The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-03-20

Editor of the Age, is unjust beyond com.
pare, because | never had farthing's in.
terest in his estabIishment--was never ad.
vised with in regard 10 his course, and
know no more about his business, plans,
or pecuniary affairs, than of those of the
North American Review.
And ifthas is not strictly true, I am La
BILE to exposure any minute. 1t earn
esty desired that the patrons of the Ago
will be at the trouble of letting their neigh
bors, who take the Mercury, "for the sake
of news about marriages, deaths, and au-
fm accidents, see this paper that they may
Judge righteously between me and my ac-
cuser Let them read the following SEN
fences from the Mercury, and then say,
whether "1Om is base enough to accuse"
me "of abandoning tn e Temperance
cause"
We give place in our columns to the
following article from the last cage, " not
so much for its rare merit at deception,
as to give our readers slight foretaste
of a certain "Reyerend" gentleman's hap
Ply tact at putting himself amidst the gen.
eral crash of his falsely acquired popular
Iity. Although there is an evident attempt
at disguise, yet the mark of the beast is
too palpablc upon its face to require fur
Their proof ofits parentage. Whatever
credit this pioHS prcLatc God forgive us)
may have heretofore received for purity
and "succcss" as an "advocate of Tenn
perance, we apprehend his late conduct
has stripped him Of his mask so complete
Iy, that all future laurels which arc des-
tined to adorn his TcUnlnd brow, must be
won from the ranks of those who advo-
cate the "wisc, prudent, and judicious sys-
tenn" of making drunkards! Sure we are
that Temperance men will be slow to &C
knowledge him the faithful exponent of
thcir principles. Whether in the gener-
al sale which Eastman made of himself
paper, and party O to the rumsellers of
the County, for the enormous sum of one
hmdrcd dollars, his "Re0rence" was
"frmg in" or whether he was a sharer
in the spoils, is more than we pretend to
know or care. 1t is sufficient for US to
know that both the "parscn" and the ed
itor Of the cage" have "by hook or by
crook, 'been transferred, "body and soul"
into the hands Of the rummieS. Under
that banner we hope the two worthless
will continue to do battle,-'cc have no
further need Of their services.
So far as respects the Editor Of The Age,
| can only say that no more believe he
sold himself &C., for hundred dollars,
than do that 7. E. Powers has a particle
of interest for the Temperance cause, aside
from the hope of making it hobby-horse
of his political ambition. As to myself, I
can only appeal to the CIergymen, the
,Tndges, the Physicians (Tom, excepted, }
the Lawyers, Justices, Merchants, Mechan-
les and Farmers, Of this town, and every
where, who know any thing about it, that
the inSinua,on is as false of my having de-
waited a hair from my former temperance
faith and practice, as it would be for some
one to say, at is enough for me to know
that Doctor Toms abuse Of his grandmoth-
En-, has induced the belief that her life is IN
danger at his hands," Would people cred
it that insinuation, without proof! Certain
ly not. Neither will they his, against me,
if the facts are known.
But, whether | am injured or not, this l
know, that the Reyered One, tho nno-
cent in all things, as | am Of the above
charges, was convicted, condemned, and
pu, to death by men, who were saints con-
trasted with my calumniator. r. S.
!, Woodstock, March Is, 1915.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.