Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-03-01
THE BOSTON STATESMAN.

| ,ie last W ashng'on papers announte th'
arrival of that distinguished orator and admin
i,tration man-WM. EMMoYs. Esq. of Bos
ton and state. that he has Obtained the us'
Of the Hal! Of Representatives for tic pu'pos'
OF delivering sundry illusions, prose and poati
! cal. in the established style Of CambridI,
/ Rhetoric.
The city Of Washington has now the homo
of containing, in the persons OF EMMoNs
WEBsTER and EyERETr, the three illus'rou'
leaders of the Great .NtW- Eng IaHd .ddam'
Party.
We trust that each member Of this labor,ous
and pa,ns-iaking t,iumrirdfe, will receive the
patronage which has so long been the great
purpose Of their rhetorical exhibitonfo ob,a
They are all deserving performers in their way
The foregoing paragraphs, are too low, and
too vulgar 10 attract one moments attention,
and we should suffer them TO escape us, did
hitherto been entitled to some respect; first, be-
cause the gentlemen Editors, who conduct the
paper, on The face Of which they arc recorded,
have uniformly made, and sustained some pre-
tensions 10 tho character of woll bred gentle
men; and secondly, because their paper. has
been esteemed, and admitted to be the organ
Of the Jackson party in New England.
With the Editors of tho Boston Statesman,
We have long had the pleasure Of a personal
we have ever entertained and cherished, would
induce US to overlook the above quoted scan
dalous paragraphs, did not our sense Of duty
to the good cause in which we are engaged,
consi,ain US to place upon them the stamp Of
our unequyocal disapprobaton, to say nothing
or our utter contempt.
That cause must indsed he deplorable and
hopeless, which induces its advocates and
pariiz4ns, to descend to loose, and coarse
scurrlily to sustain 1t; nnd tho Editors Of the
Boston Statesman, must have been hard run
for opprobrious ephsts, and low abuse, when
they consented to associate the name Of the
miserable mountsbank, Orator EmmoDs, with
those of Messrs. EVERETT and WEBSTER.
The association, whilst it reflects nothing but
disgrace on those who made it, has no other
tendency than that Of injuring their own al
ready deplorablo cause, and disgraces the in
dvduas who could consent TO descend to such
contemplate ribaldry and vulgarity.-If the
Editors Of the Statesman supposed that their
association would pass for wit, they will find
themselves in error, for whilst it displays an
utter desttution Of that precious article, it dis
covers the bitterness Of diseased, a debased,
and grovelling mind. Place either Of the
Editors Of the statssman III foreign country,
and let :hem hear their two distinguished
townsmen, Messrs. Everett ard Webster as
sailed b. tie scarrity of some envous and in
suhns Easl-..:.,-.a, nd :.o~ soon N.os,l they
not resent the indignity offered them and their
common country, and chastse the base wretch
who should dare to oGcT the insult! We know
them too we'll, to believe that they would see
their countrymen insulied abroad, and yet, be-
cause they are at home, and are engaged in
desperate political contest, they resort to the
same shameful course Of attack, which they
would revolt from, if pursued by others, and
view with Indignation and scorn. Ask either
Of them,who in their opinion, are the two most
distinguished d vidGals Massachusetts, at
this moment, and their love of country overcom-
ing their political hostility, they will poin, to
Daniel Webster and.Edwsrd Everett. And
yet to subserve their immediate cause, and to
provoke an a ccession of interest, they pounce
upon gentlemen, whose talents they admire,
and whose learning they admit, and basely in
salt them, by comparing them with misera-
hs i 0. and mountebank, who amuses the
abb, OF the poprlace, by spouiing doggrel
T.. IL s:r,ete, sLG J., ,bo byo-ways
The KInJrs OF ihs Statesman, may content
themselves with such conduct if they can, and
if they are satisfied with ., lnd can acquit
thor consciences, and sustain those honourl-
bic feelings which they have more than once
manifested, we shall not mplain-though we
shall lament, that gentleman for whom we
have entertained great respect, have been in
duced TO descend TO the level Of the black
guard and scurrlllous poctaster of tho day.
The Boston Daily American Statesman, from
the hour Of is establishment, has been distin-
gushea for its heated zeal and personalities
bu, until this day. it has not become a confirm
ed associate Of the retailer Of scandal, and
the rituperators Of the town. Unfortunately
for its proprietors, it has always been on the
wrong side Of tho question, and has barely
made out TO sustain wretched existence. Its
senior Editor, Mr.. Greene, for number oi
years presided at the table Of it's columns, but
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