The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-16
NOW LET TIE WOLVES E1ogi.
IN,

One of the most remarkable speeches
Congress-unlcss we except Webster's re-
ply to Hayne-was delivered by Tristan
Burgess of Rhode Island His characters
tics as Il debatcr, as one of his biographers
says, "were whitening sarcasm, combined
with feryid eloquence and rare reasoning
power Moreover, he rarely was mistaken
in fact or assertion, no matter in what
form it might be made. He made one
grave mistake, however. In the course of
one of his most whitening speeches, in
which he completely annihilated his antag-
onist-who was leader of the House. a
most eloquent orator, a learned statesman,
man almost without fear, and who de-
lighted, above all things, in debate. The
victory was so complete that his opponent
never dared enter into further discussion
with the Rhode Island member, and, there
after, forebore to attack New England
men and New England institutions. In
that speech, Tristan Burgess thanked God
that the "father of lies never could be the
father Of liars" Taken in its limited sense.
and as then applied it might have been
true, but, taken as general proposition, it
is untrue. We propose to demonstrate this
by certain attacks that have been and are
continually being made upon TIE GLOBE
and its conductors. We beg our readers
pardon for touching upon these dirty at
tacks at all we propose, however, as IIor-
ace Greeley said, to refer to them ''iust
once" and then "let the c0lres ho,cl 0n."
We do this, not so much because we, per-
sonally, care one way or the other about
anything they can say, but because the
statement may be due TO our advertisers.
In what we have to say, we shall place our
self upon the impregnabc rock OF truth.
and state nothing unless we know il TO be
true of our own knowledge, or have sworn
testimony of the facts stated. These mali
cious, false attacks, of course. have but one
object and design-that is, to iniure TIE
GLOBE by endeavoring to break down its
circulation and injure its advertising pat
ronagc. This cannot be acc0mDEaied. We
said that there was hut zone object" and
we are willing to leave it there. although il
would secm-and is so considered by many
that there is personal enmlty toward
each and every person connected with THE
GLOBE, whether as editor proprietors or
otherwise but of this we care nothing and
we doubt not that all others connected
with us, in any capacity, feel the same
way.
One word in reference to a charge, here
toiore, SO persstently made on the street,
in private conversation, by letter, by tray
cling agents, and, by inuendo, in their
papcr-al the time knowing the statements
or inuendos, to be utterly false and with
out the least foundation in fact or, even
in sane fancy-and to which we have al
ready sufficiently replied. We refer to
them again, because the same mean, false
insinuation appeared in theri issue of Thurs
day. The New York WeraH, Wednesday.
contained some extracts from the comments
OF the press in reference to the nomination
OF Caleb Cushing-among others from The |
GLOBE and the Burlington Free Press.
The GLOBE was incorrectly, as our cotem-
porary well knew, styled democratic"
newspaper, while the Free Press
was equally incorrectly classed as
independent" Yet this paper, in
order to make capital against THE
GLOBE, speaks of the New York Herald
penetrating the thin disguise of our pol
itics. The attack is against the Free Press
as much as THE GLOBE. 1t was made in
the form of cowardly, mean, insinuatIon,
and was known to be false when it was
made. SO much for this matter.
The same paper, n few days ago, pub