Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-08-30
FLIBERTY PARTY.

VIOLATION OF THE SABBATH.--Our article under
this caption of last week, caused quite a commoton
in the camp, and among the abolionists, and their
candidate for Congress has written a letter,
which we give below, relative the assertion we
made as to him.
Mr. RYTHER-My attention has just been called to
paragraph the last Phenix in which II is stated that
"the Office of the candidate of the Liberty party for
Congress was filled Sunday last with Liberty party
politicians, whose noisy discussions disturbed the
ers by on their way to church,"
pronounce the statement falsehood in the general,
and the detail-and measure of justice to myself
and the Lbery party politicians" of this town. large
majority Of whom religious men, demand that the
charge be reacted publicly il has been made, and
that the of our traducer be forwarded to by
early mail. Respectfully yr. obt servt:
o. l.. SKATER.
Wilmington, Aug. %, 1874
So much for Mr. Shafter, who, it will be seen,
pronounces the statement false in the general and
| in the detail
On the receipt of this letter, we at once wrote to
our informant, whose reputation for truth we con-
slider equal to MIR Skaters 3, and who besides is not
a candidate for Office, and whose name we are at
| liberty to If we choose, and asked him it he
could be mistaken in the information he had given
us.
In reply he wrtes,-I state to you as I stated be-
| fore explicitly, that | cannot be mistaken | will
state the facts they transpred. Last Sabbath,
the 18th inst, attended meeting in Wilmington
| with Mrs X, and when we came into the vii
ldge, the people were collecting together for the
forenoon service at their respective churches, and
| TO go 10 the church where attended meeting, we
passed in front of MIR Skaters office. The door
being open, saw several men therein, and Mrs
X, whose seat in the carriage was between the
Office and me, says she is confident that among 9TH
ers she recognized the visage of Mr. SKATER him
self
! Leaving Mrs Y at the meeting house, re-
turned with my horse and carriage, passing Mr.
Skaters Office, still open and inhabited as before, to
the stable at the Inn of Mr. 1hayer. Leaving my
horse and carriage, returned to the meeting house
on foot, passing again in front Of Mr. Skaters Of
flee, still open, in which l saw several and
heard them talking politics, as supposed for dis
tinctly heard the words Liberty party, IVAN Bu-
rem &c
! Thus much for informant, and by him we
think we have established three things-First, that
on Sunday the 18th inst Mr. Skaters Office was
open when passers by were going TO church-sec-
ond-that people were in there and third, that
from the words heard by the passers by, they were
talking politics. We think that these are pretty
legitimate differences.
Since writing the above we have had an inter-
view with MIR Shaiter himself on this subject. He
admits that his office open on Sunday the 18th
lnst but says II was not open for more than live
minutes, and that there were not moro than three
or four in there, and that he is not aware that he
said any thing about politics.
Our words were, 1--WE are informed that the Office
of their candidate for Congress open last
Sabbath from morn till night and filled with aboli-
ton politicians, whose noisy discussions disturbed
the passers by on their way to church.
We may have stated the case little stronger
than the facts warranted, but Mr. s himself admits
that his office open though not from morn till
night, but only feto minutes, that politics were
talked by those in there, though he is not aware
that he talked them himself, and denies that the
! 'passers by were disturbed This last is not a
statement, but inference from statement, and
we inferred then, and we infer now, that when
passers by on their way to church on the Sabbath,
see the Office Of candidate for Congress open, and
men in there talking so loud as to be heard in the
street about the Liberty party Van Buren,, &c,
if they had any religious feelings at all, they would
be disturbed Such is inference. We ask if it
be not legitimate one.
Mr. Shafter in his letter 10 US, pronounces our
statement with regard TO his having his Office open
on Sunday the 18th, lalsehood in the general and
in the detail In his conversation with us he ad-
mits that his Office was open that day,-that
men in there, and that they talked but denies
the inference. We submit the facts he admits
them, and leave our readers to make their own in
ferences