The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-04

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set to watch the meat and not to cat it, the
HeroH with its whiskers full of sand gath
cred while licking the foot of King Ring,
set up howl like cayote, and said the
"fair fame of Vermont was involved
When an orator on Decoration day in
Rutland had the audacity to say something
about the 'chancery gyroscope,' people
looked to see if he would fall down dead
on the stand, the hint concerning King
Ring was so palpable, and must offend
him so hugely Why how could he ? How
did he dare ? 1t took their breath away.
The very people who were afraid to speak
had paid subscriptions to that road, and
seen it placed in hands who were incom-
potent to manage the road, but competent
to absorb it by barnacle attachments until
those managers grew rich while the rail-
road grew poor ; the peoples stock melted
away. the means of the managers grew by
what they fed on, and when the road was
sold. people never knew exactly how it
happened. but there came forth a new
road with new name, in which the people
held no stock, but which was largely
owned by the managers, and was clear of
debt to the people and everybody else.
The people of Vermont all understand this.
The editor of the He,uM understands
this. lie knows he is not fooling
anybody, that he is transparcntly playing a
game; but if he can get dollar and half
worth of printing and Il free ride occa-
sionally, he would sell out every principle
he has in the world, and throw in his shirt
To make amends to the people, for triflng
with their interests he reads the GLOBE all
through, and if he finds mistake of the
printer, letter upside down or word out,
exposes it with italics and ordinations of
horror to the public.
With all the Heralds pottering editorials
what public scandal has it rebuked? what
public injury has it failed to defend OF
what use is that kind of journalsm2
Take away three papers in this state, of
both kinds of politics, and there is not one
left that does not take off its hat to King
Ring, and hold itself ready to sit down in
a spittoon, if asked The most unmanly,
the most sneaking, the most cowardly,
tie most pusillanimous, the weakest and
poorest of the lot are the republican pa
pers. They seem to think republicanism
is another name for humility on their part,
and autocracy on the part of those to whom
they look up, and who may tester in cor
ruption and stink with rottenness, and yet
command the adulation of the republican
press.
The same spirit extends to the smallest
local affairs. A village meeting cannot
be held and opinions freely put forth by
the minority without receiving the wither
ing scorn of the majority, and without be
ing loaded with opprobrious epithets
Even the little boys cannot fire off O
Chinese cracker on wet day because some
guardian of the town remembers that Port.
land was set on fire by a cracker. New
York, with enough wealth under her fingel
nails to buy out any of the Vermont vii
lagos, is ablaze with fireworks, uproariou:
with crackers and rockets, and children
and aged people happy for one day in thu
year. If Portland had been in Ohio in
stead of New England, the law agains
squibs, serpcnts, fre-crackers and rockets
never would have been passed. If the peo
pie of Vermont do not declare independ
ence from the slavery under which they
now groan, they will have occasion to re
fleet on the fires of Sodom and Gomorrall
though they occurred a good deal further
off than Portland.
We wanted to go out and fire off som,
under the coat tails of the editor of the
Herald, and see if he could be made tC
Jump out of some of his old ruts and We
are disappointed and provoked, and ready
to quarrel with everybody, because fire
crackers are taboOed.
Now just look at the infinite appropriate
July celebration. The boys begin will
the fire crackers, as our Declaration of In
dependence began with war. Wars ar,
carried on with explosions of gunpowder
and the noise of the cracker emblemizcs tina
of the musket, and when torn to pieces i
is IA destroyed Briton with his hateful rec
coat A quantity of crackers in barrel
represents artillery. Rockets, with their
malicious hiss, their terrific roar, signify
wars passions let loose, while their burst
ing into scintillating fragments is like TIN
shock of battle when it results in brillan
victory. They symbolic At the same tim,
the fiery comet, whose hairy head and lonl
drawn out tail foretold to ancient obser
vers wars to come, and of horrors afoO
while flaming wonders crept along the sky
A like portent of war and direful wonder
to come is when the serpent, quitting hi
native earth, darts through the air all OF
fire Such strange turning of nature from
the earth with blood on the violent taking
off of Caesar Shakespeare thus sets them
forth:
Gle. Good even, Casca Brought you Casa
home?
Why are you breathless? and why stare 20,
so?
Casca. Are not you moved, when all the swa
| OF earth
Shakes, like thing unilrm? o Cicero,
nave seen tempests. when the scolding wind
Have rvep the knotty oaks and have seen
The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds
But never till tonight, never till now,
DID go through tempest dropping fire.
Either there is a civil strife In heaven;
or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
lncenses them TO send destruction
Gle. Why, saw you any thing more wonder
ful?
Casca. common slave you know him wei
by slightly
Held up his left hand, which did name an
burn
Like twenty torches join'd; and yet his hand,
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