News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-17

of his most important business fol
several years-in fact had been sent
to New York, Boston, Burlington
Montreal, and elsewhere in the pur-
chase of goods, and in the sale OF
barter ever after he was fifteen years
of age. He was also his father
chief book-keeper Mr.. Page manu-
featured his tinware in Hyde Park fOI
his Canadian trade until the heavy
duty on tin made it impossible to dc
it in the States, when he sent man
into Canada, to manufacture his
goods there for the Canadian trade
After the business was started in
Canada, Carroll was sent up there
from time to time to receive the bar
ter collected by the peddlers, make
settlements with them, and to attend
to such other matters as the business
required. Mr.. Ballard states that
from the month of the first draft to
the close of the war Carroll S. Page
was in Canada less than eleven weeks.
We found the same facts by the rec
ords from the books. Young Pages
name was enrolled in Hyde Park and
he was at all times subject to a draft.
1t happened that Hyde Park kept her
quota well up at all times, and that
only one draft was had This, as
the Adjutant and Inspector Generals
records show, was the draft where it
was optional with the drafted man
to enter the service or pay $500 COM
mutation money Mr.. Page. ST.,
/ Of haf fol no
of considerable wealth, and it is not
to be presumed that he would have
exiled his son by running him to
Canada to escape the repayment $500
Communication. Judge Page was a
man of standing in his town; he was
first selectman in 1862 and 1868. In
1864 and 1865, though a very active
Republican, he represented Hyde
Park, then a strong Democratic
town, in the Legislature. Mr.. Page,
now II years of age, is and has been
for many years, Judge of Probate in
LamOille county. He was not such
man as to permit his son to be dis
graced drumming to Canada. Anoth-
er fact shows that there was no scan
dial on Carroll S. Page, and that he
was not held in disteem by the peo-
pie and soldier citizens of his town.
Very soon after the war he was chosen
Representative to the Legislature,
and the honor was repeated with the
largest majority ever given a candi-
date in that town; as soon thereafter
as he reached that age when he was
eligible to the office of Senator, he
was sent to the State Senate by the
voters of his county. The people of
Lamoille knew nothing of ''skedad-
die" scandal during the war, or for
years afterward. 1t belongs to that
species of political fungus that grows
up rapidly during, political cam
paigns.
The letter from Col. E. B. Sawyer,
published elsewhere, will show the
reason why young Page did not leave
his father and his home to enter the
service with q. A Woodbury., Col.
Sawyer, Col. Benton and others The
letter shows how unfair and unkind
is this cowardly attack on Mr.. Pages
patriotism.
We have always been ready to &C
cord to Col. Woodbury. the honor
that belongs to chivalrous and pa
triotic man, and dislike to feel that
he is any way responsible for the at
tack on Mr.. Page. If he has unwit-
tingly participated in the promulga-
ton of these false stories, we think he
will be willing to aid in undoing the
that has been done. We hope
that Col. Woodbury. will make the
honorable, which true man
delights to do when he has wronged
a friend. We think he will do it.