Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-23

! en-. Harrison himself brought forward in the L.
) Senate a proposition TO abolish imprisonment for
debt and supported and voted for it, Notwith-
standing this fact, and the unanswerable reflta-
ton of the lie we now have in hand the North
Star, the Windsor Statesman, and the fJohnson1
State Paper have uDblushngly republished the
foul SANDER in all its naked deformi;y. 1t is 10
expose their reckless disregard of decency and
truth, that we agnin rebut The shameful iasehood.
What is the truth? II is simply, that Harrison
voted, in the Ohio Legislature that criminals who
were convicted Of minor offences, and imprisoned
on execution for fees and for the payment of costs
should he bound oui as servants 10 ,p;rk ouf their
b"es, 'nsead Of rotling in jnil TO do this and
lessen ther Term Of labor MS much possible, they
were 10 I've D'o OH to the person who would pay
The highest wages and TO prevent injustice be-
tween both the prisoner and lis employer. thew
were to he regulated hy the laws which npplv 10
master aud apprentice. This is the simple TRUTH
For proof, we quote the section Of the a,t. On
which the locofocos base their lie. IL cJ-
lows;
Be ii further enacted That when nnv person
shall he imprisoned either upon execution mr. NH.
erwIse for Inc nonPnyment ofc SIS or fines or boib
u shall be lawful Tor the sheriff of the ,ouutv IN
sell out such person ms u servant To any nerson
withn the state, who will pay the whole amount
due, Tor the shortest period of service: of which
sale public notice shall he given Mt least ten davs
and upon such sale being effected the sheriff shall
give the purchaser certificate thereof. and de w.
or over The prisoner to him, from which time the
relation between such purchaser shall be TINT of
master ana servant, until the Time of service ex-
pres; and for injuries done by either remedy
man ie
provided by law in the case of master and aunren
'lces But nothing herein contained shall he con-
strued to prevent persons being DISCHARGED fro,n
Imprisonment according to the provisions of The
o'h secuon OF the act to which this is supplement
tary, If It shall be considered expedient to gron,
such discharge Propided that the court in nro.
ho1hclng upon any persons CONVICTED under his
act, or the act to which this is supplementary mn
direct such person persons TO be Detained in
prison until the fine he paid, or persons otherwise
disposed OIL agreeable to the provisions ofihis act"
1t is ibis, which they have tortured into an net
to sell debtors into slavery Whit will these e,li
tors say when they learn that Just such law ex.
lists IN Maine; aye, and that Just such law has
been in the statute book of Vermont for more than
! twenty years, and is now the law of this state!-
Such is the fact See statutes, vol. ], pages 1873
The law is of itself so plain, that we do not feel
that it requires EXPLANATION. Let US only add that
so outrageous is this lie, that one of the most res
pectabIe of the locoioco papers has published a
recantatioE, as follows:
I REcANTATroN. The N. Y. Evening Post, hav-
ing published the Infamous lie which was forged
by some malignant wretch that Cen Harrison yo
tel ITO sell poor white men into slavery for debt"
magnanimously publishes the following recanta
ton.
. A letter of Gen. Harrison. has been lately pub.
IIshed from which il appears that in our remarks
{ on the subject of his attempt TO introduce white
slavery into the State of Ohio. we did him some
unintentlonnl injustice. The letter is dated Dec.
I'd, 1921, and APP ears to have been drawn forth
by newspaper aitnck upon his course in the
Legislature IN relation TO The same law We are
glad to see, that according to Harrisons erplana-
ton 81 The maitsr, neither he nor The gentleman trho
roied ,ciM him. ,csre IN faror of selling human Be.
ings for ciri debts."
Go, Messrs Locofoco editors, and initiate the
; example Of your old federal fiIe-eader, or stand
branded before the public as -.
LIE NO. w.
Daniel Uebsters cpini of I'm. H. Harrison.
MIR. eister, when asked, in 1885, if he wouId he
placed on the same ticker with Gen. Harrison.
replied, cannot be guilty of any act that shall
III tie renotest degree, lend to the elevation of
man to the Presto, ncy who is Justly the scorn and
rhitcnle Of his foes, aud The pity and CONTEMPT of
his friends"
This has appeared in the Vermont Patriot the
Burlington Sentinel, and the 5 ate Paper. Weeks
ago II was denied, aud the highest testimony pro-
duced, from Mr.. WebsIer's speeches, Of that gen.
temans high respect for the talents and chartc err
OF Harrison. We have now still more direcr evil
dence: NJ. Webster has authorised The editors of
The National Mteligencer 10 gire the lie fiat and
,rpiicit den,al Yet that falsehood is not recalled:
it now appears, as standing matter, at the very
head of The editorial columns of the STATE Paper.
Until that paper will do fal justice to Webster aud
Harrison, let it stand; aye, let it stand UPON the
very forehead ofthe State Paper, like the mark in
The forehead OF Cain, 10 make him an outcasi among
the children Off men.
LIE NO. V.
Ii is stated and answered in the following article,
from the Rutland and Addison Co. Wing.
ANOTHER FALsEHOOD EXPOSED.
The .M1ntpeher Patriot, the organ of Van Buren,
in our State in connection with u series OF char
ges OF equdt reraciip, gives currency, i'll its last
weeks number, to the calumnious falsehood, that
the name of Gen. Harrison stricken ont of u
vote OF thanks, passed by Congress in 1918, 10 the
officers and soldiers OF the gallant army of 1912.
such a charge is without n shadow of foundation
in truth, and could only he made by party rem
dered desperate 10y the prospect Of certain defeat
Ii might be suited TO the Destructive" latitude Of
Tamlnany Hall, where the capacity to believe is
adapted TO the magnitude of the lie, but ii will he
treated with scorn by the intelligent freemen of
Vermont, of all parties If the Patriot counts
making Van Buren, State of Vermont, by such
means, it will find The mscalcuation, next fall
amounting to from s TO 10000 But how stand
The facts Of the case /? We copy the following
conclusive expose from the columns of The Empire
State, an efficient advocate of HARRISON AND RE
FORM in N. Y. Will the Patriot copy the Resolu.
ton, an act of simple justice to Gen. Harrison
Or is its object, TO mislead its readers p Rutland