Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-12-03
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1859,
The Aims.

The Atlas.
The Boston Alias is under the management Of a
person who combines in himself the several charsc>
ieristics Of a pseudo clergyman, an aposaie poit-
clan, disappointed office holder, and dull news.
paper edito,, and, OF core, he suuses the pages Of
the Atlas with the cream Of those characteristics
Professional clergyman licensed dogmaiisis. As
Students they ale educated according to the sricles
ruies OF sec.arian interpretation; and, as teachers
they occupy the positions Of oracles At College,
they never question the traditions Of the elders; and
when in The puuiis she laics never dare 10 q,es,On
them. Parsoa Hudson is one Of those professional
'successors oil apostles;'' and the Atlas, in its
uniform dulisess aud daily dog,natism, shows how
little spirit and how little logic are necessary, to make
successful graduate in the modern school Of the
"paid prophe,s.' .
Aposlate politicians are always most biter against
the principles from which they are renegades; and,
consequently. the Atlas bears evidence Of HudsOns
former prefessed love Of liberty, by its present
exhibition Of his malignant hatred of it, As par.
son, he was the b. other of the slave. As hack
for hunkersm to straddle and spur, he ia the humble
servant OF the STAKEHOLDER.
Disappointed Office holders never forget the crib
from which they have had fodder; and this
fact is demonstrated by the Alias always having
something say about "the executive aud the off,
ces' The cup OF TautaIus-or, to be literal, the
Navy Yard sinecure, is evidently never absent from
the dreams Of Hudson, add when aroused 70 his
natural state Of sonnambusm, he presses out his
agony for the loss Of it, in sentences that are as dull
as old rusty door nails.
We do not mean TO tefer Al present 10 psrson Hud-
sons personal pre- lections evidence of his erav.
ity and proiundity" literary mesmerst; we shall
rather quote IRON his paper of the 1st inst, to show
what gcntemany sense Of deceacy resides beneath
his clerical wastcoai and what admirably cuhivat-
ed taste adorns his other educational and ministerial
accomplishments The following literary gem was
selected by Hudson, and printed in his paper, as a
specimen Of Wing poetry and anti coalition wit.
Come see them on their winding way-
motley group-black, white, and giay
Quack doctors Of the Constitution,
Whose pills we're poison and pollution;
Boutwell,, aud Hallett, Griswold Banks.
Now trail their feathers in the ranks;
Small Burlingame and fiery Keyet,
With impd noses, and weeping eyes;
t7"thHctB thC hyuibu EoendtOF-
The master dcmagogue OF "iaw''-
And Griswold. always opporluue,
With that great "sollIer Of fortune"
Ben Haet,, in himself host
wide his Daguerrean IN the "Post.')
One Alvord, all unknown to lame
Great Wilson. cockerel of the game,
With hosts Of other hungry sharks,
Beneath particular remarks.
Come see them, sbyering as they go,
At their great lap-stone's overthrow,--
Their upper, under, sole and aUl,
Crushed ia that Constitutions fall.
Pegging and patching. soleing, sewing,
And Uamptag loU, their undoing.
Although their ends we're waxed by gluten,
Their heel taps nailed with e'hiskfalatag''--
Although they brushed with Summers backing
Used Dana's oil, for fear OF cracking,
And slushed with Buffers <'patent siosh -
The voters would not stand their :" bosh -
They trampled all beneath their feet,
And spurned the demlagogaes and cheat:
Declaring, with a laundering voice,
The OLD SHEET ANCHOR is our choice %
In England there is an officer ia the royal house
aolsFcalled poet-aureate, who gets $500 year and
barrel full Of Malmsey vine, for writing dogeerel
rhymes Ia praise Of the monarch. byron called the
Office the "laureales sty.'' We think the wings
might create such an office as an encouragement 10
the poetical geniases Of their party. MIR. Hudson
wosd, we think, from the specimen of his taste
which we have presented to our readers, NEST ad.
mlrably Gil that situation and, if it did turn ou to
be :" sty,' he would, SO far as we can judge, pat
ticularly adora it.
REMARKABLE CoED elliptic
following instance Of remarkable condescenson from
the Rev. Charles Hudson's Atlas.
SoHe Of onr contemporaries specnlating upon
the organization Of the Legislature. We have not
been very forward in selecting officers for other bod
les, Of which we are not a member We generaIly
prefer siloioing them to select for themselves.