Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-06-10
The GoycrOr Question.

LETTER FROM HON. d. f. NICHOLSON.
MeSSrs Edit0rS,-I have observed the onr-
rent correspondence in the local and me-
tropolitan press on the subject and objects
of our near pending State Convention, and
while my long and particular acquain-
lance with each and all of the prominent
w named citizens for our States first
honor, qualify me to judge them, in com
mon with hundreds of others, not only
worthy, but capable of honoring the office
aspired to. | must at the same time en-
ter my protest against the fulsome and
foolish encomiums lavished respectively
upon them by demagogues.-
4 And could I for one moment believe
such men as Lieut. Governor Converse, Mr..
| Dennison, or Gen Washhurn in any ~-"y
/ responsible for the extravaganza of their
endorsings, it would materially modify
the estimate have put upon them. That
Governor Converse is constitutionally and
by habit courtly gentleman of the old
school, and Mr. Dennison an unobtrusive,
modest. mature man, and Gen Washburn
equally respectable personally, are facts
which the impartial public readily decern.
But do not quite so readily see why these
characteristics, so common to all classes OF
our best citizens, should so prominently
advance them for preferment.
The respective offices which these gen
tlemen hav, from time to time held and
honored, We're believe held by their own
consent, and they have had the legitimate
fruits thereof, in honors and emolumcnt-,
and | fail to see how the State is made
their debtor, TO be brought into liquida-
ton in this manner But still il courtly
amiability. severe discipline, and demon
strative presence are to be made the test
of peculiar fitness for office Ii the
chronological organization Of head, or
the crop or crisp Of the hair. l. to 70 en-
amour correspondents into visions Of Il
.sChoate or C4lhoun AS to obscure al
other merit, then plain style men must
conform to the situation By the way
speaking Of heads, reminds aus Of Scott,
victim Of the Guillotine " He had no
creator head but it was all that he had
poor fellow. aud ptied him"
But I have been beguiled into a more
oarele4B article than il tended, and wish
only to say that whoever governs, we, the
people, shall honor the admins tration by
being well governed and J hope the time
will come when the work OF selecting
, candidates will be left to the proper
convention, and not all be forcstalled by
? impairment manipulaters and then Office
will not imply sycnphancy, or any surren-
der of self-respect, but will b. attained by
0 men Of such modesty and merit as our
: old friend Bliss n Davis of Caledonia
county, who after an approach had been
. made him, by few friends last fall, upon
: the subject of his allowing hi-,name for tho
use of the people, as their next candidate
after "A days reflection replied to them by
q the following characteristic response ad
j. dressd to your respectful servant, and
II signed by that familiar cognomen which
! if did in honor to him first apply, Ia.
= been SO generally adopted that all sections
:, of the State now know the veteran sen.
= ator of 1859 and the Government At
N torney who convicted, and escaped tn,
20 attempted assassination at the hand Of til,
"A desperate " Bristol Bill " is every where
+ and every time the same ingenious anc
+ unostentations Bliss, n. Davis. But t.
. the letter, and all known that the Stat,
lie could go further and fare worse than Il
20 to settle this Windsor county compiled
a ton by accepting by acclamation thu
re name, and the person of Old Caledonia"
of Rutland, June 8, 1859. EASY.
ID MONTPELIER Nov. 18th, 1868.
III Dear David-In looking and consider
a ing over political matters, have come T.
!, the conclusion that a man to get office b,
popular election, or any other means
n most scuttle his manhood, his principles
and above all, his self-respect therefore
ir must respectfully decline to countenanc
d. any exertions on your part, or any othe
=, of my friends looking toward the homo
= you, in your great kindness and partialit,
ns have named to me, shall always b
y, grateful for your good wishes for my pre-
hol fermeut, but under the circumstances,