Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-01-19
personal.

In the Freeman of Dec. 29th we published
il reference to the false and foolishattacks upon
oarself by the Rev. John Gregory, in his occa-
sanal sheet called the sL;AYty 'Sdudcfd, the fol-
lowing
1" The editor accused us OF fayoring what
lie calls the. rum ticket, and Of getting up split
tickets, &c. at oar September election. this
was not 50 and if it were, with what poor
grace he makes the charge may be seen in facts
that two Or three years aga, when he was c1n-
,lilate for town reFrea nt;ttiye Of Mortified, he
offered one man five dollars or more to buy ram
with to treat voters and proouro their support :
ind further tried 10 induce & merchant Of tar
Town TO take voters into be * room OF his stora,
treat them, secure tn III support, and the bill
should BE- paid. He also, this l.sa oampiga,
caused lot Of his own c1lnty ticlcts to BE-
Struck off, headed by Robinson, kitId4r and
Page, whom he calls the locoEoco rum candidate,
and engaged man to distribute them We have
calle1 these facts, bccausJ we have been assured
they are 50, by several respectable citizens Of
that town"
in his s'c0nd issue, of Jan. llth, Gregory,
are utterly denies the charg g
set forth in the above, and, with an effrontcry
which VI, think we have never s9en eopaled,
pron3un:2s those charges % a tissue Of (ircu9a-
aan'iM hes,' plrticularizing each by the desi-;
nation OF Liz No LIZ No liz No. 8, y
and winds of by demanding " tie proef" We
will o5ls> the Reverend gentleman and accord
ingly we suloin the following duly written,
sigued and forwarded statements, or certificates,
of Nh Joel Winch, Merchant White, and Cap
tain Richardson, all townsmen Of Mr.. Gregory
well acquainted with him, and all highly respec-
table mon, as we have ever understood it, N
all events, they seem to have been respectful.
enough to resist and spurn the infamous propo-
sails of their troa'd be soduccr to draw them from
the path of political and moral roctitudc, tt
serve his own. selfish purposes -
FRlnSD THOMPSON i did not not think tina
what + told YOU respecting Mr.. Cregorys wisl
ing to get split tickets, or tickets headed by tn.
names OF Robinson, Kidder and Page, with tn,
name of John Gregory FOR one of the Senators
of Washington County, into tn, ballot box a
Northfeld ut the last Frecmcn's Meeting, woalC
he denied by him. Enclosed send yoa tickle
Of the above description, taken from Quanit,
that Mr.. Gregory brought into the place ant
requested to have circulated ; and on being pre-
sented with one of them, and asked If he wishe,
to have them put into the ballot box, he an
sw2red, he did, as many Of them as he could ge
IN. This statement WIS not made privately, bu
in the hearing of Others
Mr.. Gregory did, as reported to you, in con-
pany with some of the leading Wings, come t,
me anfi cndcayor to get me and Others to use on
influence iii turning the Free Democratic voter
from cur regular nominee to Coy. Paine, az
union candidate in 1852
Yours in haste, JorA N.ygil
Mortified, JAN, 1854.
This may certify, that John Gregory called 0;
me six or eight days before September election
1850, told re he had just learned that eight o
ten men, that had been with the Wings, coul,
be induced to vote for him, called the names o
three Or four, and said he understood they wer
drinking men, and some one mus. furnish then
with RUM-wantcd me to got them down to m
store, and furnish them. replied, wante,
nothing to do With il. Gregory replied, :" White
you want to1soc Paine and his clique defeated
and if you will not do it, yourself, you mus
see that it is done, and will pay the bill
JouX A. $. WHITE
Mortified, JAN, 1854.
will go before "A magistrate aud swear to tn
certificate any time. J.A.s.
hereby certify, that in August, 1851, whcl
John Gregory was the second time candidate
for town representative in Mortified, and no
many days before Frecmen's Meeting, the sat
Gregory, one day when was alone with him il
Brown Hall, In Mortified, told me, as wa
one, Of the Town Committee, that he upderstoo,
there were some votes that might be obtainod b,
liquor and. putting has hand to his pocket
said he had seven or eight dollars, and asked M
to take them to buy ram, to get votes with, o.
get them any other way, and said he woul,
furnish more money for the purpose, If SHOULD
want it; but peremptcrily declined taking hi
money fer any such purposes.
s. G. RIcHARnsoA.
Mortified, 1854.
GREGoRY's STATE CONVENTION is to to com
off IN the 9th But the call hn;no ,,,.nr+Lo