Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-03-30

| The letters below will be read with
/ interest. The refusal of the editors Of the
Sentinel to allow the insertion OF brief
letter. authoritotirely contradicting the gross
misre presentation which had received curren-
| cy in that paper, would Of itself be bad
enough: but, when coupled with the existence
of positive promise on the part OF one OF
them that it should SO appear, 1t becomes still
worse. 1t shows the thorough dread its
conductors have Of their pro-slavery masters
at Washington. We have nc time for fur
Their comment to-day. We shall recur to
the subject hereafter.
| Editors Of "a, VI. Free Pra,:--1n the Sontini
Of the ID inst. is the following Editorial item
HoAxED.-A Troy IN. " paper says the lit
| tie girl whom Henry Ward Beecher paraded in the
! pulpit OF his church at Brooklyn, ami drew upon
| his credulous auditors for plentiful share OF
| tears nd dollars i. no more black than Agnes
| Robertson. the Scotch Octaroon that she vas
| W. tie girl, sent North on a speculation /; that
Beecher and his audience were hoaxed-"
To enable me to nail this false coin TO the coun-
ter, asked evidence from the officers of Plymouth
Church. Last week it came in the shape Of let
ter from the pastor, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
which now wish you to publish. Before offering
it TO the Republican Press, called upon my
friend the Junior Editor Of the Seminal, and was
not surprised at the ready and frank expression Of
Of hi. naturally noble nature (Which, under favor
able conditions would manifest itself in the IN
Ainching advocacy of truth and justice) that he
would publish it IN his paper of this week On leav-
ing his Office said to myself, here i. proof that
all the organs Of the Slave Power are utterly
corrupt, and false to truth and justice the Re-
publicans say they are. Here is man who loves
truth for its own sake, and put, principle before
party. God bes. him But my friend, the Ed
itor has pa, tner the POST MIst.r who never al
low, his unsophistcated Junior to do such weak
things as to fulfil promises made in good faith,
under his own sense Of Justice and Right. Loyalty
TO the Slave Power, which sits triumphant on the
throne of sham Democracy, based upon the
violation and denial of the inherent
Rights of Human Nature, seeking to per-
petuate its tyranny through the government
of this country, and whose only hopes of success
depend upon a regular organized, continued i'm
position of falsehood and deception upon the peo-
ple--loyalty, I say, to this Satanic embodiment |
of sin and corruption. operating upon the tender
sensibilities of paid official Of the government is
strong enough 10 control and overpower the /
manly resolution of his honest associate. conse-
quently the publication of the letter, positive
refused.
Iregret fealty TO unprincipled 'party:s should
have prevented the publication of this denial in
the Sentinel, because wish to think IS we'll of
our political opponents Is We can, and it 10 tight
that they who are guilty Of altering a Islander,
should them selves refute it.
Burlington. March 23d.
Mr.. Beecher's Letter.
TO l. g. sresLow, ESQ.
NY Dee Sir;
DE- not wonder that evil minded
men seek to break tho force of such a. the
Emancipation of that save-girl in Plymouth
Church. Their was not a soul in the Church that
lid not feel thar to be sn unsnswe-abIs argument
or liberty, and against slavery. ,
But men must think that are very simple and =
inexperienced, to undertake a case without une.
uivocal evidence of the real facts The child was
vell known in her own neighborhod. If there had l
,esn the shadow Of $ mistake in the case, would d
lot the papUs of that region have exposed the
rror7 Why do not those who spread such stories :
et certificates from the place where she was born
rought up. owned, sold and brought into liberty f
gain7
The child is now IN Brooklyn, and will remain t
ere. Her grandmother, who brought her up,
Till remove hither in the Spring. The little girl
bright, intelligent, and Of good disposition, and
njoys her liberty much as If slavery were not =
leasing, and, being bough. and sold, an honor. o
had put into my hands, this morning, the bill u
( sale, executed by the slave dealers who owned O.
or, and her free papers, executed and signed duly
nth all legal and Official requirements 9,
The same effort was made. several years ago,
, break the moral influence of the emancipation d
slave woman tnst took place under like cir 0
in our church. Only, then, letters q
ere written from the South, and false statements
OF up. But, the case was true and genuine. s
be woman now lives happily in Cincinnati. h
lam resply Yours, =,
Il. W. BEEo1ER o.