The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-09-26

pears to be. Our readers are so well acquain-
ted with the nature of the controversy we
have had with the Times editor, that We need
not repeat the grounds of the dispute. Mr..
Wells finding himself entirely unable to carry
on the controversy upon open, manly ground,
has resorted to the pitiabIe, childish mode of
warfare, commonly called " blackguardiDg, {"
and having vented his spleen upon the " cIum-
siness, - sc weakness" and iEnbeciEty'' of our
Publication; has now come out with the bold
unmanly assertion that the person whose name
stands at the head of the paper, as its g editor
and proprietor" is not in reality thus, but
merely the tool or organ of a set of politi-
clans who thus wish to build themselves up
at the expense of the republican party. In
his paper Of the 18th he says:
50 1t is not at all surprising that the gentle
men who conduct the no party paper at Litch-
field, should be displeased with US !; an open
manly course is not cnnsonant with their feel
ings, and for stating our dislike to their hyp-
Ocritical, no party conduct, the Post is seri-
ously vexed. Without condescending to the
personal abuse in which the Pest so freely
INDUCES, we can assure certain gentlemen,
through their organ, Mfr. Smith, that we shall
be undertaking in our course however they
may dislike it.
Wei know the god7faihers of the Post and
we know their reasons for foisting it on the
public as no party paper; but there are ma
ny good and staunch republicans of that Coun-
ty, who are not to be so easily duped.--To
those who are concerned in the Pest, and
who screen themselves from public view, we
can only say that when the cloven foot too
plainly appears, we shah not hesitate to point
it out, and him to whom it belongs"
In the Times of the 18TH the same unprin-
cipled charges are repeated, interlarded with
such mild epithets as the following hypo-
critical professions" assumed cloak, -" mask
of the man of Litchfield," with all the abusive
epithets the vocabulary of our language would
enable him to use; and then says, 8: The con-
ductor of public journal should never de-
scend to personal abuse, OF strive to extricate
himself from difficulty, by casting filth upon
Others" SO palpable is the inconsistency of
our young friend at Hartford, that we shall
not waste words by showing the applicability
of the quotation to himself. We have only
to repel the charge of the Times editor that
this press is not an indendent establishment;
and caution Mr.. Wells against repeating an
assertion SO unprinciplcd and false. Had he
confined himself to thesmore modest express
sion, that he had heard such was the fact, we
would not thus have complained of him, but
to make use of the bold unqualified assertion
1--WE know" obliges us to confront the false
hood, or be content to suffer the calumny to
gain credit with community. We know not
how independent the other papers in this state
are but we are bold to declare that no one
of them is more free from the shackles of par
ty intrigue and political chicanery than is the
Litchfcld County Post. The writerof eve
ry article which has appeared as editorial,
with the exception Of those in No. ID, pub
lished during the editors absence, is no other
than the person whose name stands at the
head of the paper. Without solitary ex-
certion, every article which has appeared as
editorial has been written by him. Can the
Times proprietors say as much Where have
they mentioned the name of their editor?
Their covert conduct in this particular had
well nigh involved US in difficulty in our Hrst
article relating to them. We had not used
the name of Wells as the editor Of the Times,
and it was not until our piece was in type that
we learnt that such a man belonged 10 the
Connecticut corps editorial. But who is this
Mr.. Wells this champion Of republieanism?
The republicans of Litchfield county had be-
fore never heard Of sush politician. What
arc his pretentions We understand, from
good authority, that he is a young law stu
dent, recently from Capt. Partridge's school,
and but just out Of his "teens." This is the
mighty genius who fights with such zeal un-
der Col. Timothy Pickering's standard, extols
the federal John Randolph as a pattern of
republican excellence, and while lost ID the
mazes of as mongrel party as the worldev-
er knew, is constantly harpipg about the No.
party pretcntions of Our paper, and threaten
ing to strip off the mask which covers our
political sins. that he may have fair view
OF u.s."
We have never feared the puerile editor of
the Times lint xxo nvsa haor4slu fled IF ,.rh