The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-03-08
n. was 30. .444 .8I3 1SSQI

bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Com
panies at the latter date amounted to
sG4, ,457 1920, or an aggregate liability
and Indebtedness of 81, ,509, ,27O O,6O8.92.
1t thus appears that the liability of the
United States on account Of the Pacific
Railroads, has been increased during the
eleven months, under acts of Congress
previously passed. in the amount of SO.
500, ,320.
During the same period of eleven
months, the direct debt of the United
States has been diminished $50, ,649,971,.
W and if the increased liability of the
United States on account of the Pacific
Railroads be added, there still remains
an actual diminution of the total public
debt of the United States, direct and con-
tingent, during these eleven months, Of
s70,129,651 90.
These statements are based upon the
books Of the Treasury Department ond
camnot in any may be impedched.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
GEORGE s. BOUTWELL,. Secretary.
Hon. A. H. CRAGIN,
T.. s. Senate, Washington, d. c.
Now that there is no question regard
ng the matter now that we have shown
that no railroad bonds have been dropped
from the Indebtedness since the first OF
March, 1869; now that we have proved
from the record and by the highest au-
thority, that the reduction has been over
SSO,O0O,O00 in eleven months, will these
Democrats acknowledge their error like
honest men, or will they persist in their
misrepresentation for political effect until
after the election on the 4th of March ?
But, say what they may, they cannot re-
fute the testimony we have given.
SIMON BoLIvAE.-He might have lived
the richest, the most powerful Of the cre-
ole caste, had he chosen to submit to the
Spaniards he might have passed in
splendid luxury those long years which
he gave to patriotic toll he might have
won the highest favors of king and of the
Spanish courtiers, had he condescended to
become their slave. He preferred, in
stead, the favor of his countrymen, with
exile, penury, and the prospect of death
He gave the remaining years of his life
to South America and to freedom. He
left his rich plantations by the Guayra
his fair villas, his wide possessions, his
native city. and fed an impoverished ex-
lie to foreign lands. Here his mind ever
revolved plans for the liberation of his
country. Often defeated, he never lost
hope. With busy persistence scarcely
equalled by Washington or Cromwell
he came back after every repulse to re.
new his effort. He made desperate forays
into the midst of his foes, when every
other plan seemed hopeless; he reused
the ardor of the creole population by hi.
inc ,ssant appeals, by his heroic example
in the darkest hour he never cea ed to as.
sert that South America would yet be
free On his single arm rested for many
years the destiny of half continent and
it is possible that had Bolivar fallen il,
his generous strife, the flag Of Spar
might still have waved over the shores o
the Caribbean Sea and the crcoles have
shared the doom Of their brethren in haI,
less Cuba.
We cannot claim for Bolivar, with hi,
native biographer, a spotless fame. II,
was not one of those whose reason sits su
prcmc over their passions, and who fulfil
the Platonic conception ofa wcll-governed
frame. He was scarcely Titus in elem
ency, Marcus Aurclius in stocial virtue
Caesar in cloqucncc or military skill
His countrymcn are fond Of comparin.
him to the earlier heroes Of the Latr
race, and, with natural satisfaction, de-
light to discover in their beloved libers
tor every trait Of the heroic that made
illustrous the annals Of their ancestor,
when Latium ruled over Europe, and
when their melodious tongue was the com
mon language of Literature and Of civil
zation. But it must he confessed tina,
Bolivar was often the slave of inferior
impulses that he was vain, ambitions
Of personal supremacy ,boastful ,liccntious
sometimes cruel; and his real grcatnc-'
lies in the fact that he fought with nm
failing ardor and success in good cause
In this respect he cxccls the chief of th'
Latin heroes. He was patriot rathel
than Caesar he fought to liberate, no
to enslave. His genius rose with Difficult
ties his powers were matured in trial.
he showered with bountiful hand the blcs.
sings of freedom upon millions Of the Lat
in race. With such success Caesar had
nothing to compare , Napoleon no achieve
ment worthy of equal mention.-EuGryi
LAwREScE, in Harper's Magazine 10,
March.
Death ofthe Hon. AnsOn Burlingamr,