Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-12-26


doubtless exerted a beneficial influence We
hope 1t did, at least. A,ony rate, Burlington
has enjoyed period Of financial reposc since
it was written.
In proper connection with this topic, We al
luded, in the same article to the famous "Com-
mercial Agency" That exits in New York land |
which has branches in Other cities and attempt |
ed to explain the modus oPrandi Of that "Agen-
it was, or might easily become, an instrument |
OF immense mischief in am business commune /
~, and that it is intrinscaly. and exrinsicay |
through its agents IN the country most detest-
able agency of oppression and wrong. We
pronounced 1t an organized system of espionage |
or using country lawyers TO spy into the af
fairs o'thcir ncighbors. for the French word
cannot be easily translated III all the mednnesS
Of It's signifcalion,) by whichccrtain city sharp
ers, who disgrace the legal profcssion attempt
t1mahc themselves useful. for pay, to those who
vii purchase their dirty services. In drawing up
tl,a description, we no more thought of MIR.
Of Russia. We were dong what we thought
to be a srrUjcc to the public and ii was impos~
.iblo, therefore, that We could have had Mr.
Salmon Wires IN our mind After concluding
what we had to say on this infamous Com
mcrciul Agency" We simply remarked that Mr..
salmon Wires is the sub-agent, for the town
Of Burlington of Messfs. Woodward 81 Dusen-
bury. the Commercial Agents." mentoned.-
We shou have said Messrs. Dusenbery g.
Ogden, as We Understand thru the Woodward
par, Of tn; former olous agency has Aatted
oat.
NJ. Salmon Wires without attempting to
! Justify the character or operations Of this
'Conmercnl Agency" and without denying
that he is It's sub gent in Burlington, declares
! that We nave attacked and his mercurl friend
ot the Burlington Courier says "atrocous,y
and Enthusiastically" attacked, him. Let us see
l)w; Fle only word or syllable in orr arti-
Gle abiding 10 Mr.. S,lmon Wires is that he is
the .lreat Of this New York "Commercial
| Agency" in Burlington We said no word
! else of Mr.. Salmon Wires! By calling this
! simple reference to him as the Agent Of the
Commercial Agency an attack" upon him
and such an attack as Is likely to damage his
reputation ! he Of course ADMITS that 10 be
such an Agent is in tn, highest degree dis
graceful d disrcputable All we have said
! Of Mr. Salmon " Tres is that he is the agent
! OF this New York "Coninercial Agency" in
/ Burlington If i: is, therefore, dsgracctu and
disrcputa5lc 70 be such Agent, then we have
attached" Mr.. Salmon " Tres If not, not !.
! Mr.. Salmon Wires would have employed his
valuable tine much more prohtaoy, It seems to
Us. IN maintaining h honor and responsibility
Of his New York masters, and their system Of
! espi mage, than in defending his own honor and
responsibility from wholly imaginary at
tacks" from us We care as little about Mr.
Salmon VI Tres as it is possible for outside pco-
| pie to conceive, He has fruitlessly ricd to
shut us up, and awakened the sane exccraton
I here that drove him out Of Lamollle County,
| BY the attempt. But we should feel no sort OF
sc!t-rcspcct il we could indulge any luminosity
against him on Tint account We hope we are
entirely abOre feeling anything but Sympqihy
/ Tor man whom the ENTIRE LEGAL PRofEs-
sIoy, wherever he is known look upon as un,
worthy Of confidence or respect. If Mr.. Sal
mon Wires chooses to provoke further con,ro-
versy, It may be pleasant for hun TO know that
we have got "the documents"
Mr.. Salmon Wires says he was in no way
instrumental in causing the recent failures IN
Burlington We have only 10 reply that nobo-
dy, that we know Of, ever said he was. We
never did, at any rate. But if Mr. Salmon
Wires has any wish to rake up the failures
that he has brought about, especially in La
m'lic County. before he found that "spunky'
little county inconycniently warm for further
residence in III he is nov offered the finest op-
portuniiy for the proceeding!
Mr.. Salmon Wires talks about The firm Of
which he is a member" as though he would
make his honorable and respected partner as,
sumo half the responsibility of his reputation
Mr. PEEK in our Judgment, viii hardly thank
him Even hllE of such responsibility would
prove an embarrassing drawback to an older
awycr
We have but a word more to saw to Mr.
Salmon Wires. We nave never attacked him
in our paper, except by calling him the Agent
OF deIestable Commercial Agency" in New
Iork.-li that Agency is mt detestabe and in
furious, We have not attacked him al all. If
he is damaged by our former article it is simply
because We tad The truth about him in adyer,i-
sing him as such Agent, What he says about
his lawsuit with Us is " leather and prunella.'
and what bis Jealous friend Of the Courier saws
about an " atTocious and unyustlfab'e attack"
is (as is somewhat common with that poorly.
btasted paper worse than silly 1t is not
We, but the community in wiich he Tires, that al
tacks Mr.. Salmon Wires, and the brief rem.
nant of the Courier'S days will probably be in
sufficient to protect that highly popular indiv.>
dnaI ag"ins, the force Of public opinion thai
is as strong as II is universal