The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-11-17
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. NOV. IL. 1880.

When the editor of the Egs chooses to assail
US, personally, in vulgar language, and to apply
opprobrious epithets to us, he will have the field
to himself, it is one to which neither habit nor
inclination leads us he may perhaps crafty the
depraved tastes of few spirits, kindred to his
own, but with the well bred portion of the COM
muntI those who regard the decencies of soci al
liie-he will excite nothing but disgust; when he
chooses to charge with falsehood it will require
where he is known, and we are known, something,
more than his word, to produce any effect Gnfavor-
able to us; and where neither of is known, per-
sonally, we fear not to trust reputation to the
opinions of those who have been witnesses of our
editorial course for more than seven years past
But when he undertakes to create false impressions
in relation to matters of public concern, and, in
order to produce that effect trusts to the reputa-
ton which the paper acquired when conducted by
an editor worthy of the station he held, it may
have some influence with those who are not aware
into what! hands it has now fallen, and thereby
impose necessity on US, to expose its tortuous
course.
Such is the case, in the feeble attempt which he
makes to justify the course which he took in rela-
ton to the representative eection,-a course as
unaccountable to the friends Of the Egs, as it was
gratifying to its enemies. 1t is in vain that he re-
ers, for his Justification to obsolete party distinc
distinctions which have had no existence,
ia fact, for years, and which other paper in
New England, not avowedly Jacksonian, attempts
to perpetuate. He knows, full well, that, in the
course of things, new causes of division have
arisen and that the lines of new parties drawn,
having reference to the politics of the present
times, and not to those of other days. He knows,
too, that former distinctions in name are resorted
to, by the Jackson patty, in order to enlist the
prsudices of people with them, whose political
views are entirely at variance with the policy of
the administration, and whose support of their
cause could be hoped for, only by enlisting their
prejudices in opposition to their judgment. When,
therefore, he undertakes to say that his cores
pondents tUere "members of the old republican
party" and does not tell, Also that they are now
Jackson men, and when he calls them @ Mr. Eat
onss political friends" does he mean, or does he
not mean, to make his readers believe that those
correspondents belong to the party viii oh support
ed the late national administration and oppose
the PRESENT. Will he say, that the writers of
those articles, (unless himself was one of them)
are not openly avowed Jackson menl
The Editor of the Egis processes to be quito in
dignant at the imputation of being Jacksonian at
heart" Whatever his feelings may be, he could
not have grutfed the Jackson party or disappoint-
ed their opponents effectually, by any course
whatever, than he did on the week preceding the
4 L.. a. Al
tool of Jackson men, to answer their purposes, un-
Willingly, or whether he purposly and inten-
tionOlly co,oporatod with thcm, we care not.