Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-01-05
From the Portland Advertiser.1
BOSTON, PATRIOT.

OF the prescribed members of the Hart
ford Convention, headed, among other
emblems and devices, with figure of
the British Lion and the five striped
flag, adorned with various mottos of
British Union, sc. The repetition of
this paltry expedent to stimulate the
jaded strength Of party spirit, Can excite
only emotions of the most unutterable
contempt. 1t is entirely derogatory to
the character of a cause protesting to
be based on principle and patriotism
and is especially disreputable to the Con-
Sistency of those who have endeavoured
to excite New England feeling in ia
YOUR of their candldate-the man for
whom this same five striped flag now
displayed to six by the addition of
Maine has lately streamed forth with
such glorious gale from the north. 1t
tells the more to their discredit, as they
have been accused, not without some
shadow of plauslbility, of attempting to
avail themselves of this sectional sensi-
billty, and to build up great New-Eng
land Adams party, This is the more
remarkable, moreover, as being the
only solitary instance in which this most
unworthy, weak, and wretched artifce
has been recently resorted to any where
throughout the Union. Even the press
es devoted to Mr.. Crawford have dis
continued this vulgar and ferocious prac-
tee; and if Mr.. Adams's leading jour-
nal Of the universal Yankee nation
thinks to gain any political advantage
over their Crawford opponents, by
keeping up this hue and cry, they will
do wiser to take from them lesson of
prudent torbearance, on this subject, if
! they have no pretence to the praise of
magnlnimity. The Hartford Conven-
ton, right or wrong, was the act of
New-England; and all that can be said
about it TO the end of time can neither
: make one hair of it black or white
But there is such thing as pressing
point Of persecution too far; and it
makes no odds whether prescription
comes from the caucus of one candlc ate
or the oracle of another. Several
members of that Convention, besides its
illustriOus President, are now in their
graves. After life's fitful fever they
4 sleep quiet. Time hath cast his obliv-
ious mantle over their share of human
mpertections--and there were those a.
mong them, who, if they have not al
ready joined, are at least maturing OFF
any men on earth were ever 6) for the
society of the just made perfect. We
are slow to believe, that the real public
sentiment Of New-Epgland will sustain
this vampire spirit which pursues
sainted name beyond the sanctuary, and
violates the last sad refuge of mortality,
and ransacks these sacred reccptacles
zChere the z0iCked cease from troubling and
the 7UeGry are at reSt-anG seeks to Dig
up the dead TO suck out some loathsome
aliment TO satiate morbid appetite, or
extract venom more malignant than
poison, to harrow up the hearts of the
living.--General Jackson carried the
joke no farther than to propose 10 deci-
mate the members of the Convention, Ito
please President Monroe) while they
were alive and able to defend them
selves against bis construction of martial
law. He did not undertake to gibbet
their remains for the enjoyment of pos
terity,-Mr. Adams himself has some
thing TO answer for in the example he
set TO his followers in his attack on the
memory of Ames, in which he but fol-
lowed the track of his fathers upon the
fame of Hamilton, The organ of imi-
tatiOn is very strongly developed in the
craniology of sycophants, and very
easily combines with natural propensl-
ty to cruelty and persecution.
| As New-Englanders, we are disposed
to overlook and forgive the errours IF
our friends and brethren-and as a
New-England man, we are desirous to
support and cherish Mr.. Adams.-Let
not his friends saw off the very branch
he is setting on. He was once feder
alist, and is now a republican. We are
willing that his cause should unite us all
as true federal republicans. Whether
he possesses more of the genuine spirit
of the father of his country than his un-
fortunate antagonist Mr.. Crawford-es-
pecially, if the latter were left to the
free and uncontrolled impulse Of his own
mind, is yet to be proved. But from
seeing the manner in which The cause of
of the latter has suffered in the hands of
his friends, something may perhaps be
gained for the instruction of Mr.. Adams
and let them especially beware how
they disturb the ashes of the departed,
or kindle up the embers of political ami
mostly