Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-10-29

The Editor OF the Times apparently comes
home in bad humor from Montpelier, where
it seems he has been, and of course relieves
himself by annihilating the FREE Pass. If
the column Of conc,ited nonsense to which
he treated us Monday had anywhere risen to
the level of a city news-boy's abuse of rival
in business, we might have given it reply.
But it was not worth single sentence and
we notice the half column devoted to the
FREE Press in Tuesdays Times, only
because it concerns other parties.
Our Montpelier correspondent "E." spoke
in high terms Of Mr.. Speaker Edmunds, as
able, dignifed prompt, accurate, and rapid
in the disposal Of business-as meeting al
most exactly his idea of perfection in the
Speaker ola popular Assembly, the sole
drawback being what he considered to be u
slight defect of manner. As absolute perfec-
ton is commonly understood to be seldom at
tanned in this imperfect world, our cores
pondent's notice was generally considered to
be very complimentary one to Mr.. Ed
it of plasteriag the unfortunate objects of its
commentator with indiscriminate hattery
by shovelfuls, until it has entirely lost the
idea, if it ever had it, of discriminating, and
therefore valuable, praise. 1t accordingly
fastens on the single limitation of our cor
respondents commentator, comments upon
without n hint ,f tbn ul,stan ti,1 100
which preceded it, and now copies it again
all in italics (as it says to render it Impress
i've but really to hide our correspondent s
italics, which indicate that the only i'm
perfection he observed was slight one of
manner } conveying throughout the false i'm
preston that that sentence was the whole of
sc" s notice of the Speaker. Those of the
Times readers who do not see the FREE Pass,
undoubtedly suppose that it was the whole.
1t is thus that the Times repeatedly and de-
liberately "distorts real compliment into a
piece of disparaging criticism" What it
expects to make by such a way of doing
things we do not know, and how much bet
ter than fat falsehood such trickery is, we
leave our readers to judge.
AN NOT THINE Ass ?-The meekness with
which the Postmasters recently decaptated
by Mr.. Buchanan in Illinois, and elsewhere,
receive their punishment, is surprising They
commonly do not dare to rebel, and roar ''as
gently as sucking dove" when their grum-
blings are at all audible. The gentle remons-
frances of one of these guillotined Douglas
Postmasters in Illinois (who, as usual, is
also the editor of Democratic paper) are
wittily compared by the Bloomington Ponta-
graph to the remarks of Balaam's ass, after
his shifting at the hands of his rider;
Gam l not thine ass upon which thou hast rid
den ever since was thine unto this day Was !
ever wont to do SO unto thee'
That is about the tone taken by the sub
jects of Administration discipline generally,
those in Vermont not excepted. Of the
Democratic recusants, Forney in Pennsylva-
MIA and Haskin in New York, are about the
only ones who have 50 far forgotten their old
habits ofservility to the power which dspenses
Offices and plumber, as to stand up and return
blow for blow. The mass of them
care pigson-livered, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter