Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-09-07

[From the St. Adams Messenger. j

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10 another article We stated that We else
I where should say something more of the ccle-
bratcd St0rrs case. Mr.. St1rr- who was
partly indebted to Mr.. Baxter. 1ccIrlin. 10
his acknowledgement, for q position rs
Deputy Collector Of Customs at Island
Pond. secured his position 80 the
mterccssion Of Nh. SAWYER. Mr Benton AMI
Mr.. Child. The reasons for the interest they
took in his cause lay IN tlc fact iiat St0rI,
0ired these men, and they wished O. Uu: him
in position which would enable h.m to nav
them. We understand that ii was known
to Mr.. Baxter that the position would 'c
acceptable 10 Mr., S.orIs rs q means oi hcir
iug him TO pay hIs debts. and Mr. Baxter
WAS. as ne has ever been, wIilu. o. bclp th,
needy IN preference 90 those who were in
easier circumstances. S.lrrs was t0 Tav
certain sum OF his yearly -ahry m
liquidation of his debts O. tire men
who had given him credit. Mr.
Baxter was not one of thee mon, and
made no personal claim upon hm. StJu,
failed to pay his friends as he had agreed.
Those friends. thinking that word from
Mr.. Baxter would avail them more than any
dunning from them, asked him 90 Jog the
memory OF Mr.. Storrs, that he might live up
to hIs perfectly fair agreement II there
are any letters about money, from 'lr. Blx-
ter to MIR. Store, OF 10 any OF the men we
have named. they will be found O. Dc such
a anu man would write for the benefit and
at the request OF honorable friends. and that
they contain nothing whatever which can
show that Mr.. Baxter asked 1r expected
money for himself But whatever these
letters contain, let the cncmic, Of Mr. Bax-
ter, who profess to have had possession Of
them for nearly six weeks of this clm-
p3ign Sl0r McH-punt them, and give them
10 the people. Mr. Baxter ha- challenged
proof against him. If there is any. let it
come
We propose to comment upon thg above
explanatory statement Of the No,sayer a
little.
The staicincn; Is not even plausible. while
1t is proved to be false by the letters them
selves The debt TO these gentlemen re-
ferred to, amounted TO but little more than
500, and was paid long before Nr Baxter
ceased these duns Why should Baxter
dun Sawyer for a debt which S;orls owed
not to him but to Sawyer himseIt2 And
why dun Sawyer, upon this absurd
hypothesis, after Storrs had pad up his
debt IN full When Baxter writes, 'Your
friend at Island Pond does not respond a.
promised. This is not right. | look TO v0u, -
is ;his, in the language Of the Messenger,
asking Sawyer to jog the memory OF Mr
Storrs, that he might live.up to his perfectly
fair agreement" to pay Benton Child and
SAWYER his debt ? or is it jogging of the
memory of Sawyer that be is holden for the
performance OF the ecorrupt agreement which
Baxter himself had obliged Storrs to enter
into, with Sawyer a. his guarantor7 And
when he writes again, "My name must not
be connected with the Storrs' transaction
With you it is safe. I DO not l1o,r HIM
is this gentle logging Of the memory Of
Mr. Sorrs?' OF IL it an injunction to Col
Sawyer to conceal a transaction which the
writer knew to be disgraccful and criminal ,
The call upon the ''cnemies Of Mr.. Blk
ter, who profess to have had possession Of
those letters for nearly -ix weeks, to show
them. print them and give them to the pco-
pie, il, under the circumstances. great i'm
pudenee No enemy Of Mr. Baxter has had
these letters in possession, unless under the
name OF " enemy is included Col saw
yer,-an opponent Of Mr. Baxter in this can
voss, to be sure, but gentleman who has
received iRvors from Mr.. Baxter and has
been in close confidence with him, and VINO
feels towards him great tenderness. and who
would prefer to give to Mr. Baxter in the
canvass, by keeping back the letters, - the
benefit of doubt, # a doubt can be raised.
1t is notorious. thst the opponents Of Mr..
Baxter have for weeks been diligently at
work cndeayoring to get those letters into
print, and that Mr. Baxter has been as dill
gently and more efeetually at work to throw
obstacles in the way Of their production il
he could not suppress them. Ii Is known
that shortly before the Hydepark Conven-
ton an agent Of Mr.. Baxter visited Colonel
Sawyer, spending the night in conference
with him; that last Sunday Mr.. Baxter
stealthily left Burlington and turned up at
Hydepark, spending the night IN deep con-
ference with Col. Sawyer; that Mr.. Baxter's
handbill denial was put forth without knowl
edge that Col. Sawyer had already written
for publication bis statement that he had
in his possession eight letters from Mr.. Bax-
ter, dating from June 1861 to February
1864, which referred to the StOrrs transac-
tion, and exhibited the exact truth of Mr..
BaIter's relation 10 1t. Col. Sawyer has
! publicly offered to exhibit and publish tbese