Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-15

the charges and the Messengers usually open
nav for personal scandal and sensational
attacks on the character and motives OF
public men, was for once shut inlsatiety as
the Irish would say, you can't expect "a
dog to bite his father" and the Messenger Is
not an unnatural offspring. The Irareier
published the charges. and yet the Messen-
ger was silent. The Traveller has hitherto
been one of the voices OF the Vermont ana
Canada y ring. The time is not long past
when the kettle Messenger to the 1rdreuer
trumpet spoke. the Traveller trumpet TO the
cannon fthe Republican, when snarl from
st. Adams was answered by a sympathetic
growl from Springfield Mass. But, for once,
the Messenger didn't feel like playing the
Trareller's tunes, "organ to organ. And
so we publish the charges simply to let the
Messenger see the possibilities OF SANDER
and personal detraction in this world to sug-
gest that If he, who has, hitherto, IN TINS
age of corruption, been so white that he has
shone like solitary star in blacklist night,
can suffer unjustly at the hands OF an m
restigating villain like Luttrell, why who Is
safe from SANDER If Luttrell is an oihclal
liar and traducer, why may not the upoih-
cial work of its own local " liars and ira
ducers be disposed of as charitably as the
Messenger whiffs away the - Luttrell " IN,
dictment? Mr.. Barlow's guilt was assumed
by nobody because Of the accusation, ana
while no generous man would WISH 10
question or cavil about the truth oil MS
exoneration, yet is it any more compete
than the exoneration of other men ut least
his peers. who frankly submitted to an IN
vestigation that was turned into a trial,
whose favorable verdict was signed by
..ttn ,x,A al u characters
are aspersed to-day by the Messenger IN the
very article that il writes in defence OF ITS
deity. The Messenger has a right to take
comfort in the fact that death is not the
only fellow that loves shining mark that
the wicked material world is full OF enylous
image-breakers. trying to push Apollo from
his pedestal and lay him with Snenus IN
the dust, who go about prodding trdly
good men," invading the ranks OF our
heroes living and dead with their vandal
rands, trying with their hammers to mar the
fair faces. if possible, of the moral pets OF
the period. Washington has been charg-
ed with being the illustrious father OF emil.
dren that had no mother "tO speak of;
jefferson, the other day, was published as
once the insulter of his friends hottest and
most sacred domestic ties; Webster is often
described as a glsified dead beat" in pri-
vate life, Fox and Clay as inyeterate gam
blers, Lincoln as an infidel, Grant as
drunkard; hardly one escapes. More re-
cent years are no exception, for our smiling
statesman, the. Christian Colfax, has been
frightfully mangled beyond recognition.
And so now. good Messenger, destructive
crusading Congressman has broken into
your back garden and been trying TO deface
the statue of your deity that adorned 1t;
has been fiercely punching and prOdding
him with sharp sticks" Let your pen
continue to be his spear and your paper his
shield, but don't misunderstood the
reproof of this republication from
the Trdreiier, which i only to remind
you how easy wicked boys can wantonly
throw stones through your windows, and
which ought to teach you the lesson of NAL
ice toward none and candor and charity to-
ward all which you evidently expect to be ac-
eepted by all for You and yours, but which
you show to none that are not with you.