The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-16

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vious that the = instead of q is q natural
clerical error. There is ample evidence
| that Gale was at Westminster in 1774-5 as
clerk of the court, that he was man of
learning, ambitious of authorship at Phila-
| delphia in 1772, and actually an author
subsequently in England. The most reas-
| enable inference Is that Gale brought
| printing materials with him to Vermont
with the intention of using them, though
by reason, possibly, of his short residence
in the state, and lack of printers, there is
no evidence that these materials were ever
used by him.
The next press brought for the use of
Vermont was established at Dresden, now
Hanover, N. H., in 177s. by Timothy
Green and Judah Paddock Spooner. In
both Thomas history and Zaddock Thomp-
sons Vermont it is stated that they set up
their press at Westminster in that year
but Thomas subsequently stated that they
first went to Hanover, printed newspaper
for short time, and sfterward removed to
Westminster and printed the first news
paper in Vermont. June II, 1873, Dres-
den and Hanover, (now one town., and
other New Hampshire towns we'5 annexed
to Vermont, and in October, ITS Dresden,
Hanover, and nine other New Hampshire
towns were represented in the Vermont
legislature, and on the second day of the
session it was "Voted and resolved that
judah Paddock and Alden Spooner be, and
are hereby, appointed printers tor the gen.
eral assembly of this state A proclama-
ton of Gov. Chittenden, dated June 8,
1779, was printed by Judah Paddock
and Alden Spoonor, printers TO the general
assembly of the state of Vermont" The
first union of New Hampshire tows to Ver-
mont was dissolved in February, 1910, and
it Is therefore probable that the broth
ers Spooner had removed their Office from
Dresden to Westminster in that year, and
Timothy Green had taken the place of AL
den Spooner. However that may be, it is
certain that the first newspaper within the
present limits of Vermont was issued at
Westminster, February IL, 1881. l will
describe it from a copy in the library of the
Vermont historical society. The sheet
measures 17x124 inches - pot paper,
Isaiah Thomas called it. Alas
how many printers and printing Offices in
Vermont have since gone 10 pot the type
to the smelter and Tefiner, to come out
| anew, ss brilliant az silver, to print the
| wisdom that is more precious than gold;
and the poor printers, l would gladly hope
with Benjamin franklin, to "appear once
more in the new and elegant edition, re-
vised and corrected by the author" l read
the title, ''Vol. /, Number 8. The Yer
mont Gazette or Green Mountain Post Boy.
Monday, April I'd, 1881. Plant as Reeds,
whence Streams of Freedom glide firm as
| the Hills, TO stem Expressions Tide. West
minister, Printed by Judah Paddock
Spooner and Timothy Green | will state
| its contents, aud first the class most profit
able to the pubishers-the advertisements;
L there arc fnur viz. 81 nOtirp nf onDlica-
tion for meeting Of the proprietors of the
town of Dorset; a commissioners notice !;
a promise of reward for settlers in the
town OF KilliDgton (now Sherburne) and
| the standing advertisement in every YER
mont newspaper for many years, of "Cash
given for any kind of Cotton and Linen
Rags" Next, l turn to the editorial, eight
| lines in all, announcing an adjourned ses-
| sion of the general court at Windsor,
| meaning the legislature, to consider pro-
posed union of large part Of New Hamp-
| shire with Vermont and a report of the
| capture OF General Arnold with all his
troops. And now for the news: two col
umns and half are given to revolutionary
| war news, and three columns to foreign
news, the last being more than can be
| found ordinarily iu any number of Yer
| mont newspaper at the present day. On
1 IhO lOhlIh DdbS ID u al L uiANl,
containing an ode on charity; and l CON-
plete the list of contents by noticing a we'll
| written political article by contributor,
| the first OF series against the annexation
OF part of New York to Vermont, which
| was then proposed in Western Vermont,
| as balance TO the New Hampshire terri
tory that was coveted by Eastern Vermont.
And this reminds me of prominent fea-
| ture in the early newspapers of Vermont
| to which | will barely advert. The editors,
| Matthew Lyon excepted, paid little atten-
| ton to political matters, leaving these to
| their contributors, among whom were the
| ablest men in the state-Allens, Chipmans,
| Brsdleys and Robinsons; and in both poll
| tics and literature contributions were fire.
quent from Nathaniel Niles, Chief Justice
| Tyler, James Elliot, Thomas Green Fes-
sender, the poet, and probably on rare &C.
| cssions from Chief Justice Prentice, who
was an associate and friend of Fessenden.
This list of contributors could be consider
| ably extended, providing that the best
minds in the state we're Jealous for the pub
| lie good, and some of them, doubtless, for
| their own.
| Another remarkable feature in the early
| Vermont newspapers, growing partly out
| of the lack of other matter, was the repub-
| LEGATION in full of official reports and other
| public documents, and voluminous politi-
cal works. Among these l remember one
one on American politics, by Anne James
| Robert, by Turgot, an eminent statesman
of France, written to the Rev. DR.. Richard
| Price, of England, who was also very emin-
ent as a political writer, and 80 much es-
| teemed that congress invited him to become
a citizen OF this country. Turgot's pamph-
let provoked volume by John Adams, in
defence of the American constitution,
fact which amply proves that the early
Vermont printers were exhibiting a very
strong light to the people. They permitted
the ablest writers TO speak for themselves,
and feeding them with strong meat rather
than milk for babes. i have really doubted
whether the old and comparatively small
newspapers of Vermont were not, for the
two peculiarites which have named, bet
ter teachers in public matters than the far
more pretentious papers of our own day.
The prevailing fashion now is to filter
everything through the editors brain and
ii the water be crystal, and the brain foul
l-what1 | suggest, therefore, to the edi
tors before me, whether an occasional eX.
change of editorials for selections OF a solid
sort, will not give better bread and wine IA
your hungry patrons, and real relief Ia
your over-worked brains. Right ovei
against the inclination of most editors, high
and humble, to fil their columns with or
iglnal matter, put this proverb "Seesl
thou a man that is hasty in his words
there is more hope of fool than of him ,
Certainly believe that we can often show
more wisdom by selecting the words Of
others than by multiplying our own.
To Connecticut Is Vermont indebted fol
the fret governor, the first most eminent
jurst, the first printers, and the newspa
per and to Massachusetts for the secon(