The Daily Herald

Messrs. Editors,

An article in your paper of yesterday, signed "Enos," does injustice, (in my view,) to the citizens of Fair-Haven. They may be wrong in their opinions upon the Canal question, but is it right to charge them (as the article referred to does indirectly) with volunteering their services in a cause in which they are not directly interested, when exercising their right of suffrage on this question. Fair-Haven is a thrifty and enterprising village, and nearly all its citizens own property and pay taxes. They are none of your Poverty Square heroes, by a long shot. They have grown up and become what they are by their own industry, and not by any "warming" and "nursing" on our part. They do as much for us, in proportion, as we do for them, and perhaps a leetle more. They have been supplied, from the common fund of the city, with a new engine, and other fire apparatus, it is true, but they have paid well for them, and we are as much benefitted as they. When we sound an alarm, they act not the part of the viper in the fable. On this point experience has already proved that we are under far greater obligations to them than they to us. If, as the writer referred to claims, "the tax-payers are capable of judging what amount of taxes they are capable of paying," and if these alone should settle any question, the people of Fair-Haven should come in a body to the polls, and if all her tax-payers should attend, there would not, in fact, be enough left at home "to guard their wives and helpless offspring." As to the roads and bridges in that direction, I know not why the fact, that they are built and kept in repair at the public expense of the town, should be construed into an objection to their voting upon a question in which they are interested in common with us all. In any view it appears unreasonable and unjust to charge them with ingratitude, or a disposition to meddle improperly in matters with which they have no interest or concern.

O.