The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-07-06
(For the Spv.J
Ut ''Ir E-PyI
THE RESPECTABLE DAILY"

sidered "a good fiji" the latter little loose, but The
former so snug as to expose the exact shape of The
wearer. Some, however, regard the Daily as a sort OF
old doroger that has gained its respectable" name by
humdIum gravity, a conservative starchy decorum,
and the general reliabeneSs Of its out.of date
This Sketchy likeness though freely caricatured 10
give expression 10 dull outline Still we think tie
Dailys past decent department and general regard for
truth infinitely than offset for its habua drows>
ness and tagging news. On the whole may say its
title was honestly gained, and should have been glad
always to think oft as the Respectable Daily" As
TO the right of the Atlas 10 its prefix we have never
heard two opinions. Time but confirms and death only
can exnguisb its the-an event to which it seems
a ready hobbling with the premature decrepude of
early vicious habits.
But the Respectable Daily" is not so sure as its re-
nowned co-worker keep its descriptive appeation to
the end it is much lose good name than TO
part with bad one. A single truth from The Atlas
would be no proof repentance, though one deliberate
lie from the Respectable DAi " would demonstrate IT'S
capacity for alsehood to be equal to any emergency
Even now some more than half suspect that the Daily
is under less honest influences than iormerly-;ha ode
gene' ate plants" have begun overshadow its fair fame
aud that its edorshp like that of the abandoned Courier
be the cause, the fact is sure that its respectable
names sued by its fragrant Misrepresentation of heMass
Convention of the 18th. That coo deliberate he would
not have dsgraced the At las in its pamies days. and
should be long remembered as showing the capacity of
the Respectable Daily TO furnish any quantity of
falSehood that may be deemed expeden 10 encourage
The futterng heart of a gasping party Should The
friends Of the DAILY ever t~ the Atlas for want Of We
sh1 lat la,o a
the biggest thumper that graced its columns The
Ne" York Express which IS good deal of an epicure
IN such matters, has snatched the Respectabes" lie
as the danest dish of all the luxurious table now spread
before IT. and smacks It's lips with satisfaction that no.
thing but tie highest seasoned cookery could have slim,
ulaed. The Express can hardly contain itself when
gets such fricasee from such quarter In cooyng at
length the "Daily's" false account of The Worcester
Convention, the Express says ct is ue to see ,hat so
calm and judicious editor as he ofe Boston Adrer.
iSer thinks OF it." That the readers of the Spy NAV
understand The Daly's newest style of honesty, we ID
join the following ract specimen.
"There is no longer any reason to look upon i, as an
organ or expression OF the Wing parry. 1t vas gath,
erng IN which is true some able men who have
formerly acted with the Wings but was nothing but an
abolition meeting drawing itself macontcnts of ali
ella SEES AS when David TO the Cave of Adulam the
CdlI VI WI Alien was answered, and
was IN distress, every that in debt every one
that was Disseminated gathered themselves unto him
| and ne became captain tn m ; and there were
with him about four hundred men" The address and
The resolutions, The whole tone of the speeches gave
full and undenlable evidence that this not form
alton OF the Wing party, but the formation of new one
IN which few, and but few, Wings joined"
faser account of the Convention could not possib
have been invented. And yet the Daily was virtually
present and saw with its eyes one of the most re-
spectacle conventions gathered in this country on
any occasion. lis number, its decomm It's intelligent.
earnest and substantial character were so impress We as
to command the admiration Of discerning citizens and
strangers Nothing but purpose on the part of the ed
tor of the DAILY 10 conceal what il hated 10 have known
ana 10 declare what 1t wished to have real Instead OF
what was so, for SO bare faced fabr,ca.
ton.
And yet what can the Daily hope to gain in the end
by Its gross deceptons Such tricks OF a subsidized
press as are played off with such activity and uusct
Puousness, IN all directions, will but the more plague
The inventors" The alseness of the press has already
walked up deep tone of Indignation from people Who
will watch and not forget their betrayers The peope
always need truth, but they feel that they need il navy
more than ever. Family presses, money presses Office
making presses, and save>rdden presses the neonIe
will now rebuke with sternness of re sentiment sucb nc
former lmposiilons have never provoked The peon,.
1odnt light and toiU haze it The crisis is come and
falsehood will not Off Hitherto The peope have
consented TO be taught. Henceforh they themselves.
will be the teachers.
One word more for the editor Of the " Respectab,e
ID July" Nothing could have been more unr onnna,e
than his choice of Illustrations. la "al ting sc,;n,nre
for his purpose" he not more sktu than b;s nro,o
type 1t was not to be expected tina, the servan, vo,d
be above his master. The biblical Editor of The D,1v
should have remembered that the desplscd to, hun.
dred men at the cave Adulam" were enlisted i, nobs
ana triumphant cause and that their "cap,anu had with
osn'eested constancy, defended and saved the neroo
the family, aud the kingdom of his prosecutor. Nor
should The learned Editor have forgotten that a The ca.
lames OF the false>heared Saul sprang from hi, omb
'ious lust OF Office for himself and amiy-th,t the dis.
interested son Of Jesse greved to the hear, when
saul SO vigorously pershed having fallen on his own
sword,-when bis body spiked to the wall of Be,h
shan and the scepre Of his slain house broken forever
Il.
w mr Moan smith and his wife, both owe, 10 wears