Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-04

he had no choice in the matter, only % please
the people here, and that II I would got I'D n |
petition for him, and II majority of the bust
ness men would sign it, he would recon-
mend him. did so, but while proceeding |
with the petition | was informed that Judge |
Poland had already recommended, by letter
TO the Post Office Department ut Washing
ton, one II. w. Fleetwood of whom will
speak more fully farther on. | Immediately
consulted the Judge, and he assured me that
he had not recommended Fleetwood. then
got the petition signed by nearly all the
business men in the place and 1t was present
ed to Judge Poland. He appeared so Luke
warm, saying he would look il over and see
about it, that it excited suspicion that the
rumors that he hddrccommended Fleetwood
were true, but yet could not believe Poland
so treacherous rs to falsify the matter to me,
then his friend. If he had said frankly to me
that he had recommended Fleetwood, or
wished to do so, | certainly should not have
taken The trouble to circulate petition for
Carpenter. 1t is the repeated lalsliying with
which have found fault, for il is fact on
record that Poland had written the Post Office
Department recommending Fleetwood be-
fore applied to him at all in Carpenters be-
half.
The reasons why preferred Mr.. Carpen-
ter to Mr.. Fleetwood were: Fleetwood was
opposed to the war for the suppression of the
rebellion; he was great defamer of Abra-
ham Lincoln, SO much so that before he left
the shops of Il. d T. Fairbanks 81 Co. he
used such disloyal words us to extort from one
of the sturdy, loyal foremen of that shop the
remark that he was "glad to get him out of
the shops to get rid of his copperhcad talk"
This was when he first went into the post
Office us clerk, and the first business of
any amount he ever did outside his trade
was that OF lever filler. During the time
of his clerkship | held the position of SUI
perintcndent of recruiting in Caledonia
County | often sent men who had been
enlisted to the rendezvous ut Brattleb ORC.
was not unfrequently asked by this same
Fleetwood, when mt the office after mail,
how many "cdHle" l was sending to Brattle-
boro that day. Fleetwood affirmed himself
II Johnson man when he received this mp
pointment, but it was adroitly announced,
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republican. Fleetwood was drafted and at
tempted to get out of the draft by reason Of
having infirm parents depending on him fol
support, not succeeding in which he paid hi.
$500 combinations and swore still NOR,
vengeance on the government and that lit
would have it back / called Polands atten
ton to these facts, to his pledge to the sol
diers at White River Junction, and to the
still further fact that Fleetwood had accused
him of improper conduct but yet, in spite o
this, Poland still insisted upon his appoint
ment. What could have induced him still t
persist in recommending his (Fleetwood's
! appointment, notwithstanding his own pledg
es, Notwithstanding large and respectable
petition against Fleetwood and none for him
Il notwithstanding the urgent solicitations O
i many then his best friends, is past my com
g prehension. leave others to draw thci
own conclusions.
Then | oppose Poland, not by reason Q
the st. Johnsbury post Office appointment
> Personally, 1 care nothing about it, If Mr.
; Fleetwood, or any other post master, serve
. me rs the law of the country provides, fC i
T. all ask, and all that can be done to favo
II me or anyone else. But it is the uncalled 70
Z. treachery with which find fault, and yet
y is not wholly this. | have other reason
3 which will more fully state if have occa
y sion to reply to further personal attacks.
is not with pleasure, but rather with pain
,, that ] allude to these facts. l hoped the
i might be forgotten. dislike to ruflle thos
to whom hold no personal luminosity, as
= certainly do not to either of these three gen
tlemen, but being compelled to take up tn
Il cudgel of self-defense, can do no less thai
state the facts, and certainly have done II
: more. regret the necessity of this, and
r should still more regret the necessity for IN
1t other e.. b. BULLARD.