The Rutland Herald

The battle wages in the first District more hotly than ever. We hope Mr. Miner will not let Sir Puffy McSweeny drive him off the course. If we were in the District, and really believed the choice lay inevitably between the Whig candidate, Mr. Miner; and his disreputable opponent from Bennington, we should not hesitate to vote for the former, and we hope, if our friends do not feel pretty sure of electing Mr. Roberts, that they will avert the disgrace of electing Lyman by voting for Miner."

We copy the foregoing from the Burlington Courier, a free soil paper, edited by E. A. Stansbury; a renegade whig.--It is precisely the kind of talk we should expect from a man who had once betrayed his friends for considerable less than a 'mess of pottage.'

It is proverbial that renegades cherish a far more malignant hatred towards their former co-laborers and associates than life-long opponents, and for this reason we are not surprised that Mr. Stansbury manifests such a fierce opposition to Mr. Lyman. He is bound to oppose everything calculated to subserve the true interests and welfare of the whig party, and in doing it, he does not hesitate to stoop to such untruthful and ungentlemanly, abusive language as we have quoted above. We respectfully invite the attention of the free soil voters in this county to the ruthless attack upon one of their citizens. We misapprehend their temper and disposition if they allow it to pass unrebuked.- Vt. State Banner.