Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-03-23
NV OWN PRACTICES.
AS a general thing, it is bad busln


calumny will eventually be shut. On the
other hand, if there be any want of up
,ightness and consistency, there better be
repentance and reformation. Whether
these views be correct or not, it is my con-
viction that can generally be better en-
pIoyed than in defending my own charac-
ter. What l am now about to say will be
said less on my own account, than on &C.
count of my friends abroad who have not
the means of meeting the calumniator,and
of the cause of human reformation and sal.
walton to which profess love and attach
ment. 1t was not my original intention
to NEEDLE with more than the reports
which have gone abroad touching my
practices in connection with the Sabbath.
But | have concluded to make this the &C.
casion for a brief allusion to reports which
have formerly been spread throug hout
New-Engl land, and all the way to South
Carolina, touching
My Non-Resistance Practices.
There are few other things which bling
as much railing and matchmaking against
the Telegraph, as my practice of treating
the pubic acts Of men as public property.
Yet the same individuals who are loud est
in condemnation of the Telegraph for this
course, are the first, and last, and most in
dustrious and interchangeable, in hunting af-
ter my private character and interfering
with my private business. Now | will
never shrink from investigation reaching
as much of my private character and bust
ness as can in any way concern the pub
lie. And those who have been oficious
in dragging me before the public in these
matters, must not comp lain at being made
10 bear such responsibilities in the case as
belong 10 them. Ny statements will be
very brief, in relation TO the matter now in
hand
More than four years ago, transaction
occurred which has since been falsely re-
ported OF and cxtensiveI y circulated, to the
prejudice of my character as a Non-Re-
sistant The transaction, by the way, &C.
Cured from six to nine months before |
made profession of Non Resistance prin-
cipIes. This latter statement is made
with no other view but TO have the facts
known and understood as they are. False
reports went out Immediately. l was told
that Ephriam Markham, present publisher
of the Vermont Baptist Journal, then pub
Usher and editor, if rightly recoIIect, OF
the Peoples Press at MiddIebury, publish
ed what was altogether false and SANDER
Gus in the case. | never saw the paper
containing what he published. was ad-
vised by friend who had seen it to look
it up and rep Y to it. But | thought I
could be better employed than in replying
10 an individual who had shown himself
in various ways, to be regardless of homes
ty and fair dealing. 1t was plain to those
who were acquainted with the circumstan-
ces, that his maliciousness towards the
Telegraph was sheer retaliation and re-
venge which arose from his having been
dismissed from my employ. Upwards Of
a year afterwards, Ira M. Allen, former
editor Of the Telegraph, was in this re-
giou. He had been engaged in defam-
ing the Photographers published by my.
self-and endeavoring to make it odious.
on account of what he alleged to be the
tendencies of what he was pleased to style
the Telegraph's ultroism. While at
Brandon his ears were filled with this false
report. 1t was just the thing he wanted
and he was just the man to spread it.
In connection with this, however. it is
proper and just for me to say that l have
been sadly disappointed in him. In this
thing he has shown himself to be verv
different man from what formerly took
him to be. But he has become welded TO
the interests of Shareholders, and there is
no calculating on the mischievous tenden-
cies of such an alliance. That he should
be susceptible of such sympathies. and al |
low himself TO be drawn into such an al |
lance, was not what expected of Ira M.
Allen. He started out from Brandon
with the report, and spread it as be went.
He was, at the time in the employ OF one