which went to account for this increase p
Why did you not say something of the outlay in
43 for the debentures of the Constitutional Con.
vention, amounting 10 5000 81 and of the large
ly enhanced debenturcs of the General Assembly
consequent upon the establishment of the State
Senate, which did not exist in 269 Why did YOU
not mention the expenses OF militia drills of which
your party were the especial champions, now happi-
ly abolished, but in 43 amounting TO $3,5O0 and
in 20 not costing one red cent? Why not men
ton the largely increased sums appropriated for the
relief of the deaf, dumb, blind, and insane, against
which appropriations not man of your party dared
to wag his tongue And why not speak of tho
extension of the State Judiciary and why not of
the heavy payments of interest upon the Stale
debt, which you yourselves helped to contract p.
Nota syllable of all this and much more to the
same effect. Every thing tending to an explana-
uon Is s'udousy KEEP; out of view, for the sake OF
hood-winkng and quilting the 'dcar people Now