The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-07-21
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Our states Attorney Column.
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IL me Edf9r ct the Reytst'r;
In my communication to you | took &C.
casion to express my position, as well as
the position Of others in reference to the
Office Of States Attorney. In the com.
munication | took exceptions to the
ground the radical temperance men took
towards all that did not think Mr.. Lucia
the most fit man to carry out the temper
auce law. | still think that no man or
set Of men have a right to arrogatc to
themselves all the foresight to see coming
evil, or all the moral stamina TO face and
combat wrong principles, in short to as.
sumo they are entirely right, and that all
others who do not run upon their track
and support their men and their measures
to be cast off as the off.scouring Of the
earth. Anciently men were pulled up in
their own conceit and said stand back we
are more holy than thou
1t is not satisfactory to radical tenn
pcrance man TO say to him, that | sup
ported Mr.. Lucia with all my strength
until found that although his intentions
we're all right, (for | consider him prac.
teal temperance MANI yet | have become
satisfied that he is not competent 10 fch,
so wary an enemy to the human race as
rum, as the expense 10 the State 10y his
failures will show 10 view of these facts
it is not quite fair to characterize all who
honestly choose between two temperance
men. iummcs Ny notion is that an ar.
list may start upon piece Of work and
intend TO make . masterpiece, and at the
same time end in II daub unfit to be seen.
VINO would say that because he intended
to work skilfuly his skill should be ap.
plau1cd and ratronizcd My opposition
to Mr. Lucia is that he has been weighed
in the balance aud found wanting, not in
Intention to execute the law, or patriot
ism, but in the sharp foresight and legal
acumcn rs a discerner Of men" 4 man
may be driven along by current Of IA
natica blind advisers until he swamps
himself and the cause in which he is en-.
gagged think under the circumstances,
that, as MIR. Lucia has held the Office Tor
two years, the usll time that has been
given to II lawyer, that the people demand
change and by their votes will say so 10
September.
In your issue Of the l-lth Mr. Radical
has taken upon himself to assume tina, all
D l.
ugton was radical think by pcrus
ing Ike history Of Washington he will find
him conservative IN the full sense OF
the word, if we understand the definition
Of the word aud think we do. We will
/ allow Charles Sumner was a radical. aud
had we followed his advice in many OF
his radical schemes, more particularly in
regard to our foreign relations we should
have wogcd war with England when we
already had our hands full at home, tor
we well remember in his great speech Oh
our foreign relations, (in the Senate) his
urgent demands that our government
should declare war with that nation which
was only frustrated by the better judg-
ment OF our conservative government,wh
settled the difficulties then pending honor
ably to both countries. without the she'd
ding of blood, and with comparatively
little cost Again he asserts that Mr..
Lincoln was radical. When he con.
meets the name Of that great and good
man with radicalsm be insults the nation;
for he was the essence Of conservatism as
his whole administration shows.
When he took the reins OF government
the radicals poured in upon him their
cries of unuihilatc the southerners, his
reply was, No, they are part Of the ma.
ton, and the union the laws and the
constitution must be preserved if posi-
bic as they now are Had no followed
the advice Of the radicals in the Mason
and Slidell affair, we would have been al
once forced in TO war with Great
Britain, but all the laws were respected
by him. His proclamation emancipatiDe
the slaves was only promulg gated wher
the condition of the country demanded il
and after striving long aud hard, but il
vain, to convince the south of their errol
aud induce them to hold to their allegi
ancc to the Union, as he was the Presi
ent Of the south, as well rs the north, and
should iniorce the laws as they were
We could Gil volumes with proofs of hi;
conservatism would time and space allow
He again speaks Of conservative slave
holders, on the contrary we claim they
were radicals Of the worst kind, for thel
were bound TO push their so called claim
regardless OF constitution. law or order
and make this whole country slave ter
ritory or destroy it. and because thel
i, were checked in their radical design t.
make the north accept them as the al
seeing eye, we were forced into that ter
rible war, this claim is radicalism II
the full sense of the word.
Mr. Radical says he dares to asscr
that Mr.. Chapman is net as strong
temperance man as Mr. Lucia which full,
proves to any mind that radicals dar,
assert any thing 10 carry their point, bu
E We will not hold them responsible 70
they know not what they say or do.
have labegred with both these gentlemen
in a Good Tempar Lodge and kno,o Mr.
5 Chapman to be ~ strong "A Temperance
man as Mr.. Lucia,
= lie says why the Temperance part.
: should want to put two candidars in tn
: field, cannot see" We DO not CLAIM
;, Mr.. Chapman as Radical Temperance
l man nominated 10y the Republican part,
and therefore cannot dictate who shall
vote for him, no more than Mr. Luci
f did two years ago The Radicals no
r being satisfied with the action of tn
;. convention put Mr. Lucia forward a
+. their candidate, therefore he has no claiu
/. on the convention or Republican party
,. lie complains of the unfairness Of tn
c nominating committee especially Middle
bury and Salisbury; we have heard of n
t. others; let US look at Middlebury, in tn
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