Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-25
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

DEAR FARMER, and dear friend Of the peO-
pie and advocate OF justice to all, especially
to the single-handed worker, write you to
add note to the chorus of praise due you
for being the only paper in the state which
chooses or dares tell the truth and defend
the right
Why either the democratic party, based
upon individual. independent rights, or the
republican party, based upon the duties OF
individuals toward the nation. should seek
by all means good and bad to abrogatc the
rights OF the people and falsiiy their allie
gian CO 10 the government, in the name of hu-
mainly and God, and under the cloak of po-
litical ethics, passes an honest comprehen-
sion.
When, rs is, and has boon the case, they
do this, 1t becomes the obligation of the peO-
pie to leave the fellowship of old party lead
ors and organizations, and net. unbiased by
party, to promote personal right and duty.
II states, provinces, or Kingdoms have right
to reyolutionize tho general government, or
secede, then certainly persons have II right to
remodel, or bolt from political associations
which they consider injurious. There arc
those who avow they will stick 20 their par
ty, even il they know it is rs bad rs the devil,
but the only reason is that they cannot lose
character or reputation by so doing, and
would only remain in closer communion
with their father.
The lesson of tho last election is that all
the people are not swallowed. body and soul,
and ballot, by the creature they have made,
or, that they arc not SO enamored of their
own manufactures rs to he enhcanted into
hanging themselves by their own ropes.
And rs for the press, the voluntary ndvis.
ers Of the people. it may learn, If not too
Napoleonic, that its readers are not to be
convinced against their knowledge even by
printers ink. The whtchful Argus and the
argus eyed Waterman, the unscottish Gale
DOMAIN, forgetting Bruce and Wallace, and the
OptRiOH of Bradford which is not so nation
al rs twas, may unto to abuse the use of the
most useful art invented by labor, by trying
10 foist upon the seat Of legal power men
pronouncing laws and decisions to make
heavier the burdens of laboring men; but
their spluttering is all in vain, in the face OF
intelligent people who read the FARMER of
the Green Mountains, which is not so green
rs the grass 1t teaches us to raise, and whose
editor and proprietor did Wheehh)Gr into
line and Cum in to the ranks of political re-
form, and have not thereby lost popularity in
spite Of the loss OF all kins with any or every
Hos.
The Waterman has been porting over its
old school books, and has grown classical in
assuming the role Of Anthony in its attacks
on the defenders Of independence and in sup
port of usurpation, declaring it I" the most I'M
kindest cut of ALL" that the republican party
should give the Brulus stab to the Caesars
who would mount the throne; forgetting
that it is ut all unkind for those who have
been elevated to position, power and salary
by the favor of the people. to hold their posi-
ton, to magnify their power, and to increase
their salary contrary to the will of the peo-
pie, who have killed the party, not because
they loved Caesar less, but because they low
cd Rome moro.
The sons Of labor honor law and respect
sagacity, but ara not prepared to support it
in others ut their own expense, and now that
the state has taught all its children letters
and figures, they do not propose to lose all
the advantages of education by allowing a
few pampered knaves to do all their head
work in the state, and perhaps not even in
tho church.
We have thought that the quntessencs of
meanness ran in the veins Of the farmers of
Vermont, but we see some signs of its ex-
pulsion; we believe the FARMER has been
the chief lancet which has let out the bad
blood.
Push on the cause OF temperance, labor,
and education. PARVo,