Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-08-19

the workmen employed on the evangelical meet
. ing-house" with as much of these malt liquors as
they can drink to which he adds at certain hours of
the day fagon Of wine"
The statement in the latter part of this
paragraph, we have good authority for say
ing, is incorrect. Editors should be,careful
not to make such assertions upon shear say y
and without any positive evidence of their
truth.
! The article in the Galaxy, could it exert
any influence, is calculated to injure seri-
Iously the cause of temperance and virtue
but we are of opinion that the uncharitable
and unchristian spirit in which it is written
twill be its own condemnation.
A young man, by the name of Locke, who
( it seems is an assistant editor of the Boston
Galaxy, was publickiy whipped through the
street in Boston, on Saturday, the 9th inst,
by Mr.. George A. Otis, editor of the Boston
Gazette. The occasion of this castigation
was scurrilous and abusive article in
late Galaxy, written by Locke, calling
Mr.. Otis fool, liar, reptile, vagabond, rag
ged scoundrel, &c. We heartily despise
all such quarrels, and we make it rule
never to lend hand in giving notoriety to
those who engage in them. Notoriety is
probably their aim, more than any thing
else; and when they cannot acquire it by a
manly and respectful department., they pro-
coed to blackguardis,n, and eventually to
blows. Such quarrels do not concern the
publick, and no editor of good sense will
allow his paper to be polluted by them.
When these disputes end in blows, as they
frequently do, it is too much the custom to
attach to them some publick importance by
detailing the particulars in the newspapers.
If taking such notice of them is calculated
to have good effect, by holding the partici-
pants upto ridicule, and bringing upon them
the contempt which they deserve, we do
not object to it: but we are of opinion that
it has contrary effect that it tends to give
renown to the characters, which those
whose minds are small enough to prompt
them to such conduct are weak enough to
covet and be proud of.
We should not have noticed this present
affray, but for the opportunity which it af-
forGs US of expressing these sentiments.
But the men who on these occasions appear
so valiant in print have seldom courage
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pen is put aside for more solid cudgel, and
their bones are made to feel what, in the
plenitule of the conceited courage which
inspires them to scribble, their imaginations
never conceived of. They are
/" Scambling, out-facing fashion-mong'ring boys
That lie, and cog, and fout, deprave and SANDER,
Go anticly, and show outward hideousness,
And speak off half dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they burst,
And this is all"
Such seems to have been the case, en-
phatically, in the present instance. We
have seldom seen more complete specimen
of the real braggadocio than was exhibited
in the article in the Galaxy which cost this
young mar such whipping and according
to the evidence produced at the trial flor
Mr.. Otis has been arrested, and tried at the
police court for assault and battery he play
ed the part of Falstaff to perfection, and cut
a figure worthy the pencil of Hogarth, run
ming through the streets hatless and shoeless,
imagining, no doubt, that he was closely
pursued by at least seven men in buckram."
Indeed he is said to have remarked that he
did not tsrn round when the cudgel came
upon his shoulders because he REFLECTED
that Mr.. Otis had his bullies." 1t ought to
be stated in this place that Otis is a smaller
man than Locke.
The defence in the case was made by
VIM. H. Gardner, whose address to the
court was ingenious, yet caustick and Sc
we're. He said:-
There was no great bodily hurt, though there
was great bodily fear: certainly the defendant had
been frightened out Of his Shoes if he had not been
made TO shake in them. The RIGHTEOUSNESS of the
press called more for the interposition of the law
than ARRAYS which were the consequence of that IL
centiousness; and if this correct of the press in
general at this time, ii particularly so of the
Galaxy, which never permits opportunity to pass.
of letting of its yifuperatons against all that is USE
fnl and respectable in society against every one who
does not protect himself by subscribing for it, or by
the terrour of the horsewhip'
The Justice, after hearing the evidence,
and the remarks of counsel on both sides,
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