Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-07-30

ins Spring before there had been much said by the
wing party relative TO a presidential candidate, the
Locojocos generally supposed that llENRS CLAY would
stalid iair chance OF denomination ana he, o,
course, received Tor time their abuse in unmeasured
quantities but 1t was left for the Gcaiasof Liberty, a
violent partisan paper conduccdby procsscd prcdch-
T o. me Gospel, 10 put in circulation the most MIA
NOUS and HbclOus story which had ever been manu-
featured in relation to the great Statesman. The
pious editor Of the Genius had somewhere obtained "A
letter signed Frederick Gddcn, detailing some Of the
most rer0iting and ho,rid acts imaginable, which he
reported as coming from Il Runaway slave bdndcd
Henry Clay, and OF course once owned by him. This
| outrageous letter OF Giiddcn published, with n
great flourish OF trumpets, by the Clerical Bnntling
and Mr., Clay was demolished at oncc--ihc Wing
party did not df'e put him i'll nonlnation-or perhaps
had not intended 10 do so. We unhestangly pro-
nounccd the charges FALSE the time the letter APP
pcared-bu the Clerical editor 50 busy preaching
advocating third party -sn attending meetings, and
abusing Henry Clay and the Wing party generally,
that he had no time 10 correct mis-sta,cmrnts--hS
mendaclous paper continued on in its OF abuse
/ us though u was doing God service.
AT tins late day, ii sccm. Justice 10 Mr. Clay
has come from another quarter. The Nat'ondt Anii
Sfarcry Nanddrd, Whose editor has a conscience not
yet IL" scared as with red hot ron' thus speaks
In the STANDARD OF June 9th, under the head OF
r" The Peculiar institution, may he found letter
signed Frederick t;lldden, and copied from the Ue
| mus Of Liberty, paper published at Ludlow, W.
We lcsaicd long TO the republication OF such an
article for we could readily believe it. If such
things were true, however, of Mr. Clay, they ought
way to pat stop To such story would be its pubca-
ton where it would readily conc under the notice of
his friends, ar of himself. We therefore copied Mr.
Gliddcn's letter. aud Ic result is, We hoped that
we have got nj the truh in the matter. We happy
10 he assured that the rhoic story is false tom be-
ginning IN end. so far Mr. Clay is concerned In
letter before % Mr. Clay himself declares tina: there
IS not so far as relates TO hun, wcrd OF truth in
the whole account. never owned, be saws " or
knew, or had III my service any such person IN my
life 'and every statement Of Tom to Nj Glidicn, in
respect To his residence with as represented in the.
letter, Is fabrication, and dsitu OF all foundation
Wcmost cheeriny and gladly make this correction
And We cannot doubt that every anti-savcry pa per il,
the land which has copied Mr.. Gddrns letter, will
as readily publish Mr. Clay positive assertion that i,
does not contain particle OF truth.-'Thcrc evils
enough, and uEInpplIy too many atrocities incident
10 slavery, to make 1t necessary resort to ta,ehoud
To excite the popular iudi Iuatiun against it, We need
not say ;Iat sIc meets with universal con
demuaiiun among Aboliiiou-,s.
We shall wait to Sc how the Cicricai Bantlins
vii get along under the load put upon it, shoulders by
m Autl-Savcry paper. In the mean time. we hop,
that oar Wing friends vii! circulate Wing papers -
that truth may find its way where error has gone
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