The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-07-14
SnoREnAM July Sd, l,

lHht lSSue cDhulunl silluH ciHhru OD- |
Yc" purporting TO be a reply to an
al..ce furnished you by me, few
weeks ago, upon the subject of decision
90; certain Justice court, and The ? IN
oiy.os ehich considered were laid down
and acted upon by the same. With
your leave, | propose r examine, brief
j, sor = Of the arguDs, Of "Obsery r."
and also one or two p, rcipIcs which he
- ; advanced.
the fir D., e, | would remark
We carefully Analysed the first
graphs of that communication,
EN- to be mainly made up of
.iea 7s- interesting matter as the fol-
n., ~, that | am possessed Of an
ignorant jealousy" "narrew views"
unyielding obstinacy," tiny soul"
and acting upon the principle that Z" lie
well stuck to is as good as the truth,
&C., &c. Mr.. Editor, can you well con-
ceive how utterly insignificant | must
have felt when made the subject of such
annihilating charges What unanswera-
bic arguments the reasoning is so SUBJ
lime that | fear l. should have utterly
failed to have summoned moral courage
enough to have attempted reply, had l
not noticed what followed in the next SEN
tence, viz, that what stated was sub
stantially correct" and, as it was princi-
| pies and plain unva,nished facts with
which [ proposed to deal, making no
pretenssns to cunning and sophistry, and
being SO stupid as not to understand what
bearing such low blackguardism had upon
the subject, [ at last mustered feeble
courage humbly to reply.
Your correspondent states that l pro.
fessed to give a faithful account of the
transaction, and insultingly asks, If L
felt that had told " the truth, the whole
truth 2" &c. Now Sir, did be not notice
your remarks at the commencement of the
article and if so, did he not know that
/ did not pretend to full statement of
all the facts and further on, did he not
notice that stated expressly, that my
object was solely to examine principles,
and that there was no desire for malicious
exposure Would he have had me state
every item, whether they had bearing
upon my argument or not ? | might
have stated few items, like the following,
which would have been interesting TO
SEINE, as allowing the true character of
the defence, such as the secreting or
causing to be secreted, of such witnesses
as were not thought sharp enough to evade,
by prevarcation or otherwise, the ques-
tons that would be asked them, and whose
testimony it was well known must neces.
sarily convict the defendant, and then
openly and de6antly Boosting of the same
in open court, and on the witness stand
| might allude in passing, to spicy
events of more recent date, such as the
sudden stampede Of large number o.
these same friends Of the defence, at deaC
of night, beyond the borders of the State
and ask observer what means this
No doubt, when viewed by the light o
his mighty reasoning powers, land inspired
as he sometimes is) it will melt away int
mere nothing, or at most as only design
ed to illustrate that passage of scriptur
which reads !; The wicked feeth whe,
no man pursueth," and as having no con
neotion whatever with the fact, that tn
case of their friend the tavernkeeper
was to be brought before the Grand Jur,
the next day.
l might have alluded to the mean
used to intimidate the prosecution, sucl
as the swearing by the friends of the de
fence, with oaths that would eclipse tn
profanity of Five Pointer, that if tn
prosecuting officer and his friends, die
thus and so, they would lay violent AM
relentless hands upon them, Tor rather
should say boots,) and | have no doub
that the spectre of those terrible boot
have fearfully haunted the dreams O
those individuals
| might have mentioned many such in
cidents as these, and those of more i'm
portasce, and if "Observer wishes t
refresh his memory with them, | will pre-
pare catalogue for his own private use
but for the honor of individuals and hu
mapity, prefer that they should not b
made public.
"Observer futher states that | LEI
the subject without saying one word t
controvert the very natural suppositio
that the liquor was not furnished by tn
proprietor of the house. | have neve
contended that all the liquor drank abou
the establishment was procured there
and it did appear, that in certain ind
: vidual cases, that it was furnished by tn
guests of which the witnesses were care
full to speak, but it appeared to hay
been when the public fountain, b
too constant sucking, had become dry
Where is the grog shop that has nc
!, among its victims and frequenters, thos
who have become so besotted as to carr
I, their bottles with them, ready to pour tn
liquid, poison down their own Threats an
: the throats of such of their neighbors q
will drink with them But | did Civ
my reasons for thinking that it was prove
beyond reasonable doubt land tina
was all that was necessary that in mo:
. cases it was furnished by the proprietor
Let us turn again to the testimony.
was stated by nearly every witness, tia
they had drunk there as guests of th
a house, without invitation, and some {
, them so many times that, as one witnes
a testified, he could not state numhe
> which would approximate the truth wit
any degree of certainty, that it was FIRE
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