Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-03-10

last days proceedings OF Congress Tor further par
t!cuars. Edward Everett is Minister to China
an excellent appointment
o. A short time ago we replied to one of the
meanest personal attacks upon the senior publish
er OF this paper, which ever came under our no
ticc,--an attack without even the shadow Of pre-
ience 10 justify the beller, except his own care
lessness; we mean the attack OF the editor Of the
Vermont Freeman upon Gen. Walton. The re-
ply was made, first to set Gen. w. and ourselves
perfectly in the right, beyond the reach Of Just re-
prouch aud in the next place 10 afford un oppor-
lunity to Mr.. ST. Clair to he Just, If so disposed.
Instead Of improving our explanation so as to do
common Justice to us, ST Clair does his utmost to
perpetrae more injustice lie cannot even re-
tract his hasty aud ferocous ISLANDERS upon Gen
Walton, perfectly baseless as lie saw them to be,
without nmang in the course of his article that
The Generals neighbors have given unGlvorable
representations of his character. 1t is not for us
TO say whether 81 Clair has fairly canvasscd This
neighhorhood to learn the character Of the man
he causelessy seeks to injure or whether he is
tathciing the wiIu SANDERS Of an enemy or the
thoughlless and reckless droppnes nfan unhridlcd
tongue, upon this whole community? We leave
it to the "neighborS," WHO have known Ger. W.
for near forty years, to Judge for themselves. 81
Clair, however, did feel compelled to relraci as 10
Gen. Walton: but then, lie at ON clops all that
he had falsely said OF tho General upon lie back
of T.. p. w. Jr. OF course, our attempt to urge the
original account of al error either through mis-
conception or misconstrnclion-ih tho copying The
denial OF The Standard and eve our explicit state
rncnt that ST. Clair denied the account in all lis
parts all, all go for morning In all This theiC
no desire on our part tor truth and uSlicc-not
whit! This seems to he The opinion OF St. Clair ;
and truth to say, we care very liule about his
opinion, that shall nol quarrel with him tia,
head
ST, Clair evidently thinks there is desire 20
make martyr ofhin but let him be assured that
we think him undcserying of so much honor. We
wish him nothing worse Than TO be Il better man
and n wiser politician We have warned tie Wing
ahoonisis against being msled by him, aud have
repeatedly said, and we now say it, that the main
effect Of third party ism will inevitably he 10 weak
en- the Wings mud strengthen the slave power
such has already teen its result thus far. We
have also expressed our belief that some meu--not
the third party as body, rs the Freeman falsely
charges US are urging on third partysm for the
very purpose of Frustrating the Wings and secur-
ing locoloco triumph. 1t is n belief most fully
confirmed by ST Clair himself, when lie remark
ell in the Randolph convention 1--WE quote from
the LnmoiIle Staudardl "Mat he hat heard il init
mated by members ofthe democratic parfy That Judge
Williams ,comd probably be their choice irthey could
first bring him into The .feld." Most conclusiyey
does this show llat some " members of the demo
cratic party" deem the third party to be good
tool in their hands, and that they would not object
to bargain with that party, could they first nom
mate Judge Williams. Now in all this ST. Clair
finds us in his path, aud will find us there so long
as we entertain these views; and because no thus
finds us, he seems to think us personal enemy;
but we never did, and never will intentionally do
him wrong.
In conclusion to him he copied Just thirty
four lines from our explanation, I've thank him
for that,) which he makes the text for n removed
attack upon u.s. and in the course of it modesv-
uery modestIy invites us to copy four columns of
his assault upon us, ana reply to our Randolph
correspondents We shall do no such thing-n no
such injustice to our readers ourselves.
We now turn to the editor of,he LamoiIe Stan
darI. His statement having been called in qnes
ton in some points, he has replied, in which he
states that he mistaken as TO the point of lime
of St. Clair's remarks but no, as to the remarks
themselves. On this he says:-
"Tla assertion that MIR. st. Clair Informed The
convention that the leaders of The Democratic par
~ had requested him 10 use his influence" &c is
wholly untrue. He remarked that he had heard
it inlimated by mcmhers OF the democratic party
that Judge Williams would probably he their
choice, II they could first bring him into the field"
&c.
The charge that 81. Clair favored the PROPOSE.
lion of the democratic leaders he AYERS TO be both
false from beginning to end, aud extremely ridic-
ulous, inasmuch as ST. Clair proposed to make m
immediate nomination, in order Tint the news
might reach Montpelier before the Democratic
convention. On the charge that St. c. was re-
monslrated with during the recess, he says that he
overheard one gentleman (whom he supposes to
be one OF our correspondence nttrlbutng 10 St.
Clair desire for coalition with the ocolucos :
TINT he THE editor Of the Srandard,) informed n
friend Of ST. c. Of This, believing 1t 10 lie mali
cious perversion of idcls-and that in the after
noon ST, g. reiterated what he had said in the
morning, but reraced nothing.
Such the avermens of the Standard on he
mooted matters Of fact substantially stated, We
might have quoted literally, had not names been
introduced in such way us possibly to result in
II long personal controversy, with which we are
not disposed to burden our columns.
Finally, both our correspondents and the Stan
dard agree, that ST. Clair did say that Iocofocos
wanted n posponement, SD that Hey could nomi-
mite Williams: the material disagreement is on
the point whether 81 Clair favored That propoSi-
ton Now we tell ST. Clair, aud the Standard,
and all concerned, that the orig inal statement, in
The Waterman dill not charge 81. C2air ,eith Garor-