The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-10-01

For the REGISTER.
Nix. EDITOR Since the discussion of
the Presidential question, must be the
order of the day for awhile have deemed
it proper to offer few thoughts for the
consideration of yourself and others, aud
trust some one more competent than my
self will make the matter so clear that no
one can longer doubt as to his duty in
voting next November
President Grant has done well in many
things, perhaps as well as any man
could have done But how was it when
Thomas Murphey's conduct had been SO
thoroughly Investigated that he thought
best to resign; and the President sent
him that euogistc letter Of acceptance
How does it happen that the President
keeps his brother-in-law so long in Office,
in New Orleans, after so much official
corruption there has been shown?
BY what authority, or on what ground
Of moral right, are the Cabinet officcrs,at
salaries Of five or six thousand dollars
per year, employed two or three months
in eectioneerng for the reelection Of
President Grant, while the people must
pay these salaries, and pay for assistants
during said time? And since there is
no law to tax clerks in the different de-
partments, by what right do their superb
ors present claims Of So to SO, virtually
saying to the clerks, you must pay so
much for this campaign, or lose your
place. Is it right to tax the people in
the ways named three or four million
dollars, to re-elect man to the office of
President? For one, think not
Now few words as to the other can.
didate, MIR. Greeley probably stands as
high as an Editor OF newspaper, as any
man in the country. And in that posi-
tion he has probably received as much
honor as he can in any other position.
He has been charged with crooking about
some during the rebellion, which brings
to my mind an anecdote heard some
twenty-five years ago, and which was as
follows: A minister called on man
who was in the habit of telling large sto-
ries, to reprove him tor it, The man
says,-"I know | tell large stories, some-
times, but | will tell you one that IS a
fact, truth. sir. | went into the woods
one day and saw beech log, rolling and
tumbling, and taking on bitterly l ask
ed the log what allied it? And it spake
right out and said it was so crooked it
couldn't lay still That is fact truth
SIR"
Said the minister, you know that is
not true" Well, says the other, 81 will
tell you one that is true, fact truth,
sir. went into the woods one day in
the Spring, and saw two great black
snakes. They got fighting, and fit and
fit and fit, and then one got 'tothers tail
in his mouth, and 'tother got that ones
tail in his mouth, and both began to swal-
Ter, and they kept on swallerng, till both
were swallered up, and couldn't see any
thing Of either Of them; that's fact
truth sir" The minister then left
If anyone thinks Mr.. Greeley has been
so crooked while trying for different Off
ces, that he could not lay still, car they
blame him And if, after fighting the
modern Democrats so long and severely,
they wind off by swallowing each other
Who can say that each does not have a
hard dose? And who can think strange
it the invisible parties have the gripes
some? QUERIsr.
Cornwall, W., Sept. 1872