Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-26
For the Freeman.
PRocToBsvILLB, June II, 1851.

PRocroRsvILLB, June II, 1851.
Mr.. EDITOR AS my papers of the last
week came to the office, a esprit, =" from Wood
stock-simllar to the one spoken of by Job
4" came also among them" This I" Spirit uives
the public an account of the Burlington Con.
ventlon,-an acc count in perfect keepinu with
the character of a spirit as first developed in
the Garden of Eden. 1t atirms that Windsor
County had but one delegate in that Convention
Weathersfeld, Springfield, Chester, Cavendish
and Ludlow were certainly represented, and |
know not how many other towns. This "Spir-
it's" representations of the general character
Of the Convention, its materials, its resolutions,
&C., are marked by that s%currility and detrac.
ton which has long distinguished this recepta-
Gle of SANDER and defamation. 1t seems to ex-
haust its venom, rancor, and bitterness, upon the
second candidate on the ticket presented by that
Convention. 1t alleges, as a notorious fact"
that ! voted for Mr.. HEBARD at the last election.
If this fact has obtained n~otoriety, Mr.. BRowN
will be able to substantiate the charge. | pro-
nounce it a downright, sheer falsehood. He
further says, (" it is reported " that | offered my
self to the Wings upon the cheapest terms i'm
aginable. This scandalous suggestion is wholly
unfounded and libellous if he ever heard the
report, it was from an INSCRIPTIONS slanderer.
If a steady adherence to one party for twenty
one years, and an open, decided, undertaking
course of action with another for the last ten
years, makes me obnoxious to the charge of in
stability, ask the editor of the Age, with his
eye on 49, how he can claim immunity from
the charge of fickleness.
look with ineffable contempt upon this base
design to calumniate and defame. | view it as
the malignant %effusion of a disappointed, morti-
fled, dlsorganizing partisan,Aa paltry effort OF
an expiring faction to recover their lost ground.
! am aware that there are no laurels to be won
in the pursuit of an adversary whose weapons
OF political warfare are Vituperation and false.
hood. have thought proper to notice this de.
tamitory article for the purpose of asking the
reading community, where is the asylum for
character when editors are allowed to seize and
immediate the victims their caprice or private in.
@terests may select. In my judgment this jour.
nal to which | have alluded would have beer
hailed by the cities of the plain at their lowest
corruption, as the utterance of no uncongenia
" Spirit,"-as the work of man morally acclima
ted to breathe that atmosphere OF putridity ant
death. The heart of that editor appears to have
become ossiied alike hardened in feeling an(
corrupt in principle, with no mercy, no con
science, and no shame. There were times il
the history of revolutionary France, when i
would have been difficult to say which had beef
the more destructive engine--the Press, a
worked by MARAT, or the Guillotine, as man
aged by RoBEsPIERRE. The one was reekin,
with fresh blood; the other ran with a NOR
deadly venom, that corroded the hearts of tn
living. So at the present day, there are editor
presiding over moral slaughter-houses, who's
characters are of a darker hue than their names
RYLAND FLETCHER.