The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-08
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| But ~. c. b." says: Experience
has demonstrated TO the people of Vermont
that public prayer is desirable in all gather
| ings Of her people where delibcraton and
thought are required, etc. etc.
Indeed Has it? What temperance" and
how 'domonstrated' Let us see. From
the foundation of our government the de-
| alterations Of congress have been preceded
with public prayer delivered by regularly
elected chaplain and paid for by the peo-
pie. Now what has been the result? The
government of the United States is, to-day,
| fostering with corruption in all its depart
ments. The United States Congress is a
fountain Of iniquity, lending out its streams
OF pollution through sll the avenues of pub
lie life. communicating and demoralizng
our public servants from the president down
TO the hog-reevs, bribery, thievery and
plumber is the order of the day. The
American Republic has become a reproach
and by-word among foreign nations, who
stick out their tongues and wag their heads
at us saying, saba aha !"
The legislature of New York has no
cleaner record than the national congress,
yet in all the years of its existence 1t has
hud the benefit (O of public power. And
II the sin of our Vermont legislature has
less, it is undoubtedly due to the fact that
our temptation and opportunity have been
less.
What we aim to accomplish here in
North Clarendon Is, not to ''overturn the
constitution Of the state" o no; but to
purge our district school of all sectarian in
tluence. And if the resolution in question
is lived up to that ''consummation most de-
voutly to be wished" will be attained. We
know very well that if gentleman who hus
that duty" (of hiring teacher) sin charge"
chooses to disregard the expressed wish Of
this district and do as report says he has
declared he would hire no teacher who
will net agree to read the Bible in school,
we have no remedy All that will remain
to US will be to follow the example of good
old pious David, and pray, ''let hs DAYS
be few and lei another take his office"
We feel under great obligation to J. G.
B., for the valuable 0 egai opinion he has
so generously volunteered in our behalf,
and for the various items of information
you have brought forth from your teeming
brain one of the most important of which
is, that the district can elect a prudential
committee !" We had an inkling of some
thing of the kind before-we know it now,
coming from one who Is qualified to teach
n summer school"
And now. as you are in the way of scat
tering abroad with SO liberal hand the
crumbs of your superior wisdom, for the
enlightment of the benighted ones in the
dark and obscure corners of earth, will you
be so good as to tell us the difference be-
tween a "cbristian gentleman" and any
kind of a gentleman?
We confess to good deal of ignorance
down here. We thought, for instance, that
schools were ''taught by resolution, or by
a debating club" You beamed upon us
and it is now very clear that we were
wrong. We seek for more light
Bristow, Belknap, Tweed, ct al, includ-
ing our collectors of revenue, occupied
places of high trust and great responsible
ity hence they must have had the conf
dence of the C.,le; tjsyt;5ye their testi
mory must be taken as entirely truthful
and reliable
There is a logic for you, of the true "de-
batting club" order. What a good thing il
is to have intellect and be ''qualified to
teach a summer SCHOOL,
Hoping you may some day be wiser than
you are now, / remain yours fol-. the truth.