Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-07
Correspondence.
The Hech0nic IN 7lOUbIe.
EDITORS TRANSCRIPTS:

newspaper acquaintance Will you Has
abundantly proved. l have written you
twice in relation to the paper-mill at st.
Adams you saw fit to publish both let
ters but up to this time, you have made
no reply in any manner satisfactory to
myself. had every inducement to be-
lieve that / should be treated honorably,
and yet after some considerable time had
elapsed you only saw fit to mention my
visit to st. Adams in an editorial notice,
concerning paper-mill enterprise some
where in Ohio. What do you suppose
| care for the paper mills of Ohio, or
what relation my visit had to them, |
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,
if not reasonable supposition that the
Ohio project would be adopted by the
citizens of St. Adams. After my ex-
pericnce as related to you in my pre-
vious letters, wherein | attempted to
satisfy you of the myth of Il MILL and
the total impossibility of ever operating
one in your town, the issue of Veracity is
by you made direct.
You may thing it both proper and pro-
fitable foryourselves to attempt to white
wash the structure into existence, and
presume through the TRANSCRIPT to
perpetuate this deception upon others
which has been attempted upon myself,
but l am assured in the end it will re-
fleet no credit upon your paper nor the
people where it is Published. The cheat
is too apparent to be practiced success
fully upon any one, even though your
State Parliament has digniied it with
charter.
But why should care for paper-mills
and the like at the present time, since L
have become so well provided for. 9th
er matters trouble me now far more than
these things. VIII the Fenians make II
move? This is what l desire to know,
and yet / do not think should be satisfi-
ed with your reply if one could be obtain
ed. lam satisfied that the TRANSCRIPT
is not reliable in this business, any more
than the other papers printed on the
States frontier. 1t seems to me that
you have an object in shouting Fenidns
when there are none, and when they
prepare to congregate you are silent. If
examples are required you can find them
in the raid made on Canada from st.
Adams in 1866.
1t was not until after the thousands
of the Fenians had already concentrate
ed their forces at ST. Adams, that you
concluded to mention the possibility of
their purposes, and Inflammation at such
a time was valuable to your American
readers it was not valuable to us in Can
ada. But the excitement in suitable
length oftime died away and when it was
almost forgotten, your shout again was
heard, the Fenians Well, you had
better keep it up, for "it is an ill wind
that blows nobody good" and so far as l
am concerned, it is my interest to have
you sound the alarm occasionally
Fenians: L am satisfied that the Mayor
of St. Armand is of the same opinion,
for in this business we make our money.
If the people of Canada should believe
that no attack would be made upon them
by the Head-Centres and their follow
els, | should lose my situation with the
mastering out of my regiment, and my
friend at st. Armand would loose the
opportunity to ration the soldiers at his
station.
1t is thought by the best judges of the
situation, that your Presidential election
will assist us, while contemplated move
ments in connection with it, will add in
tensity to the heat of the campaign. 1t
is seldom that our interests are identi-
cal, and when they are discovered to be
so, the milk of human kindness should
freely nourish them. Adroit politicians
will not miss an advantage, no matter
how to be obtained, and if the Fenians
can be used by them to accomplish their
objects as many suppose they will be,
they will be moved against the Domin-
ion.
The people of the United States are
law abiding people, as the records of the
nations of the earth will prove, and if at
such 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