The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-07-19
The "Calais Company"
Walton's Daily Journal is an excsllen

edtor-in-chief to be considered, as it is. and
long has been, the organ Of the dominant
party in the State, the Journal ought espe-
cially to guard against imposition, and to up
hold the dignity of the State Government by
at least maintaining its own.
In an article which appears in the Journal
of the 18th inst. relating to the Calais COM
pany, the editor says:
1.-The understanding between Capt. Mower
and Mr.. Hammond would undoubtedly have
resulted in harmony in the election Of the
officers of the company, had not the Cover
nor lnterfered in that arrangement BY subse
quently giving Mr.. II almond authority as a
recruiting officer which Capt. Mower knew
nothing OF until it was too late to prevent a
schism. Capt. Mower already held COM
mission from the Governor as Captain of the
Calais company, and when the Governor call
ed upon him to fill up his company, prepare
tory to going into the Third Regiment, he
, should have left him to do so in his own
way, without interfering IN any arrangement
or understanding he might make to facilitate
his work"
/ We dislike to say that the Journal has de-
scended to a very low grade of criticism with
out any Justification and that it has the best
possible reas IN to be ashamed of itself, but
such is, nevertheless, the fact. Is it not
enough that its neighbor Of the Patriot
is found ready on al! occasions TO do the
dirty work Of delraction and calumny, with
out the Journal joining hands to help it
along? What is the occasion for il, and
what the provocation What is t. be game
by it. either Of credit to the State, or of repu-
lation to the Journal! Is there Montpelier
junto, sour from some inexplcabe cause tow
ards Gov. Fairbanks, and towards Caledonia
County e>ps cialy? We feel particularly
anxious to know.
Blu without further preliminary. and to
show the kind of gratu,ous prostitution to
ahich tie Dail v Journal has lent itself. VT
propose to state the t;tcts regarding the en-
iistment Of TIE company to take the place of
the \crgennes company, which was unex-
pcctedly Withdrawn from the third regimen,
to fill the vacancy in the second In the first
place, Capt Mower held no commission as
Captain under the present military organizs-
ton. and he was not directed by the Cover
nor TO fill up his company" He was APP
pointed a recruiting officer to recruit com
paay, and stood precisely upon the same foot
ins IS any other person thus appointed would
stand, AID 10 more entitled to the captainc,
from the mere fact Of his appointment as re-
crr;:ing officer than any other man in the
company. If the Jou,nai is not aware Of this
fact, We wish it would. for its own infoyma-
ton read the act passed at the extra session
Of the Legislature
We learn from undoubted authority that
Gov. Fairbanks, with an anxious desire to
supply the complement of companies required
for the third regiment, as speedily as posi-
bic, dispatched Gen. Brown, as a special mes
senger, to Capt. Mower of Calais. Who. the
Governor understood, had some forty men
ready 20 enlist upon immediate call. Learn
ing also that MIR. Hammond of Montpelier
would be able to enlist quite number of
men who had been disappointed by not get
ting into the Montpelier company, tie Gov
ernor sent duplicate recruiting papers to
Capt. Mower, with the suggestion to him
Capt. Mower to put the duplicate into the
hands Of Mr.. Hammond. if thereby in his
opinion, the company could be more speedily
filled, leaving the matter wholly to the dis
erection of Capt. Mower. Our information
i, that Capt. Mower took this duplicate pa
per to Mr.. Hammond and requested him to
recruit as many men as he might be able =
! The JoWnal says Capt Mower made an
agreement with Mr. Hammond that the lat
ter should be Lieutenant and he (Mower) the
Captain. We know othing of that matter
Int the only recruiting paper uhicL M
HHmmond Ger hal from tie Gorelnor uuy
fh"t 0d"re 0il"ded to, md ,as jiace4 in Mr..
Hammoni's hands by capt. Noper himself:
SO that when the Jnuluul charges that the
Governor " subsequently gave Mr.. Hammond
authority as recruiting officer, which Capt
Newer kneW nothing Of, it states that which
has no foundation whatever in truth. The
JoUnol has suffered itself 10 be imposed up-
on. Gov. Fairbanks, in this view. as any
body car see. is not responsible at all, for any
schlsm that may have occurred, and if the
''o"mM ha! not been predisposed, as it seems
TO us, to tault-fnding, it would have been
careful to ascertain the facts before giving
publicity to urauthenticated rumors.
In the utmost good nature, and with an
e!e to the future good standing of the Jour-
n"t. we are tempted to ask if there is not
rdt-hole il Montpelier small enough to crawl
into for a few days in which it may seek alb
solution bv due penance and contrition
False in its statement of " facts,"-incautious.
captious and forward in its criticisms,-im-
pertinent in its insinuations,- undigni in
It's uhwarrantabe attacks upon the highest
official of the State which has nourishcd il
with pap and patronage for the las: forty
years with sort of 6lial feeling, we call up
o.. the journal to lift itself out Of the miro
end assume its old position of responsibility
and decency. Shall our appeal be in vain9
Conventions.