Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-08-14
The Second District...No. ..


reference to our Congressional matters. They
are very DESTROYS to retain our present able
Representative and send him to the next
Congress, and think that their views should
find public expression. So, to crafty them,
as well as express my own views, ask the
privilege Of your columns for another letter.
There arc a good many Of us who still look
upon thc Office Of Representative in Congress,
and other Offices too for that matter, not as
the reward or qualification Of personal ann
bition, but as public trusts to be conferred
upon those who have proved themselves emil
rontly worthy, or falling such, upon those
we Judge qualified to discharge them well.
! Now am not disposed to deny to Mr.. Steele
the requisite qualifications for the Office to
which he aspiros lie may or he may not
possess them. lie has not been tried, and
there are no certain means Of judgment
There is certainly one thing against him,
not to say two things. He thinks himself
amply qualified Modosty is usually the
mark Of real excellence and superiority, and
modcsty is inconsistent with any active utter
noe of personal superiority. For one l do
not Ike to SEQ such exaggerated self esteem.
IL would be quite as well for man to let
his follow citizens recognize his merits, and
have Office thrust upon him rather than seek
80 himself The people ought to have tho
privilege Of selecting their candidates as well
as voting for them. do not agree with
Judge Steele in his estimate Of himself nor
regard him as the Gttest man in this district
for Congressman. think Judge Poland
much better qualified. He has proved him
self to our satisfaction. There are few men
in Congress bis equals, and none his superb
ors. He is one of the ablost, most useful
and most honor,l men in the House of Rep
resontatiyos OF commanding personal pres
d enco, Of intense intellectual force, Of arg,
. comprehension Of public questions, of gcnia
and alable manners Of ready wit and varied
, learning and ripe experience we could not
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