The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-08-14
Correspondence.
III -HecItasiic ia Troub3e.

III UeclGnic la TrOuble.
EDITORS TRANSCRIPT:
The first impressions made by Madame
Rumor, are not always reliable, as my
newspaper acquaintance with YOU has
abundantly proved have written you
twice in relation to the paper-miI at ST.
Adams you saw fit to publish both let
tiers but up TO this time, you have made
no reply in any manner satisfactory To
myself. had every inducement to be-
heve that I should betreated honorably,
and yet after some considerable time had
elapsed you only saw fit to mention my
visit TO st. Aibansin an editorial notice,
concerning apaper-mill enterprise some
where in Ohio. What do YOU suppose
/ care for the paper mills Of Ohio, or
what relation nay visit had to them. I
cannot discover The allusion was far
fetched, and if any purpose was to be
found in it, it must have been to satisfy
your readers that there was possibility.
Ohio project would be adopted by the
citizens Of St. Adams After my ex-
Derience as related to you in my pre-
vious letters, wherein 1 attempted to
satisfy you Of the myth Of a mill, and
the total impossibility Of ever operating
one in your town, the issue of veracitg is
by Won made direct.
You may thing il both proper and pro-
fitabie iOryourselves 10 attempt -Owhite-
wash the structure into existence. aua
presume through the TRANSCRIPT to
perpetuale this deception upon others
which has been attempted upon myself,
but l am assured in the end it wil. re-
fleet no credit upon youi paper nor the
people where il Is published. ThecReIt
is 700 apparen 10 be pracriced success
fully upon amy ONE, even though your
STAGE Parliament has diguified it with
charter
But why should care for paper-mills
and the like at the presen. time. since
have become so Well provided for. Oth-
eT matters trouale me now far more thau
these things. VIII the FedGas make
move? This is what l desire TO know,
and yet donotthink should 0e Sati-fi-
ed with your reply if one could beobtain-
ed. Tam satisfied that the TRANscBlpT
IS not reliable "a this business. amy more
than the other papers printed on the
States frontier 1t seems to me that
you have am object in shouting Flnioas
when there are none, and when they
prepare TO congregate YOU are silent III
examples are required you can find them
n the raid made on Canada from III.
Adams in 1866.
1t was not until after the thousands
OF the Fenians had already concentrate
cd their forces at IT. Alban-, that YOU
concluded to mention the possibility Of
their purposes. ana Inflammation al such
a time was valuable TO your American
readers it was not valuable 70 us iu Cam
ada. But the excitement in a suitable
length oftime died away and whcuitwas
almost forgotten, your shout again was
heard the Fenians Well. you had
better keep it up, for lit Is an i'll wind
that blows nobody good, - and SO far as /
am concerned, it is my interest To have
you sound the alarm occasionally
FenianS. ] am satisfied that the Mayor
of II. Armand is of the same opinion,
for in this business we make our money
Ifthe people of Canada should believe
that uoattack would be made upon them
by the Head-Centres and theii follow
ers, I should lose my situation with the
mastering out Of my regiment, and my
friend at st. Armand would loose the
opportunity 10 ration the soldiers at his
station
Ii Is thought 10y the best judges ofthe
situation, that your Presidential election
will assist US, while contemplated move
ments in connection with it, viii add in
tensity 80 the heat of the campaign. Ii
is seldom that our interests are identi-
cal, and when they are discovered to be
50, the milk Of human kindness should
freely nourish them. Adroit politicians
viii not miss an advantage. mo matter
how 10 he obtained. and if the Fenians
can be used by them to accomplish their
objects as many suppose they viii be-,
they viii be moved agains the Domin-
ion.
The people of the United states are I
law abiding people, As the records of the
nations of the earth viii prove, and ifat
such a time Gen. Grant or others in au- /
thority proceed to execute the laws to
prevent armed bodies of men from en-
tering Canada, they must expect to en-
list their vote with the opposition party. /
Can there be anything clearer than this? /
The Fenian excitement must be kept I
alive somehow and the newspapers Of (
your country can afford the greatest as /
sistance.
The TRANSCRIPT must aid US in this. |
for if the excitement dies away l shall |
officially die awaywith itand unscrupul-
Gus politicians viii not in such an event I
attain to positions of eminence.
To carry ont this programme it will /
be necessary for the members of the Fe- +
nian organization to forget that they are /
citizens of the United States and are un-
der obligations TO observe the laws of
your own country. This the press can
assist them in doing, and it is one OF the
grandest designs which a newspaper can
aid in its teachings. L hope you see the
point. by encouraging outlawry and fill
clustering, you can materially aid my /
self.
BARTHOLOMEW ST. CLAIR,
Quartermaster Of st. Johns.
st. Johns, Aug. 4, 1858.