Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-10-21
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ThE fLATTsBuReH GArHERIN6.
/ II would seem from bis own confession.
that our friend Eaton Of the Sentinel.
went to "Platteburg' with steamboat
load Of Cloths. ysndals and great moral
cusses Of the Republican party of Yer.
mont. What he saw there, together with
the rough passage. home. over the little
pond Of water. upon whose classic neither
shore "Platteburg" stands, must have
riled our usually amismable young
friends stomach. and impaired his diges
ton, judging from the numerous articles
a la Brick romercy,-which we find in
the Sentinel of the 10th Among other
poor devils, about whom We have little
concern, Lieut.. Gov. Thomas gets most
numerically wallopea The old story Of
his hanging niger. las if this we're not
the exclusive prcrogativc Of the dems) in
Il .
New Orleans. by the neck, mot until he
was dead, dead, dead. as the dems. always
debut until he would disclose the
whereabouts Of his masters hidden treas
ure, is reviewed with variations.
Now the FIRST time we ever heard this
story, was in the winter Of 1868, when.
at this place. Gen. Thomas and ourself
we're jointly lecturing while on recruiting
service, he openly denounced the story as
an infamous lie, in every modification
and qualification of it, and called upon
the scoundrel who had put the story in
circulation to stand up and confront him
before the audience, or forever wear the
brand of villain and a liar. As We
had never heard the story until the Gen
told it, we were perfectly amazed, and
Of course, no Guch person was
as no one responded to the Gen.
As we afterwards knew, how,
ever, the author sUas in the audience, and
rode in the stage the next morning with
the Gen. and ourself, to Waterbury. and
Joined most heartily with him and our
self, 10 ienouncipg the author Of such a
story as q great ri1lain. etc What was
our surprise, few days after. upon re
turning home, to be informed by one Of
the leading democrats of Hyde Park. as
We were, that our fellow passenger, afore
said. was the author of the story, The
author aforesaid is au old soldier Of the
Sth--is o full blsodcd dcmocrat--aDd
what weight ought to attach to his testi-
mouy may be inferred from the fact, that
soon after he set this story on foot, he
was taken sick in this village, and cared
for with mothers care by very res
pecta bic lady. who had son still in the
service, and upon leaving the house he
stole two Fifty dollar bonds belonging to
that son. These he aftcrward, when de-
tectsd, Paid for. He then left for Wash
ingtou, D. G, where he ran a career Of
vice and crime, bringing up at last in the
city prison on charge of theft-burgary.
Here his friends found him, guilty, DIES
titute aud EN-. eia 'ed, but succeeded
through the charitable Intervention of the
person from whom he stole tho goods, in
getting him out of Jail and he still lives.
friend Eaton, to vote the democratic tick
ct. and to propagate this, as we believe
Infamous lie against Gov. Thomas If
friend Eaton wishes,we will confront with
him the rarity in question, and compel
him to acknowledge every word VIC write,
but in charity we withhold his name from
The public