The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-07-27

naoie matter from the Spu by this article,
must beg you, Mr. Editor, to bear with me this
once IL snail be my last offence in this way.
ooserVe Ihen, the satisfactory explana-
non satisfactory to nobody but the Editor
Oh the feoman, the writer of it, for several rea
sons. FIRST, 1t is contradictory and inconsis-
tent WIN itself secondly, it contains false
MOODS; thirdly, 1t is hypocritical; fourthly, it
insults inc young men by supposing them to
De incapable OF conducting with proprlety at a
public table; filthy it is canting and Jesuit
cal slxthly, 1t insults the older gentlemen who
dIned with us; seventhly, it treats unhand-
somely the gentlemen who presided a: the din
ner; and eighthly, it is altogether a tissue of
cowardly misgivings misrepresentation, and
mean articles The first six reasons | will en-
large upon and prove to be true the last two
require no comment.
The article is contradictory. Paul, he says,
expresses belief that the noise (nothinr lse)
at the evening celebration was unnecessarily
great, "0r an other 11OrdS, there IcGS too 7nuch
independence. The Yeoman here makes the
phrase " too much independence" mean smp.
ly and only, too much noise In the next sem
tence he adds, this suppostion (of PauD was
very natural one, though probably in this case
not coniormabe to fact" That is, there was
not too much noise. Yet in the following breath
he says, " the noise WAS heard at an uncommon
distance round, and was the subject of some
conversation by those who heard il distance"
exc 1hus he first acknowledges there was not
loo much noise, and then exaggerates to an I'M
common degree that which happened. Is this
consistent! Another contradiction immediate
! ly follows; the phrase too much independencc
! loses its Specification eff too much noise, given
above, and now means "the ebutiitions of indie.
pende'tce remaining on the Stde1calk the neat
morning. l Will not attempt to elucidate the
meaning OF this choice phraseolopy, but am
told 1t relates to an unpleasant discovery made
by this manly editor on the morning of the
MIN. Now as every effect must have its cause,
who knows but that some of them are men who
went to tho party celebration at Ward {where
the Editor was 0rGtOr) and partook of the sir
hotties which the Editor confesses to have been
drunk there, might not have made the aforesaid
I deposition upon the side walk? At all events
why charge 1t on the young men, wko left
their table at . O'Clock in the evening" (many
carler} and were as little likely to be guilty as
any other individuals in the place.
Secondly, The articie contains falsehoods. 1t
accuses tho young men of being made the in
struments OF others, to injure the Yeoman;
statement wholly gratutous and entirely with
out foundation. The writer also says, that the
communication of Paul does not impiu that
there was any outrage or violation of decorum
at the table, nor by the young men any where
a palpable and downright falsehood, as any one
may perceive by reading the communication
Inc writer adds, he "knew nothing about the
celebration personally, and had heard no par
| tcuars concerning it," This statement is al.
so untrue, for the Editor was heard several days
before the injurious publication to speak con.
temptuonsly of the young mems celebration,
and to express opinions founded on particulars
he at least pretended to have heard The writ
er also says, that he did not know whether any
distinguished individuals were present; where
as the newspapers had informed him that the
Governor and the member of Congress from
this District were present, and other gentle
men OF high standing in the community.
In the third place, the hypocrisy of the Ed
itor OF the Yeoman is shown in his affected re-
gard for the cause ofTemperance, whereas the
success of his paper, and the defeat of the foul
( conspiracy to destroy it, of which he SAYS he
has been Tor some time fully aware. furnished
the true motive not only of the publication of
Paul. but of the various insulting remarks
made by him in relation to the Young mems
celebration. As long as the cause of Temper.
ance may answer the interested purposes of the
man, so long he will espouse it, but no longer.
The fourth reason for the unsatisfactory char
acter OF the Editors recantation, is proved by
the ridiculous speech he would have had spok-
en- to us at the table by some canting silver
grew like himself; speech that addressed to
men conscious of the disposition and the power
to conduct public dinner with propriety,
could only deserve to be treated with contempt.
The jeSu'ticaL and crafty perversion of the
plain and obvious meaning of Paul. requires
no comment. There is but one construction
that can be put on the articlc-except by the
cunning refinement of the Editor Is it likely
that so 4" plain, simple, and rather harmless
communication could be misunderstood by the
whole community, and be Ineligible TO the
Editor alone? How long is it since he has
been able to see so much farther into mill
stone than his neighbors? Let him inform u.s.
The notice taken of the gentlemen invited to
dine with the young men, and of others pres
ent, although affectedly intended to atone for
the insulting language of Paul, is hardly less
censurabe than the original article. The Edi-
tor, after acknowledging the responsibility and
! Z" unsuliied reputation of these gentlemen, de.
clares he has " neDer faroned round them for
tauors IF any lind" and that having been
treated respectfully by them, (quere, did he de.
serve such treatment , he can, therefore, have
no motire for tnjuring them :" As if fa,on-
ing round the executive of the State was the
! common mode of obtaining fdgor-and as if the
treatment the Editor personally received, should
lead him to injure, or not to iniure public men
| by lbellous publications! This then is the no.
Bile, dlslnterested motive of action TO the high
minded Editor There is certainly no hypOc.
| rtSy here-the mask is off,-the lions skin no
longer covers the brayer have at length
reached the trae meti0e for the Editors having
written Gas | believe) and published Paul ;"
the young men had not treated him with prop
er respect on a former occasion, few weeks
before tho 18th, by denying the import of an
editorial article in the Yeonan, which told the
community that their celebration was anti-ma-
sonic, and got up in opposition to the Munich
pal one. This false statement of the Yeoman
the young men exposed publicly-:hereby
showing want of respect which has brought
upon them the foul imputations of the Edi-
! tor. A.
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