Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-09-03
Rutland County.

w nat 10 make OF tilc DTanUOH VOICE ~ TFte-
dom we are at a loss to know! But a few days
have passed since we took occasion to express
our admiration of the judicious and sensible
course it has pursued under the management of
Mr.. 1lolcomb, and noo we are constrained to
say that its leading editorial, of last week, ava
kens no feeling but that ofprofound establishment
and disgust. We have rarely seen more indi-
cent or more indelensible attack made upon
political opponent than Mr.. Holcomb has permit
ted himself to make upon as thorough going,
intelligent and true-hearted a WING as there is
in Vermont, the Hon. GEO. Il. HoDGEs, of Rut-
land and for causes that have no more connec-
ton with the PRINCIPLES of the Wing Party than
they have with the increase of population in the |
Sandwich Islands
Mr.. IIoDGEs is one of the regularly nomina-
land County, and is opposed by the Voice for his
alleged hostility to the incorporation of a Bank
in Brandon, and for his course in reference to the
nomination of the Hon. Mr.. Villas as President
pro tempore of the Senate, at the last session of
the Legislature.
As TO the first Of these complaints we have
only to say that, in our judgment the only proper
time and place for the discussion and settlement
| of it was the Conuentior The chaltering or
| re-chartering of particular Banks is exclusively
local interest, and does not enter in the remo-
test degree, as we understand into the question
as to what constitutes Wing PRINCIPLES. Those
counties or sections which desire Banks are en-
tirely at liberty 10 test the question as to their
expediency in their primary assemblies-they
have no right TO say it is /" Wing Principle"
that one town is entitled to Bank because
another town has one. The question is one to
be decided entirely on its individual merits, and
is incapable of being elevated into a principle.
Our own opinion is that the claims of the people
of Brandon for Bank are meritorious, and that
they will be acknowledged by the Legislature.
We are in favor of Bank in Brandon because
we believe TIE large and rapidly increasing bu-
siness OF that town requires one but that Wing
principles are in any manner involved in the
determination of such question, any farther
than that it is correct principle to provide for
the stability Of the currency, we utterly deny.
OF the other matter of omplaint-namely
the course of Mr. HopGEs respecting the cleo
ton of Mr.. Villas as President pro TEN. of the
Senate, we feel it to be our duty to speak, both
from our acquaintance with the facts, and from
the allusion made to us by the Voice The
charge and inference are that Mr.. HoDGEs pro-
cured the election of MIR. Villas as a reward for
the latter Senator's hostility TO the Brandon
| Bank A more gross and abusive attack upon
both the gentlemen named could not be mag
ined 1t is within our own personal knowledge
that there is not the remotest foundation for it.
We can inform the Voice that Mr.. HODGES had
not received the slightest inmation that it was
f proposed to elect Mr.. Villas until he took his
seat IN the Senate Chamber moi fre miHWe,
before the election took place. He was not APP
G prised, until that moment, Of the temporary ILL.,
: ness Of the Lieut.. Governor, which made the
d. election of President pro ten. necessary. Oul
4 own recollection of the matter was (untl it was
! corrected by eXamination) that the nomination
, even was not made by Mr.. lloDGEs, but by q
G Senator of our own County. Certain it is thai
we ourselves communicated to Mr.. IIoDGEs the
! suggestion OF certain Wing Senators that tli.
{ act of courtesy should be extended to a promi
$ nent Senator of the small minority, and we are
r happy TO state that it received his prompt ant
gentlemanly assent. That he made the nomina
ton is a circumstance that may easily have es
capped his recollection, (as it did ours) though i
was one in all respects creditable both to him
= self aud to the Senate
And now few words as to the election itself
d and we leave the unpleasant discussion. Dur
. ing the whole period Of our connection with thu
Senate we take special pleasure in saying it ha
:, been the manifest, uniform and honorable desir
Of Senator's while maintaining in decided We
1 courteous manner tne distinctive views ant
l. principles of their respective parties, to cncour
@ age and cultivate those relations Of persona
harmony and respect whch are, Among gentle
. men, quite compatible with political differences
N The election of Mr.. Villas was not, by an
= means, the first outward manifestation of this at
Of mirdble spirit among Senators. In 1915, on tn
n occasion of the retirement of Gov. EATON fror
the Presidency of the Senate committee wa
,r appointed (of whom the Ion. Mr. MOVES,
Il wise some unusual form in which the respet
re and esteem of Senators for their Presiding on
r Ger should be conveyed to him. A paper warnl
N expressing this respect and esteem for the cha
acter and services of Gov. EATON was prepare
10 by this committee, unanimously accepted, slGYE
II by EVERY MEMBER OF THE SENATE, Wings al
is Democrats, and on mofion Of dis rery Mr.. VIA
ct ORDERED TO BE ENTERED ON THE JOURNAL, whel
or it now stands record honorable to the SENAT
Of Vermont! 1t was the pleasant remembrance
N Of THIS act of high-mnded and gentleman
TO courtesy, and not the housing and contemptib
Us motive unworhy imputed by the Voice, thu
Ks led Mr.. lloDGEs to nominate, and the Sena
lie UNANIMOUSLY TO elect, a prominent member
It's the Minority to the temporary honor Of the Pre-
III idency. When such acts of generous and hig
H. toned kindness and Cancellation are cited
he tianeworthy, it may not be loo early to inqu
to to what extent the partisan is TO be required
IF sink the gentleman.
es u We are pleased to notice that, at the r