The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-29

sense must have known he must end, by
with their money. You knew this, saw
what the end must be before it came
Why didn't you expose him Honest,
innocent, near-sigh,ed, unreasoning indi-
viduol Suppose we had said that Dis
count Sweatcloth was knavo, what a
hubbub would have been kicked up in
the church The appearance Of Anti
Christ, horns and all, would not have
excited half so much conlmotion. We
should have been denounced as an infdel,
an atheist. with an especial grudge a
gainst Gods chosen people. Suppose
wo bad said he was unsound and insOlv
ent. what a stir there would have been
on Third Street, and how inany gentle
men suspecting themselves to bo in the
same ticklish condition would have had
their sensibilites wounded by our AFRO
gance. Who would have helped us to
pay the exemplary damages that he might
have waited long enough to recover. or
have hcsita;cd to respond to the verdict
Served him right 2"
Belial Smooth is a calm, quiet, sancti-
monlous. domestic tvrant. No man APP
pears in the newspapers moro than he,
as the patron Of some movement for the
spread of the gospel, the relief of the in
digent or the promotion of the cause Of
philanthropy. Yet beneath this, all is
false and hollow, and these professions
conceal heartless wretch and detesta-
BILE hypocrite His wife sleeps in her
grave, sent there by a cold and ceaseless
persecution, and his daughters were driv-
en- from his house by his solicitations and
abuse. Why don't you unmask the hyp.
ocrite, ard show him up in his true col
ors, as the editor of an independent jour
nal should do2 Restrain your temper,
Mr.. Simplicity-you don't understand
what you are talking about. Suppose
we should do it. who, sooner than your
self. would join in complaint that H.
centious press should penetrate the sane
tity Of the domestic circle, and desecrate
the holy scenes that cluster around tue
family frcsido2 This will never do.
Oh. it is easy to complain about the
servility of the press. We have thou.
sands who are ready enough to get us
into o difficulty where there is one will
ling TO aid in helping us out. Widow
Flighily is out of patience with Widow
Flirt who lives on the third floor oppo-
site. because the latter has wied away
her lover aud is perfectly convinced that
we have no independence, because we
will not permit her. for the benefit of
society, of Course, to lampoon her rival
through our columns. DIR. Calonel and
Dr. Watcrpower each thinks it would be
v-stly for the benefit of mankind if We
would permit him to annhiatc the false,
erroneous unphilosophical system of the
other by the aid of our types and ink,
and has but a poor opinion Of our cour-
age because we look upon it in differ.
cnt light If we should only take the
advice If old friends, subscribers aud
patrons we could readily have quarrcls
enough on our hands to keep forty
horsepower threshing machine in con.
slant employment, and exhaust the
wealth Of the mines of California in the
payment Of damages
All independent press is an excellent
thing. but to tell the plain simple truth,
tho love which men bear for it is usually
in proportion to the extent to which it
agrees with themselves in opinon. Ev
cry mau is wiling that it shall be not
only Independent, but imPndent to the
rest exactly with his own views and in
tercsts, and takes a reverend care not to
touch himself
As We cannot be thus complaisan, to
aH Of our readers, it is not probable that
we shall gain much credit as an indepen,
dent journalist and if we should ever
secure such credit it will most likely
come at time when it is least deserved
Such is the way Of the world and it is
MT for US to complai1. We don't.