Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-08-13
LETTER FROM MIR. CORR.

We find the following in the Tine, Of Tues
day. The Times states that it was accompa.
MED with a " two-column article (printed but
not published,) ,oritten By Ii. Gov. SLADE,
mendaciously abusive of the Judges and Man
ayers of the late Firemen's Muster and of
the Free Press and Times
[For the Burlington Timesl
Gen. Clarke Will you do me the kind
ness to publish the following article as an an.
swer to the uncalled for letter from j. VI.
Slade, that you published few DAYS since.
| We think, perhaps, as you do, that there has
been quite enough sad upon this subject, yet,
we can hardly feel satisfied to have the i'm
putation Of" meanness - thrown upon US so
unceremonlously by one whose goodness or
g meanness," had not been mentioned by u.s.
II the Ethan Allen Company felt aggrieved
at any thing we had done, it was their pro-
vince to say SO. If we have committed
great " mcanpess,' our Company, (not one
man, may hold us responsible for it., for the
most Of them are honorable and high minded
men, and will not descend to " meanness."
A WORD ABOUT Lr. Gov SLADE's LErrER.-That
terrible letter. after being read by request Of the
author to the assembled body of brethren frerner"
of Ethan Allen Company, No. 4, of Burlington ha.
at last been published in the Burlington Times
As far as we have been able to learn the vote was
very clear in favor Of exoncrating Mr.. Sade from
the meanness of writing that note after his manly
loving and emphatic denial to the captain Our
burlington Firemen must be very susceptible Of the
manipulations of the hocus-p now GU -seet-
and now-you -dont-see;it author, 70 swallow down
As the Burlington Free Press says in substance if
the writer has written any thing meaner it is
an act of charity that it has not been published.
STILL if friends like that kind of white-washng
and feel the better for it, have nothing to say,
only that it is thought by some, that there is more
of the sort left" which will be disposed Of low
'' to close the concern
1t is said, in that letter, that We spoke against
that resolution. That is not so We simply
spoke in favor of striking out the word entertain
ment, anu said that our Burlington friends had
not promised to give entertainment nor had We
expected it-or had t-unless the writer had been
the recipient of dinner gratuitousy. We at that
time thought, and still think that our friends in
burlington would be better pleased with fair and
full acknowledgement for the courtesy shown US,
than to have put, not founded on fact Our ar
gument in favor of striking out the word entertain
ment,' was that it would bring rdicule upon us,
after stating in the first resolution that we had
been received in a manly, noble and cordial man
ner; and had we been entertained, it looked
to us a little wrong, that in the next resolu-
tion should vote that some Of the citizen.
Of Burlington, who were upon the awarding
committee had been guilty of Outrageous wrong
and gross injustice Our objections were, that the
resolutions blowed hot and cold too near together.
Mr. Sades letter says, that 'he is not willing to
bear the gross imputation of meanness in this mat
ter Who has asked him to bear it? Most GER
tany we did not To be sensitive on the subject
is truly commendable in him. How much he must
be relieved after being delivered of this load of
odium when he thought he had made the Bur-
lington Fire Company think he was all night, and
that we were all wrong
He says further that "Mr. Cobb is the one TIA.
has committed this great wrong Mr.. Cobb has
attempted conceal the fact that he insert
ed the note at the end of the resolutions We
wish it distinctly understood, that we do not intend
to initiate another, so far as to write an offensive
and viliiying article, and try to palm off its patcr-
nifty on some irresponsible person.
As Mr.. Slade seemed so very anxious to throw
off the great stigma that was about to fall upon
him by the insertion of that little noto-so much
SO, that he requested his letter TO be read TO the
Company, | hope it will not be considered more
than fair if let him tell in his own words, what
he thinks of some of the prominent and respectable
citizens of Burlington. Hear him
" In the invitation extended to the several COM
panies, it was supposed that fairness would mark
all the operations of the day; and in awarding
prizes il would be as toIS, and not as II traS not.
In this the grossest injustice is done (and be-
leve intentionally, too,) 10 the Middlebury COM
pany Not satisfied in defrauding Washington
Company. No. l, and taking from them the prize,
by every one awarded them, except this msgnan-
imous committee, Of which tho editors of the Fres
Press and Tines formed part, these sapient edit
ors could not rest without belieing the fact, thus
adding insult to injury in tho publication, des.
titute of truth as they are TO my mind of honesty
and fair dealing"
And lastly, l shall draw this communication TO
a close. Yours, truly,
JUsTUs COBB