The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-05-25
CORY, Us. THE HERALD OF
THE TINES, AND IT'S PORTS
MOUTH CORRESPONDENT


In communication, purporting to have
been written by Portsmouth farmer and
published in the Herald of the Times Jus,
on the eve Of the late election, the Hon.
Thomas Cory, Jr., was most wantonly at
tackled, abused, viIlifed and sbamefully
slandered as we shall show to the satsfac-
ton of all, who will read what follows.
Some may ask why we have delayed so
long to let The aniidote follow the bane-
why we have not before contradicted and
thereby counteracted the pernicious conse-
quences which such untrue statements are
| calculated to engender! We answer, we
have been waiting some time in order to
enquire into the particulars of the case, and
what we now say and publish, we defy the
whole profligate pack of scribblers, who
cater for the Herald-indiyidually or collec-
lively, TO prove false in one single particu-
lar.
The CORES pondent of the Herald Says
Non i feel from these circumstances,
and from the treatment 4 hare receiUed from
Thomas Cory, Jr., DC. &c" Now he has
not told us what the treatment was, lie re-
ceived from Mr. Cory, which induced him
TO hate him so fervently, and to slander him
so unjustly--not even whether it was good
or bad treatment. IL he has been treated
unhandsomely by Mr.. c., why does he not
specify, when, where, and in what manner
We answer: because he cannot Let him
be who he may-Wc defy him to do it !
Again we extract:
The plain, naked truth is, that 7homds
Cory, Jr. has not been freebooter for one
gear during any part Of his life. lie says
himself that when he became t,penty-onc
year, old, Roger burlington eonreyed to
him Enie pitec Of land for the purpose Of
qualifying hm to uote, and that he mds
propounded on that deed, and that phen he
rceeiced a deed of gift from his father of a
quarter Of an acre Of tand, which IshaH no
tice by and By, he then rcconccyed TO Bur-
ringtoa tie lot he took deed of from hin, to
be propoaRded on. hare not get been able
to ascertain that he cucr had such deed
from burlington If he nsver had such a
deed then Cory has neoer been legally pro-
pounded-rShdH see hOw this is before to'on
meeting day."
Judge Cory is now, and has been IA
legally qualified voter, ever since he first
voted. He was not propounded, as above
stated, at the age of twenty w0s
notH lie was not propounded, nor did he
even vote until after he was thirty years of
age, and was then propoundcd on the es-
tate which his father by deed of gift made
his These are facts, and no man dare
show his head and assert to the contrary
The correspondent Of the Herald--w whether
a awhite man or colored one, we have not vet
ascertained-says Writ uully, as will be seen
by the above extract, that he shall examine
still further Judge Cory's qualifications as
n voter, previous to town-meeting day.
He has never published the result of his
research, nor the discoveries he made He
never even challenged the Judges vote, at
the late election If Mr.. c. was not legally
qualified TO vote, why has his vote never
been challenged and thrown out Why
was it suffered to pass, without murmur,
at the late elections Can the Herald. or Its
cowardy correspondent inform us Would
such men as Stephen b. Cornell, Judge
Childs, and Judge Clarke--men diametri.
caly opposite to Squire Cory in pol,ics-al.
low him to vote if he was no, legally quail
fled Is it likely Is it probable1
Again.
" The new Election Lar, which the
Wigs passed last minter TO guard against
frauds, 'ohieh lao Thomas Cory, Junior, as
a member cfthe Senate, roted against"
This is sheer filsehood Judge Cory
voted for the new Election Law passed las,
winter, and not against it as maliciously
stated in the communication in the Herald.
He not only voted for the law, but was the
only advocate for it in the Senate. Let
people beware-here is proof direct, that
The statements made by the Herald on the
eve of an election, aud when too late to be
contradictcd, ought never to be credited.
Again.
" Besides all this, hare kno,rn this
same man 10 cheat his poor old father out
Of his cote. The old gentleman, is a higAiv