Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-03-07
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what free country Is ours none like
it under Heaven, See all Nations looking
to u, 90 a sample. and seeking TO our shores
cnvyieg US oar hsppisess And verify ours
!, great country too-pcu 10 large. u
we except that Of The great Russian Auto
craft and we probably should soon have out
stretched that. had the great 'Michigandcr
succeeded 10 tho Presidency Bat az Il Is
we shall probably have 10 stand for time,
in siafu QUO. he having To stin, his greedy
NAV and chew awhile before swallowing
more territories foru But. yet after all
though We 6nd ourselves 50 tree. SO great
aud 50 happy, all are not satisfied -We
have little party or clan in our land, some
" them right Shout US, restless spirits
with itching palms who arc 1t seems not to
be satisfied With anything short Of Free
soil Free Negroes or more, Free suffrage,
Free-irade. Frce.eyeytblng. even Free
Office, what they crave OF it, or they are
prosecuted beyond onduranee-Wel now,
this is free Country. a very free Country
and VIC could really wish to see all Of our
friends particular our good liberty loving
ones eratihcd and satisfied to their hearts
content But don't they ask too much :!
We may ride free country as well M
free horse, too bArd-and it would really
be somewhat amusing. were 1t not rather
too serious a subject for mirtb, to Just view
or review our good nowlight political friends
q little in retrospect compare their say
ings aud doingS, test their consistency &c.
One year we find them 80 wonderfully zeal
Gus and Conscientious that they cant vote
for any one, Representative or anything
else, who is not 4 tried, whole and total
temperance aboitionist; no dallying with
sin, say they, no fellowship with iniquity.
And the ne1r year we find them ready 20
vote for anti temperance, anti abolitlonists,
anti-anything and to unite with all par
lies, clans or castles, to vote down their OPP
poncnts aud raise themselves to notice aud
preferment And such is abolition free-soil
democracy with US, at about the middle OF
tho 10Th Cen;ury-Nor is this all that
seems to claim our notice at this time Our
friends appear to be wonderfully excited
and alarmed about our forth coming change
of rulers, Federal aristocratic misrule say
they, for four years to come. at least with
restrictions, protective tariffs and ever as,
tbs said test accounts, and usagcs as in
Great Britain, combining each and every
man TO his particular vocation trade or
calling tending and intended as protection
to the favored ones, Shareholders, and a
check or stop lock to our Yankee genius
and enterprise. But, now; though we as
Wings. disclaim all thoughts or designs of
carrying out such like views to their full
extent, yet. we would merely suggest
whether they might not in part be adopted
to advantage-For instance we would not
say that minister should not be anything
disc but minister, but we would say that
he should not or ought not to be every
thing else but a minister. And again, il
he IA minister chooses to be his own tink-
er, cobbor and tailor. and even to mix up
and fix up and use his own lobeia pills and
pepper, why let him; for this is free
country. But yet we think that he ought
not to be dealing in and peddling such
things about too much, interfering with 9th
ers interests and concerns And so with
his politics. Oddfellowsbip, &c. dc And
again, should he see ct to indulge in ma
king personal illusions, drawing caricatures
handling, lifting and estimating characters
and conscionces, why, what of it-such
course would doubtless be gratifying to him
and some of his hearers; and whether edi-
flying or not, seems to be matter Of minor
Importance. easily dispensed with in these
dlggins. And this is free country, a very
free country, and thank God the Press is
as free as the Pulpit. T.