Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-09-30

fession and by the admission of his friends.
They serve to show his hatred of Washing
ton, and the utter hollowness of the preten-
sions of those who now find it convenient
and politick to endeavour to assimilate
Washington's character to his, which has
need of 50 many props to sustain it.
The press in this country has been reduc-
ed by the present contest for the presiden-
cy to perfect state of licentiousness. Re-
fecting men cannot read the newspapers of
the present day without feelings of deep in
dignation and disgust, and the most fearful
forebodings of the Consequences which must
inevitably result from continuance of such
RIGHTEOUSNESS. We find no dispute about
principles or measures in the controversy,
but never-ceasing strain of the coarsest
vulgarity, recrimination, and abuse. The
most respectable papers in the country do
not-they cannot--enter into the spirit of
such contention. This class of papers is,
however, lamentably small; and the greatest
portion of the presses throughout the coun-
try are entirely devoted to the presidential
question. In occupying their columns with
this all-engrosing subject, editors completely
lose sight of the legitimate object of news
paper, and render their sheets the most bar
rem and Improbable sources of interest and
information. In Ncw-Hampshire, for in
stance, the papers are almost exclusively
occupied with low and umeaning personali-
ties, and bitter wranglings about the most
trifing matters, in some way or other con-
nected with the presidential question. The
readers of these papers, if they have any,
are objects of commiseration and it speaks
little in favour of the moral and intellectual
condition of Hampshire that such pa
pers are encouraged at all. We do not
think that this spirit is confined to one or
the other party, though we are free to ad-
init that the provocation may be found in the
bitter, unprincipled, and determined oppose
ton to the present administration. The re-
suit of the presidential question, whatever
it may be, is a crisis of great Importance /;
we look to it with the utmost anxiety to
know whether it is to raise or sink still low
er the standard of the newspaper press.
In confirmation of our remarks we will
quote from the mass one example from the
leading Jackson paper in New-England !:
He who could pen and print such para
graph, if he does not merit execration, is en-
titled to the pity and contempt of the COM
munity which he disgraces -
"GPThe only POTENTATES of the present
age who rail against and persecute the Freemasons
a society whose foundation principles are Philar-
thropy and Charity, are King Ferdinand of Spain,
who sheds the blood of the. Spanish Patriots, and
embroiders petticoat for the image of the Virgin
Mary, and King John, I'd of the United States, who
rides through the country the Sabbath day in the
disguise of a HORSE JOCKEY"
The following toast happens to be before
US. In copying it we do not mean to charge
the whole Jackson party with the response
bility of it. A Philadelphia paper says it
was given late publick dinner
q BY GEORGE HARDEN. JOHN Qu1vcY ADAMS
May he be taken sick on Monday Send for the
Doctor on Tuesday Get worse on Wednesday F.! |!
No better on Thursday =! !! Die on Friday /! -!
Be buried on Saturday.! =! And go to He'll on
Sunday !tt!!!tin
PoTATos. The crops of potatos in this
vicinity, and, we are informed, in other parts
of the country, will be unusually small this
season. A falling off in the quantity of this
very important article should admonish our