Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-04-13

of the want Of patronage said he had
his living to get acknowledged that pro-
posals had been made to him ; but prom
ised not to do anything in the business,
without first informing them Of his inten-
tion. In the next number of that paper,
however, (that of Oath March) the Ar
mold prox was left out, and the Jackson
prox put into its place and n notice was
inserted, calling upon the Republican
Frecmen to meet, to consult upon meas
ures to support that (the Jackson) prox
In every thing else, the paper retained
its old appearance, kept its former name,
and was "printed and published by
WILLIAM READ" Not word was said
about its having been sold to the opposite
party, whose political sentiments are dia-
metrcally the reverse of those Of its
founders and patrons Every thing was
calculated and designed to produce n
belief that, not only the printer, but the
proprlctors, conductors, and patrons of
that paper, had, in one short week, de-
serted their former principles and gone
over to the cause of JaCksonism. In
consequence Of these appearances, a re-
spectacle subscriber to the paper-whose
name we will not now mention-who also
had an interest in it, expressed to Mr. r.
the printer, his disapprobation of the con-
duct of the paper. Mr. II. told him that
his sentiments remained unchanged !; but
that, having his living to get, and the
paper having been very poorly patronised,
he had been under the necessity Of en-
gaging the employment, management,
and control of it, to the Jackson party.
1t was expected now, that the new mana
gers would, in the next number Of the
paper, announce to the public, and to the
old proprietors--who had patronised it as
the advocate of National Republican
principles-that it was sold (the entire
control Of it) to their party, and would
henceiorth be under totally different man
agemcnt from what it ever before had
been. But quite the contrary. In their
paper of March 3lst they practise the
same concealmcnt and imposition more
Istudiously than ever After that number
came out, another of the subscribers--in
company with the gentleman before al
ludcd to--called upon the printer, and
told him that the old subscribers ought to
be informed Of the sale or transfer Of the
paper--or the control of it. to another
party they had right to know into
whose hands the paper they had patron,
ised had fallen, and who were now the
new managers of it. Mr. Read made the
same statement he had made to others,
respecting the want of patronage, his
having living to get, SC. &c. He re-
peated that his sentiments were the same
as they ever had been but that he had
sold, or engaged, to the Jackson party,
the whole use, control, and management
of the paper, and had no control over it
himself; except that he was not bound to
publish any thing indecent that having
also himself engaged to print aud publish
the paper for them, he considetcd him
self bound to print what they furnished or
dictated. The subscriber told him that,
considering his embarrassed circum-
stances, he did not know that he could be
blamed for accepting the advantsg eous
terms offered by the Jackson party, for
the use of his paper, and for his services
as printer ; but that they had grossly im-
posed upon him, (the printer and made
use Of him to impose upon the public: that
although he merely acted as printer, and
had no control over the paper, yet to con-
ceal their own agency, they held him up
in the paper of 3 ST. and made him speak
as proprietor, and sole conductor, and
editor, of the paper.
Their scheme is to deceive the old
subscribers and patrons of the paper, and
prevent their discovering that it has been
bought up by, and is now under the man
agement of their political opponents: and
to do this they hold up Mr. Read, the
printer, as screen before them, and
make him utter their sentiments in his
own name, and as if they were exclu-
sIvely and really his own. They make
him conceal the real actors in the scene,
and imputc and take to himself alone the
total change which has taken place in
the political conduct of the paper. Al
though he has repeatedly declared that
his political sentiments are unchanged,
and that he is now merely the printer,
pouhu W P'nH' "hdt Is uiCtd'eu W hNi ny
them; yet they make him confess total
change of political sentiments in himself,
and tell the subscribers that, Mr. VAN
BURES haring t'rice magnanimously re-
nc'red his appointment, as printer Of the
la,ps, he is NOW from his own choice and
conriclion, from feelings and arguments,
SC. &c. DEVOTED 10 the support Of the
Jackson administration -! And having
thus tutorcd and disciplined their printer,
they, (still keeping themselves out of