Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-01

To the Editors of the Spy A friend has trans
m tied to me copy OF your paper, containing an
article charging me with eondect of a most dis
honorable character, while occupying the position
of AdiHtant General of the Commonwealth
These imputations were first devised for a parti-
zan purpose the heat of political campaign,
with the double object of breaking me down as
an active member 81 a hostile party; and re NOV
ing me from the path of an opponent who sup
posed me to be a prominent and da gerous COM
ttor Tor an Office which ha. been transfelrtd from
me to the candidate of the victorious coalition of
1851 met these accusations openly and fully
in he public prints at the time when they We're
made with statement viii venture to hope
wonld be entirely satisfactory TO unpreiudiced
and honorable minds. 1t is, however, far easier
to calumniate than to disprove, to slur reputa.
tor uninstly, than to vindicate il--especially
when political prejudice and personal interest
combine to render Misrepresentation acceptable
as well as profitable It is obviously impractica
Bile to 60 into the details Of such matter in I'M
suitable time and place Whoever has any curl
osity to be satisfied may find Il and frank ex.
20 tion of it, in the columns Of the SG{eM q
zette aud Boston itias OF that date l am not so
inexperence to be ignorant, that in
where motive and purpose are the only questions
to be decided, there many minds that never
will he convinced of the truth, simply because
they do not desire to be. hope that you will
do me Justice to publish this briei denial of these
most unrighteouS calumnies the only means
that | can properly use at present to defend my
self against them. | utterly deny that l ever
defrauded or ATTEMPTED to defraud the State of
Massachusetts Of a single cent. | have never
denied nor had occasion to deny that an error was
discovered in my accounts, which was rectified-
principal and interest--the first moment that it
could be equitably adjudged. The circumstances
SO ingeniously devised to give air of fraud to
simple oversight, are intirely false--he elaborate
distortions of int ested Islander. | shall not stop
t. conSid the prob BE ives that have led yonr
correspondent TO hunt up and produce these
state falsehoods. Ii he or any other shall desire
to call them TO notice-as he suggests shall be
at no loss for sufficient answer. 1t will be
welcome occasion that affords me opportunity
to meet them openly in iair field, before the
people of the Commonwe lth | only wish to add
that for my own pat / clam no hnnors and
am not anxious aspirant for any office. ask
only bare justice Of my fellow citizens, aud have
no rear that shall not obtain it. 1t is not gem
orally profitable TO heed gratuitous and malignant
attacks F.; but these charges are OF nature so
gross, that il is painful for an honest and hon
Orable man to pass them over in silence pre-
sumo you will not refuse me the privilege OF
serting in your columns my innocence of the
charge, aud my readiness at any proper emporium
ity to disproye il, since you have permitted the
use Of them to those, who, for whatever motive,
see fit to attack me so unfeelingly.
Respectfully, &c.
GEO. II. DEvEREUx.
Salem Dee 18th 1856