The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-09-03
Dignified, Good Natured Indig-
nation,

1t will be seen from the following, that Mr. POLAND
will not condescend to 'reply" to my disposition Of
his good natured rally of my humble SELF three
weeks since; neither has he attempted, through the
Freeman, to introduce any evidence to substantiate
his previous charge against the "Whigs who control
the policy of the State" that they had abused Gov
Sladc. am rather sorry that Mr. Poland thinks it
would be undignifed in him to pay some attention
to matters Of fact especially to those of so much i'm
portance to also that he cannot deign to notice
my call on him for the proof named. But so it is,
and the public must be deprived of all but his asse-
tons, and those pertaining to me. The article in the
last Freeman reads as follows:
Ea5S We little dreamed that the brief para
graph published couple of weeks since, de-
signed as a good natured rally of Mr. Holcomb,
of the Voice ofFrcedom, in his new political
connection, would jog the editor in so tender
a spot as appears to have been the case; for
the last Voice brings us, in reply, nearly two
columns of the most bitter personal attack, by
far, that we ever received from the editor of
any paper. Perhaps our remark had more
point than we designed to give it. We con-
fess to a somewhat indignant feeling upon wit
Messing the apparent pleasure with which Mr.
Holcomb turned his weapons upon his old CO.
laborers, and became the applauded instru-
ment of those who would pursue the Liberty
organization 70 the death. But we utterly
deny that the article in question, or any thing
in our course towards Mr. Holcomb, furnish
es the least provocation for his malicious as
saults upon us. We shall not dignity the
attack containing gross misstatements, as it
docs--wth a reply, but leave the whole mat
ter to the "sober, second thought" of the mind
that originated it, and the workings of his con-
science, if he has one,
According to the foregoing, Mr. Poland was Gin
dignant' while making "a good natured rally" but
would not "dignfy" my statement of facts, called
out by his "rally," with a reply" If Mr. Poland
will condcscend to name ms-statement in the ar
ticle alluded to by him, will gladly copy it and
make proper confession of my error. His calling my
reply "malicious assault" upon him; saying it
contained gross ms-statements' and referring the
article back to my "conStience' &c, may do for the
present but he will find in the end that such dis
posal of important facts will not avail him. Had
he said he designed no imputation of wrong upon
me, and that his paragraph implied what he did not
intend to convey, and had closed at that, | should
have taken his explanation of the matter and said
no more about it. But since he charges me with
making false statements in the case, he must speci-
fy wherein fNlsiied the facts or stand before the
readers of the Voice Of Freedom rs man regardless
of the truth, or ignorant of the facts of which he pro-
fcsscs to treat. He may take which horn he shall
choose; and he may well understand now rs at
any other time, that am not in the practceo stat
ing things for facts onmy own rcaponsibilitynicss