Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-04-25
wH1T1NaHAN LIQUOR MATTERS.

JACKSONVILLE, Apr 10, 1861.
After four weeks labor the bacchanalian har-
lequins of Nottingham have come out with an
other trio, occupying three columns in the Ar
gus, about liquor matters. Their venerable
old chief takes the lead apparently with as
much exutant ecstacy as Achilles trailed the
dead body of Hector around the walls. And
the programme is closed by copious emanations
of pot-house wit, from their six foot sapling
on the hill. The illusions of this degenerate
son, who, under the influence of his debasing
orgies, can boast of his fictitious "pedigree,"
are too contemptably insignificant to notice.
There are one or two ideas in the production
of their antiquated old Squire, that require
passing notice. Instead of controverting or
attempting to controvert any statement or po-
siton taken in The PHOENIX, or even attempt
ing to round off any of the sharp angles, in his
zgzag course, for the last dozen years, or in
any way account for his "vacillatng policy" he
disposes of the whole by saying, "the pot should
not call the kettle black
Next after long paragraph about the Mexi-
can war, the Wilmot Proviso, the compromises
of 1850 &C., in which he betrays an entire ignor-
ance of history, on wilful design to mistake
facts he accuses 81. b." of being "inoculated
with the virus of abolitionism." He well knows
this insinuaton to be without foundation in fact,
for never voted for an abolition candidate for
representative but ever since the annexation
OF Texas, have steadily adhered to the princi-
pies embraced in the free soil platform and
have not yet seen cause to change my position
He has mistaken his own political history, and
attempts to make people believe it is mine. On
looking back to some Of his old communications
for the press, find one published in the Wind
ham County Democrat of Oct. l. lS4S from
which you will pardon me for taking an extract,
he says:
"In 1914 Mr. Van Buren, was sacrificed to APP
"pease the wrath of the offended Mooch of the
"South. Having been driven almost from Chris
"tendom loosing her foothod in one country
''after another, the great Diana of Slavery, is
''now making her last final effort-gathering
cher willy folds to spread her filthy pollutions
tower American soil now free. Her numerous
"and obedient. minions, with Calhoun to lead
"the van, are buckling on their armour to lido
"batte for her cause But while these pillows
"of sin, roll up from the South, threatening to
"engulph our land in utter ruin, a breeze from
'the North is fast setting back the angry tide,
"and speedy messengers wing their airy flight
'to the fartherest bounds of Christendom bear
ling the happy tidings that the great Dragon
us chaned.
Three years later in another communication
for the press in ref renee to the fugitive slave
law, he says:
"This odous and unconstitutional enactment,
"this outrage upon the principles of human
"rights. will receive the Just Indignation of all
''honest friends of humanity; offering as it does
ga bride for Slavery that will act more or less
"upon the cupidity of ministerial and judicial
"officers Of the government"
These quotations are made because they con-
tain sentiments worthy the consideration of an
enlightened age, and also to show the absolute
want of honesty in their author, in attempting
to bring me into public scandal, by imputing
them to me for political effect, and as being in
consistent with my practical course of life
With his own record staring him in the face,
and his numerous tumings and shiftings upon
all subjects that have agitated the public mind.
with what grace can he accuse men of being
.inoculated with the yirus of aholitioniym y
In the early DAYS of the Christian era there
was n class of men. and it is none the less trno
now. who are ready IN ..comnoss sea and LAND
to make one nrosevte. and when h. il n,ado
We make him twofoli more a child Of he'll Than
Yourselves" And ,basn na,ylv n,adn rrosal,.,aa
70 ,bo uorsl ~ pm, AMI So of9.1
practical iuS,ro,iln Of the same fact "'''D "
The un6undcd CHARGE, and '"ston thief, mol
ance, no. solitary cases. It's character