The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-25

One of the blunders of inexperienced
writers and lebaters is, to wander from
the real question at issue, and divert the
reader to some side issue, entirely foreign
10 the one under discussion, This from
the first, is a glaring fault in the articles
Of y. Y L., which has been pointed oat
by other writers
The question propounded Tor consider
alton and calm and candid discussion was
this Have corporations or individ-
uals moral RIGHT to take more than six
per cent for the use Of money in Yer
mont ?"
This is u question of momentous i'm
portance, and is destined to occupy the
attention Of able statesmen and sagacious
and profound jnrists, in all the States Of the
Union.
will but briefly alude to the articles
of y. Y. l.. His first gun scattered bad
ly. Ii hit above, and below and around,
but not single shot pierced the mark.
He seemed carefully TO avoid the main
question, and did not directly approach IT.
He made furious raid against extortion.
ers (Which was well enough,) and burnt
much powder on false construction he
put upon the word necessity as used in my
argument. This | think all will admit il
fair index to his first article.
In his second fire, he hastily retreats
covering it 10y much loud Growing ant
self laudation. He reluctantly yet fully
admits, that there is no harm 10 taking
more than six per cent, " but just wher'
the boundary line should be he is not quite
clear rH
In his third and last sally, being shor
Of ammunition he has recourse to ridicule
thus indicating an inherent weakness no
to say roltcnn,s IS in the cause he pretend'
to advocate, and strongly reminding tn
scholar OF the story told by Lucian Of tn
Colloquy, between Jupiter and the simpl
Countryman, they talked with ease ant
freedom unlil they differed, when the an
cry God at once mennaced his honest op
ponent with thunderbolt "Ah All
said the clown with perfect composure
Snow Jupter know you are wrong whe
you appeal to your thunder" and PERM
me to say, that every outrage of languag
besides disclosing kind OF semi barba
rism, also discloses the feverisl nervous
ness Of cause, already hunbled in de
3 bate.
! here re.ufliIn all have ,previousl
said, with the explanation gave of th
f, word nece,sita and will not Yield an inc
n of the ground taken. make X. Y. z
= this liberal offer,-lf he will disprove II
n affirmative Of the above question, we wi
e offer to loan him four thousand dollars, f
T. four years, nj four per cent, and will nj
n ask AN eniorser.
d To support the negative is, Gas has bee
very correctly stated by anolher,) to col
h denim every bond holder in our Stat
d. every college corporation, every bankir
A. institution, every insurance company. al
a in short nearly every man and woms
n. who lend money aud take interest.
Of We here must distinctly say, that
of take more than six per cent for The use
I'd money in Vermont ia neither morally n
b, legally wrong ...I
III We further say, there is no law writ
is against il by, God or man. In 9th
a words neither the Bible nor our statu
IN books forbid It. We offer Y. Y. H.,
81 gold medal and tin horn,i he will She
mt ma n law divine or human that pronounS