Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-09
Che Reformer.
Our County Commissioner, and
Town Agent in Mortified.

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our County Commissioner, contains so many
mis-statements which are liable to make a very
wrong impression where the facts are not known,
and as the Tin many respects) excellent reply of
" Observer " does not seem to state some Of the
circumstances with sufficient defniteness, ask
the privilege of making through your columns
a statement of facts concerning this affair.
That Leander Foster is the man on whom
public opinion was becoming concentrated, as
early as the first Of March, for Town Agent in
Norihheld," is wholly untrue.
"The expectation that he Mr.. F.) would be
appointed by Judge Jones, made good many
vote Tor the Judge as Commissioner in that
town when he was elected is undeniably
false, unless your correspondent means that "a
good many" opponents of the Law voted for
Judge Jones with the " expectation and anx-
ious desire, that he would appoint Mr.. Foster
Agent which may, in part, be true; as several
men in Mortified, notorious opposers of the
Anti Liquor Law, have made persistent efforts
TO obtain the appointment of Mr. F., with the
obvious intention of making the Law unpopu-
lar and imperative, through his extreme and
injudicious ultraisni. =
When the Judge visited Mortified to see
about appointing an Agent, he attempted to
persuade Mr. F. to decline, and falling he told
Mr.. F. to call a meeting of the temperance peo-
pie or society, get an expression of their views,
and the result would control the Commissioner"
are assertions which the Hon Commissioner
says are absolutely false. Mr. F. must be held
responsible for these untru;hs, as no third per-
son was present at the time Mr. F. claims to
have had the conversation with Judge JONES'
At the meeting of the temperance people"
referred to by your correspondent, there were
ONLY SIX persons present. Mr.. F. then stated
that he had been wishing for sometime to call
meeting to nominate Town Agent, but no
person with whom he had conversed would as
sumo the responsibility of requesting him Gas
President Of the Society to call one, until be
was stating the facts to neighbor of his who
said he would assume the responsibility to ask
Mr.. F. to call a nominating meeting.
This meeting of " SIX - was adjourned, and
notice extensively circulated yet ,nctwithstand-
ing this, only FOURTEEN persons were pres
ent 10 vote at this adjourned meeting. and sew
eral of these were never known to be present
at meeting for temperance purposes before
This is the meeting from which the troops of
friends and firm supporters of our excellent
Agent wisely kept away, and at which your
correspondent would have the public understand
that Mr. F received Il majority OF Five TO
ONE " of the temperance people of North6eld,
That " sundry individuals for sundry reasons,
whether selfish and personal. &C.. had proposed
Roys Jones for Agent. and had signed a petit
tion &c. &c. is really quite amusing to the
large number of solid, reliable temperance men
who wisely recommended our present Agent
In Mortified. Judge Jones found himself viz
tualy compelled, according to the principles he
had adopted for his government in the appoint
ment of Agents, to make the appointment
which he did because the great majority of the
temperance people had recommended Rows
Jones, ESQ.,, and no other for Agent, and ma
jority of the select men, also, had Voluntarily
offered to cooperate in his appointment The
opposite of all this was true in reference to Mx :.
F. who so anxlously desired the appointment
lhe select-m men would not sanction NJ F's ap-
pointnent on any consideration " atever and
only the ten " at that meeting, and some of
those very doubtful, could oe fouud to give Mr..
f. The least support; and in all sincerity and
candor, and an acquaintance with most of
the temperance people in Mortified, know
not of one prominent, judicious temperance
man in town who would support him; there
may be, but know not who he is and some
Of the " ten " who then voted for him. have
since, to my certain knowledge, stated to the
Commissioner and others, their satisfaction be-
cause Mr. f. has been rejected.
MIR. Editor The sp'rn of the article in
question Is very bad ; the insinuation of " cous-
lining " is mean and contemplate the writing
over fictitious signature is cowardly, and the
accusations of lying and deceit, are wicked in
the extreme. We have fallen upon an evil
time when person actuated by such feelings
us your correspondent, can thus attack, through
a public journal, man of such unblemished
reputation, such honesty of purpose and judi
cious wisdom in action, as Judge Jenes, aad
yet, the writer, for time, 60 unwhipt of that
justice he 50 richly merits.
The attack upon our excellent Town Agent
is equally unjust and vilainous. The writer
dared not say aught against Roys Jones as
man, and yet, in the very next BREATH insinu-
ates that he will sink the man into an unprin-
cipled Agent, and viii sell liquor unlaptuily
TO men to obtain their custom.
so, shame. where is thy blush?"
Such intimations meet with merited scorn
and condemnation from those who know Mr. J.
Every well-inlormed person knows that he will
suffer loss from the agency the salary fixed by
the select men is small and his other business
will nat he benefited and for this reason, and
on account of the weighty responsibilities that
would rest upon him by having the most Diff
cult agency in the County; the liabilities TO be
deceived by false preteHses and otherwise on
account of the anxiety and care that would
harass him lest he should through mistake.
grant spirits to some one to whom he ought not !;
the anticipated abuse from your correspondent,
and the disappointed candidate, Mr.. Foster.
&c.-all these, and many other considerations
caused Mr. K Jones to hesitate long before he
concluded 1t would be best to yield to the ur-
gent solicitations of his friends to accent the
appointment; and knew thar the Commission
er della we'd cnnfrininrr Lin, e.. -