Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-10
Written for the Herald
Con sisfeHCy.

son had all the sins in the world to car
nv thew would be too much for him.
They are divided and pretty equally, so
that individuals can carry their shares,
and help to reform others. Hence the
! man who drinks too much whisky can
! eXpostulate with his neighbOr on the sin
of indulgence in cigars and pipes,
and the smoker can reciprocate and have
word or two to spare for the man who
eats to stupefaction. There is but one
deadly enemy of reform in the world,
and that is the man who opposes all men
ton of faults except by those who are
free from flaws. This idea carried out
would abolish the pulpit and chain the
press.
Suppose THE HERALD and Globe should
change their positions on the report of
the railroad investigating committee.
You would be accused of inconsistency,
! which in some peoples view is worse
than a crime. There is something in the
human heart that rebels instinctively un-
der all circumstances against inconsis-
tency.
This feeling stands more in the way
of the new convert than any other. His
impulse is to hide from people who have
seen him wicked and now find him try
ing to be good. The reforming drunk
ard wants to sneak out of the sight of
people who have caught him striving to
be sober. But if you adhere to your
present position on the report of the rail-
road investigating committee, though
you and the Globe will preserve your
consistency in that matter, you will sac
rifce it in dozen most important as
poets.
The Globe declined to express any
opinion on the report, but next day had
column and a half on the Walworth
parricide yet the chances that the flu
ture of this State is to witness more
fraudulent breaches of trust are, as COM
| pared with the chances of PARTICLES oc-
curing hereafter in Vermont, as mill
! lion to one. A paper forgets its mission
when it thus treats grave public inter
ests. The Globe said the transactions of
the managers of the Vermont Central
were past, now. and if they had done
wrong it was for the courts to settle.
| So was the Walworth parricide past,
and if there was anything wrong in the
proceedings of the court which tried
! him, it was for higher court to settle.
! The investigating committee was APP
! pointed by Vermont Legislature, held
! its sessions in a Vermont village, re-
ported to Vermont Governor, their re-
port was published in the Vermont
papers for Vermont people to read, and
its nature is wholly public and partly
political The Walworth parricide was
a New York affair, entirely criminal.
Yet the parricide is treated, to column
and half, while the committees report
is dismissed to the courts. This does
not occur by accident. 1t is done. be-
cause there is something to hide.
Permit me to say, with the perfect
candOr due to a question Of this gravity,
that your action was not much better
With a show of bold, independent crit
icism which | ask the freedom to charge
was meant to deceive, you had the
audaclty to assert, alongside the commit
tees report, that it sis a complete OK
iculpation of the trustees and mana gers
from all charges of frauds. peculation.
corruption and msmanagement :" What
do you take us for? You practically
charge your readers with idiocy when
you undertake to cram down their
Threats statement accompanied by its
own rrfutatiOn
Has Vermont not friend in the press
or elsewhere to back her in the looming
fight? Will all the world look on and
sre her bound in chains of iron rings ANA
none essay her deliverance | reckon
we are not so badly off. | see approach
ing form of majestic mould that will
sever those chains like burnt threads.
IL Is the embodiment of wrashful pub
lie sentiment. When that gathers fun
force it will come like a whirlwind. or
simoom, or waterspout, or something
else towards and traitors will turn pale
and tremble to see, while those who
stand by the State in her present ex-
tremity will he rewarded.
a HERALD READER.
COMMENTS,
We publish the above criticism upon
the views of our neighbor and ourselves,
upon the report of the Committee refer
red to, that the author may have
chance to present the sorehead side of
this question 70 the public. We always
had great sympathy for the poor soldiers
in the time OF the rebellion who were
Frustrated by chronic difficulty pecu-
liar to military service in n low latitude,
and we feel the milk of human kindness
! stirring in our bosom, when we see a
patient laboring under mental disorder
that can only be compared to the phys
ical disease, that SO sadly decimated the
ranks OF the loyal soldiery. We shall
leave our neighbor to settle with its
readers IN its own way, but as far as the
criticism applys to US, we beg to say
that the charge that we meant to de-
c!eVe is wholly untrue, and any one who
VIII give the report candid and intelli-
gent perusal, cannot fail to find that il full
~ sustains what we said of it. We did
charge that it was unsatisfactory and
was not what the people had right to
expect, and such is still our conviction
OF the character of this report.
There is no paragraph in the report i'm
which the committee find the trustees
and nrtnagers guilty of fraud, pecula-
tlon,cf Eruption or mismanagement We
are az ware that in some sentences they
say That they had not evidence sufficient
to fiji ID whether certain transactions were.
or W ere not corrupt, but we do not think.
we should be justified in presuming
frau d simply because there was
not evidence of it, to satisfy
the committee. 1t is rule long
and well established that the vilest