Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-20

GUILDHALL, ~, January 20, 1877
We now enter upon the fifth year of the
HERALD. We take glance over the past
four years to the time the HERALD was
first issued and can but remember the
perplexitiss that then surrounded us
We were poor, and the cost of starting q
new establishment with printing press
and other things absolutely necessary fol
a good Office were little too costly for om
purse, and we hired the mechanical part
of the work done at the Office of the Ga
zette at Lancaster, N. II. Then we were
not kindly received by our neighbors,
they believing that we were intruders and
trespassing upon their territory-that we
had really no right to our own county
Then came the objection that commits.
sioners' and probate notices would not be
legal if published in the HERALD. But
this question was soon set at rest by the
highest lawful human wisdom. And by
patience and persistent effort all other
difficulties were surmounted, and we have
created and maintained an honorable po-
sition among our fellows. Our work was
founded upon the principle of olive and
let live" and that the world was broad
and room enough for all, and if our work
was not wanted it would surely die. But
we have had better success than we an.
ticipated, and the past assures us, and
we have better hopes in the future.
We have now made arrangements tc
have the paper printed at Guildhall, and
it will now be issued Independently Of
everybody. We shall endeavor to issue
from week to week clean, honest, Re
publican paper. 1t shall be clean from
all petty scandals, neighborhood quarrels
and throwing stones, all Of which ought
never to appear in any paper. Anything
that has an immoral tendency will beQt
terly discredited. The paper will be Re
publican because we believe in Republic
can principles; not Of the rabid kind
always remembering that there is a Judas
in every sect, and many Of them in all pc
litical parties, but firmly believing il
those great principles that have achieved
so much in the past and that if we are
still true to them, they will carry us for
ward in all the arts of civilization, intel
lectual growth and morals, which are the
true elements of national wealth and
prosperity.
We hail with pleasure anything that
tends to lift up men, to make them TEN.
perate, moral and religious, believing in
the ''good wilr' extended to us, that in it,
through it and by it we snail be gaining
that moral and spiritual wealth, that shall
account to us in the day of our utter help
lessness and poverty, when the whole OF
life's work shall be adjusted.
We have much of natural wealth in this
county, that should be written up and
brought to the knowledge Of the world.
As q county we have good railroad facili-
ties. We have large lumber interests, and
In the next decade we doubtless shall In
crease in wealth in greater ratio than
any other county in the State. 1t GER
tainly will if our citizens will wake up
and take advantage of the opportunities
now almost within their grasp.
What we wish then is that all will fee
interested, for their locality; that clergy
men will favorus with articles of interest
that others will send us items of news
that every town may be heard from. AnC
now, as 1877 is upon us, we thank all fo
past favors, and heartily wish that thi
year may smile benignantly upon all o
our readers. We tender our patron
every compliment Of the season, ant
heartily wish one and all happy new
year.
The paper has appeared for the pas
two weeks somewhat reduced in size
which was mistake in ordering iron
New York. The HERALD will appea
Feb. 1st in its former size and in it
usual health and vigor, and we hope t.
make it q welcome visitor in every house
hold in the county