The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-02-06
BARRE PATRIOT.

The barre falTlot WINES PteouSly about tDe course
taken by the Spy towards that paper We have
given il the slightest cause for complaint unless il be,
that VIC have bestowed upol 1t notice OF which il
unworthy and treated with eny it did not deserve.
We have made il invariGhle rule, from first
nection with newspaper, 10 trea' all contemporaries
with courtesy and respect, long that courtesy was
reciprocal and that rule applied 10 the Patriot as
well to other papers and il, in the course of our
intercourse with it, have had occasion to obey the
scripural Injunction TO "trea fool according to his
folly" the fault is not ours.
When the publication of the Patriot was first cons
templaed, sympathzing did, with the objects for
which it proposed 10 establish it, we lent 10 the
project good will and active cooperation At con-
siderable inconvenience 10 own office we allowed our
foreman to 60 10 Boston to make The necessary pur.
chases and Barre 10 make necessary arrangements
and Then furnished help from office, such as was
necessary get into operation. Between MS and the
publishes Of the Patriot, the utmost harmony and good
will subssed, till the present editor of that paper came
into the concern. The very FIRST week OF his advent in
his new position, was characterized by the avowa of
opinions, such The Patriot had before held such
the Wing party Of the county never held, and
such the incubation Of, and acting upon have Justly
served to break up aud overthrow the party in the coun
ty. We noticed this phase in The character Of the
Patriot, in manner of which no reasonable COMPLAINT
could be made. The new sub, thereupon few into
violent passion and for two or three weeks succeeding
il difficult 10 determine whether the bully or The
BLACKBOARD predomnated in his course-it was rare
combination of the two.
The editor of the Patriot raised as they say a,
the South or brung up the Vermont lad said in an
obscure town in Hampshire county, and thence found
his way to "Oid Vrginny," where he was employed
for three or four years. as pedagogue in such other
ways what talent he had, could be made available to
The slave holding nabobs of that State. During his
sojourn, he modes OF life, and acquired some ideas
to which he had been stranger in The secluded home of
his childhood This gave him inflated idea of his own
consequence and he returned thence 10 the north IA
much the state of mind that "Wil SraddIea CANA
from I" Brummdgem" to New York in. StraddIe had
read that the naiives OF America fond of nkets
and gewgaws, of fnery and show so he provided him,
self with glass beads and other nkes as presents 10
secure the good viii of the people, and bedzeuea
self with the most gaudy Emery IN bis dress. determined
20 +astozish the mattress" Bui on bis arrival al Neu
York, instead Of creating the sensation he expected he
oaiy found himself the bau Of ridueu!e and he Oh.
Jet Of sport 10 the ragged urchns IN the street. So the
geis Of The Parrot having seen The vaIorous ofds
Of the Lash" IN Virginia. assumed tie staggering air Of
the nabob and suPpo.ed, that by aid Of the stang he
he'd picked up during his somewlat distant intercourse
with them that he could sustain the same position toward
the benghed northerners that the slave monses hold in
relation to the non slavehodmg and labonng whites of
the South In word, like Suadde, he thought he
could astosh the natives and he determined TO do IL.
The result was, as in the of StaddIe that while
with the more thoughtful he an object of pity with
the mass, he was the butt of derision and contempt
'itmght well be supposed that the inflated vanity of
such person would induce him to make such renv
as he did make TO mild notice Of bis aberration from
the Wing principles Of Massachusetts We have no.
time TO review the controversy which ensued; bu, NAV
say that whatever our bearing towards the Patriot might
have been, such as bis own course justified and
required liza bag of wind is thrown in our path which
y too dirty to handle, we Just kick ofthe way
100 frequent repetition of the offence might, percbance,
induce US topunclure il, to show how fiat thing is.
when its wind is let out.
Inc paragraph which we copied from the Patriot Of
last week, was unProvoked and uncaled for and in all
cases, The editor of that paper has been the agefessor
lie has thus placed himself of the pale of ordinary
comfy and ciyliy. Yet we have not, and we ueve,
had, the slightest lwil towards him. It is for him 10
determine what The future relations between us shall be
II his course shall be- has beeu we shall treat him
as we think such subject deserves If, on The other
asnd he shall place himself rectus in curia and strive
half as hard to act the gentleman as he has TO make
himself ridiculous he will have no cause to make apv
whining or caning complaints Of our course toward
him.
Forahe Spy.