The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-29

tlDle oil the clearest proof.
You say this is "a controversy which,it
seems to me, is unwise and uncalled for.n
In this l fully agree with you. Why
did you not count the cost and not rush
headlong and thoughtlessly into this diff.
iculty2 You might have avoided it
from the start, by simply fulfilling your
voluntary engagements You had to
break through the restraints of personal
honor to get into this trouble at all.
After you had embarked in so desperate
an enterprise, the way was purposely
left open for you to get off without
public exposure-and even to carry off
the Office also, which you had such fc-
vorish anxiety to win. Your getting
thus involved was therefore wholly "un-
called for" Your refusal of all possible
terms Of compromise, afterward, was Ger.
tainly unwisc"
Yon style my copying from the Jour
nal Of the House of Representatives
record showing you to be in favor of re-
pcaling the law allowing a deduction for
debts owed, in making up the list of per-
sonal property, an unjust charge"
The fault lies with the House Journal
not with me. The people will credit tho
public record rather thar your memory.
Of that You may be sure. Your attempt
to shirk off tho responsibility of your re-
pnrt upon the committee will not answer:
The majority Of committee in case OK
division, report through one Of their own
number, and not through an opponent of
their views. This you well understand
That you subsequently "dodged back"
when your report was assailed and de-
serted the majority of the committee,
whom you were honorably bound to sus-
tain. | can easily credit, on no other
authority than your own statement.
You represent me as saying you uni
formly lodged all Temperance qucs.
tions Here you have deliberately mis-.
quoted my language, that you might make
show Of disproyirg my statement. which
you otherwise could not in tho least i'm.
peach. said almost uniformity ana
the word "dH' you have also intOrpolatcd.
Do you expect, while using such arts to
repcl with any effect, the charge of dou.
ble-dealing and fraud2 You dill dodge"
on foWr votes out OF FIRE, on Temperance,
during three years, as have proved
from the public records. Your paltry
excuses will hardly satisfy the people
when YOU have scarcely crer failed to
vote where banks, corporations, and cap.
italists were directly concerned that
your absences on nearly every Temper.
ance vote were purely occidcntM II
so, | think the people should hereafter
take measures to insure themselves a.
gainst such dccilcRts. No other person
on record, think was ever the subject
of a like number as yourself The fact
of your sitting besiie decided Temper
ance man, which you SO triumphantly in.
lroduce as part of the evidence in the
case, ought to have been better safe.
guard against such casualties.
You say you voted "at the second
calling Of the yeas and nays" on the pro.
hibltory liquor law Of 1850 You refer
TO a vote on an amendment Which afford
cd no tc% (bcing merely the question
whether licences should be granted by
the board Of civil authority or by the Sc
lectmen alunej and on which Temper
ance members were divided This cita.
ton damages your case-for you failed
to vote on motion to dismiss the bill
outright, and also on its passage, out no
occtFe"t occurred to prevent your voting
for an unimportant amendment, present
ing no test
Why did you omit to define your posi-
tlon in tins connection, on the law Of
1852, when before the people for their
vote 1ou have been directly charged
with dodsi"g that rote, and your silence
is therefore very significant.
You say 81 was present and voted
for the habeas corpus act" You seemed
not 20 have any such recollection, when
| talked with you on the subject last
week 1t was but few weeks after the
| passage of that act that you told mc you
did not vote for the act, and never knew
| what its character was, until it was as.
sailed by the press abroad-or words to
that effect remember the converse.
ton we'll, and have no doubt the state.
ment you then made was true
Your fat denial of the double deal
ing " which have exposed, as the meth
cd by which you got the 9th of June
nomination, but adds to your former Of
fences of that kind, for every statement
made is susceptible of proof You
were land are Silly what is popularity
called a Know.Nothing and yet you re-
peatedly denied the fact to members of