Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-23

any subsequent period. The contest imme.
diately preceding the political change ir
1901, and that, again which existed at the
commencement Of the late war, are Other
instances Of party excitement, of something
more than usual strength and intensity. Ii
Vail these conflicts, there was, no doubt much
lof violence on both and all sides. 1t would
be impossible, ifone had fancy for such
employment, to adjusted the relative guam.
tam of violence between these contendine
parties. There was enough in each, as
must always be expected in popular govern.
ments. With great deal of proper and
decorous discussion, there was mingled q
great deal, also, of defamation, virulence
elimination, and abuse.
In regard to any party, probably, at one
of the leading epochs in the history of par.
ties, enough may be found to make out ano.
ther equally inhamed exhibition, as that with
which the Hon. member has edited US. Fol
myself, Sir, shall not rake among the rub
bish Of by-gone times to see what tan
! find, or whether cannot find something, by
which can fix blot on the escutcheon Of
any state, any party, or any part of the coun.
try. General Washington's administration
was steadily and zealously maintained, as we
all know, by New England. 1t was violent.
! ly opposed elsewhere. We know in what
quarter he had the most earnest constant
and persevering support, in all his great and
leading measures. We know where his
private and personal character were held in
! the highest degree of attachment and vene-
ration; and we know too, where his meas
ures were opposed, his services sighted
and his character villified. We know, OF
we might know, If we turned tothe Journals
who expressed respect, gratitude, and re-
greet when he retired from the Chief Magis
tracy; and who refused to express either
respect, gratitude, or regret II shall moi
open those Journals. Publication more abu.
sive or scurrilons never saw the light, than
were sent forth against Washington, and al
his leading measures from presses south Of
New-EngIaad. But l shall not look them
up. l employing scavengers--no one is in
attendance on me, rendering such means Of
retaliation; and if there were with an ass's
load Of them, with bulk as huge as that
which the gentleman himself has produced
would not touch one of them. / see
enough Of the violence of our own times, to
be 40 way anxious to rescue from forgetful-
ness the extrayagances of times past. Be-
sides, what is all this to the present purpose
1t has nothing to do with the publick lands
in regard to which the attack was begun
and it has nothing to do with those senti-
ments and opinions which | have thought
tend to disunion and all of which the hon.
durable member seems TO have adopted
himself, and undertaken to defend.
| New-England has, at times, 50 argues
the gentleman, held opinions as danger
Gus as those which he now holds Be il
so. But why, therefore, does he abuse
New-England ? If he finds himself coun.
tenanced by acts Of hers, how is it that.
while he relies on these acts he covers, or
seeks to cover, their authors with reproach!
But, sir. if. in the course Of forty years,
there have been undue circumstances OF
party in New-England, has the same thing
happened no where else ? Party animosi-
~ and party outrage. not in New-England
hut elsewhere, denounced President
Washington, not only as Federalst, but
as Tory, a British agent, man who, in
his high Office, sanctioned corruption.
But does the honorable member suppose,
that if l had a tender here, who should
put such an effusion of wickedness and
folly in my hand, that l would stand up
and read it against the South +! Parties
ran into great heats, again, in 1899 and
1900. What was said, sir, or rather
what was not said, in those years, against
John Adams, one of the signers Of the
Declaration Of Independence, its admitted
ablest defender on the floor Of Congress
If the gentleman wishes TO increase his
store ofparty abuse and frothy violence
if he has determined proclivity to such
pursuits, three are treasures Of that sort
south Of the Potomac, much to his taste,
yet untouched-I shall not touch them.
The parties which divided the country
at the commencement ofthe late war, were
violent. But then, there was violence on
both sides, and violence in every State.
Minorities and majorities were equally
violent. There was no more violence
against the war in New-England than in
other States, nor any more appearance oil
violence, except that, owing to dense
population greater facility of assembling
and more presses there may have been
more ia quantity spoken and printed there,
than in some other places. In the arti-
Gle Of sermons, too, New-England is some.
what more abundant than South-C Carolina
and for that reason the chance Of finding
here and there an exceptionable one, may
be greater. hope, too, there are more
good ones. Opposition may have been
more formidable in New-Englsnd, as i,
embraced larger portion Of the whole
population but it was no more unre.
strained in its principles, or violent in
manner. The minorities dealt quite as
tharshly with their own State Government,
as the majorities dealt with the admins.
tration here. There were presses on
both sides. popular meetings on both sides,
aye, and pulpits on both sides also. The
fgentleman's purveyors have only catered
for him among the productions Of ona