Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-04-06

WAvEaLY, Iowa, March 20, 1856

And for what? Why, for telling a lady
this is land of "up and doing" instead
of a land of dreams. How it rufies the
feathers of the sensitive Summer bird to I
be peckcd at thus What was it that
called her so? Did the plain words |
sent you need such a replyY am very
much grati6cd, however, at her reply, tor
she has for once dcigned to rest her tired
wings on the "goose pond" instead OF
soaring in the air, among the mountains
aye, high above Mt Mansdeld's lofty
chin, away up among the ''air earths'"
What | stated about sowing grain IN
March still adhere to, for, 3 out OF the
four winters [ have lived here, l have
seen it, and the probabilities are that she
will see the same herself, this month. L
might have given larger figures as to the
amount of inhabitants in Nashua, than
are there, but | did not mean to exagger-
!
ate. took others words for it. But at
the figures "IIamoile" has given even,
where have you seen the same number
come into any town in Vermont, or IN any
town of the New England States, for the
last hundred years, except to move W est
ward? 1t was far from my thoughts to
say aught against Vermont or any other
State last, except to vindIcate the West
ern country from such letters as La
moille's," and | leave any reader who
knows the state of things East and West
to decide which was the most abusive,
"Lamoille" against the West, or your
humble servant against the East, bearing
in mind the hints she threw out in
regard to "no churches in Nashua" at
! first, and in her next, "two not quite
completed, Also, in regard to that Oft
repeated goose.pond. What State can
you 90 into and not find some? To any
one who knew not the West, what idea,
suppose you, would they get from her
first letter? | leave this question for the
reader to answer, feeling myself justified
in answering as did. intended no Of
Tense to Lamollc however, except to rid
icule her, some after the fashion in which
she ridiculed Nashua. And now that |
think Of it, let me enighten her on that
awful sentence, in which she cries so ve-
hementy, 'shame, shame!" Vermont
must blush for her nurseling, "Mrs La
noble" | am not the author of this SEN
tence: "Vermont is good place to be
born in, but better place to emigratc
from" The author is no less parsonage
than Stephen A. Douglass, one Of Vernonts
own ''nurselings." lie delivered a speech
in Burlington, VT, in the fall Of 1860, in
which he used those same words. re-
peated it, not because believed in all
that able statesman said, but it applied
SO well to the subject then in question,
never dreaming but you, "Lamoille,"
would know who uttered them and so pass
it by, and not give me the credit of it.
Now let me joke you little more and say,
would 1T not be better for you to post a
little on the sayings of some of those
statesmen, instead of planning railroads to
Paradise, for | may, i'll my homely way,
quote from others, and you may again
commit yourself, and again make me
laugh
Surprising am John Bull" the diff
ference is not more than one or two gene
rations between us, and in love of country
think we are about equal, as any citizen
in johnson, your old home, will testify.
For when the Rebellion first broke out,
think you will find my name the very first
one on the Enlistment roll. | don't state
this to boast at all, but with heartfelt
pride and there never was time before
nor since the rebellion closed that made
me feel man the more as when | Shout
dercd my musket to fight in part Yer
monts share For the preservation of the
glorious old Union.
You can see from my language am
not at all vexed with you, "LamoiIe."
You like to joke, so do L. This spar will
not hurt either Of us. Represent the
West as ii IS, and | never will open my
lips against you, neither will | grieve you
enough to compel you to write another
such naughty letter as your last. lprom-
Use you also that you will not find me be-
hind in my praise Of old Vermont. But,
as am firing our indulgent Editor, |
will beg his pardon and close and hope
the next he receives from me will be less
tiresome to him and more pleasing to his
numerous realcrs.
Yours truly,