Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-03-21

cctuaI aspirations and prospect of future great
less which only need little culIivalioHi 70 become
uccessfuI. As these seem gratefall your feel
ngs shall do nothing to repress them would
ather encourage you to emulate those memorable
Examples found in history, of other men, not more
promising than yourself, rising by the force OF
heir own unaded genius from small beginnings
o great and ervled distinction. Take courage
hen Never despair-for
"Though you now are small and young
Ofjudgnent weak and feeble tongue,
- Yet all great learned men like YOU
Once learned to read the o. P. O."
BY pursuing this course your fame will not be
osthumous. You will, by and by, have the pleas
e of having it said of You as was truly remarked
another great Rhetorcian,
"When'cr he chose to show his speech,
lis ioftineSs Of sound 1cGs richP'
Excuse me, sit, for resorting to quotations for,
With your brightexampe before me, could not
veil resist the temptation.
But with ali these disadvantages, under which |
abo i will try and correct some of the very slight
rrors into which you must have inadvertently
allen If rightly understand your last article,
lpu discaim having msrepresened the Liberty
srty, or what you are pleased to term, its lead
s. Letus see. In your paper of the 22d OF
st August you speak Of the frauds, decPptions,
id miserable tasehoodS and misrepresentation
the hypocricol leaders OF this paIty.' You are
tic careful, however, not to expose II single
AUDI or deception nor point out single false
Dd' Of which they are or have been guilty Your
attempting this either shows your own
ton that your charges wee false, or that you
)ecied the people to believe your wholesale de-
ncutonS without proof. Youalso style them
nerat ny vagabouds' devoid ofreligiOusp rnciple
BIT only, bnt of all the elements of common NOR
lty aud deceury.' This too, you seem to expect
gaping public will swallow for truth on your
wnmere ipse diri!. Woud not these leaders,, as
ou style them, Of whom YOU give list iy name,
nave a right 10 enquire what character you sus-
aimed for morality aud deceucy;' He who as.
sumes 10 PREACH against the sins Of others should,
ut least, he exempt from some of the grosser sins
E,jmself. That on are lhus exempt, and stand
lip like Paul tue fearless advocate of righteous
ess, otTEMPGeANcE, aud Judgment leave with
our neig hbors-tae Whole circle OF your acquaint-
noes, anl the character OF your paper to determ-
he.
patty is, to certain extent, responsible for the
course pursued by ihcit papers, but whether the
wing party justify your course, as editor, in the a
bove onset-reiterated in the same offensive man
ner in your subsequent numbers, remains to be
seen. That you have had assistance in this onset
and that it has been rendered by certain Yer
mont Whig,' as we'll as by Il certain other indi-
Eidual of the same county who, in Congress last
shter,ha the pleasure Of refusing to vote against
ayeholder Cambell'5 gag or the Baltimore res
buttons, will not, by me, be disputed. The great
Jolly ofthe people composing the wing party at
Che North are, have no doubt, sincere aud hon
est in their ant-slavery professions. Among them
| nave many personal friends and relations. The
Inatters of difference between them and the LIB
Arty party, | have reason to suppose, would long
nce have been healed; and they would have uni
ted with us in preventing the election of Mr. Polk
were it not that they were made to be believe, by
artful and designing men that, TO vote for slave
lholder This time who was glad on certain con-
Millions, to witness the annexation of Texas-who
HAS opposed to the abolition of slavery in the Dis
Arct, and the interstate Slave trade was, in fact
voting the true Liberty ticket But | will now
leave this topic and besow a moments attention
ON your personal charge of falsehood-The fol-
lowing is your language:
'In justification of oursef, however, we beg
leave to remind the gentleman that what he says
of u.s. in connection with this controversy, (be-
tween vt Whig' and 'lnvestgator.) is unguali-
fediy and tcituly false! He very well rcroI!ects
that ut The time OF the appearance OF the article of
VT Whig,' zoe had no connection whatever with
this paper and consequently could mol have been
guilty of the unfuirness aIIedged against u.s."
What did say of you is as follows: Speaking
of this very article of vt whis' used these
words -"Ths you promptly published (thc arti-
Gle Of w. Whig) but refused to insert the reply of
Investigator which subsequently appeared in the
Green Mountain Freeman"
In these remarks had reference to the editor
Of the Herald-they were addressed to the editor
and not to any particular individual. That the
editor of the Herald promptly published the ar
tcIe of vt. Wing no one will deny but how stood
the facts subsequent to that publications. Ii is true
that the time ofthe appearance Of the article of
Vt. Wing you had no connection with the paper,'
nut you CaIelulIy suppress Tue lhCt lhdL tue very
next week, or the week after, you purchased the
establishment of Mr. White and became its editor.
Did you not then, Gtttr you became editor, prom
Use Investigator that you would insert his reply if
he would wait few weeks to enable you to pub
lsh some other matter and find space? Did you
not afterwards refuse to insert that reply? Did
you not refuse or neglect to answer his letters en-
quiring of you chen you would publish, and why
you did not publish it? Did you not tell the au-
thor of Investigator to his face, at RutIand the
10Th day of last July, that you had concluded on
advice, not to publish his reply-thOt your paper
was not established for the purpose of mutual dis
cusslon, Sc? On demanding his manuscript, in
stead Of handing it to him, did you not inform him
that il should he forwarded in few days? Did
you not receive a line from him, by mail, requir-
ing the manuscript; and did he not afterwards send
tbrra Times hV all of ~ HON failed of