The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-08-06
COL. PAINE.


The Editor of the MESSENGER. in bs ardent zeal
to keep up The work of destruction, has gone back
to an article we published four ueeks Gpo TO ac-
cuse US of lasehood and Misrepresentation. Four
weeks has the mountain labored and Mt length
brought forth mouse. But we do not refer ,o This
article to make any remarks upon the course pur-
sued by this Editor; for we have neither space nor
time TO waste, upon the Messenger, &c. Bot Of
Col. Paine, who, unfortunately for hinselfhas been
dragged into this affair, we have word to say.
Our readers may reccollect in the article alluded
to, we stated that last season the wool in this coun-
tv was purchased up at prices averaging not more
than thirty cents per pound. We also stated, that
1t was worth to manufacturers, and that they act
uay paid over forty cents per pound 10 the specu-
lators, not TO The agents in this county who bought,
tor most OF those agents bought for spectators and
not manufacturers. These facts are not, nor even
denied, by the Messenger, or by any person we
have heard. But now it is said Col. Paine pur-
chased mp large amount of wool in this county
last summer. Well, what then is the conclusion,
Why, that he too is a miserable spectator. He
bought directly of The people and of the specu-
lators; snd If other manufacturers could afford 10
pay and did pay to the SPECTATOR of whom they
bought over forty cents per pound, then Col Paine
could afford to pay the same TO the people of whom
he bought, And if he did not, but screwed them
down to thirty cents, then he was specializing out
OF the pockets of the people-he was adding to his
already overgrown fortune, by fching from the
farmers of FmnkIins County their heard earnings
The conclusion is invitabe, and by no possibility
can any other be drawn from the facts. We re-
peat it, that if the wool in this county was pur-
chased at prices averaging not more than thirty
cents and if other manufacturers paid the specu-
ators over forty cents, which are facts, then Uol
Paine could also have afforded, and'ought to have
paid over forty cents to the peoplo Of whom he
bought. But he too only paid thirty cents, and
thus he too flched out of the pockets the grow
ers ten cents upon every pound of WOO, he bought.
But it is said that Col. Paine commissioned his
agent to pay larger price than any other purchaser
Let MS look al facts for facts are what we purpose
to furnish our readers with The lot of wool
which Col, Paine bought amounting to about forty
thousand pounds was purchased at the average
price of treaty-eigM cents and three mills per
pound, which was between three and four cents
less than was paid for any other lot bought in this
county. So that Col. Paine, when he could have
offered like other manufacturers to have paid forty
cents or over for WOO, not only united with the
spectators 10 screw down the price to thirty cents
but he also shaved the farmers of this county upon
every pound of wool he bought three or four cents
more than any Of the spectators.
And this is the man who is to be onr next Gov
ernor Whether we will or not. But do the people
want such a man? viii the farmers of this state
make Il man Governor who has grown rich and is
eneabed to give champage dinners and feasts his
arsiorrac friends out of their hard eornings7-
Can they prefer such man to the plain Republi-
can Farmer of Lnmoie. We think not. lie, them
look at this mater.-T. Republican.