Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-19

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unless they are criminal, to be made 4
subject for public censure or applause.
Therefore l shall undertake no defence
of the several gentlemen whom B.H. as
sails, nor make any assault on such as he
commends. The former regard them
selves " so strongly armed IN honesty
that his censures pass by them as the
idle wind which they heed not" And
all the gentlemen TO whom he refers can
estimate precisely the yalne of his COM
mendation, and the perils of his reproofs,
by taking for their rule his commenta-
ries on the Norwich Justice.
! have before how said that among
other reasons assigned in 1888 for taking
stock, it was said an extension of the
road would increase litigation. B. H.
does not admit this reason 10 have been
assigned by him, but substantially says
that he always uses such arguments as
he thinks will be most potent with his au-
ditors.' Judging him as he appears in
the Standard, Qor it is only anonymous
that | view him in these commentaries
l verify believe this statement to be true.
Yet if recognize him he did assign the
reason / have named, and in an exultant
tone, and not 70 any professional man.
That reason has often seemed to me as
disinterested as if a surgeon had urged
an extension of the road on the ground
that it would increase the number of
broken bones.
1 have said the object of Is. H. is to
encourage and justify Reputation. He
who formally makes an engagement and
secures the confidence of the other party
that he will stand thereto, and keeps the
word of promise to the ear, and breaks
it TO the hope is repudiator. Now B.
H. says the country does not repudiate
but they who pledged the 100000 do
l have read of brazen serpent, bu
never was one imbued with such brazer
impudence as B. H.-Out of his owl
mouth he admits subscription of mor'
than three fourths of the last named
sum, and the archives of the corporation
show that ftty-nias sirtieths Of that sun
were subscribed more than two year
ago. Yet they who pledged it are repu
diators because they lack one sixtietl
of their engagement, while B. H. VIII
repudiates the tchole of his subscription
casts a stone. @, how sanctimoniousl
Satan rebuketh sin p How blandl
can one smile, and smile, and be
devilr'
/ But B. H. says the terms of the coun
try subscription are that no assessment
shall become payable till the road shal
be under contract for grading to Derb
Line; that there has yet been no sue
contract; ergo no Reputation here
Where then is Derby Line? Not wher
the caprice of the corporation, or of
repudiator, or of any one who is " faitI
full found among the faithless,' may poin
but where the charter of the company
the acts in amendment thereto; the cor
, tracts of subscription; and the offici:
, action of the company all harmoniou.
, ly conspire to fix it.
All the acts of the Legislature toucl
, ing this matter, refer to the northern TEL
TlfnUs Of the road as being at the nor
. line Of the state in the town of Derby
, They impose no restriction but the liz
its Of the township they furnish I
: bottom on which the anchor to the hop,
! Of regulators does not drag. Neithe
be it known, did any law, at the time Il
! country subscriptions were taken, nor t
long thereafter, require the corporate
to put its road under contract for gradiI
. for any specific distance, or tcithin al
frsd time. The contracts of subscri
ton were entered into with referen
. solely to the state of things, and L
j rights and duties of the corporation, su
: sisting at the time the subscriptions ace
il made. Under the state Of things, a
n the rights and duties referred to, the CT
IS poration was at liberty to take subscri
" tons that would be obligatory on +;
( subscriber, conditioned that assessmer
IN should become payable when the 70
lie should be put under contract for gradi
As to Lyndon, or Barton, or Derby, or a
? specific point on which the parties, vi
,e the corporation and the subscribers mig
N see fit to agree.
ar Now then turn you TO the contract
IN subscription on which B. II. affects to
is ", like the Jew fo- the pound of fe:
al and tell me if you think on the verdict
If an impartial man he viii say, "A Da
D. iel has come to judgment" The pro-
d sition of that contract is in these word