Mr. Phelps´ Appeal to the People of Vermont, in Vindication of Himself
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Excerpt from Mr. Phelps´ Appeal to the People of Vermont, in Vindication of Himself: Against the Charges Made Against Him Upon the Occasion of His Re-Election to the Senate of the United States, in Relation to His Course as a Senator As a public servant invested by you with a highly important and responsible public trust, I entertain a high sense of my accountability to you for the manner in which that trust is discharged; and I feel bound on all proper occasions to vindicate my public course whenever and wherever it may be questioned. It is now nearly fourteen years that I have been honored by your confidence, seven of which were spent in the responsible station of a Judge of your highest judicial tribunal, and more than six in the highest office in your gift, that of your representative in the Senate of the United States. Nor is this all. By my recent re-election to that post you have expressed your continued confidence in me, and conferred upon me for six years to come the responsibilities of that high station. Under these circumstances, my character as a public man becomes public property, and if It be assailed it is due to you as well as to myself that it be vindicated. Further apology for this appeal I deem unnecessary. The occurrences of the last fall, upon the occasion of my re-election to the Senate, must be fresh in the recollection of all who witnessed them. The attacks upon my character both public and private made too deep an impression and elicited too much feeling to be readily forgotten. Possibly it may be thought that I should be satisfied with the decisive verdict then pronounced by the representatives of the freemen of this State. A most decisive one I admit it was, when we consider that it was a question for the whigs alone, - the adverse party in voting for one of their own political faith offering no disparagement to me. To a certain extent I am satisfied; but to a certain extent it is due to those who sustained me on that occasion to vindicate them, and, at the same time, to show them that their confidence was not misplaced. The right of self-defence is admitted everywhere. It is one which I cannot surrender. There are strong and satisfactory reasons why I should avail myself of it now, not the lightest of which is that I had on that occasion no opportunity for defence. Indeed a more extraordinary proceeding than the inquisition established to investigate my conduct is not to be found in the history of this or any other country. It certainly has no precedent, and it is to be hoped will never be repeated. The institution of a committee to inquire into the character of an individual merely because he is made a candidate for office, - to search for his personal defects and failings, - to violate the sanctity and confidence of his domestic fire-side, - to gather up the gossiping tales in relation to his private and confidential intercourse which the malignity of his enemies may have set afloat, - to embody them in the imposing form of a report of a committee of the Senate of Vermont, to publish the whole to the assembled representatives of the people, and through them to the world at large, and to leave it recorded for future use whenever personal hostility or selfish motives might dictate, is a device to which party malignity has never resorted elsewhere, and which seems to have been reserved to do honor to a certain portion of the whigs of Vermont. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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