St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-03-14
Episodlcal.
The correspondent of the n. Y. Time

The correspondent of the \. Y. Tme'
writes from Washington as follows:
Mr.. Poland's speech in support OF the
committees report was given win a
good deal of dignity. He is tine-look,
ing man, always dressed with carelu
elegance, i'll IL style somewhat oid-fash-
toned, and is erect and stately, VIII
hair as white as the SHOWS of his YER
mont hills, or as his own judicial er.
mine. | suspect, from his tone and
manner, that he was once Methodist
minister of the best type, but that, IL
some hour of weakness, this ornament
of the American pulpit let go OF the
saving doctrine of 1.-The perseverance OF
the saints and backslid into the Amer
lean Congress.
His arraignment of Cakes Ames was
terribly severe. That gentleman, still
stout and comfortabl looking i'll figure,
| but somewhat pale and worn i'll cOunte-
nance, sat almost directly before him
He occasionally rolled about, little
uneasily, in his chair, but did not vince
much under the castigatiOn. He even
laughed at Mr.. Poland's one charitable
excuse for his heinous cOnduct-a nat
ural lack of moral sense. \ large pOr-
ton of this speech was directed to Mr..
Butler. That gentleman's bald head
seemed to have magnetic attraction
for the judicial finger. which pointed to
it as faithfully as the needle to the Pole.
AT one time | trembled. 1t WAS when
Mr.. Poland warned the House that. if
they did not rise to the occasion. and
act up to the stenest SENSE of duty, as
judges and puritcators, Il murderer
might become a member of that august
body, and, perchamce, take Il seat be-
side 1.-The Christian gentleman from
notwithstanding Mr.. Butler.
Such personalities are unbecoming. No
one likes To be called 10y Il name he or
she does not understand. Sheridan
once mortally offended Il tishwomau by
;ts>ailiug her with geometrical terms.
The above was handed to us for pub
LEGATION. 1t is not. perhaps. just within
our line to question the historical ac-
curacN of Il reporter of congressional
proceedings. but Us he refers To matters
not Immediately under hi-ryc we may 90
So fan aS tU suggest 50 much H. Il doubt
We have known Judge Poland for som"
twenty or more wears. - It toWn>man.
and conclude that if he rode the circuit
as Il bishop. OF itincratcd as Il metho-
dist minister. it must have been when
he resided iii Lamoillc county. and that
he fell from that grace before he came
To st. Johnsbury. Since then we have
not so much as heard that he has Joined
even the class. or assumed to occupy
a pulpit any where, and that his preach
ing since he left the judicial circuit has
been exclusively to political sinners. ex-
ccpt, more latteIly. in Congress. he
seems. rather contrary To any natural
disposition of his. To have turned Mo-
hawk. and done Il little scalping of
Ames. Brooks. and Ben Butler. We
suspect he pounded them WELL both
thcologically and otherwise. while il
may, or may not, he true. as another
Washington reporter declares. that. i'll
lapsing from the grace of methndi-tism
he has fallen into hard shell anti-ma-
sonry."
We do not. on the whole. take much
stock il the correspondents statements.
for we certainly do not rcmember OF
ever hearing our good Elder McAun
speak I" the member of Congress from
our district and cali lin "hruiher Po-
land" 1t will not Do. ."r ,,,m w,sbiur-
ton. That is II large place. aud prone.
". fear. Ia much eXaggerati"n.