The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-22
THE FREE PRESS "sARKAsM

The Burlington Free Press, in what, we
take it, was intended to be its most "sar-
kastical' vein-and, unless 1t is nightly
mistaken, it can be intensely "sarkastical"
says; "Carl Schurz's paper, the Westich
-" Post of st. Louis, dominates ex- Senator
Henderson for president Carl is too
" late, however, for THE RUTLAND GLOBE
" had previously suggested the name of
" Mr.. Bristow." However 1t may strike
the Free Press, there was certain sense of
propriety in the suggestion or nomination
made by the Westich Post, and it showed a
knowledge of American history as we'll as
keen appreciation Of the temper of the
American people. We beg to remind the
Free Press that there once lived in Yer
mont rude, untutored, unlettered man,
know as Matthew Lyon, who dared 'speak
Unexpectedly" of John Adams, the then
president of the United States. He had
written letter, which was published in
the Vermont Journal, in which he charged
Adams with ian unbounded thirst for
ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and
selfish avarice and with writing a
bullying message" and for so "speaking
" Unexpectedly of the president, he was
arrested, indicted, tried, convicted, fined
and imprisoned under the infamous alien
and sedition law, although his letter was
written fourteen days before the passage Of
the act. The people did not approve of
his thus speaking unexpectedly" of the
president as he had been a candidate for
congress in the September previous to his
arrest and imprisonment, and after the
publication of the letter, but had failed of
Of an election. During his confinement in
Jail, however, that mate love of justice and
fair play for which the American .people
are noted caused his election to congress
by triumphant majority by the same
people who had just before rejected him.
His troubles did not end here. HIS SEN
tence was to pay fine of one thousand dol
lars and to be imprisoned four months, and
having paid his fine and served out his
term of imprisonment in the Vergennes
jail, his political enemies had made ar.
rangements to have him again arrested on
some other charge, but he defeated them
in this by proclaiming, Immediately on his
release, that he was on the way to Phila-
delphia, where congress had then been in
session for some weeks-his privilege as a
member securing him from arrest on
mesne process. He was not, however, 10
be let alone in congress. No sooner had
he taken his February 20, 1790-than
his political enemies made moYe, Robert
G. Harper, Of Maryland, introducing q
resolution for his expulsion, on the ground
that he had been convicted of being q
malicious and seditious person, of de-
PRAYED mind, and wicked and diabolical
disposition, guilty of public libels against
" the president with intent to bring the
government of the United States into
contempt" II Harper had lived at this
day, he might have expressed it little
more consicely, somewhat thusly, "His
efforts in this line will no longer be paid
4" for by this department" The resolu.
ton for his expulsion was lost by vote Of
forty-nine to forty,avs-a majority, bu,
nottwo-thirds, voting therefor.
This persecution for speaking disre