Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-04-14
TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL IL, 1913.

less than it was one year since the list of the Sentinel
IS about 600 1t will be seen by this statement which
- probably correct as each editor presented his list
under OATH that the advertising OF the letters rightly
belonged 10 us but in accordance with custom pac
tlsed III the cities mhch ace think is unjust Tie list Of
the dddy dndTeckIy Sentinel cOunied as one,
and by tins iicans that paper secures small bit rom
Uncle Sans crib
1t has been quite common for our lachrymose
Sister on the corner, since the commencement
OF her brilliant career in Burlington. to regale
that portion of the public who are favored with
the weekly pcrusal of the Gazette, with small
potatoc groaning and complaints because all her
coquettings for the Post Office printing have
gone for nothing. 1t is the method she adopts
TO parade the numbers OF dcluded citizens whom
by hook and by crook" she has got upon her
truck-and.dicker subscription list.-When the
printing Of the list of letters was first given to
tie Free Press. because it has the largest SUBJ
scription list GAS it had then and still continues
to havc), she announced very confidently that am
other three months would tell another story aud
that the gazette would then be the favored rccipi-
ent of this modicum Of Government sop. But time
wore away. quarter after quarter rolled round,
our Sisters dish didn't get under the spout and
she groaned in spirit and she walled in print
Now newspaper editors who have fancy for
this kind of sck-girl whining for the drippings
OF the Post Office, and who understand the taste
of their readers well enough to know that Mey
are interested in the housing matter, will prob.
ably continue to occupy their columns with such
trash. We, however, have cared nothing. and
our readers have cared less, (if possible) about
the Post Office printing, from the beginning.
MIR. NOBLE gave it to the Free Press, we take it.
not because he had any special fondness for this
paper, or its politics, but because, in the dis
charge of his duty he couldn't help himself
lie gave it to us g like Il man. Gas the chap
struck Billy Patterson. because he well knew
he had no right to give it to anybody else. In
deed. we rather think he would have preferred
to give it 10 Sister Briggs, rather than to US. for
he is a good-natured kind-hcartcd man, and
would have been glad, "oher things being ce-
teri, rrriJus" as Senator Footc of Mississippi
would say, to gladden. tie heart of that lugubri-
Gus matron. But he was compelled, reluctantly.
to assign the two-ccnt lis TO US and we took it,
knowing that we were neither asking nor re-
ceccving any faror. and knowing ALSO still bet
ter, that Mr.. NOBLE would chcerfuAy avail him
self of the first opportunity that might present it.
self, to take it away again. And he has done
so. Adding the issue Of brother PAuL's smart
little Daily to his handsome Weekly, and eking
out the concern by the subscription list of loco
foco paper lately, deiunct in St. Adams, (whose
subscribers have manifest reason to be grateful
iorttc arrangemenD. our good friend, Mr. NOME
doubtless found the SentineI's circulation, wnh-
IN Tie Coumy, the largest of the three; and.
therefore, he very properly gave it the list of
letters.
But Sister Briggs sheds tears because Mr..
PArL'S Da'iy was counted Nothing could be
more absurd. daily paper, that has its prin-
cipa' circulation direr'1y among he 49, I.4.-.-
are adreHiSed is just the paper, exactly, to print
the list. Printing it in the Ga.cie would be, in
comparison, Initiating the policy of Nero, who
stuck his DEGREES on the top of a pillar so hioh
that they couldn't be read, aud then punished his
slaves for not obcying them! Our own opinion
is that the list of advertised letters should ALWAYS
tie published in the paper having the largest cir
cnlation in tie To'cR where the Post Office is.
And We hold this opinion, neither knowing nor
caring which of the three papers here crculates
the most paper+ in Burlington. And we believe
this to be the true intent and meaning of the law.
makers in framing the Post Office law. The
o,gcri OF publishing is 10 convey to those hav-
ng uncalled-lor letters in the Office, intelligence
Of that flct-and thus to accommodate and
oblige lie Pu5hr,-not to put money in the
purse Of a printer. And if we happen to have
a larger subscription TO our Daily, at the end of
/ three months, than Mr.. PAUL has to his. we
mean to claim the printing of the Letters
o. that ground, and rather guess we shall
get It - though we take occasion to say that we
shall neither make public proclamation of our
/ own mental augulsh, nor Of our neighbors' sub.
crirtion listr if we donf. We think we can
employ both our time and our columns TO more
useful purposes.
But we are saying more on this topic than we
proposed 10 do. One word as to the Gazette's
silly parade OF its own subscription, and It's i'm
pertinent parade Of ours, and We have done -
Aad we have only 10 say that We wouldn't eX.
change any six hundred subscribers. taken in
their order On our books, for the wiole list of the
! G. 2.ttc. Oar subscribers are SUBSCRIBERS. in
the I, ne sense Of the word. They have come 10
us with tl.c generous and manly understandings
tina, between IA. Editor and as readers there
exists mutual relation If obligations and du-
ties. they have not been dc "ged nor corner
ed nor dl>gusted with solicitations til they have
consented Ia support our paper as a matter OF
charity. or 10 permit 1t io be sent to thei. Il :
long As nnc-pence or n couple of codiish
would pay for it. We have been party to no
arrangement by which the State has been dvi.
ded into districts for our benefit and consequently
have no mcrcenary quarrcs with our brethren
of the Press for thrusng their noses into our
balliwlck. We don't get our subscribers by the
ovnshlp, nor do we buy mp, by scheming agree
ments and concessions with other editors, whole
Congressional Districts. We purchase no slaves
AT home in order To strengthen our appreciation
of the exceeding siniulness of slavery elsewhere.
We sell ourscl TO no party at a dollar a head
to the purchasers. These pleasant little practi-
ces we leave TO those papers that make their
mutton by the loudest prctensions in behalf OF
; "libcriy and Freemen," and who arropate
to themselves all the orthodox sympathy eXtant
for the slave. We hone therefore when the