Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-27
me- .FREEMANo DISMISSED.

The managers Of the Green Mountain Free
man, on the goth Of Sept, published three
false and lbellous insinuations against the
Watchman, without provocation or excuse of
any sort. They were in connection with the
late election for States Attorney, and embra-
ced three distinct points LIST, printing split
tickets-2d, boiling regular nominations
and Sd, tampering with the record Of the
election, by soliciting false returns. We
knew these were all false and libelous and so
pronounced them We knew they were cow
ardly and therefore we declared that the
Freeman "dare not charge what it had in
situated Thus we put the Freeman under
the distinct charges Of falsehood, SANDER and
cowardice. We now publish its reply in full,
from which every reaier will see that it is
content to rest under each of these charges
without denial, and implicitly coniesses that
it is guilty of them ALL On the one hand il
does not deny one Of them it has not dared
to make single one Of these three insinua-
tons into an accusation and it has not sug-
gested the slightest ground for its cuwardly
and malicious and libellous nsinuations On
the other hand, zoe charged that the Freeman
had issued state tickets without votes for
Member of Congress, and it has confessed the
charge to be true IRE charged that Boycc
himself was the author Of the report that
town clerks had made differing returns, and
he docs not deny it; and nee called upon him
either to declare who had made such returns,
or to confess that he had slandorcd the town
clerks-but he has done neither. In all our
experience in newspaper warfare, we have
known nothing so infamous and puerile and
we put the matter upon record as an antidote
in all future time for any libellous attack of the
present publisher of the Freeman, upon either
the Waterman or any body else. We have
recorded the ISLANDERS Of the Freeman of Sept
20, and our reply. Now we copy the reioin-
der Of the Freeman of Sept p. in full add
ing note or two by way Of explanation.
From the Green Mountain Freeman, Sept p.
AN OFFENDED NJ. c.
The Hon. NJ. c. editor Of the Watch8,an saws he is a.
Tended Well he has right to be offended so has
any other NJ G. We objected 10 his being offend
ed ''nor never shall He has probably got his last
"
II he could tell when he is offended with greater freedom
than before election, and he that he Is paying MS
for something which he thinks done before his cleo.
lion, IN anticipation Of his independence afterwards
We have such folks before. But sometimes people
who kick away the ladder after they have climbed Up
mud themselves At the lend Of rope, in getting down
again lie thinks the Fireman made an attack upon
him, just though the Freeman big bull dog and
he innocent NJ. c. with bis sache on his back rud-
cling peaceably along 70 school Well we think the
Freeman only harked him. II didn't bite though we
guess he got awfuy keered when he thought sach
and as ghn apds IL d..
coming. o. Besides, this school-boy with the biz sache
u documents, says "sont State tickets without the
Member " Congress, and this Member Of Congress
this same fellow Of Shakespere's seven ages who
feels ofeuded" because Boyce neglected to print and
furnish the people Of this County with tickets fo him
lof NJ. e. No" II we were an NJ. C., with Uncle Sans
frank. and had Mammoth Steam Printing Establish
lncnt and was running Tor NJ G. We would take
10 urnsh our constituents with our name piece
Of paper plainly printed TO deposit in the ballot box
without calling on the nominal "real editors" or
managers Of the Freeman" (2) II a pty that the
managers Of the Freeman or its real or nominal ed
tors did not somehow conceive the idea that they were
3Dhgea 70 fe-nomna,e support vote, and print tickets
iof ms NJ e. t3) We are further sorry that this NJ C.
editor knows nor cares nothing about certain paragraph
"a the Idfchman rejecting somewhat severely upon Mr.
lienys appointment to the office Of States Attorney
or rey mat paragraph was what led to his defeat at the
recent election, and Mr.. Henry and the Repuhcans of
this County have right 10 explanation, or the cdi
Tor mas none to give then confession that has defeat
ed him, as 1t some months ago intended to do. a. Aso
sp. tickets WIG got up a. split Justice ticket on Che
nominal" editor or "mNnager Of the Freeman" But
somebody did but make charges the fact for the
But we hope this NJ. C. wont set his dog on us, nor
throw chips at us. play bloody Brooks" at u.s. he
may throw clubs at ihe Freeman and is real aud
nominal editors and managers" Folks that are a
ifad Of barking shouldn't be atdy to school, they should
Keep along in eompau, with the big boys.
/. We know of no match for this, short of
the fellow who was immortalized by Shak-
speare--to wit, him who begged to be written
down an ass. Here is fellow who writes
himself down dog, and very useless dog
into the bargain. He barks, but he cannot
bite. Were we TO initiate such brutality, we
could fifty say, that the best possible use of
the freen'dn's ladder and rope would be-to
hang the dog But it is pitiable to see a man
make beast of himself, and we do say-Poor
man He has made himself mean dog. SO
let only nobler dogs most pteously bark
Poor puppy
2 1t has been the custom for the Freeman
and the Waterman to unite in furnishing
votes On going to the Freeman office this
year for this purpose, it was found that the
freeman had already printed and distributed
the votes through the county, ioitLom potes
~ NOHyTcoS' VI course We cndcaYOred TO
supply the county with full tickets but still
the Freeman votes were distributed all over
the county, and to some extent were used
We did not permit ourselves to suppose that
the freeman intended thus to assail us by
misleading the people, or cheating them out
OF the privilege of voting for Congressman.
until the Freeman commenced its ono,
war We have no doubt now that the trick
was intentional. 1t has succeeded in redue-
ing the vote for Mr. Walton in this county
about 200 in the aggregate in IA towns
stu Walton's majority in these towns is
greater than that Of Gov. Fairbanks: so that
the malice of the Freeman was as imootent
as It was unproyoked.
D. The support Of the Freeman for Wal
tons reelection was neither asked nor ex.
pocted. We did and do suppose that AS a
Republican newspaper, it was bound to send
out full Republican ticket il it sent out votes
at all To do otherwise would be an at,empt
to deiraud the people as well as the candi-
dates.
4 Here is the only point made by the
Fireman against us. Now it is true that in