Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-11-30
The Mock SeSSiOn.

As all the members upon the floor of the
" third House, and all the officers therein
are self-elected to their respective positions,
your correspondent deemed it Legitimate that
he should vote himselfa reporter to attend
upon and chronicle the dOings of that digni-
fed body during what is, and has been from
time immemorial, popularity familiar as the
- mock session." am not aware that the
proceedings of this body have been very gen.
orally reported in the papers, and even now
it will he necessary-for reasons entirely
obvious to those who had the misfortune to
| be present-to report as bills are generally
read the second time, q by the title only
And if this body were to be named, like bills,
so as to indicate in some measure the char
acter of the body itself, it would seem most
appropriate to term it g The Vermont Smut
Machine For the proceedings were SC
decidedly g smutty to use a vulgar term,
though one the most refined which can be
used with any propriety in such connection
as to render the appearance of any detailed
account Of them in the public prints, not
The proceedings of this assembly consisted
mainly, in fact almost entirely, of aborti We
attempts at running saw upon % the gen.
tleman from Hancock" who has been the
butt of ridicule for the Legislature and press
of the State for two years And for the
two reasons First, that by some popularity
of that gentleman's makeup he seems to
believe in everybOdy's sincerity, when it is
not quite so apparent-and second, that, to
an honest purpose, he brings capacity I'M
equal to the task of resisting the tide of
ridicule which is the only argument that
can be urged against his proposed measures
of needed reform But even in this unequal
contest, wherein he has been so sorely and
persistently set upon by a legion of malicious
foes during two sessions, Mr.. Bull has shown
himself to be about as sharp as any one of
his numerous tormentors. Many and irritl-
ting as have been the petty annoyanees
heaped upon the gentleman from Hancock,
and shameless rs has been the warfare thus
waged against him, the croWling act OF
meanness of the whole two sessions was re-
served for prominent and otherwise worthy
member, rejoicing in the prefix of Rev.
who, not content with aiming his poisoned
shafts at Mr. Bull, had the hardihoOd to lug
/ in the name of the wife of that gentleman,
introducing bill which provided that she
should hereafter be called Mrs. Taurus OF
that she shall be known by the name of Vecca,
which is the latin word for oolc. Whereupon
la distinguished lawyer in the gallery, him
self more noted for his ability and his genial
good nature, than for any special refinement
of language, turned upon his heel and swOrc
by mighty power, as he went out of the
door, that he could nj stand that So Dc
we see the clerical, putting the legal PROBES
sion to the blush, by such reckless plunge:
into the filth of bar-room balderdash in the
presence of hundreds of ladies. | said tina
this was the meanest Of all and so, in my
Judgment, it was, but not the most rockies:
of the rules of decency. In this respec
they grew worse and worse; until bill
came from the Senate so bad that both Clerl
and Speaker of even that House refused t
read it l know what it contained, and
know the name of the honorable Senator
who drafted the bill; but many years ago
when was but boy, and - dog poor" he
allowed me TO become his debtor, in cOnsid
Grafton of which kindness, and for which
am greatly obliged to him, l refrain from
/ mcnti ming his name 10 this connection.
NEMESIS.