The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-11
The Glieis Of the Financial Agent and his
Friend

We hardly know whether to treat our cotem-
pcrary over the way, the Daily Journal as the
next friend of The . Financial Agent" or the
. Agent - as the " next friend - of the Jour-
raj They are as inscparable on this question
~ a, g medium as the Samcse twins, in this
case. as in some former appointments to official
positions hunting in couples. Whenever the
prospects OF the "agcnt' brighten-which
isn't oftcn--t}e JouraaI buckles and is exult-
ant, and when the ''agcnt's " chances for legis-
lltivc endorsement grow small, the Daily is cor
scspondingly depressed. In short, the music
furnished by that paper on the subject Of the
agency is pitched 50 exactly in the "agcnt's"
own key Gs to lead to the suspicion that the cd
tor Of Tic Journal is only the seeming operator
while in fact an invisible "mcdum blows
the bellows and handles the keys
On this subject of the "agency the Daiiy
Journal had a grief and ventilated that grief
asst Saturday. 1t has been in affection for some
time, but it got seriously worse on tie occasion
alluded to, and it's grief &" broke out = in an i'll
tempered complaint about the course of '' Sen
ator Willard and g Hon. C. W. Willard -
and :. Mr.. Willard,' in relation to the Daily
Journals pet agency. Its immediate grief
the last straw which broke the back of its pa
ticnce-is that "Senator Willard offered
resolution IN the Senate, irrevcrcnty speaking of
the Hon. Joseph Poland as assuming to act
as special financial agent, &c. The Journal
says "Mr. Poland has assumed nothing either
in respect to his Office or his report" IF the
editor Of the Jouraa! had ever studied law, be
would know some things that he does mt now
know, although he might DO ignorant Of many
valuable things that he now knows. One of the
pieces OF information which lc would thus have
picked up, would have been the practice of
calling things by their right names. Let us see
whether the word :. assuming is mis-applied.
Mr. Poland prctcnds to act in an official ca
pacicy as medium" between the soldiers
and thcir friends at home. But there is no
such Office asth at Of medium or especial
agent or trustee for the soldiers existing
by law in this State, and for that simple reason
no person can la,OtuHy exercise the functions of
such an Office and whoever pretends to act in
such capacity is " assuming an official char
acter which has no existence in fact. Mr.. p
might, with jast as much color Of law or right.
ri authority, have gons on mission to the
King Of Dahoney, as to take apon himself the
character Of a " medium and 60 to the Poto-
mac. If he holds himself forth as sueI, an
Agent" he is pretending and claiming to
have an official character which does not and
cannot exist, and which is only an assumption.
And however difficult it may be for the Journal
to see this, the l." medium had such painful
sense of it, that he occupied nearly all Of his So
called report II gratct'lF and UNI
charitable attack upon the chaplains of toe
regiments-in an effort to prevail upon tic
Legislature to create the very Office Whose funo-
tions he is pretending to exercise.
But the Journal cndcavors to create prcju.
dice against an inquiry into this " medium '
business by saying, " we don't think tina. eithol
Gov. Fairbanks for sending him (Mr. P.) out