Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-04-26
PERSONAL.

In the Waterman of April s, we indicated an
unwillingness to enter into any public contest
relative to the managers of,he Central Railroad,
for the reason that such contest would be in
furious TO the road, to the Stockholders, and 10
the people who are deeply interested in its com
peton and success. That paragraph has been
the foundation Of ferocious personal attack up
on the editor of the Waterman, which will be
found in the Patriot of April l9.h. IF this at
tack was made by the Patriot man in the expec-
tation that he would be shielded by our express
sed determination not to permit controversy,
it was cowardy act But his real intention
more probably was, TO provoke us to depart from
our purpose to drlre US into controversy. In
that he will fail. Beyond this, we have but
few words 10 say about the Putriot. The gist OF
its charge is, that we have not endeavored TO
hasten the completion OF the road into Montpe-
lier--lhat we have not complained because the
road was finished to Mortified instead of Mont
pelier; and The reason It intlmates is, that the
editor of the Waterman is Clerk of the Compa-
ny. If the Waterman has been at fault, we
have only to say that The Patriot has been equal
ly a, fault up TO the month OF February last
And how stood the matter them? According TO
our understanding of the case, the managers and
contractor of the Company were at that moment,
and up to this hour have been, faithfully and en-
egetically at work 10 complete the road to Mont
pelier at the EARLIEST moment possible. Was il
lust, was it honorable, to assail them under such
circumstances We think not and think
ing, we could not have assailed them we would
not assail even personal enemy under such cir
cun,stances.
Az to our Clerkship: we took it reluctantly
against our own judgment. 1t was at time
when no controversy, no dissatisfaction, in Mont
pelier was anlcipated when illis town rather
was one of the main spokes in the wheel, ant
Justly regarded as the early, earnest and, finan
cially, altogether the strongest supporter of the
enterprise 10 be found in the State. The Patri
OF in,imates that this little Office has Induced Vi
to be failhless to Montpelier. Precisely the re
verse of that is the truth Our position in TIT
Company has permitted us 10 attempt to advance
the interests Of the Road, of the public and O
our own town, in mode which we could Eo
otherwise have adopted it has given us the op
'portunity to support the rights and interests G
Montpelier at least far more hopefully than W
could do it by becoming, or appearing to be
come, the public enemy of the road or ills mar
sgers That opportunity has not been neglect
ed. If the time ever comes when it shall be nc
cessary to prove whether the Patriot and its ad
visers, If it has any on this subject, which W
somewhat doubt,) or oursclf, has been most faith
full to Montpelier, to the public and to the Con
pany, we shall be ready to show our hand. Fo
the present, we think we can safely permit tn
editor of the Patriot to vent his spleen as freol
as he pleases, consoling ourself with the rehec
ton that nnprovoked and unjust abuse eve
harms rather the enlhor than the object of it,