The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-09-19
LETTER FROM MASSACHUSETTS,.

LETTER FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
Editor Of the Register Perhaps few
words from an exile from the Green
Mountain State may not be amiss in your
columns Distance lends enchantment
sometimes, but not always. You who
live where the morning shadows Of those
noble mountains fall daily upon you,--
where their sunlit peaks glow constantly
before you like lighted tapers of the
"CandIemas," where you can see the
great king" as he unbars the golden
gates Of day, and comes forth from behind
the mountains arrayed in royal purple,
can know nothing Of the thrill of admir-.
alton which fills one, who, after long
interval, returns to look once more upon
the mountains, and to be filled with the
solemn stiffness Of the morning, as nature
unfolds above him her daily apocalypse.
He feels like breaking the silence by
shouting, "Ye crags and peaks, I'm ith
you once again"
At least felt so as l made my yearly
visit to the hearth-stone of ALMA Mater"
have made my pilgrimage to the So
called Switzerland of America, and stood
upon her highest summit, literally cloud
capped too, it was, but there are no
mountains like those which were the
guardian Of my infancy and earlier man
hood.
do not know whether Middlebury
would seem Middebury with Pres Labaree
away, but since our old Pater-famili, I,
must leave the old hearth.stone, we soDs
of Alma Mater in Massachusetts are glad
he has SO worthy successor. 1t may be
interesting to know that he is considered
in these parts 10 all who know him
DR. KitcheD and whose judgments have
value and weight, as fully equal In ability
to any n. f. College President. Prof.
Park told your correspondent that ho
considered DIR. KS inaugural a fine and
an able production. This is considerable
for Prot. p. to say. The signs of the
times seem from this distance to bode we'll
for Alma Mater. and l presume that
you who live nearer can say that they do.
Those of thus who have Andover pro-
clivites, were exceedingly glad that Prof
Park was on the Commencement pro-
gramme. If Middebury students knew
their interests they would know the Prof.
in the lecture room better than they do,
and judgr for themselves of his heresy.
But more of this at another time.
Massachusetts, will be all right on tho
johnson question. The supporters of
"my policy" and "Moses & Co." are
not strong enough to bring the state of
Massachusetts into coalition with s. G..
rebels. The democrats may walk arm
in arm where they please with Andy's
reconstructed 5. G. rebels, but this state
will not do it. The ratio of republican
majority for the cause of humanity and
national se!f-re'pect, over the copperhead
ticket, run in the interests of oppression
and murder, may not be quite so large in
&c as in IS, but the issue will not be
materially different so far as practical re-
suits are concerned. The people in this
state are bound to honor The President,
whatever they may think of Mr.. johnson.
| think speak the feelings of the major
iiy when | say that his ceotism is insuffer-
able. Witness'bis speech to the commit
tee from the Philadelphia Convention.
Almost the first remark was his oft re-
peatcd assertion, which we must have all
learned by heart ere this, that he had
filed almost every office from an Alder
man to President.
He may be called upon to rotate back
ward so fan that he will be forgotten; it
is to be wished His breaches of courtesy
are beyond all precedent He has no
right, either legal or courteous, to call
Congress an illegal body. How pleasant
it must have been for the noble and pat
riotic Gov. Morgan TO be told at Delmon-
ico's that he was traitor. Such i'll
hammered, indecent partisanship, would
not be for an instant tolerated in Repub-
lican. The copperhead press would set
up a howl TO be equalled only by the
imps in Pandemonium. But when the
man who would, ii he were President,
make treason odious by hanging traitors,
not one of whom he has hung, an
insulted and outraged nation must hold
its peace. Let him work. He is cutting
at his own throat with sharp blade.
If the other states will do as well as
Massachusetts in the coming elections,
Johnson & Co.'S Hippodrome OF wild
asses may find occasion to bray as they
have not brayed.
Some one said to Gen. Butler that at
the Philadelphia convention the two ex-
tremes met. "Yes" replied the General.
$50 they do, when dog chases his. own
tail, but they both belong to the same dog"
1t is about so in this case, with the difference
that it is all tail and no head. 1 was
glad to see the name Of Hon. j. w.
Stewart on the list of delegates TO the
Union convention. A good man in the
right place. Truly Yours,