Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-04-16

HE DAWN NALCoUR COMMUNITY w
did not suppose that VIC should have coca
ton to refer again to this defunct and dis
gushing enterprise. But we have received
from Mrs. Orren Shipman an extended COM
municatIon on the subject, designed i0r
publication, and at least the substance oil
which we are urged to publish. as an act OIL
justice to Mr.. and Mrs. Shipman. The ar
ticie is too long and in other ways unsuited
for our columns; and brief abstract seems
to US all justice or courtesy to these parties
require at oar hands. Mrs. Shipman de-
clarcs that her husband has been foully ira
duced by John Wilcox, who has been
the chief promoter Of the Valcour Com
munity. She thinks that having lived IN
the same family with Mr.. Shipman since
she was seven years old. she knows him
better than his calumniator, and she declares
that mo stain rests on his good name;
that he has lever been gentlemanly, Just,
and true to me" that mo word or act oil
his life gives eyi fence of any act OF shame;
and moreover that 1.-The fires Of his intellee-
tual force burn brightly" She says she
and her husband never signed the articles
OF became members Of the Valcour Com
munity, and she draws picture OF that
concern. altogether the reverse OF hattel-
ing She says that Mr.. Shipman never in
yiiei over tao or three OF those who came
- form the community and that they
were -urpi ised when they heard that the
Chicago colony were on the route; that
John Wilcox (shom she denounces as a
swiudler, impostor, aud prince of beg
CARS falsely represented that he had re
ceiyed pledges Of contributions to the COM
munity funds 10 the amount Of sos, 900,
and that be would him self pat in s. 900,
whereas she AYERS that the sum total paid
in by Wilcox aud the res; only amounted
t. 500. The community, she says. quar-
tered them selves on her husband, and lived
on his crops and credit. She says
With my own hands. without AID from
even single Community woman, | have
cooked hundreds OF meals from provisions
We raised aud bought, to feed hun and the
uuiurtunatr. deceived persons. whom he
a.l1 az '''I ,'i ~"ina "'an n "" W tbis
Community They we're never
here 10y r,2ht. bat by suferHnce, under
fraudulent REPRESENTATIONS. ihougH we
"a aTJ I,,,d. ~, tt. F,iI We IA NOT tnrn
them away IA thr " inter Look
at all the labor Prriormsd hy all the mem
". ga ISi"o ~. ',.,r .,,o,,,rb
Ia pay for their wood alone. All has
been chaos, anarchy. and with two or three
hon"raple eAe'p''oh7' All, Stationed ~ our
or. mere yi.,ounry thcnrists-dead-heads
aud drones By Wilcox's bad management
three OF our boats were wrecked by HIM
our ua'Iy Pr"uu,'s ""Ee oetn s'oien' o con-
thirty barrel- Of apnle, to be frozen in the
out cellars.
This catalogue OF wroug- j. extended
through many pages.
The moral character of the Community is
represented by Mrs. Shipmau TO have been
quite a. bad a the worst descriptions OF it
hitherto given sac calls Il Il " SodOm, a
'l1t bed Of vice sac al!ule- to frantic
r,yr!-'. and ..or.i,,'' taking place at meet
in.,- of the .,rmb,r,. She declares that all
va. d. l,.,., ue-- and pr,mi,cuity"; and
that the Community MA. infected with
the phy,ical and moral diseases naturally
at home with dirt and physical degrada-
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