Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-12-16
The State House.

| We are warned that we shall say some foolish
things in our remarks upon this subject, but It's
better to say what is to be said and stop, and so
We shall not confne ourself to one wing Of the
House. nor of the subject.
In the first place, we desire to remark that
from reliable sources we learn, as we have al
ways thought, that the great opposition Of a few
leading ill-natured demagogues to an approprla-
ton for the completion of the State House, arose
not from any desire to serve the good people of
the State at large, but from the fact that they
were hired and retained by the Burlington in
terest to oppose IN appropriation and, if posi-
BILE, place Montpelier IN bad odor, that they
might under prctence of applying the "whip
and spur to the town Of the smallest territorial
limits of any in the State, succeed in getting an
act providing for holding the next session in II
Court House and Town House in Burlington,
which is now saddled with debt that the town
find impossible to pay, and as appeared from
the toasts anil speeches of the drunkest OF the
drunk of these leaders, who instead of taking
advantage of the " connection - which they
had labored 50 hard to bring about to get quick
ly home to their abodes, took passage to Bur-
lington, and when on the night after the close of
the Legislature they assembled with champagne
and varieties, to =" devise ways and means " to
get the State House removed to Burlington, it
was decided to use all honorable efforts to pre-
vent Montpelier from completing the House, and
then as soon as the next Assembly met carry IL
resolution to adjourn to meet in that unpaid
for Town House on the banks OF that little
pony balf-full of water. That these leaders
were hired it is useless for any body to deny,
and that it was their influence in the Legisa-
turc and that of Burlington and its evil ones
out OF it, before the session, while Montpelier,
trusting in Providence, had suffered her powder
to dampen and had cringod under the brass and
soft-soap Of her York neighbors. What lesson
she learned when the story Of the man and the
adder was verified in Montpelier taking INTO
her bosom and nursing that adder into the
Speakers Chair with all the fair promises Of
no further opposition. Every committee was
appointed with reference to the State House.
Every move that was made was made with the
same intention. Mr.. Kellogg. that incorporate,
ill-tempered whip.and-spur," was promised
the next Speakership, and others gwen places
and promised more, for no other purpose. Nc
wonder, while the husbandman slept the Devil
sowed the tares and no wonder they grew and
Burlington do with the State House? A hal
million, which would be the smallest sum fol
which a respectable State House could DO located
upon those bleak, sandy shores SO that wind
and waters would not wash it away, is a sun
not to be found in all the pockets in that dllap
, dated and almost " deserted village" But New
Workers will step in. Yes, and it would be mic
for Now York to build US House! But Bur
, lington would ask the State to appropriate ;
were 1T their OK, Us they pray against it Will
it is ours. Then where is the plea of sacin,
: the State from building her own House Oh
wonders of wonders Well we presume til
3 Senators OF Chttenden County and n,embc
: frori Burlington would still be eager to sit in
Montpelier House. But we presume Montpele
has not the means to furnish sufficient sum t
complete the House So we pray Burlington
) =" hang up her fiddle > for tho present, and al
tend to her neglected fortunes and dapidate
!, ruins, If possible that she may not becom
f the theme of song to her prince OF poets, a
Q Goldsmith sang of Auburn
: "Thy sports fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;
i Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hard is seen,
And desolaton saddens all Thy greon;
One only master grasps the whole domain;
And half a tillage stnts thy smiling plain.
= Amidst thy desert walks the apwug files,
And tires their echoes with UNMARRIED cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the Wondering wall:
) And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers hand,
Far, far away thy children leave the land"
- A second article in reply to the report of IL