Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-23

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low. Whom gold was 1886 on tho dollar
Of the only currency the country could af.
ford the disruption Of the Union imminent,
all prices high. some excessively so. Con-
gress holding very long sessions, million
of young men at Sl3 per month exposing
their lives for the salvation Of the Union,
Congress was contented with $4,000 n year
but in 1878, when all is peace, Except the
troubles created by a rccreaut Congress)
when prices have again struck bottom, and
our paper in value is hardly distnguishable
from coin, the "too low" forty.socond Con.
gress add fifty per cent to their pay and
date it back tio0 gears in violation Of a
contract with the people But it is re-
piled, Judge Poland opposed this measure.
Is this true2 He voted no. Did he do
more2 Was the voice and the influence of
"Vermont's venerable statesman" raised
openly boldly, and manfully against this
great wrong2 From severe but careful
Investigation Of such means Of knowledge
as are accessible it appears it was not
Judge Poland-uuder this bill which he
must have known would pass without his
vote calmly, coolly, and deliberately took
the swag," and kept it,-unti he saw
light brighter than Saul saw when on his
way to prosecute the Christians, and then,
and not till then, lie returned it, as readily
if not as cheerIullY as Saul became Chris
tan, but more sorrowfuly.
That Judge Poland voted against the
bill may be in his favor, and we incline to
regard it so, but that jurst as eminent as
he is claimed to be should take as his right
! full possession, what the after return of the
same admits tacitly to be wrong in the TAX
ing, seems a trHe dubious. Did he not take
and retain the nearly $4,000 back pay until
the universal cry Of press and people hero
and throughout the land made the diSgorge.
nient a matter Of policy2 Ii not rightfully
his, why accept it and If his own, why re-
turn it This district wants an honest man
in place Of policy man, and the September
vote shows this fact, aud also whom the peo-
pie would choose. Are the 10000 voters
of this district to be told again that Judge
| Poland must have another term or woe
befall the land ? So intelligent a consttu-
ency need no whip; they answer better to
the bland admontions of at turf and grass
than that OF stones, even as last resort.
Again, it IS claimed by the organs that
Judge Poland had nothing to do with the
L" libel act Of the last session by some that
he was ignorant of its intent and purposes,
by others that he knows it to be harmless,
aud by others still that he don't knoi0 any.
thing about IL. The latter view, under all
circumstances, must be the most charitable,
but again we ask, may Judge Poland plead
ignorance to the tribunal of the second dis
trict after his speech of eight years ago, in
which he warned the erring ones that he,
al" am by legal education and judicial
experience fitted better for the Senate than
Mr.. Morrill,, who is not lawyer nor a jurist
Putting the two claims together, eau pre-.
sumption, capacity, ignorance, or ability
count in this attempt to rid the district of d
pretender and allow again representative
of the masses such as was known when Mr.
Morrill, by Judge Polands own confession
was in his due place
That Boss Shepard and his associates o.
the Infamous and ungodly District Of Co
lumbia ring think, believe, and are at hear
assured that they can under this libel &C
snatch an editor from Wisconsin or New
York is undoubted for they have attempted
and are attempting it.
That editors Of the formerly unbridlec
press in Vermont are more or less in fear i
as true as any established fact. That SomC
are independent is in their favor, and will
in the end help to send the rogues to grass
and bring forward the honest men for higl
places.
That the unity and tension Of the repub
lcan party, upon such platform as thu
freemen will hereafter tolerate will be Sc
cured by new deal with an upright anC
well known man as a candidate, is as sur
as fate, aud its opposite is equally sure Il
make permanent mischief.
That Judge Poland has ability none ques
ton; that he is keeping his hold on tn
House Of Representatives as a stepping ston
TO Mr.. MOrrills place is as plain as geome
try to junior in college, and that tho pee
pie Of the district fail to see the nccessit,
that he should longer serve them, and wi
be willing that he retire on the fourth o
. March next from the Halls of the Nationa
Legislature, is strikiugly indicated by thei
verdict Of Sept. l, last.
In imitation of the editors and publisher
of the Waterman aud Journal Of Montpe
!. ier, whose author and fnisher are brothe
= and a nephew of Judge Poland | may prop
ery and truthfuiy remark that this articI
is not written or directed or known abou
;, by any member Of the family of the people
candidate for Congress, although he is a
$ old and valued friend.
QUERIsT.
October II, 1874.