St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-09-12
What the Press Says.


1.-The duty of the world to the church,.
in which it SAYS: That the three
great blessings of good government,
education aud religion may he main
tanned and pcrpctuatcd, ii is necessary
to keep alive the love of liberty, take
advantage of the educational prlvilcg-
Is afforded Us. and to labor hard tor the
interests of our churches. The sacri-
fees and the efforts. thai were made by
this part of the nation during the late
SanguimarN struggle. to maintain its in
teglity. showed that there WAS no lack
of patriotism in the SOILS of our brave
ancestry; and the excellent provisions
made by law for the support of schools.
/ together with the muniticcnce of the
/ people, will amply provide for all our
educational wants: but the church is
not supported by law. nor unfortunate
| ly does the world realize and acknowl-
edge that the influences of the church
do more for our welfare. than all other
influences combined. Such. however.
is the case and when imiidclity is suffer
ed to take the place of Christianity i'll
any nation OF community, that nation
or community will rapidly drift back
towards ignorance and depravity.'
The IIardWick Reporter. whose edi
tor WAS Il soldier of the Union army.
thus speaks of the reunion of the Third
regiment at this place Sept. -: Prob .
ably no regiment ever left the State
that furnished :" many good officers as
did this regiment, among which Were
ten. W. F. smith. familiarity known as
'Baldy SMITH Colonies Scavcr. Pin
grey. Proctor. Blunt. Ncazey. Floyd,
and last. but not least. Major Thomas
Nelson. one of the best officers that Il
regiment WAS ever blessed with. We
would like to meet all of them there,
and az many more as can possibly at
tend. The Regiment furnished some.
too. that distinguished themselves
while i'll camp, but on the battle field
their places knew them not. There
WAS Col. Il. y. Hyde; Capt. West and
Others, who We're Il good deal like the
Irishmin. their legs would not stand
and see their bodies abused"
After thirty years connection with
the Brattlcboro Phenjr. Mr.. Charles :.
Prouty retires, selling his interest TO
Mr. O. l.. French. In the announce
ment of the change, MessrS. French
and Stedman, present proprietors, say {:
''BelieVing as we do that for the pres
bored for through the Republican par
ty we shall unhesitatingly advocate
what we conceive to he pure and true
Republican principles. In all matters
of public interest and importance we
shall have decided ideas of our own to
misunderstanding in mind, always,
however, those memorable words of
Lincoln with malice towards none
and with charity for all"
The Freeman coins Il definition of the
term nerve in the modern accepta-
ton, among il class of politicians of the
Butler and Cameron stripe. They like
nerve but to them it means something
like unscrupulousness and holiness
combined, and is nearly allied to swim
ding by false pretcnces. 1t intimates
that one of the questions of the near
future will he between this kind of
II.
rests upon conscientious conviction and
is not for sale in the market. 1t thinks
it will require some nerve" for the
: general government to assume the
debts of the reconstructed states. but
Il third of the votes necessary to accom-
plish it can undoubtedly he had at any
time. and ii division of the plunder may
command Il majority i'll any money
making Congress. Freight railroads,
steamship subsidies. government tele
graphs, and bundled other Jobs are
only waiting the advent into public
life of enough men who have the per
ceptiou to know good thing" when
lHtN >'t II. anu llt HtlNt 10 lSt llt
public treasury for private purposes. to
frame such schemes into laws. The
following illustration is given of diff
fcrent kind of nerve: Some Years ago,
when the Lamoille Valley Railroad
project was i'll its infancy, an eminent
railroad man predicted the failure of
the enterprise; and he gave as reason
for this expectation that Mr.. Horace
Fairbanks had not ''nerve" enough to
accomplish the undertaking. \ mild
inquiry as to what he meant by nerve"
III that connection elected this general
explanation: Mr.. Fairbanks is too
timid. His conscience is too tender.
He ought to 60 ahead. get what money
he can from the towns, spend it, and