The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-03-12
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"Thersites only clamour'd in the throng,
Loquacious, loud, and turbulent OF tongue
AVID by no shame, by no respect controll'd;
In scandal busy, in reproaches bold
With witty malice studious to defame;
Scorn, all his Joy and laughter, all his aim.
But chief he glory'd with licentious style
10 lash the great, and monarchs to reyile.
Spleen to mankind his envious heart possest.
And much he hated all, but most the BEsT.''
-. HOnler's Had.
For twcnty-three years, no candidate has
been held up By Federal Republicans for Gov
ernour of the Commonwealth, who has not
been loaded with the yilest abuse and most
malignant calumny. Though men of profound
talents and erudition, of mild temper and con-
cillatory r lnners, whose feelings and policy
were med.atorial, and whose whole private
and publick department was calculated to as
suage and annhilate party animosities, were
selected TO Gil the Gubernatorial chair; vet
no one of them ecapcd being branded with
epthets of infamy. The amiable STRONG.
whose moral and political virtues were pam
oply complete, and whose mldness and lust
ness ought to have disarmed the fercest foe.
was designated a tory and traitor, and the
whole vocabulary of Billingsgate was ransack-
ed to blacken his fame. Even his republican
simplicity in dress and living, were made
themes of scorn and derision. If any man in
the Commonwealth could be imperyious to the
shafts of malice, and be 81 hid from the scourge
Of the tongue,'' it was the accomplished and
the venerable Strong. But, notwithstanding
:" the mild tenor of his way" and his merito-
rious and almost faultless administration, he
was pursued through all his political life,
and even in retirement, by host of unrelent-
ing, and inexorable enemies.
MIR. GoRE, Statesman Of The first order.
qualified, in high degree, by his patriotism.
dignity Of character, rich and various scien-
thick and literary requirements, for this emil
nent station, and exalted far above narrow
views and party considerations, was called a
Tory, Aristocrat, Monarchist, an enemy to
the Commonwealth, and purchased friend
OF Great Britain. IIe had been in London
and had actually worn, at the levees. the
Court-dress Of st. James, and had return
ed to Massachusetts, still the owner of the
costume Of Courtier !! /, This was conclu-
sve evidence of being under British infiu.
cnce, and Of fixed hostility to Republican
principles fIe was, therefore, erecrafed-
Scandal emptied her whole CULVER Of insin-
uations, caumnies and lampoon. and corr.p.
s'oh was not Ieniss Ia promises and pres
ents." Why was not Mr.. Otis held up"
said they, " instead of Mr.. Gore He is the
man of the people, and his elevation to Office
could not be objected to. The publick
voice has long pointed to Otis as worthy of the
highest honours. The Aristocrats have neg
lected Mr.. Otis and preferred Mr.. Core
Now If Mr.. Otis will abandon his party, and
come over to us, (Democrats) he shall be
our Chief" These things were frequently
said or written, in 1909.
When Eovernour Brooks was first nominate
ed for Chief Magistrate, he was spoken Of
with contempt. 1t was the Obscure DR..
brooks"--a man without weight Of character