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

i offer 10 submit the whole matter to them
Will friend NJ. do the same l--T. Bap
Journal.
REM ARKs.
The first paragraph of the foregoing
is Introductory to my reply to the Journal,
Igiven in the Telegraph two weeks ago
the remaining paragraphs are notes ap.
pended thereto. Under different circnm.
stances, more extended reply might be
necessary, than | now deem called for, to
what is here said. / have too much con.
fdence ia the intelligence and discern
ment OF the readers of the Telegraph, to
enter into an extended reply to each par
ticular. They know very well that, ae-
companying the charges have brought
against the Journal. nay proof has been
produced. The Editor of the Journal
enumerates these charges under two heads
those pertaining to the getting up of
tde Journal; and those pertaining to his
course IN conducting it. In regard to the
getting up Of the Journal, it will be rec
objected that my charges were brought,
and sustained, against the Committee-!he
Editor being treated only as tool in their
hands. On this point / copied the Ian
guage Of the Committee - gave the con-
struction put upon it by others, to show
that was not alone in the common sense
view | had taken of it myself made nv
own statement of facts, and corroborated
these abundantly, and added TO them, by
the statements of others = exposed from
time to time the puerile and fallacious
reasoning Of the Editor on the subject,
&c. &c. In regard to the conducting OF
the Joarnal-the Editors "pro.slavery-
ism, tlme.serving policy" &c., copied
extensively from the Journal for proof
in connection with bringing the charges.
AS Tor the pro-slaveryism, it will be re.
membered that l copied, at length, his
chief editorial under the head -" slavery
as il u.s." Il was one of the longest edit.
orlals he has ever written, if not the longest,
After all this, the Editor of The Journal
says" We have been char eed, again and
again, by friend M, and this with an assur.
ance which nothing bI:truth should inspire
wlthlniquity, ,neanness, falsehood and Sian :
der IN getting up the Journal; pro-slayery-
lsm,time-serving policy. &c.. in conducting
IT," As though the charges had been bro't
forth and left naked and unsustained. He
knows better. He knows they were ful-
~ sustained. He had two reasons for not
meddling with my proofs at the time they
were appearing. /, He knew he had
nothing to meet them. 2. Knowing this,
he thought to throw himself on the digni-
ty of his employers, who started the en-
terprize and set him 10 work, This course
he followed, until, going around and send I
ing agents around, he found, as said two
weeks ago, that the Journal was convicted,
in the minds OF those who had had an
opportunity TO know the truth in the case,
of iniqui.ous proceedings in its inception
and production. His agents were mel
withthe confounding truth that the Journ.
al was conceived in sin and brought forth |
IN lniquity. Inasmuch as he has alluded |
by way of insinuation to private CONVEX
sations between him and me, without the |
honesty or the manliness to state plainly /
what was said, shall now and hereafter
take the liberty to state some things that
were said. Benjamin Briefly knows that
ne told me, in my printing Office, at the
time he was in 10 borrow type ii being
the last time we met that he and the
publisher felt under no special obligations
to the Committee; for the greatest him
drance they The and the publisher met
was, the conviction, more or less extern
sive, that there had been dishonesty prac-
tised in getting up the Journal.
Finding this conviction an abiding one
with the people, and finding that letting
the matter alone was not removing it, he
at last comes 10 the desperate conclusion
that ne must summon his powers and
muster his forces and affect disposition
to meet the Telegraph. This, manifestly,
is all he intends to do. If his readers