Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-09-01
INFAMOUS.

State, and owned and conducted by the 7y-
Ter Post Master at sthat place, is making it.
self utterly infamous by its reckless assaults
upon General MATToCKs and his family
Not satisfied with the atrocous libels It has
published against the General himself, its
editor has sacrlegiously invaded the domes-
tic circle, and, shamelessly violating every
principle of decency, has sought to brand
with nfamy Mrs. Mattocks and her chill
drcn! The INSCRIPTIONS calumniator who
controls that paper, without the least parti-
Gle of evidence to justify him in his course,
has boldly asserted that General MArrocKs
and the lady with whom he has lived for
more than thirty years, hare neuer been mar
ried! Nor was this monstrous SANDER ut
tered carelessly or hastily, in moment ofpo-
itical excitement 1t was the product of the
cool, deliberate, malicious libeler. 1t was
put forth, and has been thrice repeated, not
only without the least particle of evidence to
sustain it, but against the clearest and most
convincing proof of its utter falsity. In the
first place the Loco Foco papers which are
published IN his own neighborhood, had ad-
mitted that General M. was a man of ire
proachable character IN his private lJe.-|
Would this admission have been made by
such papers as the Vermont Patriot, and the
North Star, both leading Loco Foco journals,
and next door ncighbors of Gen. NJ. if the in
famous assertion of the editor of the Age had
been true In the next place Gen. MAT
ToCKs had often been candidate for office
and had uniformly been sustained by large
majority of the people of his own county,
though they were politically opposed to him,
and his own town, on one occasion, had sus-
tanned him for high and responsible office,
with but one diss enting cote And the last
time he run for Congress, three years ago)
he was elected in a district which, the year
before, had given over thirteen hundred Lo-
co Foco majority! Such was the man against
whom the reckless libeller of,hc Age opened
his batteries. Nor is this all. Mrs. Mat
tocks, who is equally sufferer with her hus-
band, from this infamous Loco Foco false
hood, is known to some of the most respec-
table families in this place as an esimable la
dy, "A devoted and exemplary christian. Fol
nearly twenty years she has been member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and ha.
adorned her profession by devoted piety.--
She has son, (the Rev. Mr.. Mattocks, o
keeseville) who is known in this town as {
highy respectable clergyman of the Cavnis
Tic Congregational Church. And yet neithe
her sex, nor her exemplary character, mol
regard for the feelings of her children car
restrain the inhuman traducer of the Az,
from his brutal assaults upon this christian
mother, and her family, and the church will
which she is connected. We should scorn Il
attempt to make political capital out o
such an infamous and unnatural assault
Yet we cannot refrain from calling upon al
honest and well disposed citizens-upon tn,
friends of morality and regulated liberty ant
decency, without reference TO party, to SHOW
by their votes next Tuesday, that they vii
not tolerate such a,rocious ruffianism as this
We know that party ties are strong and diff
cult to be broken-but we also know Their
is an innate love of Justice IN "the grea
heart of,he PEOPLE," a " feeling of chiv
alry,"" an instructive sense of honor tina
"prompts every true hearted MAN to tax
sides with the party defending itself agains
black tongued caumny and detraction, 'espe
cialy when that party is Woman.
The Montpelier Waterman, which
printed in Gen. MS district, thus notices tn
infamous attack Of the Age.
"The charge is this, though garnshed wit
accompaniments which we will not print eve
by way of Quotation,- THAT Gen. Mattocks an
the estlmable and pious lady who for more tina
thirty wears has lived with him as wife, nere
,sere married. Thus boldly do these rockies
scoundrcls invade the sanctuary Of private Ilft
and to crafty party malice, hesitate not to ia
their polutlng hands upon the fair fame Of a
worthy woman as is to be found in any con
munity, and brand her very children with dis
grace Nay even more--for nearly twent
years has she been member Of large an
worthy church. (,he Methodis,) and adorne
heT profession ny ueNoteu plely--dllu tnrOuI
her, these base libellers would impugn I'll
church. Nor does the community in whic
Gen. Mattocks lives, escape, for they have r.
pea,edly and once, almost unanimously (wi,
but one dissenting voice. sustained him f
high and responsible stations Yet this whole
sale and utterly unjustifiable SANDER of the |;
dy her children, and the church, Ito say not
ing of Gen. Mattocks,) is made ersn withom il
resignation. No language can be too severe
reprobating such utter injustice as this utterir
of infamous charges without even nqurir
about their truth or falsty but we need n
enlarge upon that. Suffice it to say that .Jo
.Mattocks and his present pye ,oere married
the All day Of September, 1910. We make ii
declaration by authority, and the locofoco ed
ors may govern themselves accordingly"
Waterman.
OUR SENATE TICKET.