The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-12-06
"Supplemental."


last concerning the circulation of the
TRNscR1rr has offended the Ncssen-
GER We regret this. We never in /
tend to offend that venerable and es
Unable paper. We entertain too high !
respect for it. For thirty years" it
has nohly stood its ground, and It's I'M !
selfish and enterprising characteristics
are well known. Ii we mistake not
the TRASscnipr has always spoken
kindly of the Messenger Week before
last we expressed our qualification at
the establishment of a Paper Mil, in
which enterprise the veteran publish T.
er Of the Messenger is an interested
party, and promised to purchase our
paper Of the same. Last week we
published an editorial article Of CON
siderable length which is very compli
mcutary to the Messenger, and which
is destined to be preserved among our
Cbaucery archives. For these friend
y and neighborly acts and we speak
Of them in no boastful spirit-the Hes
senger does not even thank us; on the
other hand, because We said The Tran
SCRIPT has double The circulation Of the
Messenger il St Adams, it declares we
do not tell the truth Well we do not
feel offended at the accusation Very
very far from it. Anything our neigh
Dor may say or DO nowadays Is eX-
cusable. For several weeks past here
have been made in that es Adjustment
accusations aud counter accusations,
almost without number; and it is rot
at all strange, when we consider the
high pitch of excitement that there ex-
lists, that the TRANscRrrr should be
wrongfully accused. In lis calmer
moments the Messenger would never
have made the accusation
We cannot however, with all our
desire to please the Messenger, retract
our statement concerning circulation;
and if our neighbor wishes to show
hands, he has only TO name time and
place, but we must insist that the l'ooe
be outside of the Nessengey office, as
we do not care to run any risk Of brok
en- bones or black eyes As further
proof that the TRANscRpr has The CIR
culation claimed, we have only to men
ton the fact that the editor Of the
.Nesseaqer advertises iii the TRANscRIPT
in preference to his own paper, and foi
the reason that his advertisement will
have a wider circulation. The MesSeu-
ger claims that it gives more reading
matter than we do. We admit this tc
a limited extent But our venerable
neighbor. whose "thilty years of pub
fishing experience have somewhat
hlunted his perceptive faculties, over
, looks the Important fact that newspa
per readers care more for the the Quat
ny than the quantity of reading mat
ter.
o The Messenger further says that
4 statement has appeared in its (TRAN
Q SCRIPT 1lumns to the effect that th
NeSscHgey cost dollar more than tn
e TBANsCBlpT Candor compells us t
r say that such a statement never APP
Of peared in our columns; and the write
n must have been laboring under grea
of delusion or he would have never give
s. utterance to the above quoted sci
is tence
W Having thus briefly alluded to til
grave charges preferred against us b
the Messenger, we must close, hopin
e. our esteemed neighbor will be EN-
r nently successful in the establishmel
10 OF Paper Mill on the Adds Brook {
n. that part of the Missisquoi River tn,
runs into St Adams, and in all 9th,
f. similar public-splrited enterprises 50
=. mote il be- "