The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23
THE VILLAGE HISTORIAN.

When man puts up his clenched fists
for II fight, though you may not be con-
scious of having done anything to provoke
his ire, you feel obliged to meet him on his
own ground, and accept battle in the style
he offers. 1t may be blackguard way
you may prefer more polished weapons
but you naturally strike back IN the same
spirit in which the first blow is inflicted on
yourself. Something like this is the Jef-
ferson Brick style of editorial writing OF
rNNer that of the Trumpet of Thunder and
Eagle &C Freedom language we sometimes
find in an ambitious country paper. Its pom
derous attonnr's crushing is ludicrons, and
really too much of burlesque itself to be
burlesqued. Unskilled in the use of Ian
guage, the editorial tyro vainly imagines
that popgun can kill an elephant, ant
would aim cannon at fly. To correct {
mistake in the location of fence post he
would bring on an earthquake, while If the
community were being deprived of rights
of the most important character, he would
utter feeble protest or none at all. But
it is on hair splitting points about nothing.
and in the peacock strut over atoms of in.
formation of very little Importance, that
our village contemporary comes out with
five hundred flea power.
In imitation of his crushing editorial
writing when he has pet theme of micro
scope importance, we notice that, under
pretence of setting the gaping world ricbt
on XIllnUp h;eta.xr lo
inc most glazing misstatements that ever
emanated from creature three derrees re-
moved from an absolute maniac. He acm-
ally begins by the startling assertion that
" b. Clark, man whose fame appears to
NC GEAR to the editor of that paper, and
WHOSE eccentric career has enlisted all his
sympathies, was arrested in Madison. Wis
cohsin, on the second day Of August. 1867
when every school child, not merely of the
high school, but prattling infants who have
just begun to learn their letters, know that.
IL was on the first. The statement that II
was On the second could only have been
made for the deliberate purpose of betray-
ing the confidence which the people of the
village OF Rutland have been taurht from
the time they were old enough to cry for
the paper, till they departed for their long
nome WIN It's name the last word on their
hps,-a deliberate attempt to mislead their
simple, child-like trust. 1t was base and
malicious falsehood, hurled like firebrand
in our midst with all the fell and bideous
mallgnity of a cowardly and brutal incon-
diary The man who could thus intention
ally, for wicked purposes of his own. fall
sify history deserves to he impaled on a
toothpick.
His next most malevoent and wicked
assertion is that Clark was committed to
Jail in Rutland on the 9th or 10th day of
the same month. We are absolutely out of
patience with such brazen falsehood,
such depravity, such stupid ignorance. 1t
is the grossest falsehood ever perpetrated
in Vermont history. Clark was committed
on the eighth or ninth of the same month,
and not ON the ninth or tenth, as stated by
that editor, with an infamous disregard of
truth. Let him read this check of his wild
career of mendacity and turn pale like an
escaped felon arrested in hen roost.
That headless falsiier further has the
insolent presumption to assert that ON the
9th day of February, 1860, Clark was SEN
fenced by the Supreme Court, and was
committed to the state prison within two
or three days thereafter "Time has been
that when the brains were out the man
would die, but that time has passed, as the
editor of our village contemporary witnesses
by his petrified example. The grossly stu
pid ignoramus evidently confuses the time
of Clark's leaving the Jail to be committed
to the states prison with the time when he
entered the states prison. The latter was
the real time of commitment, and was
three or four days after the sentence, and
not two or three days, as this lumbriciform
this inodorous shadow, this resd-
uum of a man brazenly asserts.
After stating that Clark was brought
here in August, 1867, he declares that all