Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-18
From the Boston Courisr of May 20

But there is one part of Mir Rush's Letter
 which deserves the severest apprehension.
 It is hls unmanly and unjustifiable attack or the Press--an assault which partakes more of the ferocity of tiger and the malignity ot a demon, than of the candor of gentleman, or the wisdom of a statesman. Ithas neither dignity nor truth to entitle it to respect Eve ry reader will perceive that many of the wri- ter's assertions are false. We donot say that MT Rush knew they were false, but, unless he secs daily many more of the newspapers than we imagine he does he could not know that they were true. The charges we know, have been often made before, but the repetition oi lie, even from the pen of so respectable a man as MT Rush, does not impart to it the attribute of truth. His charges against the Press, of corruption and fear, of q dispoSl- tion to concealment in reference to the pro gress and result of the trials in New-York, are utterly grountlless, and his enlisting as a volunteer to endorse the slander ndscrimin- ately hurled at the conductors of the public press, should meet the prompt and decided reproduction of an insulted and indignant com munity.
 But let us inquire into the motive which could influence Mir Rush to write this letter It can hardly be contendcd that such phi lippic was called for by the note addressed to
 
 county. A very simple and a very brief re- ply would have answered the inquiries of those gentlemen He might have given them all the information they requested in a much shorter space and in much milder tone.-- He might have told them all he knew of Free masonry and all that he feared of its effects, without arming himself with ratsbanc, pistol, rope, and dagger, to commence war of ex- termination upon a class of men, who as professional body, are as free, as liberal, as independent, as those of any other profession, and, we hope we may say it, without incur ring the guilt of uttcring libel, no morc ob- noxious to the charges of prohigacy and cor rupton, than some gentlemen, who appear to be aiming at political promotion at the eX- pense of their friends. We have no wish to do an act of injustice to MT Flush, Ii he should receive no more than his fair deserts, our indignation might be appeascd, and, per haps, converted into compassion. He has been prompted to this act by political ambi- tion. He expects, and net without reason, to be set up as candidate for the Presidency, in opposition to his friend, Henry Clay; or, failing in that, to be usett as candidate tor the Presidency, in company with some other aspiring demagogue, equally honeSf, but whose name might be deemed more po- tential in such an honorabie contest. This, we undertake to say, and we are well advised of the extent of what we are saying, is the true secret of MT Rush's sudden conversion to Anti-masonry-or rather, if we admit his own declarations, his reluctant exposition of facts and opinions long known and cherished, but which all the obligations of honor, reli- zion and patriotism, were too weak to draw from him until now,-just as the Anti-ma- sonic party in New York had resolved to op noce the election of Mir Clay and nominate q candidate for themselves. What glorious illustration of the permanency and sincerity of political friendships What touching commentary on the honor, fatriotism and morality of gentleman, who marching un- der "the broad banner of right reason and right feeling," shrinks with horrcr from the bare possibility that Masonic Lodges may be made subservient to the purposes of anbi- tious politicians