Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-20
Guy g. Sampson os. the Elk. Com.
Vt. State Temperance Society.

Mr. EDITOR Noticing in your paper of last
week. that was dismissed as State Temperance
Agent the 10Th of May, had barely time to
say, in the Repository that yours was the first
notice that had received Of my dismissal. that
the Executive Committee had not only not
found fault with bat approved my doings, and
that my commission was not limited as to time.
do not write about this matter to find fault
with the Executive Committee, but to account
for my apparent error in presuming that was
still their Agent, Of telling my friends 50. my
surprise at the announcement OF the 18th in |
your paper, and my vindcation from the i'm
piled charges, that have usurped power which
did not belong TO me, and, that had been dis
missed for cause; for such would be the infer
ence.
admit the lawful right of the Committee to
dismiss without cause and without notice, but
| claim the right to defend against implications
and Inference. My Commission is dated Aug.
10, 1856, and extends to no particular future
date. In answer to my question bow long |
could expect to be Agent, Rev. Mr.. Button,
Chairman Of the Subcommittee that appoints
agents, &C., said, 50 SO long as your services
shall be acceptable" | was to report the first
of each month. reported the LIST of Septcn-
Ger, the lst of October, and made special re-
port about the 10th of October, suggesting to
the Committee that the Presidential contest was
50 absorbing that the Temperance Agency
ought to be suspended awhile. Mr.. Button
wrote me, under date, October 81, :" We held
meeting Of the Committee on Saturday last,
f at which your letters were read, and your do
ings thus far were considered acceptable"
In the Committees Annual Report, of Jan.
9TH, published in number of our State news
papers, they say oi me, so far as we have
been able to learn, he has been acceptable as
lecturer, and successful in the various depart
menls Of his work" Did not report again till
/, March lst No response from Committee
/ Made special report April Goth, voluntarily and
with the Committee S consent, suspending until
after seed-time to which Mr.k Button replies
Yours Of this dale is received, and its con
tents duly considered. The various suggestions
you make, and especially those concerning
young men, are worthy of attention. should
e judge you had worked faithfully, and with
+ success in your mission
Pliny Ii. White then succeeded Mr.. Button
Il on the Sub Committee. 10 him | wrote on the
t 9th of May, saying that and Mr.. Copeland
n were liable to clash in Orange County. q had
> then resumed operations according to my un-
= Outstanding with Mr. Button. Mr.. White
10 U. should fulfill whatever appointments he has
L. made and he has been instructed to do so-
), With that exception we do not wish either him
,e or you to do anything more as Agents this sum-
N mcr, unless he can do something as incidental
u to his book selling. 1t will not be possible to
~ get out audiences during the busy days Of
10 Summer and not desirable that any man should
o. devote all, or even the main part Of his time
ut to the collection of funds The letter closes
IL in tn csc words :" When the lecture season
O. again arrives, we will consider any proposition
Of the State. Is that dismissal Mr.
nc White says in his letter of June 4th :" TIL,
% reason wrote as did the Goth ult., was no
n that the Committee had formed any new pur
~ poses respecting your agency. The COMMITTEES
w. do not deem it advisable, to have agent can
wasting during the Summer" &c, To all thi
Nv the Committee may reply Il suspension, if tn
IS Agent is not ordered to resume, and until S
ordered is dismissal in effect But such
me view is contrary to precedent. Mr.. Button su,
Sc, pended my operations during the Prcsidentip
pie contest and he left it to me, without order G
~; -" notice. when and how to resume
IN The Committee may say q we did not mea
ci to have the suspension operate as dIsmissa
lno and should not, unless he had involved himse
the W.T.:
of Answer was either dismissed the Doth
the May or no.. If dismissed, what had the Con
- mitice to do with any affairs of mine! If n
dismissed, they should have applied 10 me {,
aw they did not) about the affair OF all the cd
~ GUS kinds Of decaptation, that is the mos
nh odious that does not give man hearing
cen But whatever may be the resultlof this matte
t to shall not neglect the glorious temperan
a''u cause.
III | have taken a lccturng and canyassi
tent agency for the . American Temperance Unto
rust and the New York State Temperance Society
which restricts me TO neither time nor tergito
10 a so that rena in on the Continent and sh
ndie stand ready to cooperate with any honoral
irke COMMITTEES, or honorable man, to promote
great Reform. Guy G, SAMPSON.
FREsmET. - We learn that considerable dana
seph was done, by tho lrcshct Of last week upon
:, branches Of the Winooski between this pli
and Danyille, and between here and Worcest
Two bridges were carried off between Cabot Il
ence Painlield, and one this side Of East Mont
icr The amount Of damage is not stated.
Martin Brook in Middesex, one saw mill
lban three bridges were swept away, and the r.
badly damaged. AT Wrights Mills, on
Worcester Branch, Mr. Wrights Machine 81
,ccb- was undermined and tipped into the stream
Loss between one and two thousand dollars