Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-19
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| Libeller Exposed.


EAST WALPoLE, June 6.
Messrs. Editors This evening. a friend hand
ed me copy of the Boston letter to the Tribune,
about WHICH some talk has been made. Until
today, had only seen the brief extracts which
have appeared in the Spy viii you allow me to
reply to some of its statements, through your col
umns :
Personally, this malignant attack has not
eaused me one moments uneasness. have
committed too many political blunders to be dis
turbed by criticisms upon any past acts to leave
room for any assumption Of infallibility for my
present or future course, and have been so &C
customed to misrepresentation Of MY purposes
and motives, by open enemies and treacherous
friends, that long ago ceased taking notice of
any such assaults. But the design of this scrib-
bier is not only to biaehen my reputation, per,
sona and political, but also to insult all my init
mate personal and political associates, by fixing
upon them the odum of joining "secret political
conspiracy" of which am % chief; and he does
this by the utterance of what he knows to be
f,slsshOods Of the 5,es0est coinage
Here is that part of the letter which refers to
me; and ask you to copy it, to show how much
falsehood, and how much malice, can be put
into two paragraphs-so much of the supressio
reri, SO much Of the suggestio .falsi. am safe
in saying that there is but one man in Massachu-
sets capable of penning such mendacious at
tack upon private character, and that is, ROBERT
CARTER. Here it is:
The other affair which have alluded Of
which has probably mised, the Herdkfs Informant, is
sscre political Soci ty which has been recently got up
BY faction Of the Repuoican 1rty who exceeding
IL wrota with Messrs Wilson Banks and Burn
FtyOa TIA Ihera
Soc ETY.. The ject Of he order is to overthrow
Banks, Wilson, and BuSinga and put the direction
the Republican party Of Massachusetts into the hands Of
Mr. " W. Bird, Sho Us ed to be chairman Of the Rspub
lcan State Committee, but having seen TT t join t e
GArsoniao dsuuionis's has last the position and inu'
ence be once possessed. Mr. Bird has made
tmps before this, to regain the control Of affairs In
1855 he attempted to organize Free Democratic party
In Opposition to Rockwell who then the Republican
Candidate for HOvernor. He accordingly called Con
ventcn Springfield. sent circulars all the towns and
engaged special train convey the delegates from
Boston aud the eastern and central paris ihs State
Toe train started from Boston with Mr. BIRD and one
oher delegste-both elected by themselves. Nobody
joined 1t On the way. excp tary gentleman at 0sth
Rrlokheld and the trio arrive Springfield and found
nobody waiting for them They constituted the conven
ton.
Mr.. Birds next open attempt to organize party
was made lest year. whsn he got ticket with Josiah
Quincy low aovernor, contrary to that gents mans
pr ased wshs Personal dislike TO Governor Gardner
drew to thattcket coo from the Fremont ranks
not qIite eosgh Mr. Bird to carry che State
bat manif 81 ami encoura Ing advance on the utter
failure of 1855 This year Mr. Bird has concluded to try
what virtue there may he in political society He
has accordingly instituted Order, chiefs meet
regularly every Saturday afternoon Young's Coffee
House in this city. Last year, they met Saturday
ternooos, the old Free Ill headquarters in school
street. fhey called themselves then The North.Star Club
Apparently they have ext snied their oil izaton
I The Herald il to BE- trustei, themselves the
P,1e.Tree L Mr.. Rirl who is their ruling spirit
and most prominent member, is Of talent aud OF
ner Us character and is personally populM with large
circle Ct acqua ntances But he is inveeraely other.
wse-mnded csnnot believe that ais will 70 right
1V FniTp dieuuf Onizf ha
has lost whatever bhae ce he possessed and il may be
safely predicted that bis eot to oFerthroR Messrs.
bihks, wilson and Burlinsame will not succ d,
Let me say, first, that l cannot comprehend
how the Tribune allowed itself to be made the
vehicle of this BLACKBOARD attack upon private
individual, and this dragging the gatherings Of
private gentlemen before the public. Robert
Carter kaosOs, that since October 1854 no man in
Massachusetts has been more strictly private
citizen than / have been. have occupied no
public position; l have beef candidate for no
ONCE have taken no part in politics, except as
delegate to various Republican conventions, 10.
cal, State, and national; but only as a private
citizen, neUer soliciting an election, and never
declining service which every honest man owes
to the cause. This, Robert Carter knows. He
knows that there is no Office in the gift of the
people of Massachusetts which l can afford to
take for he knows that my private business in
wolves pecuniary results Of vastly greater value
than any that can possibly come from office and
that can take no place of honor whose duties
might endanger my obligations to my family and
creditors And he knows, too that if were
SO desirous Of Office, have cut myself off from
the possibility of it, by my unsparing denuDcia- |
tions of the miserable hucksters who have traded |
in Massachusetts politics for the last three wears
de knows that have exchanged all hope of Of
nee for the luxury of expressing, publicly and
privately, my adherence and loathng of Know
Nothlngism, and especially of the incarnation
ana lntensltcation of its bigotIy, and meanness.
and hypocrisy in the person of Henry ]. Gard.
per.
And Robert Carter knows, too, that this " sc.
cret political society is purely a fiction. He
knows that the meetings to which he refers are
ana nave been from the beginning priuate din
AsrSi and II ne knows what good breeding is, he |
knows that no gentleman who attends these
gatherings, as he has, until ,Oithia a fen ,oeeks
can make such representations of their character |
without FORGETTING all claim to yeracity and de. |
cency. We have taken measures to protect our
selves from the recurrence Of such an ontraoe
upon courtesy, BY directing our friend Sam. if he
nnds another such graceless chiel among ma
taking notes, to search his pockets. count the
spoons, and kick him down stairs.
FICTION No. l.-Carter thinks to blackbap ma
by calling me "Garrsonian dsunionist" Tho
only ground for this is to be found in NV sneecboo
a. Worcester. If he has read those speeches bs
knows he lies; if he has not read them. he a.,
serts what he does not know to be true-what i
as really lie.
have not yet earned the named Of " Garrison
Ian disunlonist." am not ashamed to avow
mat learned my first lessons Of anti.slaverv
principle from William Lloyd Garrison, and have
since followed him as Peter did bis Master. oafar
o" and honor, above all power Of exuression.
ms unwavering and Incorporating fidelity 70 |
Tue cause Of the slave. But am not vet worthy |
DC called GarrisOnian.''
AS 70 being disuniOnist, my humble mission
S 70 contribute my mite towards forming public
sentiment which shall regard liberty as above all
pricei which shall declare that Union cement.
cd with the blood Of the slave is not worth pre-.
servingi thata Union standing upon denial Of
the rights Of a single slave cannot be preserved;
and that II the abolition Of American slavery
cannot be accomplished in the Union. then say,
with Mr.. Banks, let che Union slider" In this
sense every earnest anti.slavery man is dis