Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-03-23

This nomination, embracing individuals who
have been conspicuous in the ranks OF both
great parties of the State, is now presented to
the people for their support, in the confident
expectation that it will be most cheerfully sus-
tanned, and that the opportunity which is now
presented of uniting the affections Of the
whole people, and OF combining the strength
of all parties in promoting the objects of COM
mon interest, will be regarded as the COM
mencement of a season of uncommon harmony
and of general improvement.
1t can never be for the interest of the people
to perpetuate political contentious, after the
causes in which they originated shall have ceas-
ed to have effect. That such is the character
Of the present times, in regard to the principles
of division which existed during the admins
trations of several former Chief Magistrates of
| our country, is abundantly demonstrated in
the fact, that, in the transaction Of the public
business of the State and Nation, the individu-
al members of both Legislatures are, and can
be no longer arrayed under the banner of the
party with which they have associated. And
in looking, too, at the measures of public poll
cy which are now adopted, every one must
| perceive that the circumstances which, in past
periods, gave rise to animated debate and Sc
we're contention, no longer exists to excite an
mostly, to require defence, or to admit of ami
madversion. We are in a period of profound
peace and the external embarassments in
the prosecution of the plans of commercial en-
terprize, which were so numerous and oppres-
sive during the universal hostility of the Euro
pean powers, have ceased to exist. The pros
perity which distinguishes the progress of our
country is,grateful TO every heart; aud every
hand is prepared to lend its aid in increasing
the comforts, in promoting the honor, and in
preserving the liberties of our country. There
are no great topics of public policy, upon
which the people are now divided into par
ties. And why, because they have heretofore
existed, should they be perpetuated merely tc
interrupt repose, and TO prop up the falling
wall of separation, which has formerly divided
people who have the same common interest:
to promote, the same enjoyments to realize
and the same dangers to dread
= The national administration which is now
formed, will be judged exclusively upon it:
own merits. 1t is neither to be sustained by
f the devotion of mere party, nor to be resisted
f through like fundamentally. The politica
affairs Of this State are in situation resem
bling those of the nation; and whoever pre-
sides over the one or the other, whoever enact
/ the laws, or superintends the execution o
them, will be weighed without the scales o
+ the parties who have now all, but in the APP
pellation which they continue to bear, ceaset
to have any actual existence.
We call upon you, therefore, fellow citizens
| to unite with those who are for promoting the
r common welfare, with temper Of ferbearance
and IN the spirit of harmony-to give up the
ancient feuds which can now only distract anc
D divide the Commonwealth, while its physica
D and moral energies are slumbering amidst the
a warfare of words and names, which have nj
longer any application TO the concerns or con
: dition of the people.
Of those of your fellow-citizens who have
I been selected to represent you in the Senate
y you unquestionably possess all that knowledge
. which will enable you to estimate their claims
on your confidence and it certainly must bt
: unnecessary for us, who have endeavored t
consult alone the good of the people, to speaE
/ to them of men WHO, like the Candidates pro
posed, have long been conspicuous in the sit
: uations in which they have been respectivel..
placed. We look to their election as the es
l tablishment of period Of firm tranquility
e and the experiment which we make, in thei
selection, of union and of devotion to tn
common welfare, in preference to the triumph
of party, will be approved, we trust, by you
! decision as sound and judicious innovation
: The desire to accomplish the object now pro
posed is with us, and we have no doubt will
be with you, strengthened by the considera
: ton of the nranimity which prevails through
!. out the State and among all parties, in rela
q ton to the nomination of candidates for tn
offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Govenor