Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-11-11

ANCASTER GAZETTI
Gazette Office were PUBLICKLY READ
BY THE SELECTMEN OF THE
TOWN, IN OPEN MEETING, AT
ASHBURNHAM ~ land other towns, for
aught we know to say nothing of the
emissaries who secured the district-and
considering that on the other hand there
was no organization, no concert, and, lit
orally speaking, no e1ertiOnS made to an
JRuence a single Soter-the result exceeds
the most sanguine anticipations of Mr..
Kendalls friends. The vote which has
been given him was entirely voluntary, as
it should have been, and reflects the high
est credit on the discernment of the cleo
tors.
We meant to have published the names of the
members of this board Of selectmen, but could not
learn them. They ought to be put in print and
!
immaculate examples of dignity and impartiality.
Mr.. ADAMS AND THE FEDERALIsTs. Now
that the election is over, the aspersions which Mr.
John Quincy Adams has seen fit to cast upon the
iederalists Of 1903, and which have, as it were BY
accident, been recently brought to light, will be-
come matter of serious consideration. The docu-
ments IN the case were printed in our last paper,
and we presume have been attentivey perused by
our readers, who will, of course, be prepared for
discussion of the merits of the case We do not in
tend to overload our columns with this subject nor
to sureit our readers with dispositions upon it but
we do intend that paper SHALL if possible exhibit
the whole truth of the controversy. The question
IN dispute is very important one, and the present
is the time to settle it. The leaders of the federal
party stand accused publckly by the man filling the
hishest station In the government, of Treason of
haVing, FOR gears entertained deliberate design to
dismember this Union! Are the men thus impl-
Gated, their children their party, and their friends
! to remain silent under this accusation Is if tue
and must the pages of our history be stained with
the record OF it Not is an errour founded in
the vruence of party spirit and its author owes it
to himself and his country to confess it SUCH unless
he can substantiate the charge with his proof In
order that MIR. Adams charge may be brought dis
tinctlyto view, we quote his own language. He
says. speaking of certain confidential letters written
to him by MIR Giles, during the winter of l8OS-9.
That he [Mr. Adams] answered these letters
with trankness, and was necessarily led to enlarge
upon the views and purposes of certain leaders of
the [tederal] party, achieh had the management of
the State Legislature in their hands. That their
object acas, and HAD BEEN FOR SEVERAL,
YEARS, DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION, and the
establishment of separate confederation, he KNEW
FROM UNEQUIvocAL EVIDENCE, although not
proreable in Court Of LaD, and that in case of a
ciril tcar, the aid Of Great Britain to effect that
P-~FoOe seo'ssd be - .-s..ss &c
indispensably necessary"
This is the accusation, the unequivocal charge of
treason, against men who, fortunately, yet live to
hear it, and to refute it, sink under it. 1t is plain
English there is escape from the responsibility
oft, and it must be proved by 3" uNEqUIvocAL Ev-
IDENCE," or be stamped with the mark of falsity,
and as soon as possible forgotten. Without dwell
ing longer upon the subject at present, beg leave
to introduce the following remarks of the editor
of the Boston Journal. The reader will bear in
mind that the writer is firm and consistent repub-
lican, and an ardent Supporter of Mr.. Adams claims
to the presidency This is not the first occasion we
have had to admire the candour and rankness of the
editor of the Journal He says
That course of policy, (now acknowl-
edged on all hands to have been unwise
and ruinous to us, as it was abortive and
ineffective, in respect to our enemies, J
did PROSTATE the industry, depreciate and
destroy the capital, and paralyze the ac-
tive hands, of large portion of the North
ern and commercial population of the
United States,-is history. 1t is no new
conviction nor declaration with us that
the embargo, the restrictive and nom
intercourse acts were perfectly suicidal.
The grass grew on our busiest wharves !;
hundreds of families to this day struggling
under irremoveable and hopeless poverty,
date their ruin, their reduction, from COM
fort or affiuence to all but beggary, from
these very measures. Then it was, when
all our Northern capital and Northern
hands were employed in commerce, that
the Cabinet and the majority of Congress,
(most of those who now talk of the un-
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