The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-04-13
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. APRIL Is. 1871

i"ss W." nus "'i "'tieIe, occupying more than
column in which the Editor attempts to ini-
pose the belief on his readers, that the Editor
| of this paper had been placed in the same hu-
initiating and degrading predicament, in which
he (the Jackson Editor) once found himself, of
being compelled to make public recantation
for malicious SANDER which he had published
Illuminating as that situation must be, even to
one so far lost to sense fhonor and Of shame,
az is the Editor of that paper, it would doubt
less be a great qualification to him, to see US
reduced to an extremity even remotely approx
mating to his own, 1t is qualification, how
ever, for which he has no reason to-hope; apd
the avidty with which he has seized upon the
circumstances which have served him as a
foundation for the tale he has fabricated, shews
that he Is well aware Of that fact.
In the Spy of March 80, we published state
ment of facts, relative to certain communica-
tons which had been sent to this and other
papers for publication, the apparent object of
which was, to promote the election of GER
tain candidate as Senator. We were in doubt
as to the authorship of those articles, but be-
lleved We were in possession Of facts which
would eventually fix it upon the right person,
and we expressly stated, that, we should not
then undertake to Judge who wrote them. On
the publication of that article, many persons,
supposing that no one would take the pains to
prepare all those communications, unless actu-
ated by some interested motive, fixed their sus-
plclons on the candidate whose interest they
were intended to promote, as the author of
them. On careful examination of the neces-
sary facts, we were satisfied that such suspi-
cion was uniounded and, to correct the errone.
Gus impression which had been received, we
made statement to that effect, in the Yeoman
of the Sd inst, and in the Spy of the 9th. This,
the Jackson Editor calls a" recantation,' and
says, that the Editor of this paper,
Having made the most unfounded imputa-
tons upon ono of the candidates for Senator's
was called upon to substantiate or retract the
| charges thus made and being wholly unable
to substantiate the scanGalous charges and in.
situations which he had made and published
for political purposes in his last paper before
| the election, was BUNDLED to make his retrac.
ton in the Yeoman."
! This is tissue Of falsehoods. Having &C.
cused no individual, no one had right to call
upon us in the manner above represented, nor
did any one. We had subjected ourselves to
no liability, of which advantage could be taken,
and were under no obligation to acquit any one,
other than the obligation under which every
good citizen lies, to free the innocent from sus-
picion when it is in his power-an obligation,
the force of which, the dilapidated moral sense
4 of The jackson Editor does not enable him to
comprehend. 1t was on this principle, that the
examination was asked of US, and, on this prin.
| ciple, it was made. We were not called up
on to substantiate OF retract any charges The
whole intercourse between the Editor of this
culpatory article, in relation to this subject, was
of the most frank and friendly character, on
both sides; no attempt at intimidation was
made, because, if the good sense of the other
party had not satisfied him of its improperly
his knowledge of us would convince him that
such an attempt would assuredly fail of its de-
sired effect. 1t may be added, that the result
of this examination, thus entered into and thus
conducted, afforded the Editor, as man, sat-
isfaetion, for which his triumph as political
opponent, in case of a contrary result, would be
but an inadequate equivalent.
1t is not necessary for US to enter into an ex-
animation of the numerous falsehoods, beside
! those already advortcd to, with which the arti.
Gle under notice abounds. Suffice it to say that
the communications, before spoken of, are now
admitted to have been written by one person
| and, although the Jackson Editor, who appears
to ksesv@so we'll at what time each one was re-
| ceived, was able to discover at once that they
were all written by one hand, no other person.
ever would have suspected the fact from the Up.
peayanee of the chrography alone. There is
indeed, such striking dissimilarity in their APP
pearance, that some who have seen them, could
not believe them to be written by one person
till satisfied by proof which could leave no
doubt. What our neighbor in law means by
talking about our doing him injustice, is better
know to himself than to us.
cantaton," ana the Editor of the Yeoman, par.
rot-likc, echoes the cry. He probably suppos.
ed the article he alludes to was a recantation
because his neighbor told him So If he had
even the capacity to understand, by compari.
son of our two articles whether one was re.
cantatiop of what was said in the other, or not
| still, he never would be gully of the labor oil
making it, SO long as his usual hap hazard mode
of assertion could be re:ortedto. We say this
not by way Of complaint of his unfarness for
after his pitiful tergiversation about the votes
given last year for Bullock, nothing better wa.
to be expected of him. Besides, we are some.
what in doubt how far his judgment renders
him accountable, as moral agent, for what he
does.
J The SUPREME JUDICIAL CoURT commenced
sitting in this town yesterday, Justice Putnam