Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-05-05

Conventionists by the friends of liberal
opinions by the advocates of the I'M
limited right of the people to change
and modify government at pleasure.o
We were Traitors say they for entertain
ing certain opinions, and towards for
not expressing and acting up to them -
We are, as they will have it. RESPONSE
BILE for all the abominable heresies in
cuIcating opposition and disunion that
were afioat previous to the Convention.
And for collecting, combating, and ex-
Ploding them in that assembly, and re-
placing them by digest of sound, con-
stllutlonal, federal doctrine, we are not
only responsible but despicabIe. SO
goes the world.
But truce with suppositions-The
tact is thepeople Of .Mev England nev-
er 7'avered a moment as to their fidelity to
the On'on.-ln no official document or
State paper of any of its constituted au-
thorltles that has met my eye, was the
separation of the States alluded TO but
as visitation to be deprecated. "A
warning voice was sometimes heard
from these authorities announcing fears
that PROSTATE commerce, needless
war, and entaagling alliances might put
the Union in jeopardy.---It was voice
often expressive of deep emotion some
simessotanSer, frequently of Arrangement,
never otdespair, in which, however, the
yearnlug of fraternal hearts, and the
Predomnating attachment TO the Union
were always observable. 1t spoke in
the language which FRANKLIN held
TO BURKE, at The time to which the latter
refers when he ayers his conviction of
the sincere desire cherished bv the
former for.th reconciliation of Ameri-
ca with the parent country "a Ian
guage OF expostulation and regret, but
TO The full as kind, as tender, and afTec-
Tomato as that which proceeded from
other warning and threatening voices,
IN all the States South of Delaware
pending the Missouri Question. Com
mon 1t has certainly been-much too
common in oil quarters Of our nation, in
different periods excitement, to hint It
"sh97'ng of ''the ''coir' of the Union.
But this is the language of the pas
sions,-'' y or,it practerea mA,l." Ali al
iuslons TO it should be dropped on all
SIDES by common consent, as serving on
| ~ TO perpetuate the recollections of
family broils, in which all have some
thing TO answer for.
Such being the state of the public
mind IN New England, it must have
been known TO the Convention.-Their
advice, therefore, to dissolve the Union
would have been a torch applied to a
mountain of ice, the flame of which
would have been driven back upon their
own faces. The Convention needed no
supernatural information to be aware of
'his. How monstrous then the idea
thatthe members Of that body or any
OF them, could harbor thought, not on
~ without authorization but in the very
teeth OF their principles, the Legisla-
lures, to recommend measures conflict
ing with the national government, and
to encounter the surprise, disgust, re-
s'stance, and odium which could not
tail to be consequent upon the breach
ing OF so unprecedented an infringe
ment OF duty and outrage on decoru m /!
1t implies that the Convention was made
up OF fools or maniacs. Let anv man
figure to his mind, the scene TO be anti
clpated in the Legislatures of the differ.
ent States on the presentation of a re-
port recommending a temporary or per-
petual suspension of our relation to the
Union, land an authorized opposition to
constitutional laws under any magma
BILE form would have been equivalent TO
this) by committee distinct inhibited
from treading on that sacred and danger
Gus ground.-And let him, if he can.
settle down in the belief that anv per-
son Of sound and sober intellect would
have felt any conceivable inducement
to provoke, and meet the consequences
OF such an insult. Where then Can the
Incurably jealous look for evidence of
the imputed Vaccinations of the Con-
vention, which could never have been
encouraged by a prospect of success
All they are known TO haze done wears a
very different complexion.--In their
published report is embodied the result
ofall their proceedings. '*Their pri-
yate journal (snce published also) is a
faithful diary Of all that was moved in
that assembly.-The fact has been so
certified by the lamented President.
What moroccan be offered, or is ever
required, than the natural, intrinsic, IT.
retragable evidence arising from the
original, genuine records and papers of
an organized assembly. What evidence
can be so conclusive unless it be suppo
sed that these men, with GEORGE
| CABOT at their head, agreed to drop q
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