The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-10-24

those VINO were SOBER, INDUSTRIOUS, and
discreet, ir the office, he is to be thrust
out of Office, as an unworthy servant,
wholly undeserving the confidence of
the publick, and not entitled to their
countenance and support | ask you,
Electors, whether this would be con-
sistent course of proceeding! You will
answer it on the day of election as your
own unbiased minds shall dictate.
| A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY.
.Messsrs. Manning & TiWmbuH-
lperceive by your paper, of the 18th inst.
that the campaign of electioneering for Reg
ister of Deeds has recommended. ! had hop
| ed that, as the candidates were before the pub
| lick. and their respective claims and quail
! ihcations have been fully discussed at a
former trial, the Electors of thus County
would have been left to make their own
| choice without further importantly
as the friends of one candidate have again
appeared in publick to advocate his claims, si-
lence on the part of those of the other might be
construed into desertion.
1t is proper that the people of this County
Meeting of the 10th inst. at Col. Sikes's was
got up, the course of proceedings there, and
the probable objects of those who called it.
1t will be recollected that the Meeting was
called by the exclusive friends of DIR. FIsKE,
and that the invitation was as exclusive If
these gentlemen intended, or were willing,
that majority OF this people who were then
attending Court tpm the different parts of the
n l.
dldate, why not cal a Meeting in the usual
manner 6 to consul upon measures to prevent
the further trouble and delay in effecting
choice! :" No: this would not answer their
purpose; they dare iot risk it. The particu-
lar friends OF the Doctor had got string of
Resolutions and an Address prepared, to which
they wished to get lew great names tackled
to give it currency. II any person doubts on
this subject, let him rccellect how these Meet
ings are usually managed, read the proceed
inss OF this Meeting, look at the manner in
w1lch the Committee was appointed, and con-
slider the time they had to draw up these Res
olutions and this Address, and then decide
whether my position is not correct. There is
great deception. in the account given of this
Meeting. To be sure, they were from differ
ent, but not from all parts of the County.''
twenty-five, not more, drummed up and haul
ed in for this special occasion. 1t is to De re-
GREETED that some of the gentlemen whose
names appear in the account of these proceed
ngs should not have seen the impropriety of
the course they were sanctioning.. They pro-
fessedly met for the purpose of preventing di-
vision and delay. What course, | would ask
them, could have been more sure of producing
they expect that an Address, which attempts
TO throw upon Mr.. WARD all the faults to
which the Doctor has already pleaded guilty,
would be passed over without notice, These
gentlemen, some of them at least upon refec-
ton, will feel mortified and chagrined that they
have thus been duped to do an act of which
their better judgment must disapprove.
The Resolutions oxoort the first, are such
as might have been expected frcm these pro-
Tossing friends; but the first is little variant
from the sentiments usually expressed by some
of them. Perhaps they found something in
this case to take it out of their creed of rota-
ton in office.
The Address begins with the same decep-
ton that the account of the Meeting does but
being prepared for such Meeting as the wri-
ter intended to assemble, the Committee, prob
ably believing that they could just as well
have represented more numerous Meeting.
and hndIng no sufficient reason why such a
Meeting should not have assembled, let it pass
as it was. The writer then falls, s'tOOth and
ndtt" upon those who have opposed the Doc
tors reelection, for such trifing considerations
as his being too deaf for common people to
converse with, and his having taken more fees
than the law allowed him. People who are
M oarfic arlxr j l..
trinity cannot communicate with him. The
Address does not deny the charge of taking
excessive fees; but attempts to palliate the
offence by imputing all the blame to Mr..
Ward, the opposing candidate (; in the same
manner that Doct. Fiske does, in his letter
published in the Spy of the 14th of March last.
The assertion in the Address is probably taken
from the letter, and perhaps the Committee
might believe it to be true, because Mr.. Ward
had not pubhckly denied it. | hope Mr..
Ward has so much modesty as to prevent his
ever appearing in publick to electioneer for
himself, whatever may be said against him.
| am, however, authorized to state (and defy
contradiction that Mr. Ward never did say
what is attributed to him by the Address and
Doct. Fiske's letter, nor any thing like it. |
wish the Committee would ask themselves,
whether it is . LIBERAL" generous" or dis
covers any thing like "publiek spirit" thus to
reproach man, who is innocent and unofend-
ing otherwise than by being an opposing can
didate and then decide whether Doct. Fiske,
while he wat, penning that letter, could have
possessed that - liberality' that * warm-heart-
ed generosity" and that "publick spirit"
which the writer Of the Address would at.
tribute to him? One other subject that
Of sending Deeds out of the Office to be record