Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-02-19

caught bresth again, he remarked to Mrs. .
Jones that he "alwos liked TO see a young
man prompt, its a capital habit on a farm
but swan, abigail, that young Ed. Bawl-
some pleaScs me eneamsst too well, CHI"
Mrs. Jones, who was a school marin Of
anxious years, when Jones took pity on
her, remarked that "while promptness
was very desirable qualification in all
business pursuits, she was not quite pre-
pared to say that she enjoyed being in
simultaneously immured beneath such an
avalanche Of punctuality at one o'clock at
night" But still in their "true inward
ness" they couldn't help admiring Ebins
live way of meeting his obligations, and
after that eventsul night the latch string
was always left out for him by common
consent, and he is now running the farm
while Mandy is happily engrossed in the
mysteries of yellow flannel, catnip and
paragoric.
AS the Presidential election appears, we shall
have to stand stronger and more frequent dos
/ ing Of the idea that we alive under the most
terrible despotism of all history" and other eX-
trayagant babblings cut from the same piece
| Now let us glance for moment at the rule and
power of an average despot and see if we believe
the people of this Republic could be held down by
such an iron grip for a moment Take King
Frederic William of Prussia, father of Frederic
the Great, and second in the royal line of the
realm and then imagine U. s. G. or J. c. B., oil
any other man, ruling us as King Frederic ruled
"his people," "IIe was, as Campbell tells us "the
man who obtained for Prussia place among the
| European powers, altogether out of proportion to
her extent and population, by means of n strong
military organization" He was the fountain
spring of Prussias power among the nations
Let's see what manner of man this model despo
was, so as to know what we would have to de
pend upon If these childish exaggerations wer
true. The same biographer tells us that when hi
majesty took walk, his rage constantly vente'
itself to right and left in curses and blows. Every
human being fed before him as if a tiger hat
broken loose from a menagerie. If he met a lad!
in the street he told her to go home and mind he
brats. If he saw clergyman staring at the sol
diers, he admonished him to betake himself to hi
, study and enforced this p:ous advice, with
sound Gaming administered on the spot. His pal
ace was hell and he was the most execrable o
mind was uncultivated. Ne despsed literature
hated iAfdes, papists and metiphysicians, AM
did not very we'll understand in what respeC
they differed from each other With him it wa
the refinement Of princely gentility to sit in
cloud of tobacco smoke and sip Swedish beer be
twean the pufrs, and back CANNON at three penc
a rubber was his highest mental diversion. Blu
his chief hobby was to form brigade of giants
No head that lowered above the bazars of AleppC
Cairo, or Surat or the scarlet noses of Denny
) brook Fair, escaped his clutches if he could &c
hold of it. One Irishman, more than seven fee
, high, was picked up in London by the Prussia
Ambassador and received bounty of $4,000,
sum much larger than the Ambassadors annuf
salary. Money was nothing, liberty was nothing
empire was everything. Imagine little U. S. {
strutting up and down Pennsylvania Avenue
Gaming the parsons and hunting the mature beat
ties of the Capital "home to their brats." Ho
f long would it be before Susan j. Anthony mad
specially of that promenade, and then good by
10 the apex of our governmental pyramid"
wouldn't do, now, woulds it? 81 have" as And,
Johnson used to say, can abiding confidence
+, the integrity and capacity of the American pee
e pie, to govern themselves and this cant abol
, tour absolute despotism at Washington" seen
to me like the childish shifting of school DO,
Don't gentlemen of the press. The truth is Il s.
Il we're criticism enough to bring tears to the eyes
e every honest man in both political parties.
Thine
BERT DARLINGTON.