Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-03


lion to hinder him, it is matter to b
settled between him and them.
He calls on me 10 occupy the Journal
with my charges and their defense. j
cite him TO them, as published in the Tel.
egraph, and tell him 10 60 to work. This
places task before him which he can
not "aford' to undertakel Very well,
Ii he thinks he can better afford to let il
alone las no doubt he can - lot him try
that while longer. | have arraigned
the Journal the Committee and its Ed.
ltor-on serious and grave charges, and
produced my proof, the weight Of which
the Editor feels bearing down upon him.
With this load upon his shoulders, and
wishing he had the power to throw it off,
ne has the impotence to challenge me 10
hold it on him I tell him to throw il off
if he can. This he can not afford TO do I
Who can not see that his demands are
perfectly arrant and insolen,2 There is
only one way for him and the Committee
to get out of the position they occupy be-
fore the public, and that is to repent of
their iniquity, confess it and forsake it.
As reason why he can no, afford to
undertake to extricate himself he makes
a great show of labor on his hands. He
is SO vain 10 displaying, and asking to be
published in the Telegraph, the number
Of copies Of his six by eight temperance
paper, published thirteen times year, |
will barely say, in ofse: 10 it, and to the
rest of his show of labor, that-so far as
my observation extends, without having
taken any trouble to be accurate in the
case-lhere is not as much editorial mat
ter 10 both his temperance paper and his
Journal together, in three months, as there
is inthe Telegraph in one month. Besides,
the Editor of the Telegraph is publisher
of it, while the Editor of the Journal is
not publisher of'that paper. My other
labors, in attending conventions, associa-
tons, executive committee meetings, lee
turing, farming, taking care of family
three or four times as large as that of the
Editor of The Journal, &c. &c, will say
nothing about. What has now been said
has been offered by way of offset 10 the
display of the Editor of the Journal on
this point. ~.
He does not say that he has not file
of the Telegraph at hand. He told me
at Derby that he filed the Telegraph, SO
that if ne found it necessary he could have
It to recur to in the matters between us.
The difficulty with him now is, that bis
labors = which presume give him bis
hands full" render it very inconve1ient,
if not impossible" for him "to ransask
the heterogeneous mass of matter contain.
ed in the Telegraph for the last few
months = among which charges, direct
and indirect, against the Journal exist
Well, just as he can "aford." | have
had during the same length of time, "to
the heterogeneous mass of matter
contained in the'' Journal, TO detect and /
expose its frauds and iniquities. Ii has
been heavy tax upon me, in connection
with all the other sins of sectarianism and |
other selfshness which have had to meet.
But,as part of my duty owed to the cause
Of truth and holiness in the world, | have |
net and exposed it as | thought il deserv-
ID. My labor in the case has been an
aggressive warfare against sin. | have
shown sin TO lie at the door of the Journal
The Editor knows it is SO viewed. OH.
,rWlse ne would not be disturbed. Ii is
lot the SHINING of The Journal that dis.
lulets him. 1t is the fact that the sins
lave been exposed. He can now do as
lie chooses. He may repent and forsake
or ne may attempt to remove the charg-
$ and proofs I have brought-or he may
70 on with mis- present course. throwing
lust 10 the eyes of his readers, endeavor.
ng TO persuade them OF his readiness to
my charges and proofs, while he
efuses to NEEDLE with them--or he NAV
ct the matter alone - or be may do any
hing else his employers require Of him.
Wy charges and Evidences are IN HIS
IANDs-or have been mi into thann IT,