Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-09
Correspondence of the HERALD.l
Letter from Michigan.
JACKSON, Mich, Aug. 81, 10


For two reasona, Mr.. Editor, I hesitate
so enter my name upon the list of news
paper correspondents. First, because
their name ha. been 80 honored by such
men AZ Carleton" that to appear in thu
same list with them seems like holding
taper to the sun. Secondly, because
their nameshave been 80 baselyd ishonored
that for an unknown writer's article t.
appear under the head of correspondence
seems like lamp shining under {
bushel. Take the bushel off and possibly
the light might might penetrate LITTLE
way into the surrounding darkness. s.
eliminate the heading correspondence
and let the unsuspecting public think
that it is reading some peppery editorial
or rich extract. and it would not fail tc
find beauty and instruction, even in the
columns of your contributed matter
People will not eat woodchuck unless yo,
call it lamb.
I've been travelling; everybody travels
everything travels Thought even, which
is not thing, but only the subtitle non
extended, unknown, something, has beer
in it's day wonderful traveller. But il
has manufactured its own vehicles. 1t i,
supposed that in the first place it was
shut up in the prison house of the mind
deriving the material upon which it act
ed from without by means of eyes and
ears, but yet itself shut up to its own
meditations, having no means of commu-
nieation. But before thought was very
old, it manufactured vehicle in which il
might go out and impress itself on
thoughtful beings. This first vehicle was
in the shape of gesticulations, frightiul
cries or soothing tones. Clumsy indeed
was this first vehicle of thought. In
those days thought went afoot. By-and-
bye it unsati.fied with its first attempt at
travelling, invented words, and. doing it
self nicely up in them, found better travel
ing accommodations. But even now il
was bunvl,ng business, scarcely better
than the snal-like canal travelling of our
nations early history. But time brought
Improvement. Words were grasped into
concepts, concepts grasped into sentences,
and this magnificent train, constructed by
thought an bearing, if WAS give to the
air which, by its musical engineering
wings. brought TO tho waiting ear of null
titudes.
Now how beautiful were the vehicles
Of thought; more beautiful indeed than
durable; for when the air had ceased OF
itn articnlated trcmble, and traditions
hold had grown faint, the thought of the
pa-t found no abiding place.
Thought came to remedy this defect in
its own vehicle, and soon, trusting itpelt
for Keeping no more TO the unstable air,
fastened itself on indistructible marble, or
wrote it-elf out with indelible ink. Thus
1t has not only built its own cars, but has
erected its own hotels where it may stop
OF night-aye, where it may sleep I'M
di]tnroed Tor ages and ba brought out at
inc end OF them active with all it's youth
full igor.
linus have gestures, simple exclama-
tous or words, then sentences and then a
full and rounded language consecutively
been the vehicles of thought But it bss
remained for latter days to give the most
wonderful carriage and the most easy
passage to thought. This time the engine
electricity instead of the slow pulsations
OF the air. The lightning has been plum
aered from ths skies and sent .-tslking
unas' the ocean. Thought to-day has