Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-10-20
Personal.

The last Weichman contains what purports to
be the report OF Committee met to Investigate
certain charges which our Free Democra Tic
County Committner through their circulars Is
sued the week before election, made in relation
to the alledged detection of Mr.. Gregory and
their recommendation to the freemen to substi-
tute the name of Mr.. Moody in their County
tickets. OF this report, so far as relates to the
action OF the County Committee, we propose not
now to speak, presenting that COMMITTEE to be
able, when properly called on, to indicate them
selves but that report very unfairly connects Us
with the above-naned action of the County
Committee, with which we had nothing to do, as
we could have easily shown had we been mott
ged u appear before this Board Of Investigation,
and. indeed, as the very circular of the County
Committee from which the writer Of the report,
whoever ne is,quotes so often for other purposes,
explicitly states. In that circular, which was in
reply TO that of Mr. Wood, the dissenting mem
Der Of the Committee, issued in our absence from
the office, and headed Freeman Extra with
cut any agency of ours, the County Committee
very manfully, and without any request from as.
volunteered to say:
THE dropping Of Mr. Gregory and inserting
Of Mr. Moody ,Oas The business Of The Committee
alone, and Nth vhich Mr. Thompson had nothing
10 do and for Which he should not be held respon
sibic.'
If this Board had concluded to proceed, as 1t
seems they did, erparte, and then ug us in, why
were they not generous enough to copy this pas
sage? We are sure we would have done as
much for them. But from what two at least. OF
this Board have assured as, we presume that
THE, which purports TO be their report, aad
which was sent 10 It's appropriate organ for pub
llcatlon, in the handwriting If the party most in
interest, appears in no such shape as they either
intended or authorized
The report further accuses Us Of conniving
with split tickets" and having intercourse with
Old Liners in our Office" We suppose the split
struck off, by the County COMMITTEE. for such
rs chose to adopt the change they had recon
mended In their circulars. These were ordered
by them, as our Foreman told US, printed as
job, and Immediately taken away. We never
saw them or distributed them-the only ones W..
authorized or distributed were the regular ticket
which we had printed and advertised before any
alteration was decided on. As TO intercourse
with Old Liners, we had no more intercourse
with them at that time han at any other, as we
were aware of They frequently call on busl-
ness and we hope we have always treated them
we'll
The report further SAYS witness testifrs:
81 asked Thompson 10 give the Temperance
proceedings prominent place in his paper and
that wanted $25 90 worth IN papers to cifculata
IN the County. He said. CAT have more than
$200,00 from the other side, by keeping still"
We had pnbsncd the proceedings of the
Temperance Convention before, and commended
the leading resolution as one which all our own
ticket, we thought, won agree TO, and we
should have inserted and kept in the Temperance
ticket had the County Committee, who we're
called together at our suggestion, to discuss the
expedIency Of adopting that ticket entire. deci-
ded on that course. But they decided otherwise,
and this, we supposed, left us no option, and we.
therefore, kept in our regular ticket, Mr. Greg.
DRY and all, without change, or one word about
change, to the last.
But who is this witness? Is tia man who
deserted our organization last year to 90 for
Pierce, who attended the Democratic County
Convention, and pledged himself to support that
tickst--then the Temperance Convent,en, and
there gave, as a reason for deserving the Deno-
cratic ticket, that five out of eight of the NUN.
Der voted for John P. Hale ?--Is it the man who
first went himself and advised others to 20 against
the Llqur Law ?--the man whose public exhi-
Ditto Of himself at our last April Court led to
the suggestion that the law ought to be SO al
tered that man could be taken to Jail for intox
ication utter he had got sober, as we'll as at the
time ?-lf the witness was such man. we then
frankly admit that he called US aside az we were
on our way home one night, and asked us, In
behalf of it's Wing portion, we understood, to
insert the Temperance ticket and on our be.