The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-09
aTHINGs BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES"

wealth, they become more polished and re-
fined. What would have been sixty years
since, for example, termed in the unsophis- |
ticated language of the day, downright
ie," in the present age of advanced civility,
is no less elegantly than inoffensively styled
npisapprehensiOn." How many exam
pies might be cited in support of this re-
mark and upon high authority too! Let US
look at a few:
Acknowledgement Andrew, we mean-in
his famous fre-side colloquy with Carter
Beverly, said that Clay's friends told has
! friends that if he would agree not to contin-
ne Adams as Secretary of State, they would
make him President in one hour: aud that
he could prove what he stated, by MIR.
! Buchanan. Mr.. Buchanan says he never
heard or thought of such thing, until he
saw Jackson's publication. The General,
therefore, must have labored under $ mas
! apprehension J"
The General asserts that he never men
toned this subject except at his O,or fire SIDE.
A host of witnesses, on the contrary, have
said that he talked of it on various occa-
sions, on his way home from Washington,
in I625-that he spoke of it on highways,
and by-ways, in taverns and steam boats.
But this was a slip of the memory "a mis-
apprehension Of tho mourning of HE
own language!
Il In regard to the Tennessee Militia-men
executed by his order, the General asserts
that President Madison was just as answer
!, able for their murder as himself Now, as
f Mr. Madison never heard of the sentences
of the Court, until after the men had been
shot. is it very clear that the General Is here
guilty of another misapprehension."
: On the same subject, and in the same let
, ter to his friend at Baltimore, he says that
: all that he had to do with the business was
3 to order the Court Martial, and that he left
the District to the command of General
+ Winchester, while he himself marched of
: at distance Of more than 300 miles-thus
$ leaving it to be understood that the blood
/. of these men lay at Winchester's door; anC
e as, indeed, his partisans actually asserted
v The nephew, to whom this letter was writ
: ten, with all his zeal for Jackson, will hard
) " so far disgrace the memory of his uncle
# as to believe that this was any thing less
V than " misapprehension"
: Again: the General says that only fee o
Q these unhappy men were executed tina
y the rest were pardoned, fought by his sid,
n at New Orleans, and redeemed their char
J. acter. Now, it so happens that the battl,
q twas fought on the 9Th January, 1915, ant
g his order confirming their sentence, was dat
q ed on the 22d of the same month"; the con
l. demned being at the time in irons, in Mo
!. bile. But this is only another "nliSappre
n tension"
20 In his letter to Swartwout, the Genera
says that when the war was over he retire.
70 to his farm. He reiterates the same thin,
d in one of his answers to the New Yor
d committee. But history tells US that he di
% net j." retire" until 1921, and that he then re
re ceived gratuity of three months pay, a
n. " dsbanded officer" while, at the same nc
HI ment, he was receiving a salary as Govern
" or of Florida. This, too, was a miSapprt
ut tension !"
it our fathers did, and call things by tbei
re right unconstitutional Journal.
is "oFF HATS" On the Goth uJt NJ,
,o McDuffie introduced into the House of on
L resentatives in Congress, a resolution +,
ot prevent members from wearinp their hat
10 in the House. After considerable debate
l. both pro and con, the resolution was lail
Of on the table.
il This reminds us of matters nearer home
l. II we may compare small things with great
e Justices Court at tavern. with the Rem
t. resentatlves' Hall at Washington. In these
IS same Yankee courts of ours. decorum i
o the, order OF the day, with vengeance
n For instance, there is so much talking ant
= laughing, and other annoyance, from the
/ spectators that neither his honor the JUS
y tlce, nor the councillors, nor the witnesse,
!, can hear themselves speak All this is very
n passable. But wo to the unluckv wipht
who behaves himself civilly with MS hat on
lie Immediately hears the authoritative and
stentoran voice of the constable take of
: your hat sir" And off goes his hat. Nc
matter If he has the misfortune to be hair
: less and wlgless; bare scalps are no ex-
cuse. lie must hold his hat in his hand
and standing in crowd, who push and ell
/, bow and surge to and fro with waye-ike
/, motion, unless his arm is long enouob to
! elevate his hat fairly above the surrounding
: pressure, the luckless beaver is crushed and
crumpled out of all shape and dimensions.
30 much for decency and decorum. in
matters OF indifference, and neglecting good
order and propriety in things of real inn
E portance.-Berkshtre .4metcan.
we have the very best authority for the
following original anecdote, relating to a
noted event in the early history of our coun-
try when the patriotic citizens of Boston
destroyed the tea on the memorable ODD of
November, 1873, an old man named With
lnGton-, privately saved parcel of IL, driod
ana sold It-but so determined were the
Wings that none of the obnoxious decoction
should get down the threats of their conn
trymen, that party of them having rot
wind OF the deposit, disguised as Mohawk
Indians, repaired to the house of an elderly
matron ofthe same name in Dorchester. and
demanded of her the tea in question-the
terrified culprit readily produced a can
| MISTER that she had secreted and nIln..aI !.