Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-03-02
The Planners Removal.

- Ii q 1cO7nd1l NOCdllOn 10 WTle pOnucS, DeE
sphere is at home," says one and another, and we
always say amen. 'Astonished' are you, gentle rei-
der! And did you think that Mrs Nichols "meddlcs
with politics" because she finds their details conger
ia with her tastes or for any reason but that polit
neddc with the happiness of home and its most g.
cred relations. with codn and all that is dearest
the affections and hopes of a true woman! If yol
dreamed that politics have any hold upon sympa
thies not strictly belonging to their power over III,
homes of the land for veal or woe-any claim upol
our time and efforts not identified with our own bom
interests. YOU have done us grievous wrong, des%F
der. and we pray you Just listen to brief chafr 81
state policy which forced upon our notice, few
DAYS since, and say if women, the ''guardian an
eels of the "sanctfv of home" and the ''invioahle
ness of the home relations have not call TO tcie
politics, to taM politics.
We were waiting, few days snce at railroad
station in a town some miles north of our home, wlRn
the "Overseer of the Poor" arrived, bringing fad
y consisting of father, mother and five childrtl
The family had applied to the town for aid and tie
town had ordered their removal to another town sore
sixty or seventy miles distant, being the legal II
sidence of the father and, according to the laws #
the State bound to furnish the support. The CO
cumstance of their removal was nothing new or stat
ling; but its very commences moved Dur wondr
that 'tmen noted for wisdom and virtue" and abu-
dainty familiar with the inhumanities and properly
waste of such system, had, year after year. sat d
our Legislative halls and moved resolution ordr
of inquiry after better way than the present, of II
moving the sick and nirm and helpless poor froa
town TO town for support The mother was bon
and as we were told, had always lived in the tow
from which they were being sent. She had marrid
a worthless, drinking man, whose capacity for COG
sumption, added to five little hungry mouths, excee-
ed her ability to provide for, and so she had ben
obliged to call on the town to assist her in her "hoe
dulles. 1--WE couldn't help thinking how, if tle
authorities who make laws, had secured TO hcfFss
own earnings, the drunken husband would have ben
kept sober enough of his time to earn his own run
and food and she have been saved the necessity 4
asking, and the town of assisting her in the dschare
of the duties of her peculiar sphere
But we do not purpose to dwell upon this SINCE
and by means extreme case. We have seen lie
aged couple, members of a Christian church. warpd
out of town where four years residence had won III
them the esteem of the good and not because thy
had applied for aid were they thus rudcly warned G
return to the town in which they had previously re
sded but because it had become morally certain tina
eff they didn't die before it happened they ,coul
be unable to support themselves, and, if not warne
out would gain residence and become a tax on til
town in which they then were. We have seen Is
movas of the sick and helpless from among friends
to the care of strangers, at expense which woulc
have gone far to make them comfortable where the7
were, and at the risk of life too. We have seen
year after year, that money is expended in law
suits, contestng, pressing the obligations of par
ticular towns to support paupcrs, than would suffice
TO keep said paupers in comfort And we have won
dered at the impohcy which continues so heathensh
system--a system which any of our ''wise meg
or good would be willing and anxious to have atE
provisions. There is but single class in commu&
ty pecunary benefited by this system, and that com
prises the lawyers, who-Heavcn save thcm-ar
doomed, poor fellows, to fattcn the leanness an
misery of half of all their clients and in paupe
causes, all the subjects of lawsuits.
And now, reader-rotng, ldtr-maLing reader
virtue of the fact that large proportion of the pau
pers arc women and children, those 'deities" an
"cherubs' which make home the delightful retrca
to which men retire from troublesome world for res
and soothing''-we ask you to think of our propose
ton, that instead of Torn paupers, we have onl
State paupers An arrangement by which town
should draw monies from the State treasury for tn
support of the poor, the expense being provided fc
by State tax, would dispense with all this remoyin
of paupers, and also with the expensive litigation be
tween towns-of which we have examples yearly
our county eourts--as to their legal residence.
Another thing, freemen. AS the annual Marc
meeting is close at lrand, put in our annual pet
ton that the poor shall not be set up al auction b.
have comforts provided for them as if we, who hay
every comfort ourselves, expecting to occup
their berths by-and-by.
Rev E. IT. Chaplin of New York gave the 9th lc
ture of the citizens course, Monday evening, -
ult,, TO a crowded house. His subject was, "Tl
Ideal and the Actual and he treated it as only oil
noby gifted and truly cultured in nice appreciate
of the and relations of the ideal and the aetna
could treat it. We would be glad to give an a
stract Of the lecture, but must content onrself wi
saying that it was one of the best of the course.
We very much regret that we could not hear
Chapin's lecture on "John Hampden, the Refomler
We have seen it very highly spoken of, and haviI