Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-10

oY. finally given to the committee. The
I.I,, I'm the publication Of the committees
statement was due to correspondence which
,o,l. place in regard to the publication of
Col Chrlir's letter. the Herald wishing to
n,r that letter to strengthen its own
r,.ition. and the committee willingly
allowing its publication if Col. Clarke con
,rutcd. Following is the full text of the
letter:
Col. CIRrlSe's Letter.
BosroN, July 1, 1891.
Hou. Z. W. StoidUd:
Ny Dear Sir: When yours of June 20
wa, received yesterday | was too busy to
reply. Since then have done my best to
rrrolrct the conversation with Messrs.
Holmes and Kempton at the Herald office,
but. Of course, | cannot recolect it all.
No one connected with the Herald has
spoken with me or written to me about it,
and was quite surprised to see the article
in the Herald of June 20.
As | remember the conversation both
YOU and they may be right Up to near
the close of it you were under the impression
that one Of three persOnS-neither of them
Mis-, Manning-fu furnished the information.
Your object was to find out the right one,
SO a, not to subject to discipline. upon such
evidence As you had. the wrong person.
That is the time when you declined to
atrrdr to their suggestion that you would
not disclose the name, because you might
think it your duty to do so.
But after they had told you that neither
of the persons you most suspected was
involved, you saw that there was less like
lihool than you had supposed that official
duty would require You to make a public
matter of it, and you then promised that if
they would give you the name, relying
upon their assurance that the information
had been impaired only in the confidence
of friendship, and without the slightest
suspicion that it would find its way into
the newspapers, YOU would not disclose the
name or discharge any teacher on account
of the publication, and if you felt com
PEELED to resort to discipline would let it
be- 50 private as not to prejudice the person
50 censured before the public
After you had made this promise, and in
consideration of it, they named Miss Man
ming and you We're obviously surprised.
After you retired they asked me if
thought you had suspected her, and re-
piled that | did not know, but was sure
that you had chiefly suspected others. One
of them remarked that they judged that
She stood well in your estimation. | told
them | thought so from the tenor of your
conversation with them and with me.
One of them then remarked TO this effect
" Then they will be less likely to be severe
than they would otherwise to which
assrnted but volunteered the further
assurance that in any case you would dc
as you had agreed, for you were both
honorable men of the highest professional
attainments and personal standing. | con
graduated them upon the honorable and
yet obliging way in which they had disposed
of matter which is always troublesome il
newspaper office, and this ended the
interview.
Now, it is easy to see how your care
throughout most of the conversation, which
lasted more than half an hour, not to com
nit yourselves to any privacy or promis,
that would or might conflict with YOU
official duty, rested and remained upper
most in your minds; hence it is not strang,
that you should remember the promis,
concerning Miss Manning as being only
not to discharge her. | am very confident
however, that you promised not to disclos,
her name, and this is not, | am sure, al
inference from their refusal to give it Il
You without such promise, but is purely {
matter of memory.
Regrettlng that my recollection does no
coincide with yours. hoping that you vii
have no further trouble in the premises
and assuring you of my willingness t.
render any further service in my power i
occasion requires, | am, very truly yours
ALBERT CLARKE.