Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-03-28

Federalists Of Worcester County. UNION
and ENERGY at the approaching election are.
essential your future prosperity, if not to pres
sent suocess.--You have extended the olive
branch to your political opponents, and they
have struck it aside with scorn. Their g voice
Is still for war; Up, then, and be DOING
Remember that, although your main asOrks
may not be in danger from the present assault,
there win be loss and great danger, should any
of your oui-pOsts be carried.
We fear that in the excitement which is ate
tempted on the subject Of Register Of Deeds,
our more important interests may suffer. That
excitement Is extremely unpropitious to your
interests. 1t is an example of dissension and
division, very pernicious in its tendency. Sure
", when SO much depends upon the continue
ance Of harmony, It ought to be the aim of all
to prevent its being disturbed; or, if disturbed,
to make efforts to restore it. II is for this
cause that we have heretofore said, and for the
same cause we now earnestly repeat it-"y
the people hare not lost their nfdenee in the,
present Register, we trust they viii say SO by
their votes, and thus prerent the excitement
and trouble which attends protrGeted con-
test.''
They very much deceive themselves who
suppose the times do not require effort or sas-
ION. Perhaps at no period of our government
has there been so much occasion, as there is at
present for mutual forbearance and united ex-
ertion, on the part of the friends.of the present
State administration. Its enemies are at work,
and at work actively. They not only calcu-
late much upon their own strength, but look
for the 6lal accomplishment Of their objects in
the want Of effort or of union among federalists:
and the experience of other communities af-
fords some warrant for their expectations. In
furtherance Of their plan, they enter with spirit
into every scheme which has tendency to
paralyze our exertions or divide our strength.
Witness the zeal with which some of them fo-
ment the dissension which has unfortunately
occurred, upon the subject of the election Of
one of cur County Officers.
But, Tederalsts, exertions Of a more direct
tendency are made to defeat you; and the
polls, next Monday, viii show that every man
of your opponents has been summoned to the
contest. The mails are numbered with the
weight Of the dispatches which, at the expense
of the general government, are distributed from
headquarters. Newspapers filled with in
aammatory publications are sent gratuitously
into every village. In short, no means are left
untried to produce popular excitement such
as has 50 long disgraced New-York, and jcop-
ardized its best interests.
II, then, Massachusetts, is to be preserved
from the misrule of faction, her friends mus
not remain inactive. If the 6 Heart of the
Commonwealth" is TO maintain its character
the federalists of this County must perssvere in
duty. They win give no encouragement to 10
cal jealouses, to trfing preferences, or to hasty
! prejudices. They have, in former years, done
well, and have reaped the reward Of well-do
| Ting. .1hey hdus preserved the County from
| faction and from division: it may be that thei
! efforts win hereafter preserve the State.