Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-11

this time by the complete and Irresistible
vindication of Senator Carpenter of
Wisconsin, from the dirty attack made
upon him by the Tribune and reflected
by all the little scayengers of the coun-
try press, last summer, III reference 10
his inability to find entertainment at the
West End Hotel at Long Branch. We
do not wonder that the author of this
false attack upon an innocent mans re-
putation, cries out, as did the rebels in
1861, after they had stolen the govern
ment property and dragged our cher
ished emblem of sovereignty in the foul
mire of treason, that all they want is
''to be let alone.' The Tribune, having
been convicted of falsehood by every
living witness who knows the facts, and
being assured by at least q half dozen
respectable persons, that the reporter
who furnished the scandalous ar
ticle, had admitted that it was without
particle of foundation, in fact, bat was
circulated to get even with Carpenter
for having been by him justly punished
for lnisdemeanor, does not do anything
to repair the wrong it has done, but
merely remarks that ''this is not a
pleasant subject, and ought to be
dropped"
We know an imitator of the foul
mouthed attacks of the Tribune, who
assaulted the reputation of several of the
first citizens of this State, not long ago,
and when the truth was demonstrated SO
clearly that the community saw that it
was only the exhibition of natural de-
sire to wallow in moral filth, simply
asked to be let alone as their reporter
had vanished his dispatches little too
much, and in token of their sincerity,
at once promoted the ''varnisher' to q
responsible position on their editorial
staff. We hope the time is coming
when there will be a reform in this hab-
it on the part of few public journals,
of spending their whole time and
strength in defamation and immoral re-
citaIs of the imagined delinquencies of
| prominent persons. This practice is
confined to a very few now of our
public newspapers, and we gather new
hope at every new effort of the press to
purify itself from the influence of these
impure journals, and we hope that the
reaction that will follow this conviction
of the Tribune of maliciously SANDER
ing Senator Carpenter, will bring that
organ to a more serious protest than
that of the captured pickpocket who
desires s'to be let alone"
We cannot refrain from copying a
few of the comments we find in our eX-
changes upon this subject of the Car
penter SANDER, as showing the feeling
of the respectable press of the country,
and protest against all being judged
by the unprincipled and malicious. The
Worcester Spy says:
CAS- the evidence stands, this seems to
be very bad case of malignant aud
| dastardly libel, to which the records of
I political and personal warfare, so far as
we are familiar with them, furnish hard
ly any parallels"
The Baltimore american says:
''The defense of Senator Carpenter,
as appears by the evidence recently pub
| lished, is complete vindication."
The New Haven Palladium has an
article from which we make the follow
ing extract:
''The defense of Senator Carpenter,
published by the New York Times is a
strong one, and must compel an answer
from the Tribune. Two of the state
ments made in it may be accepted as
| proved, viz that Senator Carpenter was
| not in state of intoXication during his
visit to Long Branch, and that the lady,
| by whom he was accompanied, holds a
respectable position. The gorgeous and
somewhat sloppy rhetoric in which the
Tribune clothed its charges against the
Senator, gave the impression that the
lady was person of VIGOROUSLY bad
reputation. If DR.. Bliss and Senator
Spencer state the truth, Ramsdell, the
correspondent upon whose information
the Tribune based its articles, has con-
fessed that he is malicious slanderer.
We might fill whole columns with ex-
tracts of this kind from the respectable
papers of the country, while those who
echoed the SANDER, either keep perfectly
still, or ask that the disagreeable subject
be dropped. We hope it will be dropped
and that these vampires of the press
who have resorted to these disreputable
ISLANDERS to injure opponents, will hear
something drop that will learn them
a lesson that will improve their mora
tone and trutLfulness.