Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-08-28
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THURSDAY, AUGUST %, isa5.
A WORD TO OUR READERS.

During the recent absence Of the Editor Of the
Spectator from home, some notice was taken by
those whom he left in charge of the business of
the office, ana who areEegularly connected with
it, ofremarks made by the Democrat, and one of
its correspondents, in regard to what he had said
OF the famous "ryler reception" Although not
at all disposed to censuve those who were thus
promp, to defend him in his absence-and who
have done it so efficiently -never,heles he feels
1t 10 be duo to himself to state, that if the task
had been left TO him, he should in all probability
have considered it a work of supererogatiop.
His course in regard TO Mr.. TYLER, mot prompted
by the removal of his father, but as he has red
son to believe the cause of that removal, happen
ing as it did some eight months afterwards he
flatters himself is too well remembered in this
community TO need such defence. Among the
first to discover the meditated treason of Mr.. Ty-
Ter to the party who elected him, the Editor of
the Spectator vas the first, among the very
first in the Union to abandon him, and 10 urge
upon the Wing party the identical course which
was afterwards taken by the Wing members of
Congress-namely, formal remuneration, on be-
half CT The party, of all responsibility for the acts
ls4l land the Editor defes any mind not grossly
perverted by habits of falsehood to find single
sentence in his columns from that period to the
present which indicates the slightest change oil
opinion favorable to Mr.. Tyler The paragraph
upon which the Democrat hinges TO show such a
change in favor Of the man whom, in June, it calls
a"pohticai renegade and pOstote," and in august
honors on his arrival in our town as distinguish
ed "Repu6Hcan," constitutes no exception 10 this
remark That paragraph carries its own expla.
nation with it. The terms sWHiG PRESIDENT
as connected with the endorsement of Mr.. Tyler's
course by the Richmond Enquirer and Mr.. Wise
the one leading Democratic paper, and the 9TH
er then avowed Mird party man, sufficiently
indicate their meaning. The editor then pointed
TO 1t as S'a pregnant circumstance which, as
he believed, was well calculated to open the eyes
OF those Wings who were still slow to perceive
the reality of the treachery Of Mr.. Tyler-then SO
rapidly in course Of consummaion.
AS TO the gross and unmeaning personal abuse
IN which The editor of the Democrat INDUCES in
his last paper, he very well knows that il is a
war which the editor of the Spectator can, on no
consideration whatever, consent to descend 10
with him. Whatever may have savoured of per-
sonal offence in either of The articles which an.
peared In the Spectator during his absence, he
had no right to attribute to any feeling operating
upon the mind Of the editor, under the circum-
stances-because each article distinctly minated
mat he had nothing TO do with it, The relation
and posture which we have borne to each other
Tor The last twelve months, would anerly pre-
clude any such notice Of, or reieyence to him, on
the part of the editor OF the Spectator; and he
greatly regrets that the course of the Democrat
towards him should be such as 10 call for even
the slightest allusion to hose relations.