Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-22
Mr.. Heath and his Letter.

Mr.. Heath and his Letter.
On Monday week, we were surprised
at receiving the following letter from M
O. Heath, Esq, which conveyed to us the
first intimation we had received since oul
amicabe agreement to have the publica.
ton of his much talked of r. II epistle
suspended, that his desire to have it pub.
lished had been renewed
JOHNSON, June 10, 1869.
Ed NEwsDEAELR: Dear Sir \
If my article for your paper is not going to be
published IMMEDIATELY, you will please return
it to me, asI choose to have it in my possession.
As you are situated, charge up nothing per-
sonal to you relative to your course in withheld
ing its publication, for | know you are in a
! tight place with the changc-bonders, and not
withstandind our own personal friendship, which
trust may long continue, yet better be injur-
cd thnn to have you call down upon yourself
the anathcmas Of the ring, perhaps.
Yours truly, NJ. 0. HEATH.
Now, in view Of the understanding be-
tween Mr. Heath aud ourself in relation
to the nonpublicaton of his railroad arti-
Gle, we are at loss how to account for
the above letter, upon any hypothesis con.
sistcnt with his mental good health He
consented that the publication should be
delayed, because it was thought that its
publication would reveal to our enemies
the fact Of an unhappy division among
ourselves, which, if it did not really do
us an injury, would give our enemies COM
fort; and Mr.. Heath then avowed that
any intention to so soace the opposefs Of
the road was the iartherest desire from
his heart He having thus, FOR such good
reasons, given his full consent to the de-
lay, we felt warranted in indicating his
motives to our readers, as we did at the
time, willing, nay anxious, to believe his
protestations of friendship for the road.
That he should without any previous init
nation that he now desired us to print his
article, pounce upon us with letter so
full of false suggestions, as the short one
given above, leaves us less room for char
ity as TO his real ami1us. He s'knows"
that we are in a tight place" with the
-" bond-changers." Flatly, now, brother
Heath, you know nothing of the kind
We are just as loose and easy with the
bond-chapgers as your old shoe! We are
just as much at liberty TO publish your ar
ticle as we do to-day---and we have been
all the timc--as we should be to publish
the Declaration Of Independence or the
Lords Prayer. "Perhaps," mind the
perhaps, ait is letter that should suffer-"
Sy1 he, ethan that you should call down
upon your devoted Uranium the anathcmas
of the ran1!"
Bosh What ''ring" does our brother
refer to? Do the great body of this peo-
pie, on the proposed line of this route
from the Connecticut river to Swanton. |
who are so eager and earnest for this great
measure, constitute ''ring" in any invid-
lous or proper sense? If they do what
cruelty or wrong have they pcrpetrated,
what injustice have they committed that
we should fear their "anathemas'? Last
year we differed from most of thom in
the matter of county Senator, ami pitched
ut their candidate like thousand or so of
soft brick, but our head, our scalp, our
entire cuticle was preserved. "The ring"
lis the fatal phrase which bctrays the
''green monsterw There is no ring, my
much esteemed Heath, except that green
wreath which your Jealousy has unfortu-
uately entwined around your own brain
and to be perfectly plain, and a little
blunt, with you--that's what appears to
us to be "the matter with Hannah ~
Jealousy is the rage of man." said
Solomon, or David, or somebody who was
wise in the long ago, and we solcmnly fear
our good brother is jealous. "The ring"
how sonorious the phrasc--is the un-
lucky tell tale which bctrays the "mind
diseased" How sad that such ghost
should come to our good brothers railroad
Feast. But we must now attend TO our
friends article, having directed our read
crs' attention to the yreenish cast which
pcrvades it's
,,EDIroR or NEwspEALER - Sir Allow
ne Though your paper 10 reply TO the
railroad article published in your last is-
'as, which though It sets forth ss fairly