Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-02-21

On Thursday the debate on the legal ten
der clause being resumed, Mr.. Collamer
said
There was NJ Judge in the hand but would de-
clare this measure was not Constitutional. lie
/ (Collamer) would take his bills Of credit in the
market and sell them, and if they were not worth
| more than co cents on the dollar be would sell
| them at that, act an honest man should. He
| declared that this measure was Charleston
| sche lie. and 1t was abandoning the great char
| ter Of the Government, and the liberty Of the
country. II was beginning TO compel a man to
take $500 from a neighbor when he ought to have
$1,000. lie hoped the legal tender clause would be
! stricken out.
Mr.. Sumner referred to the early issue of paper
money. IL was issued first in this country in
| Massachusetts, in 1902, and made legal tender
in l1l2; in Rhode Island in 1909, in Connecticut
\ in lIO9, in Pennsylvania in 1852, "a Delaware in
| 1889, in Marylsnd 1888, in Virginia 1855, when
| they were called treasury notes, and made legal
/ tender for private debts; in North Carolina in
| 1858, but were not made legal tender till after
wards. He contended that they were considered
as bills of credit by the trainers Of the cOnstitu
! ton. He thought it doubtful policy to issue
treasury notes at this time. He thought if we
had authority to issue notes at all, we had right
TO make them tender.
Mr., Wilson Of Mass, thought the arguments of
/ the Senator from Maine Nr. Fessenien) and tho
! Senator from Vermont (Mr. Collamer) were
"a her aesuft the issuing OF the notes st all than
s;sinst the legal tender IL we do not make these
notes a legal tender, We snail have every curb
stone broker depreciating the notes and the SOL
diers and sailors will be compelled TO submit TO
all sorts Of shaves by the brokers. We ought to
show the country that we are determined 10 pro-
tect the credit Of the country and carry IL safely
through. The merchants generally favor the max
inc Of these notes legal tender, and by making
fha families n gpldIprz when the little
pittance comes from the field, can get full value
for them lie had received a letter from nine mer-
chants, representing forty millions Of dollars O!
capital, who favor making the notes a legal tea
der, and they cay they do not know a merchant in
the city of Boston who is not in favor OF it.
On the motion to strike out the legal ten
der clause in the bill. the vote was J. yeas
to - nays.
The amendment made by the Finance
Committee, providing for the payment IN
coin Of interest on bonds, was adopted.
The bill as amended was passed bY 80 yeas
to : nays, as follows
YEAs-Authouy, Chandler. Clark Davis, Lixon.
Doolittle, Tessenien loot, Foster Grimes, Hale,
Harlan. Harris Henderson, Howard, Howe, Lane,
Latham, MeDougan, Morrill,, P0meroy, Rice
Sherman, sumner, Ten Eyok, Trumbull, Wade,
wilkinson, Wilson of Mass. Wilson Of Miss.
NArs-CoIlsner Cowan, Kennedy, King Pearce,
Powell salisbury.
The New York EreHmg Post is uudoubt-
elIy sroqd'g favored by the newspaper Ioets,
for the rsa-9u That the genial muse Of Bryant
has stirred many a sentimental mortal first
to the longing for the gift, and then to the
attempt to produce like immortal strains,
and they iondly trust that feeling
will make the poet-editor kind to them and
their bantling-. But there are many other
journals that can appreciate and adopt a
considerable portion OF tie following
To PoE1s.-We desire It to be understood by
those who auuse themselves with writing verses
and who take, as one Of them confessed to Us. "a
real pleasure at seeing their words in print" that
there is very little We can do to acommoiat' them.
Probably 10 one among them all hiss any idea Of
the number OF his competitors for that fame, such
ID il IT, which is acquired through the Newspapers.
There Is nothing more common in cur couLtry
than a certain facility in rhyming. Almost any
body can make verses who can count. A few eK-
amples Of notoriety acquired by poets who have
produced what the mass Of readers admire, fear.
doest the mischief. Their example seduees Thousands
Of men and women, mostly young persons, some Of
mature age, whose ctse may therefore be consid-
cred a. hopeless, and even few aged people,
who, having commenced poetry after they have
retired from other occup't!9ns, go rhyming down
the hill Of life.
But we do not exactly see why the tuneful
tribe should ding themselves m a body upon the
Etsr-rg POST The PLAIN truth is that we receive
more poetry, offered for publication in tbese col
umus, than We are able 10 read, and are obliged
in most cases TO content ourselves with reading
the introductory stanza. Some Of them, If little
lonc we consider ourselves as under no necessity
Of reading a word Of since they cannot be admit
ted. We plead guilty, however, to the charge Of
having sometimes either through a careless read
ing Of the manuscript, or a mistaken good nature,
allowed % appear in cur columns. verses which
Should have been thrown in the fire. and il, is for
tunste .cr n that a dairy newspaper Is not held
by i' res iers % strict accountability in this
rc.p,ct - literary weekly or magazine. We
b, 20 cur readers vii bear With US should we hap
pen sometimes to f,ll into the same error hereAi-
ter. But while ask this indulgence from them
we must desire that numerous class who favor us
with their contributions in verse not TO be dissp-
pointed il they never hear Of them again. Life
Is too short 70 pass much Of it in looking over
manuscript poetry, with the chance Of finding il
only Indifferent IN nine cases out Of ten, and we
have other u-os for our columns than publishing it,