The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-02

he Atlantic and all other and oceans. what
NAV our Russan imperial friend say to us ior re-
ceivine from the Turk boon, to say nothing OF
our promise in return. Whist his valor. blood, and
treasure had conquered for us and all nations p
Omttine therefore, the secret article, does MOTT
opening the Euxine, either by the RUSSIAN power
or by the Turkish treaty, nightly enhance the I'M
nortance of this question, and call Imperatlyely on
The Executive for an efficient mission at the Court
of ST. Petersburgh Ifthe gentleman cannot per-
ceiye this. he is less statesman than he would
seem to be and even much less such, If that were
possible.
and pewsnaper rumnr | said so before-I drew
psrt of the truth from the Secretary-the treaty.
The other part the secret article from the ns,cspa-
per. =.
to establish newspapers, entitled to no credit and
10 diseredit all others He has founded school,
and is at the head of it. In that school, the great
axiom is every thing is fair in politics g and TO
him are not politics every thing? Let him go on
to improve the condition Of the Press. Let him
sxtinguish the light of truth wherever he can
tend the iager of power Let him do one thing
more-aided by his mnions, no matter where
let him persuade the people, that the honest, the
independent papers of this country vehicles of
falsehood, and mere rumor let them be, as they
have been on this floor, branded false, foul and
dirty; and let the member who quotes from their
pages the history and impress of the times, be re-
preached a blockhead, BLACKBOARD, aslanderer,
and what more could the Secretary of State
desire, which he would not be to obtain Sir,
such consummatiop would have saved to Charles
the throne of France, and the patriots of that
try their revolutions.
I did quote for the secret article, in the Turkish
Treasury, from the newspapers dares the gentle
man question the truth of the quotation Had
drawn q bow with more advised aim, could the
pigeon on the pole have futtered more manifestly
The gentleman has, notwithstanding all these as
sertions, accused me of drawing my facts from a
perured Senator. Has it come to this! Was it
found necessary not to commit our first treaty with
the Great Disciple of Mahomet to the Christian
Senators of the United States, until their lips were
sealed by the solemnities of an oath 1t is a new
formula in the executive department of the Sen
ate and will appear by the published Journals of
that body to have had no place In their proceeding
until the present session. When a treaty in 1875
was published by Senator against an injunction
of that body, who accused him of perjury The
gentleman whose mission is now under consdera-
ton, did, this floor, pronounce studied eulo-
GUM on Stephens Thompson Mason, the Senator
who published that treaty. Would he euloglZe
perjury? Sir. the secret article published be-
fore the treaty was announced to the House, or
sent to the Senate The correspondence the
West India question was published in the same
manner. Has the Secretary of State adopted this
method and put out his feelsrs, to take the nation
al pulse?
do not ask what warranted, but who authorized
or instructed, encouraged the gentleman to con-
meet perjury with that venerated word which de-
Hignates the members of National Council, the
most dignifed and honorable on earth
How could shun insult, when such men re.
viled do not ask by what statesman gentle
man, but by what apology for In what 9th
assembly on earth has " the hoary head" beer
used term of reproach Has the gentleman
passed so far beyond the vigor and bloom, and mod
esty of invenescence that he has forgotten thu
amiable instinct of our nature which warns on
youth to pay in advance that consideration to ag
which it may come to desire for itself? Thougl
grey hairs have been held in respect by barbarian
in all countries, and by even the most profga.t
and uHmannered in all ages, yet. knowing that
(abovo plumas am not disappointed in the Ian
guage demeanor of the gentleman from New
York. Men, better than am, have been revilet
in their age by no better than he is. Wash
ington was called 20 hoary headed incendarv :" b
avagabond of almost unparalleled mendacity AM
impudence. The bald head" is, assure thu
gentleman, no Joke though he seems TO be origin
al in using it as such. This inconvenience, or i
you please, imperecton, has been suffered b.
some very great men but quite rarely, if ever, Ia
It been experienced by any very little ones. Ce
sar is said to have been more grateful to the Ro
man people for granting him the right to wear thu
laurel crown than for any other of their gifts be
cause the wearing it enabled him to conceal thu
exterior badness of his head. If it be true a
Shakespeare tells US it is, that what nature ha
scanted men in wit, she has made up to them il
hair, then the gentleman believe, should he viii
laurel crown, would never like Cesar have occa
zion to wear it, for any lack of that commodity.
Who reved the prophet, returning from the
blazing translation of his master, with acounte
nance bright with the glories of opening Heaven
and wrapt in the mantle of Elijah-who, sir, revi
ed the prophet for his " bald head 2" Prohigate
young men, boys, children as they are called the
scum and stceepings of the city, and as we find by
the historian, fit only for food for those animals
which are fed on ofdI.
The gentleman is equally out in his ornithology
as in every thing else. The bird of Jove, not the
vnlture, is that soaring wonder, by men called the
Bald Eagle" and, sir, never was that soaring
eagle, in his pride of place, hawked at and brough
down by the mousing OWL"