Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-04-25
AMERICAN HOTEL.
Burlington, Apin q, 81. :
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DEAR Sin Save yourself! The Glasticus" of
Slavery, Asa o. Bu,nan of Boston, " is loose" and
in Burlington Should he seize you as a fugitive
from the principles OF Fillmore and Webster, you
would find no salvation except in the higher ale
glance principle of my resolution, which you have
so dsgraced yourselfby denouncing. No.with tand-
ing your abuse OF Inc guilty OF ssditOn, fred son
and rebellion, | have no doubt should iorcibly
resist Bulman before should you carried off into
such de,esable scrvude as the administration would
impose upon you if they once got you back, into
their Savisl jurisdiction. My advice is that you
make at once for Canada. There, a man can enter
tain and express a free opinion and not be liable to
be brought to the guillotine. 1t is no, So in this
"modei Republic" ut the present time, among MEM
bers OF the styled Wing party.
Very aIiectionaely yours,
Tor all iugilives from Webstersrn.
EDWARD d. BARBER.
D. w. c. CLARKE, e.
FL. Free Press.
Mr.. BARRIERS wit is usually so dismal, and
his satire so laughable, that we encounter the
customary difficulty in determining whether he
means to be funny or severe. We have no he
station, however, in thanking him for his SYM
pathy in our behalf feeling quite certain that
it is part and parcel of the sympathy he feels
fol" Fugitves" generally. He would "lorcibly
resist" Mr.. BUTMAS, in our behalf we are con-
fdent, just as quick as he would in behalf of
any other niger" When a man is constitu-
tionaliY brave, he never "counts the odds -
and everybody knows that Mr.. BARBER has,
in the most chivalrous manner, fought about
every party in Vermont, without stopping to
care moment for the poor mnoriles tina,
have backed him up We rattle. look upon
him as a sef-sacrfcng martyr to mnorities,
and entitled to considerable credit for the skill
he has shown in selecting indelensible posi-
tons ! Like the immortal Pillow, he always
digs his bitches inside of his breast.works, and
dsables his friends instead of enemies.
1t will not escape the notice of our readers
1--WE wish it could y that our friends letter is
marked by the same singular contempt for logic
and consistency that chsracterizes the more
elaborate illusions of his pen. Ills leading
idea (if the confused and involved nominations
of the Brandon Post may be called ideas) is
that we are are a regular "Flmore and Web
ster" pro-slavery man, Notwithstanding onr pre-
tensions; and yet he informs us, above, that if
Mr.. BUTMAN should seize us as "a fugitire from
the principles Of Fillmore and Webster" we
should find "no salvation" outside of the doc
trine OF his resolution, which we utterly con-
denim and aoominate !! Mr.. BARRIERS logic
leaves US in a position where neither he nor
Fillmore and Webster can conscientiously
help us. His premises, as usual, are fighting
his conclusions, and, as in the case of the Kill
kenny cats, general devastation" ensues. II
Mr.. BARBER could only "see his way clear" to
let "writng" alone, and confiEe himself TO
"readng and 'rithmetc," with nova nd-lhen an
excursion into the upper regions Of "pure phi
lanthTophy," Il Seems 10 US he would como uul