The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-10
YOUR OWN NOBLE HUDSON"

Sometimes the use a single word detects the hypoc>
risy of him who employs it, and thus defeats the very
purpose ii was intended to promote. The people fhe
9TH District nos the to he deceived in the be,
lief that man great or truly "nobe" by calling him
so. They will for themselves, and as they find,
with their eyes, will they judge, and will they
declare by their votes.
We have no wish to withhold from Mr.. Hudson any
praise to which he is fairly entitled. Injustice TO him
would come back 10 plague its author. No opponent
of Mr. Huds IN has need TO be so unreasonable as to
wish TO do him wrong. Nothing harm him like
truth-lhe exact truth, without cxtenuaon aggrava,
ton.
To say that Mr. Hudson is man of far intelligence
is but common praise TIE Of his District have
quite understanding enough TO be well assured OF that
They have this very week, proved their confidence in
his lair, unbiased belief that Gen Taylor has not
single qualification for the office OF President and they
have followed this timely advice to go for such
didate could Of defeat ieare possession
Of oar principles" 1t Is not the understanding of MIR.
Hudson respecting plain matters of fact, that any
questions The doubt which troubles his constituents if
it be yet doubt concerns his intellect but his teg,
rity They think, in respect to his late political advice,
Set that lis only melancholy illustration OF that moral
weakness approached by the Roman poet
kaoto the right, and approve ii too
kno'o the wrong, but yet the ,oIo Rg pursue,
To say that Mr. Hudson by industry and persever-
anee, has made much more of himself than mos men
would have made of greater talents, is no small
praise, and we cheeruIy concede him all that merit
But our just estimate of all that must not hinder our
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keep from Withholding our esteem from what is base
and contemplate. Public justice must deal with an inn
partial hand its praise and its censure of public men,
and we have no fear that, in the of Mr. Hudson the
voters of the 9th District will do etherhm or themselves
wrong. They will look the case as il is and what
it is they will declare il 10 be- TO call him our owa
noble Hudson," would not be to them sufficient en-
doTsement Of his nobi ~ come from what quarter it
might, and least of all coming flom so corrupt source
as the True Whg-a paper which has dlsgraced if not
this city, its editors, Col Alexander II Bullock and
John C b. Dauis, Esq by its extreme profrgacy sour
niy, and disregard of all manly and moral sentiment
But, TO return TO Mr.. Hudson, whom the True Wing
would exat in he public esteem by calling him nobLe"
1t is not sounding epithet, in print that
the voters of the 5h District are seeking for Ii is
nd'l-a whole man, proved TO be such by trial. and by
hrmness and consistency in the day of trial which tests
man, and shows him to be more of man than he
could have been known TO be, without such test The
people want facts names. If names could give
character, nothing we're cheap reputation. The
once ilustrous of Pompey and Cesar are now
the common appelIaton Of slaves and dogs Even the
pure name of Edward Winsow of the May Flower
may serve but to mark the base degeneracy 81 him who
assumes it, and that of Benjamin Franklin may remind
us of the revolutionary patriot only monkey reminds
of a man.
When names are truly descriptive of men and things
their Proprety gives them beauty which once seen
and felt, but the nobest name, when misapped, only
shows TO disadvantage him for when its use is per.
verted. single word well chosen, like skIllu line
the marks the genius of him who selects that
word or pencils that line. Perhaps nothing marks the
genius of the great Swedish naturalist more srkingly
than the aptitude of The names he so promptly seized
upon, hen he scientifically characterized animals and
plants, as with the inspired facility of Adam when
stranger in fresh world of which he was created the
lord 1t said too Of an eminent artist who express
ed character by single feature or member of his por>
traits,
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