Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-03-02
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BURLINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 1860.
ANOTHER LIE NAILED.


The Sentinel, week since, reproduced the
false and absurd story recently concocted by
some democratic reprobate, concerning a
daughter of Mrs. Child, said to be abandoned
by that lady to the charity of strangers at
the South. 1t was copied by the Sentinel,
and is still going the rounds of the Demo
cratic press, in the face of the fact, immedi-
ately made public by her friends, that Mrs.
Child neuer had daughter, and that the
whole story had not the remotest approach
to truth in single sentence of it. This
week, the Sentinel takes back the statement,
as follows
Mrs. L. MARIA CHILD.-We have received as
surances from personal friend of ours, who is a
connection of this distinguished lady, that the
story of her having young lady daughter at
the South, dependant on the charity of friends, is
a fabrication, utterly wanting any foundation in
truth. We are of course willing to believe his
statements in the matter, as he claims to know
Mrs C. AMI her family history, and equally
willing to make reparatiOn for the wrong done to
that lady by the statement published last
week. But a puzzing query presents itself,
which cannot answer satisfactorily to ourselves
and believe that friends cannot. else it would
have been done long ago. 1t is this-This story,
copied from the correspondence of a southern
journal has been the round of the leading Demo
cratic journals of the United States. Why has it
not been carefully and widely contradicted
1t has been carefully and widely contra
dcted by the Republican journals 1t has
not been contradcted by the Democratic
press, because that is not their way of do
ing things. Secure in tie circumstance that
their subscribers commonly read no other
paper, and that for them " lie well stuck to
is as good as the TRUTH they publish the
false as readily as the true, or commonly in
default of any truth that will answer their
purposes, and leave it to find its own correc.
ton as best it may. \ fair withdrawal of a
misstatement is rarity in any democratic
paper that we are acquainted with.
The history of the John Brown affair illus
trates all this with especial force. Il was
deemed necessary for political ends, that the
private character of the old man, whom even
Gov. Wise pronounced - honest, truthful and
sincere should be blackened, and unblush-
ing falsehood has been the principal means
resorted to by the Democracy to attain the
object The Sentinel has shared in this pleas
ant work, mainly by copying the fabrications
of others. 1t has made one original contri-
button to the stock, and that has thus soon
,tc af,ta A bar nF ba bro
(Ohio) Beacon is before us, from which we
quote as follows:
SLANDBRING THE DEAD.-One of the mean
est streaks OF human nature, is that dispOsi
tion to malign the defenceess, which one
can see almost every day of his life. This
was never more fully exemplifed than in the
case Of John Brown. He has expiated his
crime, folly or insane infatuation, by suffer
ing with martyr-like frmness, the extreme
penalty Of the law. But since his death, be
is charged, in the democratic pangfrs '-''h .th
all manner of ntL~- O'"Oce. Deau men tell
..5 taies. and contradict mona. John Brown
is not alive to plead to such arraignments.
The following from the Burlington, Vt
Sentinel will illustrate cur remark.
SOME OF JONI BRowN's CRmEs-HIs REVENGE
lips made such ado of Browns kissing a negro
child on his way to the gsllows, turns out not to
be true His refusal of all Christian ministrations
is tru-.
The following is an extract from private let
ter from the Western Reserve Ohio:
"As John Brown has been compared to Jesus
Christ | will give YOU fact in his history
which will illustrate his character. He lived the
last eighteen years before going to Kansas, with
in eighteen miles Of here, and was informed the
other day by gentleman in this county, who is
man Of undoubted integrity, that when he lived IN
Hudson, some eighteen years ago, magistrates
there, sentenced Brown and four Of his boys to
thirty DAYS imprisonment in Akron Jail, for burn
in, a ueiphber's fences and haystacks. Brown
had a law suit with neghbOr in reference to a
niece Of land and the court decided against him;
and 10 crafty his amiabe disposition he burnei
his neighbor's property. This is the man whom
the Republican party compare to W Washington
We should like to know who the 'man of
undoubted integrity is. To pronounce him
A ,cilt,H Hdr might be rash; no less so per
hans. to saw he is a fool. One of the two, he
certainly is. Not only is the story false, but
most foolishly so. Any man who knows the
a. b. c. of Ohio law knows that no magIs-
trate has or ever had jurisdiction to try and
sentence any man for such crime as that
alleged John Brown was never charged, In
this county with burning fences or haystacks,
and he was never imprisoned in Ohio for that
or any other offence.
We cannot, of course, expect the Sent'ne
to swallow itself entire, by taking back all
its mis-statements but here is fresh piece
of its own coinage fairly nailed to the counter.
Will it take it back, or. let it pass ? The
Sentinel has done the decent thing, for once,
in its way, by Mrs. Child will it do as much
for the memory Of Old Brown?