Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-05-21

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May lith, lsGs
Editors ,Rvamd Hrdd-DEAg SINS
In The Household for May the editor,
d that journal speaking OF one OF their
contributors, said tina, the Letters To
Alice" we're from the pen Of Mr.. julia
c. r.. Dorr, Of Rutland, the cstimatle and
accomplished wife OF that sterling patriot
aud legislator, the Hon, Seneca NJ D"r,
uf Rutland"
In your paper Of the nth OF May, You
refer 10 The Household" in terms Of
commentator, and close yournotiecofthat
journal by saying, "that although indie
pendent and above politics, We notic,'it is
engaged in assisting To make a Member ct
Congress, from this District"
This is the second allusion OF this char
act,rthat You have made within few days,
and suppose that neither | nor your
readers can be mistaken in assuming that
those criticisms refer 10 me That yoJ,
may not make me misunderstood, desire
10 say few words that may satisi, You
# my position, or at least convince tho
people, that nci,l.r |, nor any friends !
have, 10 my knowledge, are engaged in a
campaign To make me a candidate for Con
grcss,
do not take exception, To your having
I tuvuritr- for -rtrr-rr- ut
have an undoubtcd right 10 all your opin-
ions and rrcjudices in favor Of any man
for this position, You have your prefer
ences, and it is entirely proper that YOU
should have them; but the readers Of the
HERALD will conclude that the motto, Of
the paragraph ! have quoted from your
paper, came to you from counsel tdkc, If
goar t,dgS. and Is as much in the interest
Of your candidate. as though his name was
expressed
"The Household has been Oh your
table regularly, | suppose, from January,
and your notice If it, for the first time,
now after five months. inevitably carries
the conviction that you only referred TO
it, at this late day, for indulgence in COM
ments ON paragraph that Incidentally
mentioned my name.
Mr.. Milhkcn has been several years
connected with papers published in our
State lie has frequently referred TO one
Of the editors of yomr paper in terms
quite as eulogistic as the reference he has
Just, but only incidentally, made to me. !
do not believe that any OF his readers has
supposed that he was thereby assisting
TO make u candidate for Congress from
this District"
During the last FIVE or xix years the
Rutland HERALD has said many kind
things of me, growing out Of my conncc-
ton with public affairs | believe ! have
never been so unfortunate rs to be the
subject of It's uncomplimentary criticism.
Indeed, every reader of the HERALD will
say that have often been alluded to. in
terms, which to any thoughtful mind
would convey estimates of character, po-
sition and influence far above any allu-
sions that have been made in any other
Journal More. than this, without re-
fcrring to your paper to give you day and
dates, ! think ! am not mistaken i'll say
ing that You published a letter from your
correspondent at Rochester, giving al
account Of 4th Of July celebration there
with which was connected, in which he
expressed the wish and expectation that
might represent this district in Con.
grcSs,
| My comprehension may be much al
/ fault, but if any of cur county or distrie
Journals should therefore charge upoi
you that IN all HteSe years You had beei
engaged i'll making a candidate for Con
gress for this district" | should rcgar,
it as unkind and ungenerous, alike to yo,
and to me
But have done with this. and nov
ask your indulgence to explain my posi-
ton in reference to the main question.
1t has been believed that the next can
didatc for Congress would be taken iron
Rutland county 1t has been 50 believed
| because Mr.. Woodbridge will have serve
out the terms for which our district ha
been accustomed to elect it, represent
alive.
The Hon. Loyal c. kellogg, having been
: once supported by Rutland county viii
great earnestncss and unanimity, it wa
presumed that he would again unite til
county and receive the support OF ii
{ district No words If mine can add (
the esteem in which he is held by Il
people, nor TO the fitness OF ,uch non
nation.
But know that his health is 10 him
, greater concern than any political honor
and that he would only accept the non
+, inatiou III the event of his feeling SUI
= that he should be restored to health All
j. yigor | learn lately, also, that .,
4 townsnm, Col Neazcy, likely to lie
O candidate for the nomination from o.
d county, but only, ! suppose, in the eve
of Judge kellogg's declination
+ Mr. Woodbridge or his friends for hil
g understand, desires a denomination.
q. am aware that good deal of interest Ii
= been made in that direction Public co
Q sideratiors, it is urged, demand that
2 changes should he made atspresent, in o
= Congressional delegation. Mr. Woo
i bridge has ever been kind aud ruurteo
! in all our business relations, and as oft
! a. have had charge of great public
i tcrest, which were To be- protected
n indicated through him, Is our Repl
: sentative, he has worked faithfully Al
q earnestly for those interests 1t will II