Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-15
West Rutland.

| CLOUDS tnat 1lItteu over the mountain
tops during the afternoon, kept many
Lord Dundrearys and Lady Gays al
home The Sarsfield Band are under
obligations to the Rutland Brass Band
Mr.. Chester Kingsley and others who
generously contributed to the success Oh
! the affair
The schools in District No 7, closed
on the 2d inst. To many children, whose
| attendance record proves their desire fOl
advancement, and reflects credit upon
! their parents, this last has been n pros
porous session. A public examination
was anticipated and desired by the teach
| ers and committee, but the withdrawal
and carelessness in attending school of
| many members from each class, discOur-
aged the idea, and it was determined to
postpone until the middle of the fall
! term Michael Burke, Willie Burke,
James Burke, Austin Maloney and James
Gallagher, of the principal department
for boys, deserve highest merit for re-
gular attendance. For cOmmendablc
excellence in bookkeeping, penman-
ship, arithmetic, etc, and good depOTt-
ment. Master Edward Mccormick, Rod
ger Dwyer and Daniel CarmOdy head the
list. Mr.. J. Murphy, committee, by
frequent visits and earnest efforts, has
done much for the interest Of the school,
and is deserving of great credit for his
unwearied attention and telling counsel
in the important cause of education.
A campaign cake at the picnic on
Saturday created considerable merriment.
One earnest individual, to balance a ma
jority for Greeley repeated fifteen
times at ten cents vote, but lost No.
II, the majority for Horace, took the
cake.
We have lately received a faint ray
of light upon our political darkness from
the pleasant shades of WallingfOrd. 4
''P, of the dwarf specie, appearingly,
plucked from the fertile kitchen-garden
of Chappaqua, doubtless. (Since it await
ed with ccstatic joy the rolling up of a
Democratic majority in North Carolina)
has blOssOmcd out for our special dclec-
tation and cditicatiOn to aver that no
true ''Amcrican" during the awful cri-
sis should sit on the fence etc, etc.
JeS 50 But will our ''P'-culiar cen
Sor please to inform us, firstly, from
which political melon patel" his "P'-
culiar opinions spring, and, secondly, if
he Is not, really, joint partner in the
Dandy Democratic Express mentioned
by "Smuggins," and with the political
sagacity that his pal, J. c. W., essays
to straddle two different organs Of opin-
ion at once? Awaiting these develop
ments we assume the right to sit where
we please. claiming, at the same time,
as large lump of patriotism as was ever
possessed by Dandy pumpkins or Wal
lingford 'P's."
We have read somewhere that ideas
which our local scriblers ''fathers 10y
some high sounding signature dixie our
own for instancc) are merely the echo
iugs of some nObler intellect.
-''Faintly murmuring on
When the beauteous note which gave
them birth
Is gone, forever gone"
But a harmonious note or noble senti-
mcnt Of truth cannot be too often repeat
cd. 1t is well. at times. that the memo
ry may catch the inspiration Of some
generous thought, and place it again
loth"d as it may be, in hOmlicr garb
vet brilliant STILL before the public mir
rnr in which all behold themselves as \. .
No. / of course,
Ou the other hand, in our present po-
,niral contest (Of which we most hum
lily conccdc cur Ignorance. We cannot
furhcar rcltartn@ The Wonderful guauti- /
tv Of vhaf' that il soWli on the breeze
Nv every literary spalprcu that can col /
lrct Il few choice BillingSogatc phrases /
for uH" candidate. Il mourrcl mcsS of
utHs- ~imji'~ for the ut.I"r, and cas-, /
an# f,Hh on tn" troubled Hatp'- ~ his .
,Uo'1 of the general cauldrou ul popu- .
Jar lut"utH aul inycctiyr,
"Ma!Icr toward n'.:,,., ,uHulF hr all,
y oas lle sentiment uf q Eohlr maI "hosr .
public uI private character few dur.d .
madGn. How much greater would il be- /
to tn" honor of the American people to /.
llv. il the sam" generous sentiment ac- !
tu3tcd trtir political motives and purpo- /
s,,S
The question arises after The above
lengthy preface. after considering the /
divisions. chickering's and scrcs~i.us OF I
p0litic2l mnuGriica the maliynity and /
bitterness of party spirit, the question /
comes Ia many independent and patriot /
iC sons of the nation. Whom shall We /
support? Shall we become aS wax in /
th' hands of wary unprinciplrd men To b. /
mo!dcd INTO political ammunition. and /
hurled against we know not what? Shall /
W, accept without hesitation ar "Nlm- i
nation The creed nr ANY grartlrSs dcina- (
gnEur who boasts of his power over oar /
plastic. natures and his abb v to com
m1nd tnrm? Who rcCriv"sa II cr bonus .
for playing upon our crcdujity, louching
pur national pride with seductive soft
>EWu"r. manipulating our known likes
and diSlikcS aS the chemist does his iugtp-
.lia,tS fh Snp1a Thtnltt mi \ fIIra
With no small degree of pridr We
have remarked the self-ra'iabt ana tadr-
,,andrut spirit OF many Of our country
rurn OF West Rutland since the opening
OF the present political contest The
old subservient willingness to pander to
any leaders political desires who dares
to offer erinsincerityfOr honorable suffrage
is (thanks to the experience of the past)
fast dying out among us.
We do not need, we who have lived
for many years beneath the protecting
flag OF the Republic, and experienced
the blessings and advantages of our
glorious constitution and laws, we do
not need to be aroused by fractions, dis
nOntented men into the belief that we
sacrifice a single blessing or right by
forming our own political opinions and
them to the letter. Nor do
we require to feed on the ISLANDERS and
infamous TRADES of the party press to
convince us of the honor or dishonor Of
our future Legislators. To our post office
alone there comes, weekly, hundred
Or more copies of a literary guide with
40 party compass to point its course
over butchered policies and blackened
characters, whose earnest vindication of
the nations honor put to shame the de-
tanners and traducers of the chosen of
5he people.
If you seek, my friends, for honest
political truths, do not accept the yindi-
cation of every rusty weathercock that
.urns, not on the oiled pivot of honesty
and integrity, but upon the squeaking
txle of self-interest and glorifcation.
In the present canvass your good
yraoes are anxiously solicited. Outside
IF party combinations you can act as
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