The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-08-12
Error of the Free Press.

EirTOr Oh I11G tICc I CSSs
In prefacing an article which the Burlington Free
Press of last week copied from the Voice, my friend
CLARKE committed an error in connection with his
laudatory remarks on our humble self, and since
many others have fallen into the same error we will
take the liberty of correcting it, and request Mr.
CLARKE to give much of our statement as Will set
the matter right before his readers.
The language we allude to after his Introductory
sentence is as follows 3
We happen to know under what embarrass-
ing circumstances he received it from his pre-
decessors. From the position OF very re-
spectable and well-condu cted journal, as the
orcan of n numerous religious denomination,
it was kicked and butfetted about by insane
Reformers and Fanatics, and made the vehi-
Gle for the circulation of senseless yet violent
attacks upon all that is well established in so
ciety, and all that our youth are usually taught
to regard as sacred and good in morals, until
it had almost come to be regarded as nul-
sance-except that its capacity to do evil fell
far below its will and propensity. Since it
came into the hands of Mr.. HoLCoMB, how
ever, its columns have evinced the steady de-
termination of its Editor, to seek after no Wis
dom higher than that Of the Bible, and to do
good in community, politically and otherwise
in the GOOD old-fashioned way which has the
stamp of time and the warrant of Success
We are clad to learn that his patronage has
increased with his iudcious efforts. Well
directed labor seldom fails Of its reward.
It will be fairly inferabe from the above, that
: GEN CLARKE considered the Vermont Telegraph
the predecessor of the Voice of Freedom, and that
9 the latter had some connection by way of religious
r lineage, &c. The facts are follows:-The Voice
, of Freedom was first established by the Erecuhre
Committee of the Ve,mon Anti-Slarery Society," and
the first editorial breath of life was breahed into its
lungs by Chaapccy L. Knapp, in January, le39-the
Committee holding up the little brat during the ope-
ration! The Voice was under the fostering care OF
Il said Committee for three years. during which tins
= their nursing cost more than $500 per year, above
;. what they could make the infant earn them. There
9 was then respite from January to June. After
5 that the said Committee acted as kind of god
e father to the child, but ,ce had to deiay all the eT
d pense of nomishment; and when, in June, 1913, il
l. was placed in the lodging Of the Telegraph an-
each week received squeeze from the old Telegraph
press some really believed to be certainly near
" related to that paper as that of adopted child
really thought the Voice was its successor in regula
i line! Another reason why people thought there
}" was relationship existing, was that for time Tx
t. same instruments were used for making the Foic
TT speak, that had made the Telegraph roar so Justify
and we could not get this impression fully eface(
- from the minds of people, until we last yea
9 exchanged the naughty things and procured rev
;. set, called by some n Font Of Type! Since whcl
time the old things have probably undergone a
s. great change in s. N. Dickinsons type foundry,a
has the last editor Of the Telegraph, since tina
&c had brought into being, indirectly nstrumen
> tai in so doing, its antagonist sheet.
N Since We exchanged the old for the new speaking
u instruments we have continued using the Old print
ing press of the Telegraph but have noticed that tn
press-men always have a blanket between the oil
IN plqte and the Voice, when the impression is made
" and, of late, people very frequently remark that W
rs fix out very wholesome looking sheet Somucl
" for the inception and progress in growth of tn
y Voice.
" A word now about the Telegraph and its successor
~ In 1928 the Telegraph was brought into exstenc
through the exertions of prominent members OF tn
- Baptist denomination in this State, and for the pun
70 pose of its being used as the organ of the Bapt
of churches of Vermont The stock invested in til
e. Telegraph was owned by a joint-stock company
portion of the share holders not being members
said denomination. When that paper had bee
r. published some seven years, the stockholders fin
~ ing their investments to be about as profitable
~ the "ancy stock" of the Long Island Railroad Con
~ pany few years since, and Orson S, Murray PR
m posing to buy up shares at diherentraes OF dsconn
ranging from so to IS pey cent ell, or nearly al IL
former owners sold out TO him, with the unIy .stant
r. ing that the paper to continue as said organ
is few years after this, portion of the denomnato
J. not approving Mr. Muroy's course, and finding II
would not change thought best to have another pr
e' per .arted which they could sustain as their organ
h Accordingly, in April, 1912, the Vermont BaPh
n Journal was ushered into existence amidst the re
k iocings of some and the anathcmas of our oil
Id friend Murray and the denunciatons of some of hi
friends On the Journsl was placed the name {